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NASA, SpaceX target Wednesday departure for Crew-12 from space station
With nearly eight months in space under their belt, the four members of Crew-12 are set to depart the International Space Station as early as Wednesday.
The quartet of NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force ...Read more
Man accused of dressing as ICE agent at Miami Dade College Brazilian voting site
MIAMI — A man was arrested Sunday after he dressed as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent while aggressively walking around a polling site for Brazil’s general election at Miami Dade College’s Kendall campus, the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office said.
Danilo Silva, 46, was wearing an ICE hat, ICE jacket, sunglasses and a mask ...Read more
Sánchez targets toughest comeback yet with early Spain election
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has a history of proving his critics wrong. But his decision Monday to call a snap election in the midst of a housing affordability crisis may be his most precarious political move to date.
The 54-year-old Socialist premier is seeking to tap into the anger sweeping the nation over the real estate issue and...Read more
Ivanka Trump just made a big announcement about relative in Billionaire Bunker
MIAMI — Major milestone alert in Billionaire Bunker.
Ivanka Trump, 44, announced that her maternal grandmother has turned the century mark.
Born Marie Zelnickova, the Prague native lives with Ivanka, along with her husband, Jared Kushner, and their three kids in the mega-affluent community of Indian Creek Village near Miami Beach.
On ...Read more
Alligator stuck on school property gets expelled during recess, NC officials say
If there’s anything that can bring recess to a halt, it’s the sight of a man carrying an alligator past the school’s playground with its mouth taped shut.
That happened Friday at Mattamuskeet School in Hyde County, and photos show students dropped whatever they were doing to gawk at the 5-foot, 5-inch predator.
The alligator was ...Read more
Vance Boelter's state murder trial is delayed for 6 months
MINNEAPOLIS — The state murder trial for convicted political assassin Vance Boelter has been delayed until May due to the “exorbitant amount” of investigative materials that have been turned over to his defense attorneys in addition to the availability of key victim witnesses for testimony.
Assistant Hennepin County Public Defender Raissa...Read more
ER visits from foreign-born patients fell drastically during ICE raids, study finds
LOS ANGELES — Last summer's Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations left many foreign-born residents of Los Angeles afraid to venture outdoors, even when their health depended on it.
A new study from USC finds that emergency room visits from patients born outside of the U.S. fell by more than 20% in the first four weeks after arrests ...Read more
Dennis Hastert, speaker disgraced by sex abuse, dies at 84
Dennis Hastert, whose rise to U.S. House speaker in 1999 was as unexpected as the criminal conviction that sullied his reputation and sent him to prison years later, has died. He was 84.
He died at his home in Illinois over the weekend of natural causes, CBS News reported, citing Kendall County Coroner Jacquie Purcell.
Once among America’s ...Read more
Hurricane center gives high chance Gulf system could become tropical depression or storm
ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Monday increased the odds a system that formed in the Gulf could develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.
As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical outlook, a surface trough of low pressure had formed along the coast of Mexico in the southwestern Gulf producing disorganized ...Read more
Backlash to Trump hasn't bolstered Florida Democrats' voter registrations
MIAMI — Florida Democrats grew their party more than Republicans last month, but data show they’re facing their worst voter registration gap in decades ahead of the November midterms.
Even amid sinking approval ratings for President Donald Trump, backlash in Miami to his mass deportation agenda and Democratic establishment investment in ...Read more
Employee question could stall Senate college sports bill at midfield in House
WASHINGTON — A key player in crafting and pushing bipartisan legislation aimed at building guardrails around college sports through the Senate said last week outreach to House members had begun. But it is unclear whether President Donald Trump will help reconcile differences as he focuses on the midterms and other priorities.
The Senate on ...Read more
After states sue, Trump administration walks away from disability rights enforcement
A court battle that began when conservative-led states sued to block protections for transgender people has ended in a rollback of protections for people with disabilities — a result disability advocates have feared for months.
At the end of August, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services joined the handful of conservative-led states...Read more
Analysis: Trump calls it a war, then a 'military conflict.' Why the Iran fighting keeps changing names
WASHINGTON — Late September in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump declared, "Iran will never have a nuclear weapon. We're gonna win that war very soon."
It wasn't the first time he's described the hostilities as "war."
On Feb. 28, the day U.S. and Israeli began bombarding Iran, he warned that "the lives of courageous American heroes ...Read more
California adoptees continue push in Legislature for original birth certificates
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — It’s been a little over a month since the bill he’s longed to see pass suffered a stinging defeat. But Paul Kimball was back in California’s legislative office building Wednesday hoping 2027 will be the year it is finally signed into law.
In the office of Assemblymember Gail Pellerin, D-Santa Cruz, Kimball made a ...Read more
Spain's Sánchez calls snap election after housing plan fails
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called an early election for Nov. 29 after parliament rejected a housing plan last week that his government had hoped would quell mounting social protests.
“It’s time you, the Spanish people, decide which future you want for yourselves and for the country.” Sánchez, 54, said in an address Monday in ...Read more
Trio share Medicine Nobel for brain-mapping breakthroughs
Three scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries that opened up a new era in neuroscience, allowing the mapping of the brain by controlling nerve signals with light.
Karl Deisseroth of the U.S., and Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel of Germany will share the 12 million-krona ($1.2 million) award for “their ...Read more
FlyDubai hijacking turns into flashpoint in Israeli election
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was quick to seize the opportunity to associate himself with the heroics of Israelis who helped stop a FlyDubai co-pilot from crashing a plane bound for Tel Aviv.
As more details emerge about the dramatic events aboard Flight FZ1073 from Dubai, the incident risks backfiring on him as it becomes a key ...Read more
Iran's oil minister resigns as exports dry up under US pressure
Iran’s Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad resigned citing personal reasons, as the Islamic Republic tries to sustain its oil industry under a tightening U.S. blockade.
President Masoud Pezeshkian accepted Paknejad’s resignation letter on Sunday after rejecting several earlier requests by the oil official to step down, the state-run Islamic ...Read more
States OK solar panels for balconies. Safety guidelines haven't caught up
Over the past year and a half, a dozen states have embraced a new vision for solar power: small, cheap panels that can be hung from a balcony or porch, be plugged into a standard wall outlet and take a dent out of residents’ utility bills.
These systems, known as balcony solar or plug-in solar, are attractive because they can be installed ...Read more
This Pittsburgh man with a rare form of muscular dystrophy is bucking the odds with a clinical trial drug
In an infusion bay at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Billy Ellsworth twists the plastic top off of a bottle of Gatorade. “That was kind of tough, to be honest,” he said. “I wasn’t sure I was going to get it.”
Billy has Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a genetic disease that causes progressive muscle weakness and affects about ...Read more
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