Mikaela Shiffrin had always won a medal in the slalom at worlds. She’s fine with 5th this time
All that talk about a record-breaking 16th medal. And extending her perfect run of six medals in six career slalom races at ...
Hawaii’s only quintuplets find their passion in inline hockey
Now, the “quints” — Kapena, Kamali‘i, Kupono, Keahi, and Kaolu — have found a new passion that keeps them moving: inline hockey. The five siblings, along with their older brother Makaio, have immersed ...
Back-to-back earthquakes jolt Los Angeles area within hours
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.5 rattled the L.A. metropolitan area early Saturday just hours after a 3.8-magnitude quake shook the Malibu area shortly before midnight Friday.
Consumer watchdog agency called ‘vicious’ by Trump seen as a ‘hero’ to many it aided
To President Donald Trump, it’s a hotbed of “waste, fraud and abuse” whose only purpose is to “destroy people” and whose ...
NASCAR star Kyle Larson is on a tear in 2025. Can he keep it going with a Daytona 500 win?
The winning for the Larson family hasn’t slowed down at the start of 2025 as former NASCAR champion Kyle Larson watched his son, Owen, lead his team to victory in ...
African leaders elect Djibouti’s foreign minister as new leader of the African Union Commission
African leaders elected Djibouti’s foreign minister to become the next leader of the commission than runs the continent-wide African Union. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf ...
Bird flu confirmed in older Wyoming woman who likely had contact with infected flock at her home
An older woman in southeast Wyoming is hospitalized with bird flu, state health department officials said Friday. It’s the state’s first human case of Type A H5N1 influenza, which is ...
Russian court orders US citizen suspected of drug smuggling held in custody
A Moscow court has ordered a U.S. citizen suspected of drug smuggling held in pre-trial detention for 30 days, the Moscow courts press service said Saturday, days after a ...
As Trump administration reforms the EPA, cleanups of America’s most toxic sites are uncertain
Just over a mile from where Patricia Flores has lived for almost 20 years, a battery smelter plant spewed toxic elements into ...
Family expresses concern at British couple detained in Iran on security charges
Relatives of a British couple who have been detained in Iran said Saturday that their situation was distressing and causing “significant concern,” and that the family was ...
Trump moves with dizzying speed on his to-do list. But there are warning signs in his first month
As President Donald Trump approaches the first-month mark in his second term, he has moved with dizzying speed and blunt force to reorder American social and political norms and ...
Which states have the lowest high school graduation rates?
Roughly 90% of Americans over the age of 25 have a high school diploma, according to the World Population Review, and in many ...