September 12, 2024, 1:41pm Latest News
The percentage of U.S. residents who were foreign-born last year grew to its highest level in more than a century, according to figures released Thursday from the most comprehensive survey of American life. Read story
September 12, 2024, 1:33pm Nation & World
Solar storms may bring faint but visible auroras to the Northern Hemisphere starting late Thursday and extending into early Friday morning. Read story
September 12, 2024, 1:32pm Nation & World
The French steamship Le Lyonnais, a marvel for its time, was feared lost forever when a maritime disaster in 1856 sent her to the bottom of the ocean off Massachusetts. Read story
September 12, 2024, 12:30pm Latest News
The U.S. secretary of state said Thursday that the United States will continue to press Israel to do more to spare humanitarian sites in the Gaza Strip, a day after an Israeli airstrike on a U.N. school complex sheltering displaced Palestinians killed 14 people, including six U.N. staffers. Read story
September 12, 2024, 12:26pm Nation & World
New York City Police Commissioner Edward Caban resigned Thursday, one week after it emerged that his phone was seized as part of a federal investigation that touched several members of Mayor Eric Adams’ inner circle. Read story
September 12, 2024, 12:26pm Nation & World
A state judge struck down North Dakota's ban on abortion Thursday, saying that the state constitution creates a fundamental right to access abortion before a fetus is viable. Read story
September 12, 2024, 12:22pm Nation & World
The U.S. is divided when it comes to state and federal marijuana policy, but recent political developments could move the country toward a greater acceptance of cannabis. Read story
September 12, 2024, 12:19pm Nation & World
Alberto Fujimori, whose decadelong presidency began with triumphs righting Peru’s economy and defeating a brutal insurgency only to end in autocratic excess that later sent him to prison, has died. He was 86. Read story
September 12, 2024, 12:15pm Nation & World
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday amplified false rumors that Haitian immigrants in Ohio were abducting and eating pets, repeating during a televised debate the type of inflammatory and anti-immigrant rhetoric he has promoted throughout his campaigns. Read story
September 12, 2024, 12:10pm Nation & World
Young women are more liberal than they have been in decades, according to a Gallup analysis of more than 20 years of polling data. Read story
