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June 12, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

NEW YORK — The Trump administration cannot use U.S. foreign policy interests to justify its detention of Columbia University student and pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, a judge...

June 12, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

Brian Wilson, who as the leader and chief songwriter of the Beach Boys became rock’s poet laureate of surf-and-sun innocence, but also an embodiment of damaged genius through his struggl...

June 11, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

LOS ANGELES — Hundreds of U.S. Marines arrived in the Los Angeles area on Tuesday under orders from President Donald Trump, as the city’s mayor declared a curfew for parts of the d...

June 11, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

LONDON — Trade talks between the U.S. and China in London are going well and could spill into a third day, U.S. negotiators said, as the two superpowers pushed for a breakthrough on duel...

June 11, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

Meta is creating a new AI lab to pursue ‘superintelligence’

June 11, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

GRAZ, Austria — A former pupil killed 10 people and himself at a secondary school in Austria’s second city, Graz, on Tuesday in the worst school shooting in Austria’s modern...

June 11, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

BOGOTA — Colombia’s violence took a new turn on Tuesday as a series of bomb attacks rocked the nation’s southwest, while Senator Miguel Uribe continued fighting for his life...

June 11, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he planned to start “phasing out” the Federal Emergency Management Agency after the hurricane season and that states would receive less feder...

June 11, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — In response to often sharp questioning from House Democrats on Tuesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth defended the Pentagon’s deployment of nearly 5,000 active-duty M...

June 11, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

The Food and Drug Administration is planning to use artificial intelligence to “radically increase efficiency” in deciding whether to approve new drugs and devices, one of several...

June 11, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that protesters who assembled during a military parade he planned in Washington on Saturday for the Army’s 250th birthday would be met with “ver...

June 10, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — When violent protests originate from the right — such as those in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, or at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — President Donald T...

June 10, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

LOS ANGELES/WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Monday ordered U.S. Marines into Los Angeles and intensified raids on suspected undocumented immigrants, fueling more outrage from st...

June 10, 2025 | 7 MIN READ

Unusual heat waves have occurred in all of the major ocean basins around the planet in recent years. And some of these events have become so intense that scientists have coined a new term: sup...

June 10, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

Due to protests, Waymo limits San Francisco service

June 10, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

Firearm deaths of children and teenagers rose significantly in states that enacted more permissive gun laws after the Supreme Court in 2010 limited local governments’ ability to restrict...