Cancer is becoming increasingly common among young people, with cases slowly and steadily rising every year for the past decade. And what type of insurance adolescents and young adults have affects at what stage of cancer they’re diagnosed and how long they survive.

As researchers who study cancer disparities in young adults, we ...Read more

President Donald Trump appeared on former Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino’s podcast in February 2026, where he stated: “The Republicans should say, ‘We want to take over, we should take over the voting.’ The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting.”

Trump’s call to nationalize elections, to transfer the constitutionall...Read more

On a summer morning a couple of years ago, we went for a hike on the fabled Bright Angel Trail, one of the most popular trails in Grand Canyon National Park.

As scholars of tourism and outdoor recreation, our conversation inevitably turned to the visitor experience at the Grand Canyon and a question that has plagued the parks since ...Read more

Winter is more than just a season in the western U.S. – it is a savings account to get farms and homes through the long, dry summer ahead. As the snowpack that accumulates in the mountains through winter slowly melts in late spring and summer, it feeds into rivers and reservoirs that keep communities and ecosystems functioning.

The ...Read more

In May 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice began sending letters to state governments demanding copies of statewide voter registration lists. The request was unprecedented: It demanded not only publicly available voter data, such as names and addresses, but also sensitive information, including driver’s license and Social Security numbers....Read more

LOS ANGELES – Emily Taylor has lived in California for 20 years and has never gotten as many calls about rattlesnakes as she did last month.

Taylor owns Central Coast Snake Services, a serpent consulting business, directs the Physiological Ecology of Reptiles Laboratory at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and is part of a network of volunteers who ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear President Donald Trump's claim that he has the power to revise the Constitution and to end birthright citizenship for babies born in this country to parents who were here unlawfully or temporarily.

Trump proposed this potentially far-reaching change in an executive order. It has been ...Read more

Iran fired missiles across the Middle East while Israel and the U.S. kept up their bombardment of the Islamic Republic, even as U.S. President Donald Trump fueled market optimism by signaling he’s preparing to exit the conflict.

Israel, Bahrain, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates all reported attacks overnight and into Wednesday, while ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Two-thirds of California voters disapprove of President Donald Trump's immigration policies and a majority believe those policies are discriminating against Latinos, according to a new poll.

Nearly half of the voters said they were concerned that they, a family member or a close friend could be detained because of Trump's ...Read more

NASA astronauts are poised to lift off Wednesday on a 10-day journey that will slingshot them around the moon, marking humanity’s return to the lunar vicinity for the first time in more than half a century.

The crew’s Lockheed Martin Corp.-built Orion capsule, perched atop the Boeing Co.-made Space Launch System rocket, is set to launch at ...Read more

As Christians observe Good Friday they will remember, with devotion and prayer, the death of Jesus on the Cross. It is a day of solemnity in which Christians give thanks for their salvation made possible by the suffering of Jesus. They prepare for rejoicing on Easter Sunday, when the resurrection of Jesus is celebrated.

In the Middle ...Read more

In June, 11 U.S. cities will welcome millions of fans for soccer’s World Cup. Staging the planet’s most popular sporting event is never easy, but this year the conflict in the Middle East and the congressional impasse over funding for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security are creating additional complications.

Officials in the host ...Read more

Even as President Donald Trump threatens to absorb Canada, some Alberta voters are determined to break it apart.

A long-simmering secession drive in the oil-rich province appears poised to reach the ballot this year, asking residents whether to stick with the rest of Canada or strike out on their own. Alberta would become a landlocked nation of...Read more

JUNEAU, Alaska — A Juneau lawmaker has introduced a bill aimed at closing a gap in state law that has made it harder to prosecute medical providers accused of sexually assaulting patients during treatment.

The legislation follows a high-profile Juneau case in which a chiropractor was accused of assaulting more than a dozen patients during ...Read more

On the coffee table at her home in Atlanta, Sarah Boim has a pile of documents from her old job at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They are printouts of her employment records.

Boim lost her job in the first big wave of CDC firings — more than 1,000 people were suddenly let go last February.

“This is the termination letter....Read more

BOISE, Idaho - Gov. Brad Little has signed the Legislature’s anti-transgender bathroom bill into law, making it a crime to use a restroom or changing room that doesn’t align with a person’s sex at birth.

The law, which will apply to government-owned buildings and places of public accommodation, makes it a misdemeanor if someone “...Read more

SAN DIEGO — William Briggs, deputy administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration, traveled to Imperial Beach on Tuesday to hear directly from small business owners about the economic impact of the ongoing Tijuana River pollution crisis, framing the visit as a fact-finding mission ahead of potential federal action.

Briggs convened a ...Read more

A proposed law to add a three-month employment verification for low-income residents seeking health care coverage through Idaho’s Medicaid expansion program sailed through the Senate on Tuesday to head to the governor’s desk.

Nearly 80,000 Idahoans rely on the government-subsidized program for health insurance. But state lawmakers estimate ...Read more

Every week that passes without a face-to-face meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping gives fresh grievances time to accumulate. That growing list is testing both sides’ ability to keep ties steady between the world’s top economies.

In the past few days, China has launched retaliatory probes into U.S. trade practices, while a bipartisan...Read more