Latest news →Find published stories by month and topic.
Rancho Cucamonga, California — On Thursday, 14-year-old Shrey Parikh won the Scripps National Spelling Bee after prevailing in a 90-second eliminatory spell-off, correctly spelling 32 words to claim the $50,000 prize. He…
BATON ROUGE, La. The Louisiana House passed an amended version of SB121 on Thursday that redraws the state's congressional map, reducing the number of majority-black districts from two to one; the plan passed the House f…
Horry County, South Carolina. Horry County deputies arrested a 16-year-old student Thursday afternoon after receiving a cyber tip from the gaming platform Discord that flagged potential school violence and led investigat…
OKLAHOMA CITY — Tennessee defeated defending champion Texas 6-3 in the Women's College World Series opener on Thursday, May 28, advancing into the winners' bracket. The No. 7 seed Lady Vols secured the victory behind str…
CHAPEL HILL, NC — Tennessee baseball opened the NCAA Tournament Chapel Hill Regional Friday at Boshamer Stadium, with No. 2 seed Tennessee (38-20) facing No. 3 East Carolina at noon ET on May 29. First-year head coach Jo…
Reading, Pennsylvania — At a Thursday board of elections meeting, Berks County Commissioner Michael Rivera reported that 51,612 ballots were cast in the May 19 primary, producing a 23.22% turnout; Democrats cast 25,937 b…
New Delhi. The Supreme Court on Friday declined to stay a Delhi High Court order permitting Olympian wrestler Vinesh Phogat to participate in the Asian Games 2026 selection trials scheduled for May 30 and 31 in Delhi; th…
ST. LOUIS — Peabody announced on May 28 that it priced $225 million of convertible senior notes due 2031 in a private offering to qualified institutional buyers, with an initial 0.50% interest rate and an option for init…
Nashville officials proposed a $7 million subordinate debt loan program this month, advancing a first phase toward a potential affordable housing bond administered by the Metro Development and Housing Agency; the proposa…
San Francisco — California Attorney General Rob Bonta sued Chrome Holding Co., the company formerly known as 23andMe, in San Francisco Superior Court on Thursday, May 28, alleging the firm failed to protect customers' ge…
Washington, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday sued Maine, Washington, Oregon and Massachusetts, alleging each state enacted policies that unlawfully deny confidential license plates to federal law enforc…
Mackinac Island, Mich. — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a two-term governor from a key battleground state, said Thursday at the Mackinac Policy Conference that she will not run for president in 2028, speaking on the fro…
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida will pay its football assistants a combined $11.2 million in 2026, the school disclosed this week after releasing contract details; offensive coordinator Buster Faulkner is s…
Authorities in Longview, Washington, have shifted from rescue to recovery operations after a 900,000-gallon chemical tank ruptured Tuesday at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging pulp and paper mill. Officials confirmed two dea…
In the United States, Elon Musk has recently held internal discussions about potentially merging SpaceX and Tesla into a single corporate entity, according to multiple people cited by CNBC. The talks come just weeks befo…
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has grounded SpaceX’s Starship launch vehicle program following an inflight anomaly involving its Super Heavy first-stage booster during Flight 12. In a statement released after t…
United States local governments approved multiple municipal budgets this week: New Haven's Board of Alders approved a $744.3 million 2026-27 budget in a 28-1 vote raising the property tax rate from 39.4 mills to 39.962 m…
United States-based Zscaler, a cloud-delivered security services provider, saw its shares plunge 31.52 percent on Wednesday, the steepest single-day decline in its history, closing at $126.41 and cutting its market capit…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 73 on Wednesday to restrict law enforcement and federal access to ballots, voter rolls, and certified voting technology, effective immediately; the law criminalizes un…
Washington. The World Meteorological Organization and the UK Met Office released projections this week showing a 75% chance that average global temperatures between 2026 and 2030 will exceed 1.5°C above pre‑industrial le…
Washington — The US military on May 27 shot down four Iranian one-way attack drones and struck a ground control station near Bandar Abbas, U.S. officials said, describing the actions as defensive to counter threats aroun…
Washington — The United States on Wednesday added Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority to the Treasury Department’s Specially Designated Nationals list, the Office of Foreign Assets Control said, after the authority was …
Carlsbad, Calif. — Stanford defeated USC 4-1 on Wednesday at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa's North Course to win the NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championship, claiming the program's fourth national title and its third in f…
Nashville — Tyler Tanner withdrew his name from the NBA Draft on Wednesday and will return to Vanderbilt for the upcoming season after a breakout sophomore year. Tanner averaged 19.5 points and 5.1 assists, earned first-…
Washington: The U.S. Justice Department opened a criminal investigation on May 27 into E. Jean Carroll, the writer who accused President Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her in the mid-1990s, focusing on whether she c…