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FILE - Demonstrators rally outside the U.S. Capitol building Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022, in Washington, on the one year anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol. As the 2024 campaign heats up, experts on extremism fear the threat of politically motivated violence will only intensify. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Political violence threatens to intensify as the 2024 campaign heats up, experts on extremism warn

Rep. Jim Jordan failed Friday in a third attempt to become Speaker of the House.

Republicans reject Jim Jordan a third time for Speaker of the House as opposition deepens

Rep. Jim Jordan failed badly Friday on a third ballot for the House speaker’s gavel, rejected by even more Republicans from the conservative mainstream who warned the hard-edged ally of Donald Trump that no threats or promises could win their support.

Republicans drop Jim Jordan as their nominee for House speaker, stumble back to square one

Republicans abruptly dropped Rep. Jim Jordan on Friday as their nominee for House speaker, making the decision during a closed-door session after the hard-edged ally of Donald Trump failed badly on a third ballot for the gavel.

An ethnic Armenian boy from Nagorno-Karabakh looks on from a car upon arrival in Armenia's Goris, in the Syunik region, Armenia, on Monday. Thousands of Armenians have streamed out of Nagorno-Karabakh after the Azerbaijani military reclaimed full control of the breakaway region last week.

A blast in Nagorno-Karabakh injures more than 200, while thousands flee to Armenia

The explosion at fuel storage facility wounded more than 200 people, the Nagorno-Karabakh human rights ombudsman said. Meanwhile, thousands of Nagorno-Karabakh residents have fled to Armenia.

Members of the House and Senate raced to pass dueling spending bills ahead of a midnight deadline to fund the federal government.

Congress passes spending stopgap, averting a shutdown hours before midnight deadline

The Senate voted 88-9 to approve a short-term spending bill to fund the government through Nov. 17. President Biden signed the bill into law shortly afterward.

Rockets and "light bombs" are seen over the Gaza strip on Monday, Oct. 30, 2023, from Sderot, Israel. As Israel's response to Hamas's Oct. 7 attacks entered its fourth week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the war would be a long one and would amount to a "second war of independence."

Israel will not agree to a cease-fire, Netanyahu says, as fighting continues in Gaza

As Israel continues to push into Gaza, it says its forces freed an Israeli soldier who had been held by Hamas since the Oct. 7 attacks.

A girl tries to collect usable belongings amid the wreckage of vehicles after the explosion at Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza.

Children make up nearly half of Gaza's population. Here's what it means for the war

The population of Gaza is one of the youngest in the world. Here's why, what it means for this war, and what it means for the future.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari (left), son of assassinated Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, arrives for a festival at Moenjodaro in southern Pakistan on Feb. 1. The event was seen as a political coming-out party for Bhutto, whose family has prominently featured in Pakistani politics for decades.

In Pakistan, Another Bhutto Joins The Risky Family Business

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari had a coming-out party of sorts over the weekend. At 25, he belongs to the next generation of Bhuttos, the family that has dominated the country's politics for decades. And in an interview, he says he does not fear the turbulent politics that claimed the life of his mother and grandfather.

Unpopping the cork: This is one of two bridges built to raise several miles of Old Tamiami Trail, also known as U.S. 41, from ground level to atop a bridge some 20 feet above the water. By doing so, engineers are opening pathways for water through a roadway that acted essentially as a dam with two lanes on top for vehicles traveling from Naples to Miami; the mile or two under the bridges now allows the River of Grass to flow naturally to the south on its way to Florida Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, restoring many rare and important ecosystems along the way that have been parched for decades

Money earmarked for Everglades restoration sets one-year record

“The Everglades has not seen this type of funding at these levels, ever,” said Eric Eikenberg, chief executive of the Everglades Foundation. Eikenberg said that billion-dollar-plus annual funding will now be needed to get the job done

Conservation associates Dan Agis and Sam Amodeo from the Naples Botanical Garden, natural resources associate Mike Cox and Jared Franklin of Rookery Bay look for seeds and cuttings of coastal plants on Keewaydin Island on Wednesday, March 27, 2024. The botanical garden is working to build a diverse bank of plants that can help restore dune vegetation in Collier County.

Finding ways to anchor dunes, Naples Botanical Garden looks at how different plants grow and survive in the environment

Studies of Southwest Florida's shorelines — from Delnor-Wiggins Pass State Park to Naples Beach — helps in understanding coastal ecosystems and how dunes protect the coast from wind and water damage. Long-term observations have yielded novel insights into the kinds of plants that anchor local dunes, the roles they play in collecting and holding sand, and how they respond to storms and regenerate in their aftermath.

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