On Wednesday evening, Hurricane Milton will become the fifth hurricane in 2024 to make landfall in the mainland U.S. As storms like this one grow more frequent and intense, artificial intelligence is playing an increasingly central...
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is returning to the case of Richard Glossip, who has spent most of the past quarter century on Oklahoma's death row for a murder he says he did not commit.In a rare alliance, lawyers for Glossip and...
For trans youth and their loved ones, this November’s presidential election will be the most consequential in history. A second Donald Trump presidency would pose not only an existential but a literal threat to vulnerable young...
WASHINGTON — The FBI has arrested an Afghan man who officials say was inspired by the Islamic State militant organization and was plotting an Election Day attack targeting large crowds in the U.S., the Justice Department said Tuesday.Nasir...
Jane Castor, the mayor of Tampa, has little patience for local residents who plan to disobey the evacuation orders that have been issued in the run-up to Hurricane Milton’s expected landfall on Florida’s gulf coast on Wednesday...
Hurricane Helene’s aftermath could disrupt voting in the 2024 election for North Carolina residents, leaving election officials scrambling to contain the fallout in a crucial swing state.Experts worry that the storm could reduce...
FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla. — Hurricane Milton weakened slightly Tuesday but remained a ferocious storm that could land a once-in-a-century direct hit on Tampa and St. Petersburg, engulfing the populous region with towering storm surges...
WASHINGTON — A decade after the Flint, Michigan, water crisis raised alarms about the continuing dangers of lead in tap water, President Joe Biden is setting a 10-year deadline for cities across the nation to replace their lead pipes,...
Tampa Mayor Jane Castor is warning residents to listen to evacuation orders amid the looming threat of Hurricane Milton, which the National Weather Service (NWS) warns could be the worst storm to impact the Tampa area in more than...
SAVANNAH, Ga. — The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday halted a ruling striking down the state's near-ban on abortions while it considers the state's appeal.The high court's order came a week after a judge found that Georgia unconstitutionally...
WASHINGTON— The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a decision barring emergency abortions that violate the law in Texas, which has one of the country's strictest abortion bans.Without detailing their reasoning, the justices kept in...
WASHINGTON — No one is likely to be happy with the projected higher deficits laid out in a new analysis of Kamala Harris' and Donald Trump's economic plans.The analysis released Monday by the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible...
Hurricane Milton, which began as a tropical storm, has rapidly intensified into a Category 5 hurricane, according to a Monday advisory by the National Hurricane Center (NHC). The storm could make landfall in Florida as early...
Leslie is currently making its way across the Atlantic. Per an advisory shared at 4 a.m. EST on Sunday morning by the National Hurricane Center (NHC), Leslie is moving toward the northwest near 10 m.p.h. This general motion is expected...
WASHINGTON — The Federal Emergency Management Agency is tasked with helping states and communities hit by disasters like Hurricane Helene.With Helene hitting during the homestretch of an election year, the agency has been criticized...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Three former Memphis police officers were convicted Thursday in the 2023 fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, but were acquitted of the harshest charges they faced for a death that sparked national protests and calls for...
LOS ANGELES — Prosecutors in Los Angeles are reviewing new evidence in the case of Erik and Lyle Menendez to determine whether they should be serving life sentences for killing their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion more than...
U.S. dockworkers agreed to end a three-day strike that had paralyzed trade on the U.S. East and Gulf coasts and threatened to become a factor in the presidential election.The International Longshoremen’s Association and the U.S....
Now that a federal judge has ruled that the Biden Administration can proceed with its student loan forgiveness program, lifting a temporary restraining order that had prevented the discharge of debt for over 25 million Americans, many...
A two-year-old beaver named Nibi that has won the hearts of thousands online is at the center of a court battle.Nibi has lived with Newhouse Wildlife Rescue in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, since she was rescued as a baby, but the organization...
BLACK MOUNTAIN, N.C. — Hurricane Helene's death toll reached 200 on Thursday and could rise higher still, as searchers made their way toward the hardest to reach places in the mountains of western North Carolina, where the storm...
