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Late last year, the beloved Oakland queer bar Friends and Family announced the news that it was closing. Their community was so upset, devoted customers even threw the bar a funeral. Their closure left many wondering why it seems so hard for the few bars that serve lesbian and queer people in the Bay Area to survive. It turns out, according to one queer sociologist, that there's actually a magic formula that queer bars need to succeed.

One California town is in a state of emergency and 50,000 people are under an evacuation order as a malfunctioning chemical tank at an aerospace plant is overheating and could leak or explode.

China's President Xi Jinping is in North Korea, his first trip in seven years, in a bid to reassert China's influence in the region.

In recent years, Israel's relationship with the U.S. has changed — not for the better, some analysts say. Now, new tensions have emerged between President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.

The House has approved a bill to slash the time it takes for newly unionized workers to get a first contract. The measure allows for government intervention if a deal is not reached within 90 days.

Soon after winning the Texas Republican Senate primary runoff, Ken Paxton attacked Democratic nominee, state Rep. James Talarico as "too low-T for Texas," putting manhood front and center in the race.

In Nigeria, a film revolution is unfolding — not in cinemas, but on YouTube.

Months of higher gas prices are taking a toll. We check in on the trade-offs people are making.

The crew of four — NASA astronaut and commander Randy Bresnik, European Space Agency pilot Luca Parmitano, NASA mission specialists Frank Rubio and Andre Douglas — are scheduled to launch next year.

The DRC has improved testing capacity for Ebola with two facilities operating in or near the epicenter. But this still may not be enough to keep up with a rapidly expanding disease.

Magyar ended Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's 16-year grip on power in a landslide victory on Sunday. The former Orbán loyalist burst onto the scene as an opposition leader in 2024.