Ukraine sent a revised peace plan to Washington as President Donald Trump held a call with European leaders, according to a person familiar, as both sides scramble to keep efforts on track to end Russia’s invasion.

The war-torn country’s latest submission was sent as Trump held a separate discussion with Prime Minister Keir Starmer, ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis rolled out his “Floridians First” budget proposal Wednesday in Orlando, calling for more than $1.5 billion in funding for teacher pay increases and a continuation of his key environmental and law enforcement initiatives.

As he approaches his final year in office, DeSantis said he wants a $117 billion ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The U.S. Department of Justice has filed suit against Minneapolis Public Schools, accusing the state’s third-largest district of providing discriminatory protections to teachers of color in layoff and reassignment decisions.

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Minnesota, marks the Trump administration’s ...Read more

PATRICK SPACE FORCE BASE, Fla. — A trio of runners dressed in camouflage fatigues tucked into light brown boots round the track with gritted teeth, red faces, and muscles strained in their necks, giving one last push at full sprint with the finish line in sight.

Shirts soaked in sweat, they’re each holding onto a rope and can’t let go.

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U.S. forces seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, President Donald Trump said Wednesday, in the latest escalation in a widening U.S. campaign of military and law-enforcement pressure on the Nicolás Maduro regime.

Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump described the vessel as “a large tanker, very large, largest one ever ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Keep punching, Rocky.

Creative Philadelphia’s proposal to permanently install a Rocky statue at the top of the Philadelphia Art Museum’s famed steps is one step closer to reality following an Art Commission meeting Wednesday, though the plan fell short of receiving final approval following a mixed vote. Three commissioners ...Read more

Billionaire MAGA activist Elon Musk claims that being in public puts him at risk, particularly in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing.

The 54-year-old Tesla CEO expressed his concerns on “The Katie Miller Podcast,” which is hosted by the wife of White House adviser Stephen Miller.

In addition to saying his largely unpopular work with the ...Read more

Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation has fired senior members of a limited liability company’s leadership team and denounced a $30 million contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.

“As a sovereign Nation, our values guide the decisions we make, and we acknowledge that this contract does not align with those principles,” ...Read more

BOSTON — An illegal immigrant from Peru with a history of reckless driving is now in ICE custody after allegedly hitting an Everett woman with his car so hard her shoes and pants came off before fleeing the scene Sunday morning, only to be ordered held on just $2,500 bail.

Immigration officials confirmed with the Boston Herald that the ...Read more

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado used her Nobel Peace Prize lecture on Wednesday to deliver a sweeping account of her country’s two-decade struggle against authoritarianism, portraying Venezuela’s crisis not only as a national tragedy but as a global warning about the fragility of democracy and the cost of freedom.

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LOS ANGELES — As the Eaton and Palisades fires rapidly jumped between tightly packed houses, the proactive steps some residents took to retrofit their homes with fire-resistant building materials and to clear flammable brush became a significant indicator of a home’s fate.

Early adopters who cleared vegetation and flammable materials within...Read more

New Jersey is among the 10 states that allow a physician to assist a terminally ill patient in ending their own life, under certain conditions. But those patients must be New Jersey residents, a federal appeal court ruled.

The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals said last week that New Jersey’s limit of the aid-in-dying law to state residents is ...Read more

While the federal government was shut down, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services altered the name under the official portrait of Adm. Rachel Levine, a Pennsylvania doctor who served as the agency’s assistant secretary under former President Joe Biden, to her birth name or “dead name.”

Levine, who had previously served as ...Read more

Wednesday night’s Powerball drawing is for $930 million.

If no winner is selected, the jackpot will almost certainly top $1 billion with the holidays fast approaching. The jackpot — already the seventh largest in Powerball history — has a lump-sum cash value of around $429 million.

It would be second largest Powerball windfall of 2025. A...Read more

SAN DIEGO — San Diego is launching an effort to make its pricey single-family neighborhoods more affordable to young families by rezoning some properties to allow duplexes, cottages, townhomes and bungalow courts.

City officials say the cheaper options would blend well visually with single-family homes and create more options for middle-...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration must immediately end the deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles, the latest legal blow to the president’s embattled efforts to police American streets with armed soldiers.

Senior U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer said in his ruling that command of the ...Read more

A House Democrat filed articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday in a likely futile effort to oust the health and human services secretary.

Kennedy “has turned his back on science, on public health, and on the American people – spreading conspiracies and lies, driving up costs and putting lives at risk,” Rep. ...Read more