Sharon Bernstein

An 80-year old man, a pair of soldiers in military garb and a 20-year-old student were among the stream of people braving cold mountain winds to lay flowers at one of the makeshift memorials for 10 victims of Colorado’s latest mass shooting.

A school bus carrying 18 students crashed in Kentucky Monday morning, sending the driver and several students to nearby hospitals, some in critical condition, authorities and local media said.

Wildfires in Canada’s Northwest Territories on Friday forced the evacuation of the entire town of Hay River, a community of about 4,000 people on the Great Slave Lake, authorities said.

Florida’s public university system on Friday approved a new entrance exam that emphasizes classical Western thought and has been used mostly by private and religious colleges, the latest move by the state to <a href=”/world/us/florida-education-board-vote-extending-ban-gender-identity-lessons-2023-04-19/”>make education more conservative</a>.

A 29-year-old suburban Los Angeles man pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to murder on Wednesday in the ambush shooting of a sheriff’s deputy as he waited at a red traffic light, Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon said.

A tropical storm off the mid-Atlantic coast began dumping rain on parts of North Carolina on Friday and will likely bring more precipitation along with high winds and storm surges to parts of Virginia and Delaware, the National Weather Service said.

North Carolina Republicans on Tuesday pushed through new curbs on same-day voter registration by overriding a gubernatorial veto, prompting immediate lawsuits by Democratic and progressive groups to halt the changes.

California baseball legend Steve Garvey launched a campaign on Tuesday as a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate seat that was held by the late Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein.

Jewish and Palestinian Muslim communities in the United States remain on edge a week after the brutal attack by Hamas militants on Israeli civilians and Israel’s subsequent reprisals in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.

Newly appointed California Senator Laphonza Butler, a Democrat, said on Thursday she will not seek a new U.S. Senate term next year.