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A lawsuit filed by the city and county of Honolulu against nearly a dozen fossil fuel companies is moving towards trial in Hawaii after the Hawaii Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the companies’ arguments for dismissing the case on appeal. Honolulu first sued 10 fossil fuel companies — including BP, Chevron, Shell,...

As smaller newspapers shrink or disappear, it’s easy to romanticize the role they played. But one reporter’s memories of the heyday of local journalism reveal a much more complicated reality.

Scalise, the Majority Leader, had secured his party’s nomination to replace ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy but was still short of the 217 votes needed to be elected on the House floor, as several of his fellow Republicans said they would not support him....

In their opening statements to a newly sworn-in jury in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday, lawyers laid out previews of their cases, offering two divergent narratives for the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire....

The UAW is currently in the third week of an ongoing strike against the Detroit 3 automakers, General Motors (GM.N), Ford and Chrysler parent Stellantis (STLAM.MI)....

The accounts of several Russian, Chinese and Iranian state media outlets saw a 70 percent increase in engagement on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, after it removed labels identifying them as “state-affiliated,” according to a new report released Tuesday....

The government is worried about the safety of chemical facilities across the country after its power to keep dangerous substances out of the hands of extremists lapsed a month ago....

Police have a person in custody in connection with the death of a gay man who was fatally stabbed after a confrontation between a group of friends dancing to a Beyoncé song and several young men who taunted them.

A shooting during halftime of a high school football game Friday night in Louisiana left one teen dead and a man wounded, police said....

Note: added (non fatal) to the title to make it clear that the victim lived, which is ambigious in the original title....

Trump said he never felt his financial statements “would be taken very seriously,” and that people who did business with him were given ample warning not to trust them....

Participants in a recent Tough Mudder event have come down with rashes and infections, California authorities say....

Suspect tore down Pride flag and hurled homophobic slurs before killing California store owner, say police

Twitter (now X) has become a great platform for following news, and many media groups (including ours) share links to...

There was virtually nothing but rainforest for miles, and then the government agents spotted it: a makeshift shelter, the fire still smoldering. There were two sets of footprints, two machetes and two spots for hammocks....

Denounced in some Middle Eastern countries for undermining traditional gender norms, the hit movie is finding an audience in Saudi Arabia, illustrating the region’s shifting political landscape.

Hurricane Dora has made headlines this week for having partially contributed to the winds that whipped up a ferocious firestorm in Hawaii. Now Dora, already having set a record for longevity in the Pacific Ocean, has made more history, more than three weeks after being born in a different ocean more than 10,000 miles away....

A California woman died after falling off a mountain in the Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, the National Park Service said.

The largest school system in Kentucky closed schools Thursday and Friday following what the superintendent called a “transportation disaster” that left some children on buses until just before 10 p.m. Wednesday, the first day of school.

Why do some people who support Trump also wind up believing conspiracy theories? There’s a scientific explanation for that.