Christy Cox, 58, says she has been fighting for the rights of transgender people like herself for decades.

“I’m here to really show that queer elders do exist, so that 8-year-old kid over there can see that you can grow up and be a 58-year-old trans person,” Cox said.

The Naperville resident, who joined close to 1,000 people Sunday at a ...Read more

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer held “productive” discussions about “an economic prosperity deal” on a call with U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday evening ahead of a crunch week in which the government hopes to carve out exemptions from looming U.S. tariffs.

A statement from Downing Street said the two leaders agreed that ...Read more

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth should do the “honorable” thing and resign his position for the sake of the troops he’s tasked with leading, according to one Bay State congressman.

U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton, a Marine Corps veteran representing Massachusetts’ Sixth Congressional District, has joined a growing chorus of voices calling out ...Read more

Police in Meridian, Idaho, arrested an anti-Tesla protester for allegedly hitting a counterprotester with a vehicle on Saturday.

A preliminary law enforcement investigation found that 70-year-old Christopher Talbot, of Meridian, “made an obscene gesture toward a 49-year-old victim before hitting him with his car” at about 1 p.m., the ...Read more

One person was on the plane that crashed into the roof of a Brooklyn Park home Saturday, engulfing the structure in flames and displacing two residents, authorities said at a Sunday news conference.

Authorities said the pilot perished in the crash, and no other injuries were reported. While authorities did not not confirm the identify of the ...Read more

Two years after California’s Democratic leaders declared victory over big oil with a law aiming to crack down on industry profits, the state has been unable to prove companies engage in price gouging when the cost of gasoline spikes in California.

Since late 2022, Gov. Gavin Newsom has accused the oil industry of ripping off California ...Read more

A crippling ice storm has left parts of northern Michigan with up to an inch of ice, at least 90,000 residential and business customers without power and high wind and travel restrictions on the Mackinac Bridge.

"Crippling impacts from significant freezing rain continue, even if some places breach 32°F due to the sheer amount of ice that has ...Read more

It's been weeks of whiplash at Carnegie Mellon University.

Federal research funding cuts loom. A bipartisan group of lawmakers is pressing the institution over its high enrollment of Chinese international students. An investigation of what the White House sees as race-exclusionary practices could mean a further loss of federal funding.

A year ...Read more

Dueling protests filled both sides of Granite Drive in front of the Tesla dealership in Rocklin, California, for the first time Saturday, as supporters of President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk mounted a counteroffensive to the weekly protests against the electric car brand that started in February.

The MAGA crowd, numbering around a ...Read more

A week after a former University of Pittsburgh professor and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center anesthesiologist allegedly attacked his wife along a scenic overlook during a trip to Oahu, interviews and court records paint a harrowing picture of an apparently rocky marriage that became violent during a weekend getaway.

Gerhardt Konig's ...Read more

When the humanitarian aid workers decided to dismantle their elaborate tented setup — erected right up against the border wall — they hadn't seen migrants for a month.

A year earlier, when historic numbers of migrants were arriving at the border, the American Friends Service Committee, a national Quaker-founded human rights organization, ...Read more

Supporters and members of the LGBTQ community plan to rally Monday at the State Capitol in St. Paul, Minn., to celebrate the International Transgender Day of Visibility, beginning at 10:30 a.m. in the Capitol rotunda.

Here’s a brief overview of the day and why it’s considered important in today’s political landscape.

Since its inception ...Read more

Colorado’s law that made possession of small amounts of fentanyl a felony had almost no effect on overdose deaths, but may have discouraged people from sticking with treatment for opioid addiction, an initial study of the legislation’s impact found.

House Bill 1326, which passed in 2022, lowered the threshold for felony charges to one gram ...Read more

Sen. Chuck Schumer ripped a Republican plan to raise overdraft fees at banks on Sunday ahead of a crucial House vote coming this week.

The plan is part of Republicans’ wide-ranging assault on the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, which enacted a rule in December 2024 that functionally capped overdraft fees at $5. It estimated the new rule ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he’s “pissed off” at Russian President Vladimir Putin and would consider “secondary tariffs” on Russian oil if a ceasefire with Ukraine can’t be reached, NBC News reported.

Trump said he was “very angry” about Putin’s recent comments suggesting ways to install new leadership in Ukraine and sideline ...Read more

Comedian and actor Paul Rodriguez was arrested after police allegedly found narcotics in his vehicle during a traffic stop on Friday night in Burbank, California.

Burbank Police Sgt. Stephen Turner said Rodriguez, 70, was a passenger in a vehicle that was stopped for "code violations" at around 7:30 p.m. in the area of Victory Boulevard and ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he’s “pissed off” at Russian President Vladimir Putin and would consider “secondary tariffs” on Russian oil if a ceasefire with Ukraine can’t be reached, NBC News reported.

Trump said he was “very angry” about Putin’s recent comments suggesting ways to install new leadership in Ukraine and sideline ...Read more

Nearly two dozen grants and millions in research dollars have been canceled at UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke University and other North Carolina institutions as part of the growing list of projects cut by the National Institutes of Health.

Since February, the Trump administration has taken the unprecedented step of canceling hundreds of active research...Read more

SpaceX has two rockets at two pads set for launch in the next two days on the Space Coast.

First up is a Falcon 9 carrying 28 Starlink satellites targeting a 3:25 p.m. liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40. Backup are available through 7:10 p.m. or on Monday during a four-hour window that opens at 2:57 p.m....Read more