As bad as last year’s record-shattering fire season was, the western U.S. starts this year’s in even worse shape. “The dice are loaded toward a lot of forest fire this year,” said a UCLA climate and fire scientist. Read More

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A few hours after the latest cease-fire took effect in the Gaza Strip, a number of Palestinian journalists in the coastal enclave found they were blocked from accessing WhatsApp messenger — a crucial tool used to communic...

ROME (AP) — Eurovision Song Contest organizers said Monday that the lead singer of Italian glam rock band Maneskin tested negative for drug use, putting to an end speculation that had tarnished the band’s victory. “We consider the matter closed,” the...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The Atlantic City casinos’ gross operating profit soared in the first quarter of this year to more than $95 million, more than three times the amount they earned in the first quarter of 2020, when the COVID-19 shutdown wipe...

There’s no road trip, no soul searching. No beard or blogging. But Beto O’Rourke is making a political life decision again. Three years after becoming Democrats’ breakout star out of Texas, and a year removed from crashing back to Earth in a short-li...

Back in February, as the world was beating a path to Taiwan's door for help to tackle a shortage of semiconductors, the health minister got into a scrap with China over Covid-19 vaccines. Beijing, he suggested, had used political pressure to derail T...

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Boy, 6, shot dead in California on way to school in apparent road-rage incident  Fox NewsFamily pleads for suspects to come forward after 6-year-old boy shot, killed on freeway  FOX 11 Los Angeles‘She had to hold her little boy as he died': 6-year-ol...

Suspect arrested in connection with attack on Jewish man in New York's Times Square  NBC NewsThe Jewish man who was the victim of a gang assault in New York says the level of hatred was troubling  CNN Jewish man beaten during wild NYC protests afraid...

Police in Germany say they are investigating a Jewish man’s report of being punched in the face and abused with antisemitic language while walking home in Berlin Read More