A line of strong storms is slowly progressing through Georgia on Sunday with risk of damaging winds, flash flooding and a brief tornado threat.

Storms entered the northwest part of Georgia by midmorning and will advance throughout the region before exiting Monday afternoon. About 6,000 Georgia Power customers were without power at approximately...Read more

A mountain lion cub left with a skull fracture and severe head and eye trauma after being struck by a car in Orange County earlier this year has made a sharp recovery and could soon return to the wild, the San Diego Humane Society announced on Saturday, Apr. 5.

The male cub was roughly four months old when he was found on the side of an Orange ...Read more

Members of Washington’s state-employees union are planning to march on the state Capitol next Wednesday to urge state lawmakers to adopt a budget free from furloughs, cuts and closures.

The group is also demanding that the state Legislature refrain from stripping away any of workers’ legal rights.

The April 9 rally comes as state leaders ...Read more

Brenda Morgan didn’t think she had the heart to take another assignment as a Tri-Cities home health care provider after she lost her client of 17 years in December.

But then she saw a message from the family of a young, autistic adult.

Sam has a heart condition, uses a feeding tube for meals and medication, and thrives on structure to help ...Read more

A rain-swollen stream left about 50 hikers stranded overnight at a Kauai waterfall, Hawaii rescuers reported.

The hikers called for help from the Kalalau Trail at about 11:55 a.m. Thursday, April 3, the Kaua‘i Fire Department said in a news release.

“When they got up to the waterfall, they turned around and this one guy tells me he stepped...Read more

Two GOP Congress members, including Westchester Rep. Mike Lawler, are going to bat for a former NYPD cop convicted of acting as an agent of China — writing on Congressional letterhead that they believe a federal jury got his landmark conviction wrong.

Lawler and Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas), both China hawks who have taken strong stances ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s top economic officials dismissed investors’ fears of inflation and recession, offering no apologies for the market turmoil sparked by sweeping global tariffs and defiantly insisting a boom is on the horizon.

On the heels of huge global stock market falls, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s top economic officials dismissed investors’ fears of inflation and recession, offering no apologies for the market turmoil sparked by sweeping global tariffs and defiantly insisting a boom is on the horizon.

On the heels of huge global stock market falls, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard ...Read more

CHICAGO — The Trump administration’s decision to close a regional Head Start office in Chicago this week has raised questions about how the program, which serves more than 28,000 children and low-income families in Illinois, will continue to operate in coming weeks and months.

The federal government shut down the Chicago office Tuesday, ...Read more

The budget proposal North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein unveiled last month renews his request, now for the third year in a row, for a special unit of state prosecutors and law enforcement agents focused on combating fentanyl trafficking.

Stein first called on the General Assembly to create a fentanyl control unit within the N.C. Department of ...Read more

Iran warned against any military aggression while reiterating its commitment to regional peace and a civilian nuclear program in its official response to a recent letter by U.S. President Donald Trump, a senior Iranian military official said.

Trump last month told Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a letter that his country had two months...Read more

The Trump administration has issued an order demanding that all national parks remain open amid severe staffing shortages — an action that one conservation group called "reckless and out of touch" as park personnel brace for millions of visitors this summer.

"This order is intended to ensure that all national parks and national historic sites...Read more

Vietnam offered to remove all tariffs on US imports after President Donald Trump announced a 46% levy on the Southeast Asian nation, according to an April 5 letter from Vietnam’s communist party.

The offer was made by party chief To Lam to Trump in a letter seen by Bloomberg. Lam requested that the U.S. not apply any additional tariffs or ...Read more

With the Kentucky River flooding to record-breaking levels on Sunday, the Capital City is preparing for the worst.

Nearly nonstop rainfall for multiple days brought the river to nearly 50 feet, with an expected crest at 49.5 feet at 8 a.m. Monday, according to National Weather Service meteorologists. Officials say those levels could continue to...Read more

Sen. Adam Schiff, one of President Donald Trump’s toughest political opponents, is gearing up for another battle in Washington, D.C. — this time in support of California farmers.

In an interview with The Fresno Bee, Schiff spoke in defense of the state’s multibillion-dollar farming industry and the thousands of workers who harvest nearly ...Read more

A few weeks before Donald Trump was sworn back into the White House, San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu checked in with an old friend.

Chiu and California Attorney General Rob Bonta had worked closely together when both were in the Legislature. And they continued to stay in touch in the years since, despite their busy new jobs.

During the ...Read more

Just in the first few months of 2025, Robert Boo’s Pride Center discovered four people in Broward County who had HIV through its free testing at churches, festivals, pharmacies and nightclubs.

“If we weren’t testing, those four people could spread to four more, and it could quickly start spreading out of control,” Boo said. “The ...Read more

A second child with measles in Texas has died.

The New York Times reported Sunday that records it obtained showed an 8-year-old girl died Thursday of “measles pulmonary failure” at a hospital in Lubbock, where there have been at least 33 confirmed infections since the outbreak began in January.

The first child died in Lubbock in February. ...Read more

As fluoridation bans sweep smaller cities across Central Florida, Seminole County, north of Orlando, is poised Tuesday to consider removing the cavity-fighting chemical from its drinking water — the largest public water provider in the region to confront the issue.

In the last three months, a half-dozen local city commissions have voted to ...Read more