Greek authorities arrested the ex-wife of a University of California, Berkeley professor in connection with his murder in Athens earlier this month.

Marketing professor Przemyslaw Jeziorski was fatally shot July 4 in the Agia Paraskevi district of Athens, authorities told Greek media outlet To Vima.

Jeziorski, 43, was shot five times as he was...Read more

President Donald Trump's future presidential library has a growing list of corporate sponsors, and Democratic lawmakers are sounding alarms.

To settle Trump's lawsuit over edits to a CBS "60 Minutes" broadcast, Paramount Global agreed to pay $16 million to help finance the future library and cover the president's legal fees.

Walt Disney Co. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump denied he is seeking to remove Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, after raising the idea in a closed-door meeting with congressional Republicans that leaked to the media.

“No, we’re not planning on doing anything,” Trump told reporters on Wednesday. He later added, “I don’t rule out anything, ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 centered off Alaska's Aleutian chain Wednesday triggered a brief tsunami warning for coastal areas of the state.

The quake struck about 54 miles south of the community of Sand Point shortly after 12:30 p.m. at a depth of about 12 miles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The ...Read more

MIAMI — Immigrant communities are on edge after a newly revealed immigration memo from the Trump administration confirmed that migrants could now be deported to countries other than their own with as little as six hours’ notice — even in cases where those countries offer no guarantees of safety.

The policy, laid out in a July 9 memo by ...Read more

DENVER — A consultant claiming to work for the White House called several Republican county clerks in Colorado last week, seeking “third-party” access to secure voting equipment, election officials told The Denver Post.

At least 10 Republican clerks were contacted by consultant Jeff Small, officials said Wednesday. Small, who has Colorado...Read more

Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford and a coalition of 19 other attorneys general urged members of Congress to pass legislation prohibiting federal immigration agents from wearing masks to conceal their identity.

In a letter sent to members of Congress on Tuesday, the attorneys general called for legislation requiring Immigration and Custom ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — American children today are dying at much higher rates than kids in similar countries. They’re also far more likely to suffer from a chronic disease than children in previous generations were.

That’s according to a new study from researchers at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, who dug through nearly two decades’...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's pick to lead the nation's top roadway safety agency assured lawmakers Wednesday of his commitment to reducing auto fatalities while sidestepping questions on more controversial topics, like the rollback of fuel economy regulations.

"Each year, we see approximately six million crashes, millions of injuries...Read more

The suspected gunman in a mass shooting that killed two people at a Florida State University campus earlier this year is set to go on trial in November, a judge said Wednesday.

Phoenix Ikner, 20, is accused of killing two people and wounding several others after opening fire near the university’s student union just before lunchtime on April ...Read more

MIAMI — The tents, beds and pens have been erected in the Florida Everglades, and hundreds of migrants have been shipped to the detention facility the state is calling Alligator Alcatraz.

Now what?

The site, built in eight days on a municipal airstrip located within the Big Cypress National Preserve, is part of a larger plan to expand ...Read more

President Donald Trump has signed into law two measures long sought by Alaska's congressional delegation to benefit Alaska Native people.

The provisions, called the Alaska Native Settlement Trust Eligibility Act and the Alaska Native Village Municipal Lands Restoration Act, had been repeatedly introduced by members of the Alaska congressional ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance’s attempts Wednesday to sell Republicans’ massive tax and spending law to Pennsylvania voters were overshadowed by President Donald Trump’s clash with his base over the Jeffrey Epstein scandal and mixed messages about potentially firing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

Trump spent much of ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.3 struck off of Alaska’s Aleutian chain on Wednesday, triggering a tsunami warning for coastal areas of the state.

The quake struck about 54 miles south of the community of Sand Point shortly after 12:30 p.m. at a depth of about 12 miles, according to the U.S. Geological ...Read more

DENVER — Smoke continues to fill the skies of Colorado on Wednesday as firefighters battle five wildfires along the state’s Western Slope.

Four of the fires were sparked last Thursday during an afternoon storm and have continued to grow, together consuming nearly 21,000 acres, according to fire officials.

The fifth fire spread into ...Read more

Climate scientists and weather experts are clear: The deadly floods in Texas earlier this month were an entirely natural tragedy, with off-the-charts rainfall levels coming from lingering moisture from a nearby tropical storm.

That has not stopped unfounded conspiracy theories from spreading, mainly in extremist social media circles. Days after...Read more

Just because Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos aren’t the best of friends, and Amazon’s Project Kuiper will directly compete with SpaceX’s Starlink satellites for broadband internet, doesn’t mean everyone can’t still get along.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched at 2:30 a.m. Eastern time Wednesday with 24 of Amazon’s satellites from Cape ...Read more

Few initiatives of the Trump administration more seriously undermine our understanding of the nation’s past than Executive Order 14253 from March 27, which promises “to restore Federal sites dedicated to history, including parks and museums, to solemn and uplifting public monuments.”

The order directs the Interior secretary to cleanse all...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Rev. John MacArthur, among the country’s most influential evangelical pastors with a prolific media reach — and whose San Fernando Valley megachurch became the face of religious resistance to California’s COVID-19 public health orders — died Monday. He was 86.

MacArthur’s death was announced on the website of Grace...Read more

Gov. Ron DeSantis, touting himself as someone committed to fraud-free, glitch-free elections, said Wednesday that he removed Broward County’s then-supervisor of elections when he came into office.

He didn’t. The county official in question, Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes, was out of office for five weeks by the time DeSantis was ...Read more