Evacuations were being ordered Tuesday in rural Texas where a wildfire has ballooned in size, burning through ranchland and forcing schools to delay or cancel classes. The fire that began early Monday afternoon has ripped through more than 78 square miles (200 square kilometers) across lightly popul
NEW YORK (AP) — Ghislaine Maxwell’s bid to overturn her sex trafficking conviction and be freed from prison was rejected by a federal judge Tuesday who said the claims by Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend and longtime associate that new evidence had emerged were “demonstrably meritless.” Maxwell f
By Dan Burns Aug 25 (Reuters) – Sales of new U.S. single-family homes tumbled in July as high mortgage rates and prices weighed on the market and continued to sideline potential home buyers. New home sales dropped 10.5% to a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 607,000 units last month from June’s
Canada has announced retaliatory tariffs against the United States as relations sharply deteriorate, after President Donald Trump mused about renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America” and insulted Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney by calling him “Governor Carney.” More than 700 U.S.-made products are o
NEW YORK (AP) — Serena Williams is back at the U.S. Open for her first match at the Grand Slam tournament since 2022, playing mixed doubles alongside defending men’s singles champion Carlos Alcaraz. Williams and Alcaraz are facing one half of the reigning women’s doubles champions, Erin Routliffe, a
MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Julio in the Pacific Ocean was on track Tuesday to be absorbed by the stronger Tropical Storm Iselle, which is churning to the north. The National Hurricane Center based in Miami announced early Tuesday morning that Julio had formed. It was centered about 675 miles (1,086
By Mariam Sunny and Siddhi Mahatole Aug 25 (Reuters) – Two Pennsylvania residents died from measles, health officials said on Tuesday, the first such deaths this year in the United States, which is contending with the highest number of cases of the highly infectious disease in more than three decade
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A polygamous sect leader already serving a 50-year federal prison sentence for orchestrating sex involving children is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday on separate state convictions for hauling girls through a community in northern Arizona in an unventilated trailer. Samuel
NEW YORK, Aug 24 (Reuters) – An Alaska federal judge on Monday threw out a lawsuit by environmental groups challenging President Donald Trump’s move to allow offshore drilling along broad swaths of previously protected coastline. U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason found the lawsuit by groups, inc
By Alexandra Alper WASHINGTON, Aug 25 (Reuters) – Republican and Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday called on the Trump administration to bar American citizens and businesses from supporting Chinese and Russian civilian intelligence and security agencies. Congress approved a law in 2018 banning America
By Dan Levine Aug 25 (Reuters) – A group of U.S. senators said Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent explanation for how he disposed of a financial stake in litigation involving Merck’s Gardasil vaccine conflicts with earlier answers he gave in written testimony and federal ethics filings
Washington Removes Syria From State Sponsors of Terrorism List After 47 Years By Rizik Alabi / The Media Line The United States officially removed Syria from its list of State Sponsors of Terrorism on Monday, August 24, 2026, ending a designation that had been in place for nearly 47 years. The move
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The Federal Bureau of Investigation has established a minimum reward of $25,000 in cases where people went missing or were killed in Indian Country, part of a broader effort to address high rates of violence affecting Native American communities. The new minimum applies to m
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Californians are spotting swarms of dragonflies flitting around parks, chasing mosquitoes in ponds and hunting flies on farms, a phenomenon experts say was likely fueled by unusually warm spring rains. Peter Veilleux, who owns a nursery in Oakland, said he started noticing the d
PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — After nearly a month of testimony, jurors in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial are set to hear from the final witnesses in a case that has largely been about her mental state when she strangled her three young children. The trial will resume Tuesday with more testimony from a fo
FOREST GROVE, Ore. (AP) — The victims of what is being investigated as a quintuple homicide at a rural home outside Portland were identified Monday as the suspect’s girlfriend, her mother, her grandmother and two friends, authorities said. The suspect was found dead in his car in Enumclaw, Washingto
The wife of an active-duty U.S. soldier was deported Monday to her native Honduras, according to her family and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Cristy Maryori Villafranca-Trejo is at least the seventh spouse or parent of an active-duty U.S. military service member to be deported under Pres
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Senate passed a bill Monday that would fine content creators who don’t disclose they were paid to post in support of a political candidate or issue on the ballot. California, along with Texas, already requires content creators to include payment disclaimers o
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is preparing to revoke the business and tourism visas of up to 200,000 foreigners who have applied for or are currently seeking asylum status in the United States. If it happens, the move would be the largest single mass revocation of visas in U.S. history
RENO, Nevada, Aug 24 (Reuters) – Firefighters logged major gains on Monday against a wind-driven blaze that threatened the city of Reno, Nevada, over the weekend, destroying dozens of houses and chasing tens of thousands of people from their homes. As of Monday, fire crews had managed to carve conta
GARY, Ind. (AP) — Things became all-too familiar for Kimya Williams after storms rumbled through Gary, Indiana, earlier this month leaving big chunks of the mostly-Black city in the dark for two weeks. The power outage reminded the 50-year-old of what she experienced in New Orleans in 2005 when Hurr
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States is urging beefed-up U.N. sanctions against the warring parties in Sudan to build pressure on them to negotiate an end to the fighting that has killed at least 59,000 people, displaced some 13 million and pushed many parts of the African nation into famine. Pre
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Monday postponed a trial in the U.S. for a former Libyan intelligence official charged in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, citing the discovery of new evidence that defense attorneys want to examine in the nearly 40-year-old case. Jury selection was schedul
The U.S. Postal Service unveiled new requirements for mail ballots less than two weeks before some states begin sending them and in time for the conservative majority of the Supreme Court to clear the way for President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting the method to be used in November’s elect
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The bookends of California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s nearly eight years in office have been defined by a crucial question: Who should cover the cost of damage from wildfires caused by utility equipment? The most destructive wildfire in state history, a blaze that killed 85 people
By Cassandra Garrison and Leah Douglas MEXICO CITY/WASHINGTON, Aug 24 (Reuters) – Mexico is bolstering its screwworm containment campaign in northern border states where recent cases have been detected, heightening scrutiny of livestock exports as cross-border trade resumed on Monday under a phased
An arbitrator has ordered The Washington Post to reinstate a Black opinion writer fired over social media posts about violent white men following last year’s killing of Charlie Kirk. The ruling Thursday said the newspaper did not have sufficient cause to terminate Karen Attiah, who at the time was t
RENO, Nevada (AP) — A wildfire that mushroomed over the weekend in the Sierra Nevada foothills spread perilously close to neighborhoods in Reno, Nevada, forcing authorities to urge more than 90,000 residents to leave their homes. The out-of-control fire has already burned some homes, but there’s con
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday that new U.S. secondary sanctions in the pipeline aim to block all potential sources of revenue for Iran, telling nations to cut economic ties to Tehran or face U.S. retaliation. Tehran has withstood nearly five decades of punishing American sanctions. Ah
Aug 24 (Reuters) – A private arbitrator has ordered The Washington Post to reinstate opinion columnist Karen Attiah with back pay, after the newspaper fired her in September over social media posts about conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination. The ruling, made public by the Democracy Def
