UC Davis water polo star Lillie Vehling pulled three drowning girls from Lake Washington one by one during Seattle's Seafair Weekend Festival — finding the last of them unconscious with her leg tangled in a buoy rope.
Anton Vitalyevich Rakov was pulled over on I-12 outside Baton Rouge, where deputies found roughly 789 pounds of methamphetamine in his semi-truck trailer — a haul the Livingston Parish sheriff called one of the largest in Louisiana history.
Bill and Yelim Kim were on vacation in Yellowstone when their security camera caught a woman helping herself to a drink in their Long Island City apartment. Building management later said a doorman let her up after she posed as their dogwalker.
A Wendy's manager who fled Brazil after surviving a shooting inside his own home is heading to Yale on a full scholarship worth over $194,500 — after his bosses on Cape Cod set aside money for every hour he worked to pay for community college.
Colombian authorities rescued a malnourished baby hippopotamus named Podum found alone by fishermen in Antioquia, the latest chapter in the country's struggle to manage roughly 200 invasive hippos descended from Pablo Escobar's private zoo.
The statutory town of Hartman, population 30, was formally declared abandoned by Colorado’s secretary of state after every elected official quit and residents were left with undrinkable water that “smells horrible.”
Troy Jackson, the newly nominated Democratic challenger to Sen. Susan Collins, has been in a decades-long relationship with his high school sweetheart Lana Pelletier — who is also his second cousin, a new report says.
The NYPD’s Technical Assistance Response Unit is flying drones over city beaches this summer, giving lifeguards an aerial view to spot sharks before they get close to swimmers after a surge in sightings.
Jeff Metcalf said he felt pity for Karmelo Anthony after the 19-year-old was sentenced to 35 years for fatally stabbing his son Austin, choosing forgiveness for his own peace while vowing to fight parole and rejecting claims the killing was racially motivated.
After talks in Beijing, China released remarks in which Xi Jinping warns of confrontation over Taiwan—“the most important issue in China-US relations”—while the leaders also canvassed the Middle East, Ukraine and North Korea amid a condensed summit agenda light on climate and human rights.
In a newly released House Oversight transcript, commerce secretary Howard Lutnick says he met Jeffrey Epstein only three times—2005 coffee, a 2011 scaffolding visit, and 2012 lunch on his island—and denies any ongoing personal or professional tie, amid scrutiny over post-2008 correspondence and his past podcast account.
Donald Trump said stopping Iran from getting a nuclear weapon is “the only thing that matters” as US midterms face economic fallout from the conflict; inflation hit 3.8% in April with energy and gas prices at four-year highs.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is crisscrossing the country as he lays the groundwork for an increasingly likely 2028 presidential campaign, refining his pitch and working to move past his bruising 2024 defeat by President Trump.
Beijing flipped the switch on a cross-border payment system for the digital yuan, accelerating a long-running plan to push the RMB into more of the global plumbing.
A senior central-bank official telegraphed that the long-awaited digital-currency rulebook is finally close, with a public draft expected next month.
A New York City Council member is moving to ban the NYPD from ever strapping weapons onto its four-legged robotic dogs, citing safety risks and chilling civil-liberties precedents.
A US special-forces operator stands accused of cashing in on a prediction market by trading on classified details about a mission to capture former Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro.
A neighborhood bodega in the Bronx was robbed at gunpoint overnight, with two masked suspects emptying the register before vanishing into the surrounding streets.
More than two decades after hip-hop pioneer Jam Master Jay was gunned down in his Queens studio, one of the men charged in the killing has formally entered a guilty plea.
Republican leaders missed another procedural window to push through a renewal of the federal foreign-surveillance law, with hardliners demanding warrant requirements and other privacy guardrails.
A signature snag has knocked Republican governor hopeful Bruce Blakeman out of New York's public matching-funds pool, and his party is now pushing legislation that would give candidates a short window to fix paperwork errors.
A South Korean court sentenced former president Yoon Suk Yeol to seven years on multiple charges, capping one of the most dramatic political falls in the country's modern history.