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OAKLAND U.S. Rep. Lateefah Simon, D-Oakland, recently announced a number of grants totaling more than $14.6 million in federal funding for projects to create more affordable housing and safer communities; senior and youth community programming; and infrastructure upgrades in California’s …

Workers at Safeway, Albertsons and King Soopers stores across metro Denver will vote today and Thursday on new contracts with the two supermarket chains, and employees outside the metro area will cast ballots Friday. The votes today and Thursday follow …

Democratic Florida State Senator Tina Polsky wrote an op-ed in the Sun-Sentinel on Tuesday titled ‘A Sales Tax Holiday on Firearms Makes Us Less Safe’, drawing reactions from well-known names in gun control activism. Fred Guttenberg, father of Jaime Guttenberg, …

White Sox general manager Chris Getz said the organization will take a bat-first approach Sunday in the MLB Draft, starting with their first pick at No. 10 overall. That’s perhaps not the most surprising strategy for a team dwelling in …

Angel Reese will rep “Team Phee” at the 2025 WNBA All-Star Game. The Sky forward was drafted by Napheesa Collier for the July 19 showcase at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. Collier and Caitlin Clark, this year’s top two fan vote-getters, …

Earl Abernathy was driving in the 92-degree heat in a van with no air conditioning last week when he got stuck in a traffic jam on the Near West Side. As he crawled through stop-and-go traffic with his windows rolled …

A Champaign doctor who was sued for leaving part of a fetus inside the body of a woman during an abortion procedure has been fined by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. A medical negligence lawsuit was filed …

I kept thinking “Oh! Darling” — and not because my husband languished in a hammock while slurping a Bahama Mama rum cocktail. Along pale pink sands, on the Bahamian island of Eleuthera, we were staying in the Potlatch Club cottage …

By NICOLE WINFIELD ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV prayed Wednesday for the world to recognize the urgency of the climate crisis and “hear the cry of the poor,” as he celebrated the first papal Mass using a new set …

By PAUL WISEMAN, AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and his advisers promised a lightning round of global trade negotiations with dozens of countries back in April. White House trade adviser Peter Navarro predicted “90 deals in …

CAEN, France — Race-against-the-clock specialist Remco Evenepoel produced a stunning display of power to win the first time trial of the Tour de France on Wednesday and defending champion Tadej Pogačar cemented his favorite status by grabbing the yellow jersey. …

By MOLLY QUELL THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Europe’s top human rights court delivered damning judgments Wednesday against Russia in four cases brought by Kyiv and the Netherlands accusing Moscow of atrocities in Ukraine dating back more than a decade. …

By WAFAA SHURAFA, KAREEM CHEHAYEB, and MELANIE LIDMAN DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli airstrikes killed at least 40 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, including 10 members of a family sheltering in a tent, hospital officials said Wednesday. The …

By ILLIA NOVIKOV KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia fired more than 700 attack and decoy drones at Ukraine overnight, topping previous nightly barrages for the third time in two weeks, part of Moscow’s intensifying aerial and ground assault in the …

By JOSH BOAK WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump sent out tariff letters to seven smaller U.S. trading partners on Wednesday with a pledge to announce import taxes on other countries later in the day. Related Articles Trump’s trade blitz …

By ANNA FURMAN LOS ANGELES (AP) — Growing up, Sage Sol Pitchenik wanted to hide. “I hated my body,” the nonbinary 16-year-old said. “I hated looking at it.” When therapy didn’t help, Pitchenik, who uses the pronoun they, started going …

A homeless man who was electrocuted after coming into contact with the third rail on Metro tracks at a station in the Westlake District of Los Angeles was identified Wednesday by county authorities. The victim was Jesse Nishikawa, 33, according …

The schoolboy was walking through the Rainworth nature reserve in Nottinghamshire on Friday when a ‘disguised man leapt out of the undergrowth’ (Picture: Google) A 13-year-old boy has claimed he was grabbed by a mask man at a nature reserve …

Megan Reynolds (Picture: Cover Images) A business has shared its disappointment after a former employee who stole more than £75,000 from them was spared jail. Meghan Reynolds racked up huge bills on company cards between 2019 and 2021 and set …

Andrey Korneichuk (left) and Roman Starovoit (right) died on the same day (Picture: east2west) On the same day that a Russian minister was found dead hours after being sacked, a second man in the same department dropped dead. Deputy head …