TAMPA, Fla. — Last Halloween, David Nolan-Hersey woke up sick.

The 34-year-old lived at All About Living Inc., a small group home in Tampa. Near the end of October, another resident bit him on the arm.

Nolan-Hersey contracted necrotizing fasciitis, a rare infection more commonly known as “flesh-eating bacteria.” Doctors had to amputate ...Read more

Prince Harry's latest crusade against the British press ended in defeat in a U.K. court Tuesday, with royal journalists saying it could prove disastrous on multiple fronts for the errant son of King Charles III, including a “severe financial reckoning” that could leave him and his wife, Meghan Markle, forced to absorb millions of dollars in ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Two more defendants in the 2020 plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer are likely to see their convictions tossed out, at least for a time, as part of an appeal of the wide-ranging prosecution of multiple individuals ensnared in the alleged scheme.

In June, a Court of Appeals ruling vacated defendant Joseph Morrison's ...Read more

Public handshakes between senior U.S. officials and Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello have sparked a wave of anger, disbelief and soul-searching across Venezuelan social media, where many opposition supporters are accusing Washington of embracing one of the very figures it once vowed to bring to justice.

Photographs from separate ...Read more

CHICAGO — Set your alarm clocks — the latest round of tickets to the museum at the Obama Presidential Center go on sale to the public Wednesday morning, and officials expect that demand to snag a spot will be high.

The tickets will go live at 9 a.m. Central time, according to an emailed newsletter from the Obama Foundation sent Monday night...Read more

Former Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, who ran for Florida governor against Ron DeSantis in 2018, was arrested last week in Alabama on drug charges, according to jail records.

Police in the town of Daphne arrested Gillum, 46, on Thursday on charges of possession of dangerous drugs, possession of drug paraphernalia and marijuana possession, ...Read more

NASA’s $4.3 billion Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has risen from its horizontal slumber at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, ahead of its planned launch next month.

The planet hunter, which will seek to unravel the mysteries of dark energy in the universe with infrared sensing, had made the trip to KSC in June from NASA’s...Read more

MIAMI — President Donald Trump’s income from his South Florida holdings have soared since he returned to the White House, a Miami Herald review of his latest financial disclosure shows.

The four properties — Mar-a-Lago resort, the Trump National Hotel in Doral and his golf clubs in Jupiter and West Palm Beach — brought him roughly $265 ...Read more

NATO allies have agreed to at least $50 billion in defense industry deals, according to an alliance official, to show to U.S. President Donald Trump that Europe is heeding his spending demands.

Secretary-General Mark Rutte revealed some of the contracts Tuesday during a defense industry forum in Ankara, Turkey’s capital, where the military ...Read more

U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra is calling claims that Canada paid for the Gordie Howe Bridge's construction "a big myth," even as the Canadian government insists it bore the full cost of building the span.

The former Michigan congressman appeared last week on "The Food Professor" podcast to discuss trade between the U.S. and Canada and...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Twenty thousand teddy bears filled the west steps of the California state Capitol on Monday — each placed to represent a Ukrainian child who has been deported, forcibly transferred, or separated from family during Russia’s war against Ukraine.

The installation, called “Bring Kids Back,” made its Sacramento debut ...Read more

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage quit as a Member of Parliament and said he would fight for a new mandate in the resulting special election following a growing backlash over undeclared gifts.

The shock announcement comes after Farage faced increasing scrutiny over gifts he received in the run-up to the 2024 general election and then failed to ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — San Diego County announced its first locally acquired case of Chagas disease Monday. Left untreated, the parasitic illness can cause cardiovascular and digestive problems, even sudden death, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

While most infections occur in Latin America, Dr. Mark Beatty, an assistant...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Fishing was 11-year-old Brodie Dituri’s favorite hobby. But while visiting a Marion County, Florida, fishing camp last month, he lost his right hand to an alligator attack — which could have been worse if his father had not tackled the beast.

Now, after having returned home to Mifflintown, a small town in the center of ...Read more

Marine Le Pen was cleared by appeal judges to enter the 2027 French presidential race if she drops a vow never to stand for office wearing an electronic bracelet.

Le Pen was handed a significant reprieve on an election ban but also given a one-year jail term and told by the Paris court of appeal that she likely must wear the device for a ...Read more

The DNA in a single cup of water can track wildlife, monitor pollution and survey pathogens in waterways and their surroundings, all at the same time.

DNA is contained in each cell of every plant, animal, fungus and microbe. It carries the genetic instructions needed for an organism’s survival, growth and function, and the DNA of ...Read more

About 1 in 5 women will experience depression and anxiety during pregnancy or in the year after giving birth. If untreated, a mother who has these conditions has a higher risk of birth complications, overall poorer health, impaired bonding and nurturing of her infant, and a higher risk of death by suicide.

But a new treatment moving ...Read more

A severe winter snow drought has left snowpack levels far below normal across the American West in 2026. Without a slow-melting blanket of snow to keep the soil and forests moist, alpine vegetation is drying into a tinderbox earlier than normal and ramping up the fire risk.

The historic dryness means electric utilities are facing a ...Read more