BOISE, Idaho — At a Monday-night Bernie Sanders rally in Nampa, the crowd roared its approval when a speaker alluded to Boise Mayor Lauren McLean’s decision to keep flying an LGBTQ+ Pride flag outside of City Hall — despite a new state law banning the display of non-”official” flags.

But McLean’s move prompted a letter of rebuke ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The California Department of Education has ordered two South Bay school districts to provide anti-bias training after finding that teachers discriminated against Jewish students by providing lessons slanted against Israel when teaching about its ongoing war with Hamas in Gaza.

Two ethnic studies teachers at Branham High ...Read more

Authorities recently released a new cache of records in the death investigation of Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa — including a series of heartfelt notes the couple left for each other, revealing the close-knit nature of their relationship even as Hackman's health declined amid a battle with Alzheimer's.

The letters are at times humorous, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Shooting stars will usher in Earth Day starting late Monday night as the Lyrid meteor shower reaches its peak — and Californians will have some of the best views in the country.

The annual meteor shower event will be most visible in April and is named after the constellation Lyra, the harp, located near the point in the sky ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Celeste traveled from Peru to the U.S. two decades ago, then a young woman of 19, and overstayed her tourist visa. She had studied graphic design back home but, unable to work in her field without papers, instead found arduous work cleaning hotel rooms and offices in Los Angeles. She built a life here, making friends and taking ...Read more

BALTIMORE — A Maryland immigration case is attracting national and international media attention, and at the heart of it is a question: Where is home for Kilmar Abrego Garcia?

Abrego Garcia is a 29-year-old sheet metal apprentice who lived with his wife and children in Beltsville before being mistakenly deported to a notorious El Salvador ...Read more

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. would “move on” if a way to end the war in Ukraine can’t be found soon — as Russia said a one-month pause on targeting Ukrainian energy infrastructure had ended.

“We need to figure out here now, within a matter of days, whether this is doable in the short term. Because if it’s not, ...Read more

The U.S. attacked a key Yemen oil port controlled by the Houthis overnight and killed dozens of people, according to the Iran-backed militants, raising the specter of a widening conflict in the Middle East.

The assault on the Ras Issa fuel-import terminal appeared to be one of the biggest and deadliest since President Donald Trump ordered an ...Read more

President Donald Trump and members of his administration have long used allegations of anti-Christian discrimination as a rallying cry for supporters, arguing that policies and laws on issues like school prayer and LGBTQ+ rights threaten Christians’ right to express their beliefs.

Weeks into his second term, Trump took action, ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court in March 2025 ended a decade-old lawsuit filed by a group of children who sought to hold the federal government responsible for some of the consequences of climate change. But just two months earlier, the justices allowed a similar suit from the city and county of Honolulu, Hawaii, to continue against oil and gas ...Read more

_Nearly a half-century after the Supreme Court ruled that school spankings are permissible and not “cruel and unusual punishment”, many U.S. states allow physical punishment for students who have misbehaved.

_Today, over a third of the states allow teachers to paddle or spank students. More than 100,000 students are paddled in U.S...Read more

Following George Floyd’s death at the hands of police in Minneapolis in 2020, the U.S. has undergone a national reckoning over crime prevention and police reform.

Across the country, calls went out from activists to rethink the scope and role of the police. Some on the left vowed to “defund” the police. Others on the right ...Read more

Giancarlo Zorrilla attended a campaign rally for the first time in his life in March. It was a rainy night near Vancouver — typical weather for Canada’s west coast — but that wasn’t stopping the 29-year-old Canadian from seeing Pierre Poilievre speak.

“It’s time for a change,” Zorrilla said on his way in to see the Conservative ...Read more

In an age where the data of an entire life can be held in the palm of your hand, a fundamental question has emerged about rights to digital privacy when crossing international borders: Can U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers demand access to your phone or laptop at airports and seaports?

The short answer is yes, and this applies to ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — When the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts announced the end of its college degrees, it promised the return of the rigorous certificate program that had turned out some of the nation’s most renowned artists.

Now, more than a year later, PAFA has fleshed out the details of its revived certificate, and the program is ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A University of California, Los Angeles international graduate student has been detained at the U.S.-Mexico border and is being held by Customs and Border Protection, the school confirmed late Thursday.

The student, whose name was not released, was taken into custody Wednesday night, according to faculty members and students who...Read more

Jabaar Edmond has long advocated for better air quality in his Childs Park neighborhood in St. Petersburg, Florida.

For decades, residents of the predominantly Black neighborhood complained of a persistent gasolinelike odor.

“We had an initiative called ‘Smell something, say something,’” said Edmond, former president of the ...Read more

America has your back. That has been the message of U.S. foreign policy to the world’s vulnerable since the end of World War II.

That sense that America is behind you was a message for Europe against the threat of the Soviet Union and has been the implicit message for all threatened by authoritarian expansionism.

From the sophisticated in ...Read more

Two centuries ago this month, France pulled off one of history’s greatest armed extortions: After the first three leaders of a newly freed Haiti refused to cave in to hefty French demands to compensate its former slave-holders in exchange for recognition of its freedom, the European power finally succeeded in getting its demands met.

With a ...Read more