PROVIDENCE, RI — Bundled against the cold and snow and holding candles, the crowd came together in Lippitt Park to hold a vigil for two students killed and nine others injured in a shooting at Brown University 24 hours earlier.

The vigil was a culmination of a day of mourning on campus and in a city that only had two other homicides this year...Read more

Postal workers rallied Sunday outside the Lake Street post office in south Minneapolis, calling on Immigration and Customs Enforcement to stop using postal property as a staging ground for enforcement operations.

Members of the National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 9 said ICE agents used the parking lots of two local post offices last ...Read more

Ultra-conservative José Antonio Kast was decisively elected Chile’s president Sunday, driven by growing fears of crime and uncontrolled migration — making it the latest Latin America nation to take a hard turn to the right.

With 83.4% of ballots counted, Kast received about 59% of the vote, followed by leftist Jeannette Jara with 41%, ...Read more

Maryland politicians condemned antisemitism while Jewish community leaders vowed to continue “spreading light” after a terrorist attack on Australians celebrating Hanukkah left at least 15 people dead and dozens injured on Sunday, the first day of Judaism’s Festival of Lights.

“The enemies of light want us to cower in fear,” said ...Read more

A swarm of at least six earthquakes reaching up to magnitude 2.9 rattled San Ramon near San Francisco, the U.S. Geological Survey reports.

The other quakes in the Saturday, Dec. 13, swarm ranged from magnitude 1.3 to 2.3, according to the USGS.

San Ramon earlier was hit by a swarm of more than 90 quakes starting Nov. 9, The Sacramento Bee ...Read more

President Donald Trump signaled Sunday the U.S. will do “big damage” to the militants behind a deadly attack on American forces in Syria that he blamed on the Islamic State.

Trump’s comment amplified his vow to inflict “serious retaliation” after two U.S. Army soldiers and a U.S. interpreter were killed in the attack Saturday in the ...Read more

Avery Korkorowitz said she’s been recovering from a recent asthma attack that lasted three days.

“I couldn’t breathe, I was gasping constantly,” said Korkorowitz, an Imperial Beach resident of four years. “It was terrifying. Maybe the scariest thing that’s ever happened to me.”

Speaking in Imperial Beach on Monday from her car ...Read more

Kentucky’s U.S. Sen. Rand Paul said more congressional redistricting could lead to political violence across the country.

The process of redrawing district boundaries to determine how many representatives there are in Congress — and who puts them there mid-decade per a push from President Donald Trump and his opponents — is a mistake that...Read more

Emma Kleck has been totally dependent on insulin, the lifesaving medication for people living with diabetes, for 25 years.

Kleck, 32, of Santa Cruz, was diagnosed with the rarer Type 1 diabetes at age 7. About 3.5 million Californians have a form of diabetes and need constant doses of insulin, a hormone that keeps blood sugar levels in check, ...Read more

National Economic Council head Kevin Hassett said he’d consider President Donald Trump’s policy opinions if picked to lead the Federal Reserve, but that the central bank’s interest rate decisions would remain independent.

The president “has very strong and well-founded views about what we ought to do,” Hassett, Trump’s top economic ...Read more

Dicey weather could cause issues, but three rockets from SpaceX and United Launch Alliance are lined up to launch from the Space Coast beginning Sunday night that could set a record with three Florida-based missions launched within 12 hours.

Up first is a SpaceX Falcon 9 on the Starlink 6-82 mission with 29 Starlink satellites from Cape ...Read more

Christopher Rounds is a scientist who studies walleye in Minnesota, but he doesn’t use a boat or a net or even a laboratory.

“I probably go outside like five times a year and sit behind a computer the rest of the time,” says the University of Minnesota graduate student and researcher at the Midwest Climate Adaptation Science Center (MW ...Read more

Dicey weather already pushed United Launch Alliance to delay a planned early Monday launch of an Atlas V, but SpaceX has a pair of Falcon 9 rockets that could fly Sunday night and Monday morning.

Up first is a SpaceX Falcon 9 on the Starlink 6-82 mission with 29 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch ...Read more

Buried in the news cycle on the night before Election Day, New York City released shocking new data: Close to 22,000 fewer students had enrolled in public schools this fall.

It was the first significant enrollment decline since the school system stabilized after the COVID-19 pandemic era, down by 2.4% citywide. The last time the number of ...Read more

The NYPD will increase its presence at public Hanukkah celebrations and synagogues after a pair of gunmen killed at least 12 people at Australia’s Bondi Beach, as New York City elected officials condemned the attack Sunday.

“We are closely monitoring the horrific attack … We are in touch with our Australian partners, and at this time we ...Read more

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signaled that Ukraine could accept security guarantees from the U.S. and Europe as a way to prevent future Russian aggression, and substitute for its long-term goal of joining NATO.

Ukraine’s leader is meeting at Germany’s Federal Chancellery in Berlin on Sunday with a U.S. delegation led by Special Envoy ...Read more

National Economic Council head Kevin Hassett said he’d consider President Donald Trump’s policy opinions if picked to lead the Federal Reserve, but that the central bank’s interest rate decisions would remain independent.

The president “has very strong and well-founded views about what we ought to do,” Hassett, Trump’s top economic ...Read more

A person of interest in Saturday’s shooting at Brown University that left two people dead and nine injured has been detained after an extensive manhunt, officials said.

The shooting occurred in a classroom on the second day of final exams for the fall semester at the Ivy League institution, which has a student population of about 11,000. ...Read more

Between 128,000 and 186,000 years ago, when ice covered the Sierra Nevada, a lake 100 miles long and 600 feet deep sat in eastern California in what is now the Mojave Desert.

As the climate warmed and the ice retreated, the lake dried up, leaving a white salt pan in its place.

But a November of record rainfall has brought the ancient lake, ...Read more