At least 53 bodies have been recovered from a ferry that capsized off the coast of Guyana on Saturday, as officials on Wednesday continued a search for additional victims and any possible survivors and the country began three days of national mourning.

The search entered its fourth day after the vessel, the MV Barima, issued a distress signal ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Bird multitudes are slipping away on a global scale, but a new study offers hope for how we can be better neighbors to feathered friends.

Researchers at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo knew, like everyone else in the bird world, that 3 billion birds have been lost in the last half century, but they ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Tropical Storm Bertha weakened Wednesday as it moved west along the Gulf Coast, but still with portions of Florida under tropical storm warnings, according to the National Hurricane Center.

As of the NHC’s 11 a.m. EDT advisory, the center of Bertha was located about 40 miles south of Pascagoula, Mississippi and 55 miles ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — A 77-year-old Florida woman and U.S. Postal Service employee has been arrested after officials found nearly 100 cats and dogs being hoarded in her home.

Gail Giustino is facing misdemeanor charges for animal cruelty and confinement of animals without sufficient exercise, according to a Facebook post Tuesday from the Martin ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu deserves to face justice for his alleged crimes against humanity — but New York City and the NYPD can’t make the arrest.

Speculation over whether Mamdani would enforce an International Criminal Court warrant when Netanyahu visited Manhattan for the United ...Read more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi in a major military shakeup, yielding to nationwide anger sparked by his ouster of a popular defense minister.

Zelenskyy said late Tuesday that Joint Forces Commander Mykhailo Drapatyi would replace Syrskyi in an effort to end a power struggle ...Read more

The Trump administration has taken the extraordinary step of asking a federal court in Miami to dismiss a lawsuit against Venezuelan interim President Delcy Rodríguez, underscoring how fully Washington has embraced her government as the legitimate authority in Caracas.

The request, filed this week by the Justice Department in the U.S. District...Read more

Canadian leaders are planning their own event on Friday without any American officials to celebrate the construction of the $4.7 billion Gordie Howe International Bridge over the Detroit River amid trade tensions with the U.S.

On Tuesday, Canadian leaders told Michigan officials they plan to cancel a joint U.S.-Canada event planned for Friday ...Read more

DETROIT — Michigan health officials reported 600 more cyclosporiasis cases on Wednesday, bringing the state's total to 7,171.

That represents a 9% increase over Tuesday's total of 6,571, according to Michigan Department of Health and Human Services data.

Cyclosporiasis is a parasitic illness that usually causes frequent, watery and explosive...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A heat wave that's expected to rank among the hottest of the year so far will peak in Southern California on Thursday, with nights sultry enough to increase the risk of heat illness, as well as periods of critical fire weather, forecasters said.

Temperatures will be 8 to 12 degrees above normal, with muggy conditions limiting ...Read more

MIAMI — Hundreds of thousands of Haitian immigrants with Temporary Protected Status lost their strategic battle in June when the Supreme Court ruled the Trump administration’s decision to end that benefit on Friday, July 24, was not subject to judicial review.

But the legal war continues.

In a 6-3 ruling, the justices left open a narrow ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Tropical Storm Bertha weakened Wednesday as it moved west along the Gulf Coast, but still with portions of Florida under tropical storm warnings, according to the National Hurricane Center.

As of the NHC’s 5 a.m. advisory, the center of Bertha was located about 165 miles west-southwest of Panama City and 50 miles east-...Read more

LONDON — U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham said he would look at whether he could increase the cap on tax-free earnings, another shift in communications over a policy that would cost billions of pounds if implemented.

“There is no commitment at this point to change, but we will look at that at the budget,” Burnham told broadcasters on a ...Read more

The U.S. widened the scope of its airstrikes on Iran overnight, as President Donald Trump and officials in Tehran signaled a renewal of peace talks is unlikely in the near-term.

American forces struck a military site near the north-western city of Tabriz, according to Iranian media, the first time the area is thought to have been hit since ...Read more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi in a major military shakeup, yielding to nationwide anger sparked by his ouster of a popular defense minister.

Zelenskyy said late Tuesday that Joint Forces Commander Mykhailo Drapatyi would replace Syrskyi in an effort to end a power struggle ...Read more

The nation is still dealing with an ‘explosive’ diarrhea parasite outbreak that has made its way across 34 states and has caused quite a buzz on the internet.

Cyclospora, a microscopic parasite that infects the small intestine, causes the gastrointestinal illness known as cyclosporiasis, which is rapidly spreading in the U.S. People can ...Read more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi in a major military shakeup, yielding to nationwide anger sparked by his ouster of a popular defense minister.

Zelenskyy said late Tuesday that Joint Forces Commander Mykhailo Drapatyi would replace Syrskyi in an effort to end a power struggle ...Read more

In early July 2026, the Trump administration quietly tapped Matthew Wielicki to lead the U.S. Global Change Research Program. The move places a podcaster known for downplaying the threats of climate change – and importantly, someone who has not been meaningfully involved in research on climate change or its impacts – at the top of one of ...Read more

The State Department on July 16, 2026, hosted what officials billed as a ministerial on the resurgence of left-wing political terrorism.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio invited representatives from more than 60 countries to Washington to hear an argument that many of them appear not to believe: that a transnational far-left terrorist ...Read more