NEW YORK — In recognition of firefighters who perished in the World Trade Center on 9/11, a national civic foundation is organizing a commemorative event to honor the heroes who climbed the stairs of the Twin Towers that day, but never walked back down.

The National Fallen Firefighters Foundation already holds memorial stair climbing events ...Read more

Two Israeli soldiers were killed overnight in a helicopter crash over the Gaza Strip, while on a mission to evacuate an injured soldier to a hospital.

The Israeli army said in a statement that the “Yanshuf” - the Hebrew name for the Black Hawk helicopter - crashed while landing in the Rafah area in southern Gaza.

Both soldiers were in ...Read more

CHICAGO -- The first year of high school is almost always marked by unknown variables: new classes, teachers, relationships and bus routes. But for Reynaldo Perdomo, 14, who has been forced to sleep in a truck after walking thousands of miles from Venezuela to make it to Chicago, his first month is clouded in uncertainty.

Monday night, Reynaldo...Read more

Warm water in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico can fuel powerful hurricanes, but how destructive a storm becomes isn’t just about the climate and weather – it also depends on the people and property in harm’s way.

In many coastal cities, fast population growth has left more people living in areas at high risk of flooding....Read more

Humans generate a lot of plastic waste – more than 400 million metric tons a year.

To bring this fact a bit closer to home, the U.S. produced an average of 0.75 pounds (0.34 kilograms) of plastic waste per person each day in 2010, which is equivalent in weight to an unopened can of soda.

Plastic products have been propelling...Read more

Just days after President Joe Biden withdrew from the 2024 presidential race in July, Vice President Kamala Harris addressed the annual meeting of the Zeta Phi Beta sorority in Indianapolis, where she emphasized the importance of both religious faith and political freedom.

Harris contrasted her stance on abortion rights with that of ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — You don't often see a "science day" in a Philadelphia courtroom. But that's exactly what happened last week in a potentially ground-shifting legal fight brought by patients against the manufacturers of blockbuster drugs for diabetes and weight loss.

At the heart of the case are the drugs in question: Ozempic, Wegovy, and others...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Elizabeth Howell-Egan, a third-year USC law student, avoided arrest while taking part in two pro-Palestinian campus encampments in the spring. But more than four months after police cleared the camps, she said she is facing repercussions worse than a misdemeanor court charge: She is banned from campus and classes as part of a ...Read more

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