NEW YORK (AP) — When Jennifer Austin met Molly in second grade, they quickly became best friends. They giggled through classes until the teacher separated them, inspiring them to come up with their ow...

By KATE PAYNE, BIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS AND GISELA SALOMON Associated Press From Miami to San Diego, schools around the U.S. are seeing big drops in enrollment of students from immigrant families. In som...

By COLLIN BINKLEYAND MAKIYA SEMINERA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Foreign students enrolled at U.S. colleges in strong numbers this fall despite fears that a Trump administration crackdown would...

By SOPHIA TAREEN AND CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Baltazar Enriquez starts most mornings with street patrols, leaving his home in Chicago’s Little Village on foot or by car to fi...

SOPHIA TAREEN, BRIAN WITTE AND MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press A top Border Patrol commander touted dozens of arrests in North Carolina’s largest city on Sunday as Charlotte residents reported encoun...

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza (AP) — Israel returned the bodies of 15 Palestinians to Gaza on Friday, officials at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis said, in the latest step to fulfilling the terms of the fragile U....

BERN, Switzerland (AP) — The first thing that hits you at the World Cheese Awards is the smell. As the 37th edition -- part competition, part a celebration of cheese -- kicked off in Switzerland on Th...

FAMILY FEATURES As many know from experience, disasters can happen to anyone, anywhere. Natural or human-caused disasters can be highly localized or have an impact regionally or even nationally. While...

FAMILY FEATURES Fall is the perfect time for homeowners to take simple steps to lower utility bills, improve comfort and take advantage of available rebate programs. While 71% of homeowners say energy...

California plans to revoke 17,000 commercial driver’s licenses given to immigrants after discovering the expiration dates went past when the drivers were legally allowed to be in the U.S., state offic...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jessica Sweet spent the federal government shutdown cutting back. To make ends meet, the Social Security claims specialist drank only one coffee a day, skipped meals, cut down on gro...

Crews desperately continued removing massive amounts of water in an effort to locate a trapped worker inside a flooded coal mine in West Virginia as the work entered a fifth day Wednesday. Gov. Patric...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — As Russia’s renewed attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure cause rolling blackouts ahead of winter, a major embezzlement and kickbacks scandal involving the state-owned nuclea...

NEW YORK (AP) — It started with a late October meeting between a lifestyle entrepreneur, a marketing professional, a restaurant owner and a social worker at a brewery in the Florida panhandle. Within ...

THE MON VALLEY’S MILITARY ROOTS run deep and our appreciation for those who served has endured for generations. It’s always heartwarming to see so many people come together to cheer for the veterans a...

Every penny, pound, or peso counts when you’re exploring the world. Travelers tend to be preoccupied, dazed by jetlag, and in possession of wads of newly exchanged currency – in other words: easy targ...

Metro Creative Services Hardworking individuals and their families look forward to their vacations with much anticipation. People not only work hard to afford a relaxing getaway, but also to plan such...

Here’s a look back at photos of Veterans Day events over the decades that honors our nation’s veterans. Veterans Day is a U.S. legal holiday dedicated to American veterans of all wars. In 1918, on the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. airlines canceled more than 2,100 flights on Sunday as Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned that air traffic across the nation could “slow to a trickle” if the federal gov...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration’s announcement of a 10% reduction in flight capacity across 40 major U.S. airports could put a strain on air cargo as the peak holiday season approa...