In a video posted to Reddit this summer, Lucie Rosenthal’s face starts focused and uncertain, looking intently into the camera, before it happens.

She releases a succinct, croak-like belch.

Then, it’s wide-eyed surprise, followed by rollicking laughter. “I got it!” the Denver resident says after what was her second burp ever.

“It’...Read more

As the two presidential candidates entered the debate stage, Kamala Harris strode across it and offered her hand to Donald Trump to shake, setting a confident tone that didn’t flag throughout the debate.

Trump, appearing to grow angrier through the night, stuck to his well-trodden themes of American decline and reminded viewers that...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Harris went on the offensive from the beginning of the night, casting the former president as the extreme candidate and baiting him by talking about issues known to irk him.

The most highly anticipated 90 minutes of the presidential campaign are over and the mics are off — for good.

Here’s what stood out from the debate ...Read more

Mexican senators changed the location of the debate of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s proposal to overhaul the country’s judiciary, after hundreds of protesters opposed to the plan entered the main floor.

The discussion in the Senate of the president’s plan that many consider a threat to the balance of power in Latin America’s...Read more

SANTA ANA, Calif. — A growing wildfire accidentally sparked by heavy equipment in Trabuco Canyon in Orange County grew to more than 19,000 acres on Tuesday, forcing evacuations, threatening communications equipment on Santiago Peak, shutting down part of Ortega Highway and stretching firefighting operations thin in a region a plagued by days ...Read more

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump's schedules will pick back up in earnest following Tuesday's debate in Philadelphia, with both campaigns making several stops in battleground states around the country this week.

On Wednesday, both Harris and Trump are slated to attend remembrances of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, ...Read more

There’s no end in sight for the entirely uncontained Northern Nevada fire that has swallowed several homes and prompted Gov. Joe Lombardo to trigger a state of emergency due to thousands of evacuations south of Reno.

The National Weather Service in Reno issued a rare “particularly dangerous situation” red flag warning, meaning that winds ...Read more

With the Airport fire burning menacingly close to their homes, residents in the eastern foothills of South Orange County spent the past day assessing whether it was time to leave.

Some communities were under evacuation orders — but many residents were staying for now, hoping firefighters could keep the flames away from their neighborhoods.

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Abortion quickly emerged as a flashpoint in the first presidential debate between former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, the Republican falsely arguing that Democrats' support killing babies after birth and the Democrat saying Trump can't be trusted because of his dizzying statements on the matter.

"It's an execution," Trump ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Brooklyn man convicted of brutally murdering tech entrepreneur Fahim Saleh, dismembering his body with an electric saw in a depraved effort to conceal the July 2020 killing — and the theft of more than $400,000 — was sentenced Tuesday to 40 years to life in prison.

The steep sentence for Tyrese Haspil, 25, was handed down at ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Hurricane Francine formed in the Gulf of Mexico Tuesday evening and is forecast to make landfall in Louisiana on Wednesday, according to the National Hurricane Center.

As of the NHC’s 8 p.m. advisory, the center of Francine was located about 150 miles east of the mouth of the Rio Grande River and 350 miles southwest of ...Read more

Mexico’s Senate was forced to call a recess in the middle of debating President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s proposal to overhaul the country’s judiciary, after hundreds of protesters opposed to the plan entered the building.

The discussion in the Senate of the president’s plan that many consider a threat to the balance of power in ...Read more

Jamaica Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced Tuesday that his nation’s long-awaited participation in the largely U.S.-funded Multinational Security Support mission in Haiti is ready to begin.

Holness said the English-speaking Caribbean nation will deploy 24 security personnel to Haiti “to provide command, planning and logistics support.�...Read more

BALTIMORE — Appellate lawyers spent more than three hours Tuesday arguing before Maryland’s highest court about the constitutionality of the state’s Child Victims Act of 2023, which eliminated time limits for lawsuits from people sexually abused as children.

Much of the debate in the Supreme Court of Maryland focused on a 2017 law that ...Read more

The House on Tuesday voted to take up a partisan six-month stopgap spending bill featuring controversial voting restriction legislation as soon as Wednesday, adopting the rule for floor debate on the continuing resolution and several unrelated bills on a narrow party-line vote.

The rule vote was 209-206, with two Republicans opposed: Montana’...Read more

NYC needs to shut down an “open-air drug market” in the South Bronx, U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres said in a letter to Mayor Eric Adams asking for the mayor, the NYPD and Department of Health to take action.

“The tacit acceptance of unfettered drug use on Melrose Avenue, as though it were an inevitable fact of life, sends a dangerous message: ...Read more

This is not your parents’ Boston Harbor.

Once unthinkable when the harbor was nasty and polluted, today’s cleaner waters have actually become a desirable shark habitat as young sharks migrate here yearly.

Shark researchers at the New England Aquarium report that they’ve been coming across the rebounding sand tiger shark population in ...Read more