A criminal case that opened a window to a plot to help Republicans win important 2020 Florida Senate races by propping up fake progressive Senate candidates with shadowy money is finally headed to trial, with a South Florida political operative fighting the charges.

State prosecutors are expected to claim in court this week that former Miami ...Read more

CHICAGO — During a recent public appearance, Cook County Public Defender Sharone Mitchell recalled the early days of working to pass, defend and then implement Illinois’ historic bail reform law amid intense furor.

“When I got a call from my aunt in North Carolina asking me if I was involved in a law that legalized murder, I knew it was ...Read more

Missoula is one of Montana’s largest cities but is surrounded by rural mountain communities where cattle ranching is king. Despite the latitude and altitude, in recent years this region has experienced punishing summer heat waves.

It has been difficult for residents to adapt to the warming climate and new seasonal swings. Many don’t have ...Read more

After decades of trying to stop Earth from heating up, scientists are exploring how to reverse climate change and maybe even cool the planet back down.

Could clouds be brightened so they reflect more sunlight back into outer space? If lab-grown seaweed is sunk into the ocean, how much carbon dioxide could it absorb? Would drilling holes into ...Read more

When Jessica Staten’s kidney stones wouldn’t pass, she said, her doctor suggested a procedure to “blow ’em up.” She went to have it done last November at St. Joseph Medical Center in Bellingham, Washington, one of nine hospitals that the Catholic health system PeaceHealth operates in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.

“I was probably...Read more

Eighteen months later, Anna Holland still can’t stomach the smell of tomato soup.

“I can’t have a tin of it anymore,” said the climate activist, who shocked the art world — and much of the rest of the planet — by throwing Heinz Tomato Soup at Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” in the National Gallery in London in October 2022.

Holland ...Read more

A syndrome that paralyzed children in Colorado and across the nation seems to have disappeared almost as mysteriously as it arrived, leaving scientists to figure out what happened and survivors to adapt as they grow up.

Doctors first identified cases of unexplained muscle weakness and limb paralysis in children, which they called acute flaccid ...Read more

Investigators are questioning a Greensboro, North Carolina, man in the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.

This comes nine weeks after Trump was shot in the ear at a rally in Pennsylvania.

Ryan Wesley Routh of Greensboro is in custody after the Secret Service spotted a scope pointed at the former president while he ...Read more

The United States Secret Service was already confronting a period of turmoil after a 20-year-old Pennsylvanian made an attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life this summer. But a second attempt, at Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach on Sunday, deepened questions and concerns over whether the agency is up to the task of defending ...Read more

A gunman's ability to get within shooting distance of former President Trump on Sunday has again raised the specter of violence in the American political landscape, a development that analysts said is all too expected as Trump's followers vowed it would make them even more determined to reelect him.

Just two months after a would-be assassin's ...Read more

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro on Sunday afternoon kicked off Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign's "Fighting for Reproductive Freedom" bus tour inside the Independence Visitor Center in Old City, where he criticized former President Donald Trump's record on abortion and said that the western part of the state has seen an influx of women ...Read more

The National Hurricane Center has issued tropical storm warnings for the Carolinas, from Edisto Beach, South Carolina, to Ocracoke Inlet. That includes Charleston, Myrtle Beach, Wilmington and Morehead City.

Forecasters expect the storm to come ashore Monday, though they cautioned that they remained uncertain about its exact path. Bands of ...Read more

Faith has kept the members of Wedgwood Baptist Church going in the 25 years since a gunman opened fire at a Wednesday night service, the former pastor and congregants said at a special service Sunday.

Sunday marked the 25th anniversary of the shooting, in which the gunman killed seven people and wounded seven others before killing himself in ...Read more

Italy and the U.K. are poised to reaffirm their pledge to defend Ukraine as Prime Minister Keir Starmer travels to Rome to seek support for a proposal to let Kyiv use non-U.S. long-range weapons against Russia.

Starmer and Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, who are due to meet on Monday, will discuss a proposal for Ukraine to use British long-...Read more

Former President Donald Trump was safe Sunday after a gunman targeted him while he golfed in south Florida, according to law enforcement officials, in what the FBI said appeared to be a second assassination attempt in three months.

The Trump campaign and Secret Service said the former president and Republican presidential nominee was unharmed ...Read more

Falling temperatures and rising humidity will give firefighters a brief window to gain more ground against three major Southern California wildfires, officials said Sunday.

"It's helping out tremendously," said Capt. Steve Concialdi, acting as public information officer on the Airport fire in Orange and Riverside counties, where overnight ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republican vice-presidential nominee J.D. Vance on Sunday doubled down on debunked allegations that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating residents' pets, leading Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro to accuse him of "putting Americans at risk."

Shapiro made his comments on CNN's "State of the Union" after Vance insisted...Read more

The shooting near former President Donald Trump’s golf club in Palm Beach “appears to be an attempted assassination,” according to the FBI.

In a statement Sunday afternoon, the U.S. Secret Service announced that there was a “protective incident” involving the former president shortly before 2 p.m. The statement also said the former ...Read more