October 27, 2024, 2:09pm Nation & World
The United States has approved $2 billion in arms sales to Taiwan, including the first-time delivery to the self-ruled island of an advanced surface-to-air missile defense system, in a move that has drawn China’s criticism. Read story
October 27, 2024, 2:08pm Nation & World
Voters in the small South American nation of Uruguay headed to the polls to choose a new president Sunday in a race between two moderates that defies regional trends of bitter division and democratic erosion. Read story
October 27, 2024, 1:30pm Nation & World
Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance says Russia is a U.S. adversary but suggests it's counterproductive to approach Moscow as an enemy. Read story
October 27, 2024, 1:23pm Nation & World
Kamala Harris told a Philadelphia church congregation that the United States is “determined to turn the page on hatred and division" as she began crisscrossing the Democratic stronghold Sunday. Read story
October 27, 2024, 1:17pm Latest News
President Joe Biden on Sunday marked the sixth anniversary of a gunman’s deadly attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue and called out what he called an “appalling surge of antisemitism” amid the war in Gaza. Read story
October 27, 2024, 1:10pm Nation & World
South Carolina is preparing to put up its first individual statue for an African American on its Statehouse lawn, honoring a man who put on Confederate clothes in order to steal a slaveholder’s ship and sail his family and a dozen others to freedom during the Civil War. Read story
October 27, 2024, 9:47am Latest News
Israeli strikes on northern Gaza have killed at least 33 people, mostly women and children, Palestinian officials said Sunday, as Israel's offensive in the hard-hit and isolated area entered a third week and the U.N. secretary-general called the plight of Palestinians there “unbearable.” Israel said it targeted militants. Read story
October 27, 2024, 9:40am Nation & World
While Aurora Public Schools is striving to accommodate more than 3,000 new students mostly from Venezuela and Colombia, the city government has taken the opposite approach. City Council has tried to dissuade Venezuelan immigrants from moving to Aurora by vowing not to spend any money helping newcomers. Read story
October 27, 2024, 6:02am Nation & World
ON THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER, San Diego — I’ve done the drive from Orange County to the United States-Mexico border so many times that it’s as easy to describe as my backyard. Read story
October 27, 2024, 6:02am Latest News
The men and the boys scanned the Mexican desert from the shade of a tree. They walked down a hill toward the border wall to pick up water, socks and rosaries. The heat hit hard and the men and the boys, who had been on foot for months, blended in… Read story