Stay up to date with our Politics newsletter, sent weekly. The idea of federal law enforcement seizing ballots in the middle of an active election would have once been considered impossible. Now, as ...

The latest COVID-19, flu and RSV vaccines remain very safe and highly effective for protecting people against severe complications from the potentially life-threatening respiratory viruses, according ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it now has enough body cameras to equip all its officers and agents. The update comes after years of immigration officials telling lawmakers and advocates that ...

Thousands of Americans die every year from a chronically underreported cause: heat. As summer heat intensifies because of human-driven climate change, the United States' official tally of heat-related ...

Trump administration envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have described held meetings in Kyiv on Sunday with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as "substantive," with Witkoff saying he was ...

MIAMI — Yerandy Gonzalez looks at the line of hundreds of people in front of him and shakes his head. He takes a step aside and lights up a cigarette. "This is crazy, man," Gonzalez says in Spanish.

Scientists have now gotten closer to understanding how gene mutations may lead some people to develop profound autism. The clues, they say, lie in the murky space between genes and disease — where key ...

MANILA, Philippines — A Philippine court ordered the arrest of Vice President Sara Duterte on Friday over charges that she publicly threatened to have the president and two other people assassinated.

LAGOS, Nigeria — The United Nations General Assembly has overwhelmingly backed a resolution aimed at changing the way Africa and other regions are represented on world maps. The "Correct the Map" ...

Ontario Premier Doug Ford unveiled a giant billboard on the Canadian shoreline on Saturday, with the message "Lake Ontario — Now and Always," hitting back at President Trump's efforts to rename the ...

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In February 2025, we reported that "A respected U.S. famine warning system is 'currently unavailable.' " That system is known as FEWS NET and ran a database that could pinpoint areas where the risk of ...