DENVER — One wildfire burning on Colorado’s Western Slope is less than 300 acres away from becoming the state’s fourth-largest fire on record.

The 137,465-acre Lee fire burning between Meeker and Rifle in Rio Blanco County is Colorado’s fifth-largest wildfire.

Colorado’s fourth-largest fire on record, the 137,760-acre Hayman fire ...Read more

DETROIT — A Garden City man was arrested Saturday after he allegedly threatened people at a march in Dearborn, police said.

Officials said the 27-year-old man threatened to harm people attending a march for justice and commemorating the Muslim holiday of Ashura. They said they arrested the suspect hours after the threats were made.

"When ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — His heart pounding, Omar García Harfuch crouched inside an armored SUV as hooded cartel assassins opened fire in one of Mexico City’s wealthiest neighborhoods just as dawn broke one morning in 2020.

Bullets tore through his collarbone, arm and knee. Two bodyguards were bloodied and would soon die. García Harfuch grabbed one ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Hurricane Erin on Monday reinvigorated as a major Category 4 storm as it moved near the Bahamas while the National Hurricane Center increased the odds a system following in the Atlantic could become the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. advisory, the center of Erin was located about 115 ...Read more

Volodymyr Zelenskyy finds himself in an impossible bind: risk Donald Trump’s wrath or accept a quick deal to end Russia’s war in Ukraine by paying the disastrous price of ceding territory for vague security guarantees that could see Moscow come back stronger in a few years’ time.

This is the existential dilemma confronting the Ukrainian ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – South Florida is the focus as Gov. Ron DeSantis and state Republicans attempt to deliver on demands from President Donald Trump and his allies that states controlled by his party reconfigure congressional districts in ways to get more Republicans and fewer Democrats elected to Congress.

Redistricting has major ...Read more

Six years ago, a new California law opened the gates for victims of long-ago childhood sexual assault to sue the public entities they say had failed to keep them safe — schools, juvenile detention centers, shelters for foster children and more.

Assembly Bill 218 significantly expanded the statute of limitations for filing a sexual assault ...Read more

The number of people receiving treatment at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center — the renowned research hospital that cares for patients with rare or life-threatening diseases — has tumbled under the second Trump administration, according to government documents and interviews with current and former NIH employees.

NIH ...Read more

Week after week, a teenage Brandon Long sat through counseling sessions that he said framed his identity as a failure.

Now an ordained minister in northern Kentucky, Long told Kentucky state lawmakers about the years he spent undergoing therapy designed to rid him of his "same-sex attraction."

"Just imagine yourself being told, session after ...Read more

Beneath a cloak of darkness, illuminated only by glow sticks and red-filtered flashlights, researchers waited underwater off Key Largo hoping to witness one of the rarest events of sex in the sea.

It’s a delicate spectacle called the coral spawn — a once-a-year phenomenon when Florida’s reef-building coral colonies simultaneously release ...Read more

EKALAKA, Mont. — There was no doctor on-site when a patient arrived in early June at the emergency room in the small hospital at the intersection of two dirt roads in this town of 400 residents.

There never is.

Dahl Memorial’s three-bed emergency department — a two-hour drive from the closest hospital with more advanced services — ...Read more

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Voters sent two pro-business candidates to Bolivia’s presidential election runoff, ending two decades of almost-uninterrupted socialist rule and likely transforming both the nation’s economic model and its relations with Washington.

With 92% of ballots tallied, opposition senator Rodrigo Paz, 57, led with 32%, compared to ...Read more

The leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, the person who is second in the presidential line of succession, has been accused of illegally paying rent to East County Rep. Darrell Issa from campaign cash, two complaints filed with federal regulators show.

Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana and his campaign “appear to have used campaign funds ...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom filed a request Sunday seeking records from the Trump administration to explain why a phalanx of Border Patrol agents showed up outside a news conference held by leading California Democrats last week.

Newsom filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security asking for "all documents and ...Read more

The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy launched an online resource to help Michiganians understand, prepare for and deal with wildfire smoke.

Smoke from Canadian wildfires has blanketed Michigan this summer, prompting state air quality meteorologists to issue a warning on 31 days for at least part of Michigan. In 2023, ...Read more

Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen believes his Republican colleagues will not allow President Donald Trump to keep the Washington, D.C., police department under federal control indefinitely.

Van Hollen explained that, under the 1973 District of Columbia Home Rule Act, Trump must seek congressional approval to continue federal control the D.C. ...Read more

It wasn’t too hot to celebrate visibility on a humid Sunday afternoon.

Several thousand people converged on SteelStacks in south Bethlehem for the annual Lehigh Valley Pride celebration. Sponsored by Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center, the event featured entertainment, arts and crafts, food and drink and more than 100 vendors.

Karen Van...Read more

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his European allies arrive in Washington on Monday anxious to find out what Donald Trump committed to at his summit with Vladimir Putin and apprehensive that he’ll force Kyiv into making unpalatable concessions.

Trump will host Zelenskyy and several European leaders to set out terms for a potential ...Read more