LOS ANGELES — After the remnants of Tropical Storm Rachel damaged coastal homes in Long Beach and brought flooding and debris flows to the Coachella Valley, National Weather Service forecasters project the worst has passed for Southern California — but threats remain for communities along the coast.

Wind advisories across inland deserts ...Read more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is on a collision course with President Donald Trump, who is increasingly looking at Kyiv’s battle against Russia primarily through the lens of energy prices ahead of U.S. midterm elections.

Trump sprung an announcement of an “energy ceasefire” between Russia and Ukraine on Zelenskyy, as the U.S. ...Read more

CHICAGO -- The handwriting is messy, the spelling faulty. Some cried as they wrote. Others were so excited that they struggled with what to say. Some did not know how to write at all, and, in those letters, only a few words are legible.

But, still, the messages are all the same.

“Today they detained me, and I’ve been here for hours. I’m ...Read more

CHICAGO -- By the time one of Chicago’s immigration judges was called in to the court supervisor’s office and asked about a case they had recently shelved, the city’s immigration court had replaced Operation Midway Blitz as the main thrust of the Trump administration’s push to reshape American immigration enforcement.

The judge was ...Read more

BOSTON -- Federal prosecutors are renewing a motion to call three witnesses who allegedly had affairs with ex-Stoughton cop Matthew Farwell to the stand during his federal murder trial.

A judge had ruled against admitting that testimony before the trial began, the government wrote in its Sunday filing, but left open the door for the evidence to...Read more

Mr. V felt tightness across his chest. His deepest breaths felt shallow. He sought help at an emergency department, where a resident physician found several worrying signs, including swelling of his hands and legs as well as heart enlargement on a chest X-ray.

Everything seemed to point to one diagnosis: heart failure, where the heart...Read more

When Belgian American particle physicist Francis Halzen was awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin,” it was a reminder that for more than a century, scientists have treated Antarctica’s environments as ...Read more

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com.

How much rain can a hurricane make, and how much do big versus small hurricanes make? – Naarah, age 8, Pittsburgh

Hurricanes can produce enormous amounts of rain, adding up...Read more

A wave of anti-transgender legislation has appeared in statehouses across the country over the past few years. Now, transgender issues are a recurring topic on the 2026 midterm campaign trail.

As a scholar of LGBTQ+ politics and history, I’ve noticed surprising trends in how Democrats in key states like Texas and Ohio talk about ...Read more

More than 119 million Brazilians voted on Oct. 4, 2026, in the national elections to select the country’s next president and the governors of all 27 states, among other government officials.

That’s nearly 75% of the approximately 159 million eligible voters. Unlike in the U.S., voting is mandatory in Brazil for all citizens ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Every Tuesday, Naman Shah sees tuberculosis patients at a small public clinic in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley. Shah, a physician and epidemiologist at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, pores over images of battered lungs, listens to labored breathing, and checks medications.

It’s part of an initiative ...Read more

At St. Paul City Hall, October is shaping up to be the autumn of our discontent, to quote the bard, with the “our” in question being the mayor’s office, the police chief, the city council and more. Navigating the twists and turns of what’s become a three-way legal and political dispute can be dizzying.

Here’s a primer to help.

What ...Read more

India is bracing for a third straight day of tensions in its capital, with opposition parties on Monday planning a march to the Supreme Court and a youth-led movement pressing ahead with protests over a contentious revision of voter rolls.

Following a weekend of mass detentions and a heavy security presence in Delhi, opposition parties plan to ...Read more

Remnants of Tropical Storm Rachel hit San Diego County harder than expected before dawn Sunday, sending surf crashing into beachside cottages in Oceanside, flooding parts of Highway 101 near Carlsbad, and triggering several water rescues.

The quick-moving system also knocked out power to more than 330 customers in the Otay Mesa-San Ysidro area,...Read more

North Korea fired a suspected ballistic missile off its east coast Monday, days after warning Seoul of retaliation if its territory were violated.

The launch comes after Seoul stepped up a demining operation along the two countries’ heavily fortified border after three South Korean soldiers were injured in a landmine blast.

If confirmed, ...Read more

Mayor Mamdani on Sunday compared videos of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shooting a man in a car with his 5-year-old boy in the backseat last week to recordings of mass shooter killings in a scathing rebuke of the controversial federal officers he wants out of New York City.

“It feels as if you’re almost looking at a mass ...Read more

With the midterm elections just over three weeks away, the fight for control of the U.S. Senate is intensifying in battleground states, as Democrats push into red regions and Republicans pour money into key contests.

Campaigns are entering a crucial stretch for persuading the independent voters who will probably determine outcomes in swing ...Read more