Leah Willingham

FILE – An American Airlines plane arrives at the O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

A winter storm threatens to bring blizzards and ice to parts of the US, hampering holiday travel

December 28, 2025 at 9:07 a.m.

A powerful winter storm was sweeping east from the Plains on Sunday, driven by what meteorologists describe as an intense cyclone, setting off a chain reaction of snow, ice, rain...

FILE – Flight times are displayed at O’Hare airport in Chicago, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

Winter storm snarls US holiday travel across Northeast and Great Lakes

December 27, 2025 at 11:55 a.m.

At least 1,500 flights were canceled from Friday night, according to flight-tracking service FlightAware.

This image provided by Providence Police Dept. shows surveillance images of Claudio Neves Valente, a suspect in the mass shooting at Brown University. (Providence Police Dept. via AP)

A brief encounter, two attacks and then a break in investigations into the Brown and MIT shootings

December 19, 2025 at 7:24 p.m.

Investigators are still trying to figure out much of what Claudio Neves Valente was doing in New England in the weeks before the shooting, but they know he repeatedly visited...

This image taken from video provided by the FBI shows a person of interest in the investigation of the shooting that occurred at Brown University, in Providence, R.I., Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025. (FBI via AP)

Investigators seek older video that might show the Brown campus shooter days before the attack

December 17, 2025 at 5:46 p.m.

Authorities have asked the public for any footage they might have of the gunman who fatally shot two students and wounded nine others at Brown University, even as they released...

Visitors pause at a makeshift memorial for the victims of Saturday’s shooting, at the Van Wickle Gate at Brown University, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, in Providence, R.I.(AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Police fan out to Providence schools to calm worries with the Brown University shooter still loose

December 16, 2025 at 1:19 p.m.

Authorities knocked on doors in search of video and sifted through snow and dumpsters for other evidence that might lead them to the Brown University gunman, whose face was covered...

A bouquet of flowers rests on snow, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025, on the campus of Brown University not far from where a shooting took place, in Providence, R.I. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

What to know about the man authorities say fatally shot 2 Brown students and a MIT professor

December 19, 2025 at 7:23 a.m.

Here are some answers to questions about the Brown University mass shooting and the slaying of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor.

People hold candles during a vigil, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025, in Providence, R.I., for those injured or killed during the Saturday shooting on Brown University campus. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Search for the Brown University shooter resumes as questions swirl about campus security

December 15, 2025 at 4:10 p.m.

Police renewed their search Monday for the gunman who killed two Brown University students and wounded nine others, a day after they released a person of interest after determining the...

Harvard University professor Alberto Ascherio opens a liquid nitrogen freezer used to store blood samples used for research at the university’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health on Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025 in Boston. (AP Photo/Leah Willingham)

Harvard scientists say research could be set back years after funding freeze

August 7, 2025 at 8:33 a.m.

The loss of an estimated $2.6 billion in federal funding at Harvard has meant that some of the world’s most prominent researchers are laying off young researchers. They are shelving...

Kim Wilcox casts his ballot in the Omaha municipal election at Black Elk Elementary School, Tuesday, May 13, 2025, Omaha, Neb. (Nikos Frazier/Omaha World-Herald via AP)

Federal vs. state power at issue in a hearing over Trump’s election overhaul executive order

June 6, 2025 at 7:47 a.m.

Democratic state attorneys general on Friday will seek to block President Donald Trump’s proposal for a sweeping overhaul of U.S. elections in a case that tests a constitutional bedrock —...

FILE – A sculler rows down the Charles River near Harvard University, at rear, April 15, 2025, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Harvard grads cheer commencement speakers who call for the school to stand strong

May 29, 2025 at 11:48 a.m.

Harvard graduates celebrated commencement on Thursday at a pivotal time for the Ivy League school, cheering speakers who stressed the importance of maintaining a diverse and international student body while...

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