BOSTON — Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s reelection comes with a whopping $43,000 raise to bring her salary to $250,000 next year.

Wu and the City Council will both receive pay hikes to start off the new year, thanks to legislation passed by the Council in 2022.

While the Council has seen pay hikes annually since 2024 — with its pay jumping ...Read more

BELÉM, Brazil — The expansive halls of the Amazon's newly built climate summit hub echoed with the hum of air conditioners and the footsteps of delegates from around the world — scientists, diplomats, Indigenous leaders and energy executives, all converging for two frenetic weeks of negotiations.

Then Gov. Gavin Newsom rounded the corner,...Read more

A cargo plane belonging to Turkey’s Ministry of Defense crashed in Georgia on Tuesday, killing all 20 people onboard.

The C130 aircraft was flying from Azerbaijan to Turkey when it crashed in a mountainous area near Sighnagi around 5 kilometers from the Azeri border, state-run Anadolu Agency reported.

The plane disappeared from radar minutes...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump wrote to Israeli President Isaac Herzog and urged him to legally pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who’s facing charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust.

While Trump has previously called for Netanyahu to be pardoned, including while speaking to the Israeli parliament last month, this is the first ...Read more

It’s no secret that Pennsylvania’s two most powerful Democrats do not get along.

Sen. John Fetterman and Gov. Josh Shapiro are stylistic opposites who have butted heads over the years. Now Fetterman, in his newly released memoir "Unfettered," is recounting his version of why that is.

By Fetterman’s telling, it stems from their time ...Read more

BURTON, Mich. — After living in the Utah desert for two years, Jake Sanford returned to Michigan a different person.

Gone was the lovable goofball, the high school cut-up who would do anything for a laugh.

In his stead was a man ravaged by crystal meth, said friends. He also bore something just as encompassing as a drug addiction — an ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Philip Vance has been waiting four years for the state to decide whether his murder conviction should be overturned.

The 45-year-old is serving a life sentence for the killing of a South St. Paul grocery clerk in 2002. Vance maintains he’s innocent. He points to the lack of physical evidence in the case and the fact that some ...Read more

After Hurricane Melissa’s exceptionally strong winds subsided, the roots of breadfruit trees clung deep into the fertile Jamaican soil — offering hope and a step toward food security in the future.

For the past 16 years, Mary and Mike McLaughlin, Jamaican natives who now live in Winnetka, Illinois, have helped plant almost half a million ...Read more

Julio Rojas was 16 when he entered the United States from El Salvador back in 2016, presenting himself to authorities at the southern border in search of legal asylum, “because of the gangs,” he said.

He went to school for two years, found a girlfriend. She had legal residence, and they had a son, born an American citizen, who is now age ...Read more

The distress that Will Bynum later recognized as shame settled over him nearly immediately.

Bynum, then in his second year of residency training as a family medicine physician, was wrapping up a long shift when he was called into an emergency delivery. To save the baby’s life, he used a vacuum device, which applies suction to assist with ...Read more

Thailand has suspended a peace process with Cambodia that was a condition for tariff negotiations with U.S. President Donald Trump, after Thai soldiers were injured in a land-mine blast near the border.

The suspension will remain in place until the Thai armed forces deem “hostilities” have ceased, Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul told ...Read more

It's no secret that Pennsylvania's two most powerful Democrats do not get along.

Sen. John Fetterman and Gov. Josh Shapiro are stylistic opposites who have butted heads over the years. Now Fetterman, in his newly released memoir, Unfettered, is recounting his version of why that is.

By Fetterman's telling, it stems from their time serving ...Read more

Days after Donald Trump’s party lost several key election contests that centered on cost-of-living concerns, the president floated the prospect of a 50-year mortgage to help voters tackle one of their top concerns: housing affordability.

“All it means is you pay less per month,” Trump said in an interview that aired on Monday.

Yet the ...Read more

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s top legislative leaders and Gov. Josh Shapiro have agreed to a $50.1 billion state budget deal behind closed doors, according to two sources close to negotiations, signaling a breakthrough in a prolonged budget impasse that has stretched more than four months and stalled state funding to schools and counties.

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As Gov. Gavin Newsom’s climate trip in Brazil continues, reports emerged that the Trump administration plans to allow oil and gas drilling off the California coast for the first time since the 1980s.

Newsom called the plan “dead on arrival” and denounced the administration’s consistent pursuit of fossil fuels, saying “the polluted ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Information, like water, is in short supply in the Colorado River Basin as seven states blew past the Trump administration’s deadline for an agreement.

Tuesday was Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s major deadline for the states to submit a framework for a consensus-based deal to update the river’s operating guidelines that ...Read more

Washington is moving ahead on distributing full food benefits for November, Gov. Bob Ferguson announced Monday night.

That means people in Washington who participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program can expect to get normal payments this month.

According to the governor, the state has delivered close to $115 million in benefits...Read more

The ongoing saga around federal nutrition aid is yet another moment that highlights how food insecurity can lead to long-term health consequences, according to Seattle-area dietitians.

The future of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which feeds roughly 42 million Americans, remained uncertain Monday, as the longest government ...Read more