Nation/World

The night sky dazzled people across the United States and Europe on Friday evening as an extreme geomagnetic storm brought aurora displays not usually seen at lower latitudes - beautiful streaks of green, purple and pink lights. If you missed it, though, you can find awe in many of Earth’s other phenomena.

Dozens of Virginia Commonwealth University students walked out of their graduation ceremony Saturday as Gov. Glenn Youngkin delivered the commencement address, demonstrating support for Palestinians and protesting some of the Republican’s crusade against racial equity in education.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr. warned Saturday that freedom of speech was under threat at universities and that freedom of religion was in peril in society at large.

Israel ordered tens of thousands of people to leave Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, signaling an imminent push by Israeli forces into the city’s most urban districts, a move that could trigger the White House to freeze offensive weapons shipments.

The Biden administration, working urgently to stave off a full-scale Israeli invasion of Rafah, is offering Israel valuable assistance if it holds back, including sensitive intelligence to help the Israeli military pinpoint the location of Hamas leaders and find the group’s hidden tunnels.

When a news crew’s helicopter swept over the catastrophic floods in Brazil on Wednesday, it captured a striking image: a horse trapped on a strip of a tin roof, surrounded by the same murky waters that had left entire neighborhoods looking as though they had been swallowed by a river.

Former President Donald Trump used a dubious accounting maneuver to claim improper tax breaks from his troubled Chicago tower, according to an IRS inquiry uncovered by the New York Times and ProPublica. Losing a yearslong audit battle over the claim could mean a tax bill of more than $100 million.

“Don Snoreleone.” “Donnie Nappleseed.” “Sleepy Don.” In addition to the actual testimony from Donald Trump’s Manhattan hush money trial - some of it gripping, some of it sordid - a secondary storyline is emerging: that of a former president who just can’t stay awake.

Organized crime groups are turning Mexico’s elections into a literal battleground, making the campaign this year one of the deadliest in the country’s modern history. More than two dozen candidates have been killed leading up to the June 2 vote; hundreds have dropped out of the race.

President Joe Biden landed late Friday afternoon at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to embark on a two-day campaign fundraising trip in the Emerald City.

After facing harsh questions about his judicial decisions and accepting lavish gifts from a billionaire, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas forcefully pushed back on his critics Friday - saying he and his wife, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, have endured “nastiness” and “lies.”

The federal government Friday unveiled a major package of financial incentives to dairy farm owners - up to $28,000 per farm over the next four months - to encourage broader testing of cattle and expanded security measures to control a growing outbreak of the bird flu virus in cows.

Top Republican Party officials are escalating their fight with the Secret Service over the party’s convention in Milwaukee in July, demanding that the agency expand the security perimeter of the event so that protesters can be moved farther away from the arena where the main events will be held.

The gulf between what the United States military is recommending and what Israel appears intent on doing in the Gaza Strip could not be wider.

A failed crop, followed by a wave of financial speculation, put cocoa prices on a roller coaster this year, rattling an industry reliant on inexpensive crops and labor. This is not how things normally go in the cocoa market.

U.S. officials have long seen their country as a Pacific power. But the Biden administration says that is no longer good enough to foil what it sees as the greatest threat to the democratic island of Taiwan -- a Chinese invasion that could succeed within days.

A Wichita man has admitted to stealing a valuable bronze statue of baseball great Jackie Robinson from a Wichita park in January.

The Biden administration is set to announce new tariffs as high as 100% on Chinese electric vehicles and additional import taxes on other Chinese goods, including semiconductors, as early as next week, according to people familiar with the matter.