TAYBEH, West Bank — "Come visit Taybeh," begins the brochure touting the touristic attractions here, the last entirely Palestinian Christian village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Though it counts Jesus among its many visitors over the years, said Khaldoon Hanna, Taybeh's avuncular deputy mayor, these days "no one is coming."

He sighed ...Read more

When President Donald Trump posted a satirical music video on social media in early October depicting his budget director, Russell Vought, as the Grim Reaper lording over Democrats in Congress, public health workers recognized a kernel of truth.

Vought has exerted extraordinary control over government spending this year, usurping congressional ...Read more

On a cutting surface inside a Scaife Hall laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh, Julia Kofler examines a brain, pointing out its weight, tiny specks of fatty plaque and other features visible even to the naked eye that provide clues to diseases. It is one of about 2,000 human brains to be processed into Pitt's Neurodegenerative Brain Bank, ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Cathy Stewart was imprisoned at the state and local level for a drunk driving crash she caused that severely injured a man and his son in 2018.

The 47-year-old was previously in and out of rehab, on the run and pregnant before she ended up in the Franklin County Detention Center.

She held her young daughter for the first time...Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- Dominic Cipriano couldn’t stop shaking.

A drug dealer on the streets of Kensington had sold him a bag of what he thought was fentanyl. But whatever Cipriano had taken didn’t produce the familiar rush of the opioids he’d been using on and off since he was a teenager.

And when he entered withdrawal, he started rocking from ...Read more

Negotiators tasked with hammering out the future of the shrinking Colorado River — and the 40 million people who rely on it — are once again careening toward a deadline imposed by federal authorities, with little progress to show publicly.

Federal officials gave the seven states in the river basin a deadline that arrives Tuesday to present ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — President Donald Trump’s push to eliminate a federal disaster preparedness program threatens a fund used by state health systems from Republican-led Texas to the Democratic stronghold of California.

The Hospital Preparedness Program was created more than two decades ago in response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist ...Read more

When Stacy Garrity rallied supporters in McCandless in late September, she acknowledged it "won't be easy" to oust Gov. Josh Shapiro.

The Republican state treasurer's uphill battle next year against a widely popular governor got even steeper on Tuesday, when Democrats racked up wins all over the ballot and across Pennsylvania and the U.S. — ...Read more

Several Minnesota cities and counties are giving money to help local food shelves cover growing demand after federal food assistance guidelines have flip-flopped several times in the last week.

About 440,000 Minnesotans receive benefits each month from the Supplemental Nutritional Access Program (SNAP). The Minnesota Department of Children, ...Read more

President Trump said Sunday that most Americans would receive a $2,000 dividend payment as a result of his administration's tariffs levied against foreign countries.

Trump announced the potential payments on his Truth Social platform, calling opponents of his tariffs "FOOLS" in a post.

"We are taking in Trillions of Dollars and will soon begin...Read more

The U.S. is ready to back Lebanon’s army to help implement a plan to disarm militant groups, which was announced in August but has yet to make tangible progress amid a spat with the Iranian-backed militia Hezbollah.

The U.S. officials, in a meeting with Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun, expressed readiness to help the war-battered country ...Read more

British Broadcasting Corp. Director-General Tim Davie is resigning from the U.K. national broadcaster amid allegations it misled viewers by editing President Donald Trump’s remarks in a Panorama documentary last year.

The program, aired in October 2024, spliced together sections of a speech Trump gave in Washington on January 6 2021, the day ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump said he is nominating John Coale as a special envoy to Belarus and asked President Alexander Lukashenko to consider releasing more political prisoners.

Trump credited Coale — who is currently serving as a deputy special envoy to Ukraine and was previously one of the Trump’s lawyers — for the release of “100 ...Read more

An impassioned Mayor Brandon Johnson was in his element as he tailored his pitch to reinstate Chicago’s corporate head tax during a recent West Englewood town hall.

“There’s a reason why more of our people have left this city than any other group,” Johnson told a mostly Black audience at the Nov. 1 town hall organized by his supporters....Read more

Food stamps in New York were fully funded beginning Sunday despite a ruling from the Supreme Court late last week, Gov. Kathy Hochul said.

“While Donald Trump has fought relentlessly to keep food off New Yorkers’ tables, families who rely on SNAP can finally breathe a sigh of relief as benefits begin to arrive,” Hochul wrote on social ...Read more

Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed over 400 bills over the last four years, more than the previous six governors’ veto totals combined. The bulk of those vetoes were in the last two years, when Democrats held narrow majorities in both chambers of the General Assembly.

But power is shifting in Virginia. Come January, Democrats will enjoy a trifecta of...Read more

Fifteen years after his three young sons went missing — and more than eight months after they were declared legally dead — John Skelton is preparing to walk out of prison.

Skelton, 53, whose sons Andrew, Alexander and Tanner were last seen at his Morenci, Michigan, home on Thanksgiving Day 2010, is scheduled to be released from Bellamy ...Read more

If you were to stand on the surface of Mars in two years and look up to the night sky, you might see a bright streak flying across the heavens, followed a few minutes later by another. Rather than flecks of space stuff, they would be satellites on a mission led by UC Berkeley scientists.

This first-of-its-kind unmanned mission — Escape and ...Read more

When California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s CARE Court launched in 2023, his administration projected the program could help steer up to 12,000 homeless Californians and others with severe mental illnesses into treatment.

But as of May, only about 2,000 people had been referred to the Community Assistance, Recovery and Empowerment Court, according to...Read more