Thailand’s lower house of parliament passed a 3.78 trillion baht ($117 billion) annual budget, needed to support a fragile economy that’s at risk from issues ranging from the effect of higher U.S. tariffs to a downturn in tourism.

The budget bill for the year starting Oct. 1 was backed by 257 lawmakers in the 500-member House of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — West Virginia is sending several hundred National Guard troops to Washington to bolster the federal deployment that President Donald Trump has ordered in his effort to reduce crime in the nation’s capital.

Gov. Patrick Morrisey was responding to a request from the Trump administration in sending 300 to 400 of the state’s ...Read more

A strike by thousands of Air Canada flight attendants caused travel chaos and hundreds of flight cancellations across the U.S. on Saturday.

The Canadian government quickly stepped in Saturday morning, shutting down the strike by imposing binding arbitration and forcing the flight attendants back to work.

“It has now become clear that this ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Hurricane Erin strengthened into a powerful Category 5 storm on Saturday only a day after becoming a hurricane and was forecast to continue intensifying for at least several hours.

NOAA Hurricane Hunters found maximum sustained winds had increased to nearly 160 mph during a pass through the storm just after 11 a.m. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The fate of Donald Trump’s push to stop the fighting in Ukraine will be tested again as Volodymyr Zelenskyy prepares to respond to the U.S. president’s shifting demands following mixed signals from the Russia-U.S. summit in Alaska.

Trump will host the Ukrainian president at the White House on Monday in their first Oval ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Disgusting. Sickening. Unacceptable. Reprehensible.

Those are descriptions from federal politicians and child-safety advocates of the “sensual” and “romantic” chats Meta allowed its artificial intelligence bots on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp to have with children.

The Bay Area-based social media giant is ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — A new study has found that people who lived in areas with high levels of leaded gasoline emissions in the 1960s and '70s are more likely to report memory problems today — a finding that researchers say could deepen our understanding of environmental risks tied to dementia.

The study and others presented in July at the 2025 ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The travel pattern resembled a Southern California hiker's dream.

The journey began in Angeles National Forest above Glendora in May 2024 and progressed south into Azusa. There were stops, stays and starts from Monrovia and Sierra Madre, then northeast into La Cañada Flintridge, Tujunga and, eventually, the Santa Clarita ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Can you ride out a Category 5 hurricane on the 50th floor? Would you want to?

You might not make it through the storm alive, experts say. Even if you do, your building won’t likely be the same when the storm is over. The South Florida Sun Sentinel spoke to five people in the know to find out how all those tall towers...Read more

As the lifeguards prepared to end their shift, a 77-year-old Russian grandmother visiting her family in Brooklyn was having such a good time at Manhattan Beach Park she called her daughter and told her to hold off on picking her up.

“It’s breezy. It’s good weather,” Liudmila Marchenko told her daughter. “”Give me an hour.”

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — President Donald Trump made his expectations clear entering a summit with Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday: “I won’t be happy if I walk away without some form of a ceasefire,” he said aboard Air Force One.

Yet he did, emerging from their meeting in a diplomatic retreat, endorsing Russia’s territorial ambitions ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — While classes were out for summer, districts were busy preparing for the upcoming school year: Finalizing budgets, hiring staff, building programming and working with the state to secure grants are all a regular part of business when kids are out of class.

But the attitude toward education on a federal level has shifted ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — The Idaho Department of Correction said it’s investigating to determine whether videos of Bryan Kohberger, the man convicted of murdering four University of Idaho students, in his prison cell were leaked online.

IDOC in a news release said it hasn’t yet confirmed the legitimacy of the what appears to be footage of Kohberger...Read more

ORLANDO , Fla. — SpaceX has had a tough year with its Starship program, but the Federal Aviation Administration has cleared the path for the next-generation rocket’s 10th suborbital launch attempt as early as next weekend.

The FAA on Friday closed investigations into mishaps suffered on the ninth launch in May that saw the Super Heavy ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In downtown Los Angeles, Gov. Gavin Newsom was holding a news conference with Democratic leaders when the Border Patrol showed up nearby to conduct a showy immigration raid.

In Washington, D.C., hundreds of National Guard troops patrolled the streets, some in armored vehicles, as city officials battled with the White House over ...Read more

Donald Trump will host President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Washington on Monday after the U.S. president abandoned his push for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine and Vladimir Putin again insisted that Kyiv give up land in peace talks.

Trump told the Ukrainian president and European leaders in a call that Putin wants Kyiv to cede control of the ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — President Donald Trump made his expectations clear entering a summit with Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday: "I won't be happy if I walk away without some form of a ceasefire," he said aboard Air Force One.

Yet he did, ending his meeting with the Russian leader with curt remarks, taking no questions from the press and ...Read more