Two Florida State University students recounted the horror of Thursday’s deadly campus shooting, with one survivor saying the gunman told students, “Keep running.” On Friday, the two people killed in the attack were identified by family members and their representatives as Robert Morales, an FSU dining coordinator and former Leon High School football team assistant…
A federal judge on Friday ordered that the Tufts University student who wrote an essay about Israel and the war in Gaza and is now fighting deportation must be transferred back to Vermont. Judge William K. Sessions III stayed his order for four days to give the government a chance to appeal. Rumeysa Öztürk, a…
LOS ANGELES — While Los Angeles is home to the biggest stars in the world, a monthly get-together is proving that the city’s rich and famous have nothing on the universe. The Silverlake Star Party, hosted by the Los Angeles Astronomical Society, started with just a few telescopes in the middle of the city. But…
The Department of Homeland Security appeared on Friday to be preparing to send a new group of Venezuelan men from the U.S. to El Salvador and its notorious CECOT prison, even as lawyers from the American Civil Liberties union scrambled in the courts to stop the administration from moving forward. On Friday afternoon, a charter…
Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., revealed new details about his meeting this week with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man who the Trump administration says was mistakenly deported last month. Van Hollen met with Abrego Garcia on Thursday after his previous efforts to meet with him were denied by Salvadoran officials. The Maryland senator held a…
For international tourists, traveling to the United States is looking less inviting these days. The combination of President Donald Trump’s trade policies and hostile rhetoric toward much of the rest of the world are creating a chill in international travel to the U.S. That shift might have a significant economic impact, with one Wall Street…
A federal judge on Friday denied Sean “Diddy” Combs’ bid to delay his sex trafficking trial by two months. Combs’ attorneys had asked U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian in a letter Wednesday for a two-month adjournment to better prepare a defense. Marc Agnifilo, one of Combs’ attorneys, had suggested at a hearing Monday that they would seek…
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Power was restored to 98.8% of customers early Friday after an island-wide blackout hit Puerto earlier this week, authorities said. More than 1.45 million customers had electricity less than 48 hours after the outage hit, according to Luma Energy, which oversees the transmission and distribution of power on the island….
Scientists have grown a nugget-sized piece of chicken using a new method that can deliver nutrients and oxygen to artificial tissues, marking a major breakthrough in cultured meat. While labs have been producing lifelike tissues for more than a decade, previous methods only made small, scattered cell balls less than 1 millimeter thick, or about…
Harvey Weinstein won a legal victory in his rape and sexual assault retrial in Manhattan, as his pleas to get out of the “hell hole” he calls Rikers Island were granted by the judge. The former Hollywood power broker will be transferred from the infamous New York City lockup to Bellevue Hospital, a judge ruled…
