Elizabeth Bonker is a silent woman with a loud mission. She wants government agencies to cover the costs of training people with autism in a form of communication called assisted spelling. One problem: Leading professional organizations don't believe it works.

"All nonspeakers above the age of 5 should be given the opportunity," typed Bonker, ...Read more

Carrie Frail was in the process of leaving an abusive relationship when she discovered she was pregnant. Her partner told her he could hit her in the stomach until she had a miscarriage, and it would save some money.

“I firmly believe he would have killed me at some point, whether accidentally or intentionally,” Frail said.

She had a ...Read more

SANTA ROSA ISLAND, Calif. — Just steps above a white sand beach with calm, turquoise waves, the effects of the largest fire in Channel Islands National Park history are particularly stark: Fields of island grasses and chaparral have been reduced to ash, the earth singed to black. Hillsides are colored a rusty red from desperate retardant drops...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — Texas is five months away from its November general election, and Republicans are fighting to keep control in Texas.

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn — on the campaign trail in the primary battle of his life — warned that down-ballot GOP seats could be at risk if his Republican opponent Attorney General Ken Paxton were the ...Read more

About a year ago at Erlanger Baroness, the largest hospital in Chattanooga, anesthesia staff noticed that a nurse was slurring his words and struggling to stay awake while on duty in the surgery center, according to a Tennessee Board of Nursing consent order.

In the days that followed, the nurse failed a drug test and was fired, the order ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he would not reauthorize the United States’ trade deal with Canada and Mexico, setting the stage for months or years of negotiations over provisions governing automobiles and other key industries.

The countries are facing a July 1 milestone to extend the pact, which Trump negotiated during his first...Read more

NEW YORK — Brooklyn serial killer Harvey Marcelin won’t get a chance to slay a fourth woman, after a judge sentenced the 88-year-old murderer to life without parole Wednesday.

A jury found Marcelin guilty last month of first-degree murder for beating a Brooklyn woman to death, dismembering her with a saw and then ditching her remains in and...Read more

Following a six-month investigation, the U.S. Department of Justice said Wednesday that it had determined that the UC Davis School of Medicine discriminated based on race in its admissions process. The school disagreed with the findings about its “rigorous, individualized, and merit-based” admissions process and said it remains committed to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. military said it had launched strikes against “multiple” targets in Iran for the second day in a row after President Donald Trump accused the country of dragging out talks on an interim peace deal.

U.S. Central Command said it began what it called the “additional self-defense strikes” at 5:15 p.m. New York time ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Behind closed doors on Wednesday, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates told lawmakers that his relationship with accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was one based in strategic networking and the promise of philanthropy.

U.S. Rep. Emily Randall, D-Bremerton, and fellow Democratic lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee, said ...Read more

DETROIT — Michigan State University Trustee Rema Vassar is threatening to sue the university for years of alleged discrimination she's faced as a board member and as its former chairperson, according to a "pre-litigation demand" document released to The Detroit News through a public records request.

Vassar, through her attorney Martin ...Read more

The Wall Street Journal asked a judge to dismiss President Donald Trump’s revised $10 billion defamation lawsuit over an article on his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, arguing that the new complaint isn’t an improvement on the original version that was tossed out.

Trump’s revised lawsuit still fails to explain how the article — about a “...Read more

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein visited Congress to ask for billions more in Helene relief funding on Wednesday.

The storm, which caused $60 billion in damage in 2024, has left the state to slowly pick up the pieces as federal and state funding has come in waves.

Stein is requesting about $10.15 billion from Congress, $3 billion less than his ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. military said it had launched strikes against “multiple” targets in Iran for the second day in a row after President Donald Trump accused the country of dragging out talks on an interim peace deal.

U.S. Central Command said it began what it called the “additional self-defense strikes” at 5:15 p.m. New York time ...Read more

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis just gave the month of June — which is widely recognized as Pride Month — a conservative rebrand.

On Monday, DeSantis announced June 2026 as “Faith and Family Month” in Florida — a largely symbolic gesture that emphasizes the importance of a “Biblical family unit” and the role that fathers play in the...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Federal authorities arrested a Minneapolis grocer who recently landed on the FBI’s Most Wanted Fraudsters list for allegations that he bilked a federally funded meals program.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota on Wednesday announced the surrender of Said Ereg, 47, on charges alleging his participation in the sprawling ...Read more