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

A number of recent high-profile congressional primaries in the Democratic Party have resulted in the nomination of unexpected candidates. Many of these winning candidates have unseated entrenched incumbents, as 29-year-old Colorado attorney Melat Kiros did to U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, who has been serving in the House for three decades.

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Young women are moving away from exclusive heterosexuality faster than young men.

In a recent poll, Gallup found that LGBTQ+ identification has more than doubled since 2012, with especially high rates among Gen Z women, or those born between 1997 and 2012. In 2023, 28.5% of Gen Z women identified as LGBTQ+, compared with 10.6% of Gen ...Read more

New federal rules sharply cap how much graduate students can borrow, forcing an immediate sea change in how students evaluate attaining an advanced degree, with some scrambling to pay tuition — and for colleges, prompting concerns about future access to their programs.

Under the previous rules, graduate students could take out federal loans ...Read more

CHICAGO — When Marc Ayers attended the Sangamon County Fair in New Berlin last year, he was on a mission to stop one attraction from returning to the state: the Banana Derby.

Ayers, the Illinois state director for Humane World for Animals, said the welfare group has been tracking the show for years. When he went to see it firsthand, he ...Read more

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QUINCY, Calif. — When Taletha Washburn and the staff at Plumas Charter School first heard that California wanted to help schools treat more kids struggling with mental health, it felt like a ...Read more

Iran fired at least two missiles at commercial ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz on Monday night, Axios reported, testing a late-June deal with the U.S. to halt attacks as the two sides work toward a peace agreement.

Both vessels suffered significant damage, but there were no casualties, Axios cited an unidentified U.S. official as saying. ...Read more

President Donald Trump filed a last-ditch plea with the U.S. Supreme Court as he tries to prevent the writer E. Jean Carroll from collecting $5 million awarded by a jury that found he had sexually abused and defamed her.

Trump on Monday asked the high court to take the unusual step of reconsidering its June 29 rejection of the president’s ...Read more