Charlie Kirk shooting suspect Tyler Robinson’s DNA was found on a towel wrapped around a rifle at the scene of the crime, FBI Director Kash Patel said Monday.

Robinson, 22, was captured on surveillance camera walking across a rooftop, and investigators said he jumped down and ditched his rifle in a nearby wooded area. He also left a ...Read more

DENVER — Classes are canceled at Evergreen High School this week after a student shot two of his schoolmates before turning the gun on himself last Wednesday.

Jefferson County officials have not confirmed when the high school will reopen.

As of Monday morning, one student shot by 16-year-old Desmond Holly remained in serious condition at ...Read more

A viral social media post calling slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk a “bigot” was falsely attributed to a Wisconsin elementary school principal, officials say.

The Elkhorn Area School District received 800 voicemails, some including death threats, over the post West Side Elementary School Associate Principal Cynthia Rehberg did not ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Trump administration's settlement proposal to UCLA — which includes a nearly $1.2-billion fine over allegations of antisemitism and civil rights violations — seeks to drastically overhaul campus practices on hiring, admissions, sports, scholarships, discrimination and gender identity, a Times review of the document shows...Read more

President Donald Trump said he would speak on Friday with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, following talks between negotiators from the world’s two largest economies in recent days that resulted in a framework deal to keep ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok app running in the U.S.

“I will be speaking to President Xi on Friday. The relationship remains a ...Read more

Iran’s top nuclear official warned of chaos if diplomats convened by the United Nations atomic watchdog block a motion to censure Israeli and U.S. military attacks on the Islamic Republic in June.

The Persian Gulf nation is circulating a resolution at the International Atomic Energy Agency annual general conference, which would declare that ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he would speak on Friday with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, following talks between negotiators from the world’s two largest economies in recent days that resulted in a framework deal to keep ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok app running in the U.S.

“I will be speaking to President Xi on Friday. The relationship remains a ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump’s top diplomat refrained from criticizing Israel over its missile strike on Qatar last week, and said the priority is to make sure Hamas surrenders and disarms to end the war in Gaza.

“We are focused on what happens now, what happens next,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters in Jerusalem on Monday, a...Read more

Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López has issued a stark warning to neighboring Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago, saying Caracas would retaliate if any attack against the country were launched from their territories.

“I tell these governments... that if we are attacked from their territory, they will also receive a response, and ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Monday bumped up again its forecast chances that a tropical wave in the Atlantic would develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical outlook, the wave in the central tropical Atlantic was producing a large area of disorganized showers and ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — When President Donald Trump came back into office in January, his administration immediately directed federal prosecutors across the country to charge potential criminal defendants with the most serious provable crimes, placing a special emphasis on immigration-related prosecutions.

“The Department of Justice shall use all ...Read more

Any evidence of lice was once a reason for immediate dismissal from school, not to return until the student’s head was lice-free. But what are known as “no-nit” policies have been dropped in favor of “nonexclusion” rules, prioritizing class time over any nuisance caused by parasites the size of sesame seeds. That leniency, of late, is ...Read more

Republicans insist that President Donald Trump’s cuts to Medicaid were aimed at reducing fraud and getting more of its adult beneficiaries into jobs. But the side effects may include less care for sick kids.

Some children’s hospitals collectively stand to lose billions of dollars in revenue once Trump’s wide-ranging tax and spending law, ...Read more

“Everybody can get” the COVID-19 vaccine.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Sept. 4 in a Senate Finance Committee hearing

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When health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified before the Senate Finance Committee on Sept. 4, several senators criticized him for restricting the COVID-19 shots after promising in November he wouldn’t “take ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — A Florida congressman’s proposal to stitch together a patchwork of springs in North and Central Florida into the country’s 64th national park won’t help protect the state’s outstanding, and crucial, freshwater resource, springs advocates say.

U.S. Rep Randy Fine’s Path to Florida Springs National Park Act would ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — As Florida seeks to end vaccine mandates, a behind-the-scenes debate in the medical community has been thrust into the public spotlight: Should doctors see young patients whose parents do not want them to get shots?

The decision has long rested with physicians, who say they weigh the needs of children who have no control over ...Read more

BOSTON — Elected officials across Massachusetts state government were treated to thousands of dollars’ worth of trips this summer on other organizations’ dimes, including an excursion to St. Thomas in the Caribbean, according to ethics records released to the Herald this week.

The documents are the latest example of lawmakers, ...Read more

The Kennedy Center said that a Sunday evening vigil for slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk drew a “full house” of mourners, including top Republican officials.

Among those in attendance in the 2,460-seat concert hall in Washington: House Speaker Mike Johnson, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Health and Human Services ...Read more

A suspected North Korean state-sponsored hacking group used ChatGPT to create a deepfake of a military ID document to attack a target in South Korea, according to cybersecurity researchers.

Attackers used the artificial intelligence tool to craft a fake draft of a South Korean military identification card in order to create a realistic-looking ...Read more