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BALTIMORE — Reginald Bellamy was playing poker with his buddies in the back of the day room at the old Baltimore City Detention Center when he heard the voice that changed his life.

A religious service was underway in ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — On a late afternoon e-bike ride with friends in his Miramar neighborhood, 11-year-old Varren Lacoste hit a signpost straight-on and cracked open his forehead.

Racing from work to the hospital, ...Read more

Free, largely confidential and available 24 hours a day via call, text or online chat, the 988 Lifeline — formerly the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline — is among the most accessible and effective suicide ...Read more

BIG SANDY, Mont. — The emergency department at Big Sandy Medical Center is one room with a single curtain between two beds.

It’s one of the many parts of the 25-bed rural hospital that need updating, former CEO Ron ...Read more

ADEN, Yemen — The ambush spot was good: Single-lane street, just enough space to overtake. Few exits, easily controlled. Hidden from the highway by high buildings lining either side.

So when the strike team trailed Lt....Read more

BALTIMORE — With just a little more than a week left in the legislative session, a slate of bills focused on Maryland women has advanced through the General Assembly, tackling issues from maternal health and menopause ...Read more

HAVANA — After another nationwide blackout debilitated Cuba, electricity began flickering back on in parts of Havana on a recent Sunday afternoon. As cell signal returned, Alberto González's phone buzzed nonstop with ...Read more

With U.S. bombs raining down on Iran and Tehran’s leaders responding by hitting targets across the Persian Gulf and restricting transit through the Strait of Hormuz, it is fair to suggest that the present moment ...Read more

DENVER — A Colorado community activist was convicted of doxxing a Denver police commander last week in a first-of-its-kind case that has fueled debate about whether the state’s online privacy laws violate free speech ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — First they found metates — ancient grinding stones. A human pinky bone, jawbone and ribs were next.

Repeated discoveries of Native American remains and other artifacts on the site of a housing development ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Many Minnesotans are still struggling to afford food as residents set a fourth consecutive record for food shelf visits in 2025.

Since the pandemic and the record inflation that followed, food insecurity ...Read more

MIAMI — Nancy Metayer Bowen appeared to be living her best life. Successful, involved, happy, loved by her friends, family and community — and getting ready for a congressional run.

The 38-year-old posted herself on ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s threat to unleash “all hell” on Iran as early as Monday was met with defiance in the Islamic Republic as the U.S. military continued its dayslong search for an airman whose F-15E was shot ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — “Lake Nona Concentration Camp” is certainly an evocative nickname for a potential Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in east Orlando. But lawyers for a development company say the ...Read more

India is buying crude from Iran among other countries in order to navigate the current energy crisis, the country’s oil ministry said, denying payment hurdles were impeding those purchases.

The statement is a rare ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Across the country, President Donald Trump has installed handpicked loyalists as top federal prosecutors. Several have been pushed out after legal battles because they lack Senate confirmation to serve as U...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — The bomb placed outside the MacDill Air Force Base visitors center last month was built inside two 2-liter cherry Pepsi bottles, according to federal prosecutors.

Alen Zheng, 20, of Land O’Lakes, is ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Trump administration announced on Saturday the arrests of two Los Angeles-based relatives of a high-ranking member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard killed in a U.S. drone strike in 2020.

Secretary ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — House Democrats will hold a pair of "shadow hearings" in California next week on the upcoming midterm elections — part of a broader party effort to defend state voting systems against mounting critiques ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A new report on the deadliest avalanche in California history — which killed nine backcountry skiers and guides in February near Lake Tahoe — found that a guided group deviated from basic safety ...Read more