MINNEAPOLIS — The first campground in the state park system catering to the off-road vehicle crowd will open this summer in northern Minnesota.

Years in development, Pyrite Campground opens June 12 in Lake Vermilion-Soudan Underground Mine State Park, the Department of Natural Resources announced March 26.

While Pyrite will be open to all ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Daniel landed in Los Angeles with his girlfriend and a hard drive containing $350,000 in bitcoin.

The 17-year-old’s lifestyle was intended to draw attention: Parties at the hottest clubs. Rented sports cars. Cuban link chains. Imitation Richard Mille watches.

California is full of young people who were transformed into ...Read more

With the world’s largest sporting event, the World Cup, slated to begin in June, the United States should call a truce in the campaign of terror being waged by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agencies against immigrants and others.

Major sporting events have long relied on the so-called “Olympic Truce,” which dates ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Eager to assist with the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, Florida offered extra money to local law enforcement agencies so they could more easily help arrest and detain people. But the list of who’s getting that largesse — and who is missing out — probably isn’t what anyone would have expected.

So far, ...Read more

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois House is poised this session to vote on legislation that would prohibit federal immigration detention centers from being built within 1,500 feet of schools, parks, homes and other community spaces — a direct response to the clashes that erupted in Chicago and the suburbs last year during the Trump ...Read more

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he’s restoring access to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after police prevented a Christian leader from holding Mass on Palm Sunday, prompting an international backlash.

Israeli authorities cited concern for the safety of the Latin Patriarch — essentially the Catholic archbishop ...Read more

BALTIMORE — By Sunday afternoon, BWI Marshall Airport advised travelers to arrive three hours early as long security lines persisted, driven in part by staffing shortages among Transportation Security Administration officers.

This is a slight improvement from Saturday, when passengers waited for more than four hours. Sunday afternoon, there ...Read more

NASA pulled off the moon landing in 1969 with a clear goal from the outset — to be the first nation to put people on the lunar surface.

The U.S. was locked in a space race with the Soviet Union, and the Apollo 11 landing helped cement America’s lead in the competition to be the reigning geopolitical superpower in the depths of the Cold War....Read more

NEW YORK — New York City has denied another request for data about the toxins that swirled above Ground Zero after 9/11 — claiming nothing could be found — despite the discovery of 68 boxes worth of information on the subject just four months ago, the Daily News has learned.

Advocates for 9/11 survivors are again suing for the data, ...Read more

Pakistan’s foreign minister said Islamabad was ready to facilitate peace talks between the U.S. and Iran in the coming days as the war in the Middle East intensified into its fifth week.

“Pakistan is very happy that both Iran and the U.S. have expressed their confidence in Pakistan to facilitate their talks,” Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, ...Read more

NEW YORK — A suspected drug trafficker held on Rikers Island died in custody early Sunday, marking the second death in the city jail system in less than a week.

City Department of Correction officials said John Price, 49, was being held without bail at the Eric M. Taylor Center on Rikers when he needed medical attention around 5:40 p.m. ...Read more

Attacks in the Middle East conflict extended into a fifth week Sunday, with Israel striking Tehran and Saudi Arabia intercepting almost a dozen drones, a day after Yemen-based Houthi militants entered the war.

The strikes came as 3,500 additional U.S. troops arrived in the Middle East and regional powers including Saudi Arabia and Turkey met in...Read more