Early in May, King Philippe of Belgium was on the edge of the Namib desert to inaugurate a project that aims to help decarbonize European industry, and which might just enable one of Africa’s smallest economies to hit the clean-energy big time.

It was a humble start for such grand designs, as Namibian President Nangolo Mbumba hosted the king ...Read more

As Mexico’s President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum prepares to step into her new role facing a host of political challenges, former colleagues from her time in the San Francisco Bay Area say they expect her to approach these issues much as she did her scientific research — with a fact-driven approach shaped by her formative career as an ...Read more

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Thanks to a new state law, Washingtonians with a medical cannabis card can get a break from the nation's highest tax on the drug.

The change, which took effect Thursday, could nudge more people to get medical cards and potentially depress revenues from the cannabis tax, which generated nearly $470 million in fiscal year 2023....Read more

Apple Inc. took the wraps off long-awaited new artificial intelligence features, including a partnership with ChatGPT maker OpenAI, betting that a personalized and understated approach to the technology will win over customers.

A new AI platform called Apple Intelligence was the highlight of the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference ...Read more

CHICAGO — Chicago aldermen are set to consider the city’s largest police misconduct settlement ever: a $50 million deal for four men imprisoned after detectives allegedly forced their false confessions as teens.

The hefty sum would go to four men who were originally convicted in a 1995 double murder. The men were arrested and tried as teens...Read more

A plane carrying Malawi’s Vice President Saulos Chilima and nine others was reported missing Monday after failing to make a scheduled landing.

The aircraft took off from the capital of Lilongwe around 9:15 a.m. local time and never arrived at Mzuzu International Airport, disappearing from radar, officials said. The trip was only scheduled to ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers have revived legislation to charge online platforms for the news articles they publish, a proposal that stalled last year amid divisions within the journalism industry and intense opposition from Google and other tech companies.

New amendments published Monday to Assembly Bill 886 are meant to address...Read more

South Korea’s military said it fired warning shots after several North Korean soldiers briefly crossed the border on Sunday, in a development that could further stoke tensions on the peninsula.

Several of the North Korean soldiers were armed but many had equipment for maintenance work, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a news ...Read more

Donald Trump will meet with Senate Republicans on Thursday, the latest effort among Washington policymakers to plot out priorities if the former president wins a second term.

Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming, who serves in Republican leadership, invited Trump to speak to GOP senators, according to an email obtained by Bloomberg.

“I believe ...Read more

FRESNO, Calif. — After a 2020 dispute between Fresno’s biggest health care system and a physicians group put in jeopardy the central San Joaquin Valley’s only Level I trauma center status, the two sides have reached a settlement following a lawsuit.

Community Health System announced Monday in a press release a $1.2 million settlement with...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A Northern California teacher who made national headlines last year after being accused of teaching her second-grade class while drunk will not face criminal charges in connection to the incident following a monthslong investigation, prosecutors said Monday.

Sutter County deputies were called Oct. 2 to Nuestro Elementary ...Read more

DENVER — Prosecutors on Friday dropped all charges against a former Monarch Casino Resort and Spa employee who took $500,000 in cash from the casino, conceding that the woman was scammed by likely international thieves.

During a court hearing Friday, prosecutors with the First Judicial District Attorney’s office said an extensive ...Read more

A couple traded their small North Carolina town for Capitol Hill’s chaos on Jan. 6, 2021. On Monday, one of them pleaded guilty for the trip’s itinerary.

After traveling to Washington, D.C., in matching “Blue Lives Matter” sweatshirts, the pair broke through walls of Metropolitan Police Department officers outside the Capitol, according...Read more

LOS ANGELES — James M. Lawson Jr., a Methodist minister who became the teacher of the civil rights movement, training hundreds of youthful protesters in nonviolent tactics that made the Nashville lunch counter sit-ins a model for fighting racial inequality in the 1960s, has died. He was 95.

Lawson, who for decades worked as a pastor, labor ...Read more

ATLANTA — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump on Monday asked the Georgia Court of Appeals to hear oral arguments on the challenge to disqualify District Attorney Fani Willis from Fulton County’s election interference case.

“We believe oral argument will assist the court by highlighting and clarifying the reasons why the case should...Read more

NEW YORK — Newly convicted felon Donald Trump met with his probation officer on Monday, a source familiar confirmed to the New York Daily News — only unlike most every other New York City defendant required to attend the sit-down in person, he did so from the comfort of his Florida home.

“The interview was uneventful and lasted less than ...Read more

Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee said Monday that he would continue consideration of some pretrial motions in the Fulton County election interference case even as an appeals court mulls whether to disqualify District Attorney Fani Willis from the prosecution.

Last week, the Georgia Court of Appeals issued a stay on the lower court’s work ...Read more

The Bay State has launched a new public awareness ad campaign aimed at warning pregnant patients to avoid so-called crisis pregnancy centers, which officials say use deception and fear to steer people away from an abortion.

Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Robbie Goldstein said the state hopes to inform residents about the dangers ...Read more

ATLANTA — The judge presiding over Young Thug’s lengthy racketeering trial held the musician’s attorney in contempt on Monday after being confronted about a private conversation reportedly held between the judge, prosecutors and one of the state’s star witnesses.

Brian Steel was escorted out of the courtroom after refusing to tell Judge...Read more