MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota mistakenly claimed a 30-year high in abortions in a report it released on New Year’s Eve before discovering an error and determining the total actually declined in 2024.

The corrected total of 13,729 represents a more than 6% decline from the number of elective abortions in 2023, according to an update the Minnesota ...Read more

America’s allies offered a measured response after U.S. troops captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro in a raid, a move that sent shockwaves around the world and highlighted divisions among governments.

In Asia, Japan, South Korea, Australia and Thailand avoided condemning the move, instead emphasizing diplomacy, dialogue and stability. ...Read more

Saudi Arabia-backed forces in Yemen regained control of the strategic region of Hadramout over the weekend, following days of clashes with secessionist groups aligned with the United Arab Emirates.

The fighting has raised tensions between Abu Dhabi and Riyadh as the two Gulf powerhouses and U.S. allies back rival factions in the ongoing Yemeni ...Read more

The last time Denver hosted the Democratic National Convention, a not-yet-gray Barack Obama stood before 80,000 people in a stadium pulsating with excitement and chants of “yes we can” as he accepted his party’s nomination for president of the United States.

Twenty years later, Denver’s city leaders want to re-create that moment: the ...Read more

Lisa Farris worried that a nasty infection from recent liposuction and a tummy tuck was rapidly getting worse. So she phoned the cosmetic surgery center to ask if she should head to the emergency room, she alleges in a lawsuit.

The nurse who took the call at the Sono Bello center in Addison, Texas, told her she “absolutely should not” go to...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The unidentified white van slowly and stealthily pulled up outside the million-dollar-plus homes under the cover of darkness, grainy surveillance footage showed.

The thief or thieves parked on the street at such an angle that they were hidden from neighbors’ doorbell surveillance cameras. Then they went to work.

It was only ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s stunning year-end announcement that he is redirecting decades of U.S. Naval planning by re-emphasizing surface, rather than submarine warfare with construction of a new class of battleships is running into a buzzsaw of skepticism and could face a Congressional challenge.

Among the critics is U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-...Read more

Since President Trump's immigration raids began sweeping through California's cities and farm fields, state Senate President Monique Limón has carried a copy of her passport.

"Just in case," she said.

Limón is one of the most powerful politicians in the state behind Gov. Gavin Newsom, but the detainment of American citizens, including U.S. ...Read more

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the test of hypersonic missiles a day after the U.S. seized Venezuelan leader Nicholas Maduro in an act that Pyongyang denounced as a “rogue and brutal” violation of international laws.

The missiles were fired on Sunday to verify the weapon system’s sustainability and effectiveness, official Korean ...Read more

Realizing President Donald Trump’s plan for a U.S.-led revival of Venezuela’s beleaguered oil industry could be a years-long and challenging process costing upwards of $100 billion.

Years of corruption, underinvestment, fires and thefts have left the nation’s crude infrastructure in tatters. Rebuilding it enough to lift Venezuela’s ...Read more

The number of people who die in Britain this year is set to exceed those born in the country, the Resolution Foundation said, in what the think tank described as a permanent shift that will increase the U.K.’s dependency on migration.

Britain will see a shortfall in births in 2026, Resolution Foundation projected as part of its annual ...Read more

As Gov. Mike Dunleavy enters his final year in office, some lawmakers are approaching the coming legislative session with mixed expectations.

The Legislature is set to convene in Juneau on Jan. 20 with a packed agenda, including debates on a fiscal plan that Dunleavy committed to introducing, a long-promised natural gas pipeline, and a Rural ...Read more

Hundreds of Venezuelans gathered on Sunday in Orlando to pray for their country one day after President Nicolás Maduro was removed and captured in a U.S. military operation.

At the First Baptist Church of Orlando, Venezuelans celebrated, sang, prayed over their flag and gleefully chanted their national anthem — many through tears — for a ...Read more

SAN JOSE — Protesters braved a rainy Sunday afternoon to show out against President Donald Trump’s military action against Venezuela that resulted in the capture of the country’s president.

More than 100 people braved the rain, with umbrellas and hoods pulled low, to push back against Trump’s attack on Venezuela and the “kidnapping”...Read more

President Donald Trump warned other drug-producing nations in the Western Hemisphere that he wouldn’t long tolerate the flow of illegal substances to the U.S.

A day after U.S. forces captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro to stand trial in the U.S., Trump said several other nations need to change their ways.

“Colombia is very sick, too,...Read more

President Donald Trump said the U.S. needs “total access” to Venezuela as questions mount about the country’s leadership following the capture of President Nicolás Maduro.

“We need total access. We need access to oil and to other things in their country that will allow us to rebuild their country,” Trump told reporters on Air Force ...Read more

In a press conference Saturday detailing the operation to capture Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro and U.S. plans to “run” the country and rebuild its oil industry, there was one word President Donald Trump never used: Democracy.

Trump’s comments, detailing negotiations with a hardcore regime figure, Delcy Rodríguez, and dismissing ...Read more