Oui, oui: Jill Biden heads to Paris to help mark US return to UN educational and scientific agency
Jill Biden has represented her country at the Olympics, a king’s coronation and a royal wedding.
After decades of delays and broken promises, coal miners hail rule to slow rise of black lung
A half-century ago, the nation’s top health experts urged the federal agency in charge of mine safety to adopt strict rules protecting miners from poisonous rock dust.
How Trump is gaining an advantage in the nitty-gritty battle for delegates
Donald Trump’s Republican presidential rivals appear to be at a disadvantage in the battle for delegates who will actually determine the party’s 2024 nominee.
Texas is using disaster declarations to install buoys and razor wire on the US-Mexico border
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has escalated measures to keep migrants from entering the U.S. The Republican is pushing legal boundaries along the border with Mexico to install razor wire, deploy massive buoys on the Rio Grande and bulldoze border islands in the river.
Minneapolis backs off arrests for psychedelic plant use
Minneapolis is backing away from enforcing laws that criminalize buying psychedelic plants or using them in private.
Key question as Federal Reserve meets: Can the central bank pull off a difficult ‘soft landing’?
When Chair Jerome Powell and other Federal Reserve officials gather this week for their latest decision on interest rates, they will do so on the cusp of achieving an elusive “soft landing” — the feat of curbing inflation without causing a deep recession.
Bodies of 4 killed in Alaska helicopter crash are recovered from lake
Authorities in Alaska say search and rescue divers have recovered the bodies of a helicopter pilot and three state scientists whose aircraft went down in a shallow lake last week.
The results of ‘Barbenheimer’ weekend are in. Here’s who took the box office crown
“Barbenheimer” didn’t just work – it spun box office gold.
Bell tolls for Wisconsin man who wins Hemingway look-alike contest
The annual Hemingway Look-Alike Contest has been won by a Wisconsin man who was celebrating his 68th birthday.
One year old, US climate law is already turbocharging clean energy technology
Excessive heat continues to bear down on sections of the United States, a reminder of the impetus for the The Inflation Reduction Act, the significant climate legislation that turns one year old on August 16.