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WASHINGTON — Just six months ago, the prospect of winning the Senate majority seemed far outside of Democrats’ grasp. The party was coming off steep 2024 losses, and the path to netting the four seats needed to win ...Read more

MIAMI — The Miami City Commission on Thursday voted to delay a vote on Mayor Eileen Higgins’ half-billion-dollar public safety bond, dealing a blow to the mayor as she’s worked to find her footing during her first ...Read more

After Xi Jinping regaled Donald Trump with goose-stepping soldiers and flag-waving children, the Chinese leader’s warning that Taiwan could lead to “clashes” between the superpowers amounted to a thunderclap in the ...Read more

For years, they have stood unfinished across Venezuela like monuments to collapse: abandoned bridges rising from rivers to nowhere, rusting refineries swallowed by weeds, empty rail lines ending in concrete pillars and ...Read more

NASA announced it would forgo using the same upper stage used on the first two Artemis flights for next year’s Artemis III mission since it won’t be heading to the moon.

The mission will be headed for a low-Earth ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Portugal. The Man, Dawes, and Little Feat will be the headliners at the 2026 XPoNential Music Festival.

This year’s festival, produced by University of Pennsylvania radio station WXPN-FM (88.5) at ...Read more

DETROIT — Emily Gilmore is coming to Brighton.

Actress Kelly Bishop, who played Emily Gilmore on the hit TV show "Gilmore Girls," will be making her way to Brighton for this year's "Gilmore Girls"-themed fan event, ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — In a year when the word “free” will automatically add buzz, the Minnesota State Fair will deliver a lot of bang for no bucks with the newly announced 2026 lineup for its free stages.

Hip-hop legends ...Read more

Matthew Rhys has got into "heated" rows with strangers over their refusal to use headphones in public.

The Americans actor - who lives in Brooklyn, New York, with partner Keri Russell, their nine-year-old son Sam, and her...Read more

Chelsea Handler is "dabbling" but isn't in a serious relationship.

The 51-year-old comic revealed earlier this year that she was dating a guy she had met in a Las Vegas casino, but she's now suggested things are not as ...Read more

James Franco has insisted he hasn't been "hiding out" in the wake of his sexual misconduct scandal.

The Pineapple Express actor has largely been out of the spotlight since he settled a lawsuit in 2021 after being accused ...Read more

Hilary Duff has suggested she is "done" with having children.

The 38-year-old singer-and-actress - who has son Luca, 14, from her marriage to Mike Comrie, and daughters Banks, seven, Mae, five, and Townes, two, with ...Read more

BEIJING — An extraordinary display of power and precision along Tiananmen Square greeted President Donald Trump in Beijing on Thursday, kicking off a two-day summit with particularly high stakes for the Americans.

It ...Read more

CHICAGO — “‘A Raisin in the Sun’ is a remarkable play,” Tribune critic Claudia Cassidy wrote in the winter of 1959, “acted to the Blackstone hilt of its warm heart, its proud backbone and its quicksilver ...Read more

The voyage was marketed for explorers eager to venture to "the edges of the map," from Antarctica to some of the most remote islands in the world.

It would be a tantalizing trip for tourists with an appetite for adventure...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Health officials have identified another California resident who was exposed to the deadly hantavirus strain that spread on a Dutch cruise ship and killed three people.

This brings the total count of ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — Jeremy Culhane was studying abroad in Scotland, writing an economics research paper at 3 a.m., when he concluded, “I’m gonna die if I keep on having to do this, I think I’d rather do comedy.” ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Hours before Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected to present his budget plan on Thursday, his office released new projections of a $16.5-billion state revenue windfall over three years and offered a rosy ...Read more

Wes Streeting resigned as Keir Starmer’s health secretary, paving the way for him to challenge the U.K. prime minister for his job.

“It is now clear that you will not lead the Labour Party into the next general ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Not every summer movie needs to be a mystery that unfolds hallway after hallway, with a creature hiding around every corner ready to pop out. But maybe the best one is: A24's “Backrooms,” opening May 29...Read more