SAO PAULO — Brazilians began voting Sunday in a high-stakes presidential election pitting incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva against Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro at a moment when the region is shifting to the right in line with the Trump administration.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force has brought home its bombers stationed at a U.S.-run military air base in England used to strike Iran following an investigation into a planned terror attack at the RAF Fairford base.
An intense, public outcry over a woman's account of being gang-raped at a Cornell University fraternity house prompted New York's governor last week to angrily yank control of the investigation away from the local prosecutor who didn't initially see what happened as a crime.
The Supreme Court will open its new term Monday by hearing arguments on whether the oil and gas industry may be forced to pay damages for the scorching heat waves, wildfires and droughts that are blamed on climate change.
The Cowlitz County Planning Commission is set to hold a special meeting Wednesday about its 2026 Comprehensive Plan update. The schedule includes a workshop at 4:30 p.m. and a public hearing on the update’s final draft at 5:30 p.m., the commission announced.
Washington's burrowing owl population has been declining for years. Development, agricultural habitat loss and increased wildfires have worsened their survival in the state to the point that the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife is considering listing them as endangered.
The National Hurricane Center on Sunday continued to track a system forming in the Gulf of Mexico that could develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm. As of the center’s 8 a.m. tropical outlook, the broad area of low pressure was forecast to form in a few days.
A search continued Sunday off the Massachusetts coast for an air ambulance carrying six people that disappeared during a flight from Bermuda to Boston as authorities planned to comb the seabed floor, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
Before the entertainment world offered CinemaScope and IMAX, it offered other big-view theatrical presentations, the panorama and the cyclorama. Up to 50 feet tall and 400 feet long, both were huge and popular.
KYIV, Ukraine — German Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced a new aid package for Ukraine worth more than 1.3 billion euros ($1.5 billion) during a visit to Kyiv on Sunday, as Russia escalated its attacks on Ukrainian cities.