Every two years heading into November, as state and federal elections draw nearer, voters are inundated with campaign advertisements on TV, websites and social media — some of which deliver misleading messages about candidates.

If an ad is misleading, why are television stations still allowed to run them?

For a station to censor a TV ...Read more

Six years after suspending service to Cap-Haïtien, American Airlines returned to the northern Haitian city on Sunday, restoring daily flights and marking a milestone in the carrier’s decades-long relationship with the Caribbean nation.

The flight from Miami International Airlines marked American’s 100th destination in Latin American and ...Read more

A federal judge dismissed a Trump administration lawsuit that sought to preemptively stop Alaska election officials from certifying the results of the state’s U.S. Senate contest if the Republican candidate loses by a small margin.

U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason sided with Alaska two days before midterm elections in which Republicans ...Read more

A pipeline that spilled at least 1.3 million gallons of hazardous natural gas liquids in Wisconsin two months ago garnered national attention and more calls for scrutiny. But thousands of small oil spills in the Great Lakes over the past decade have gone largely unnoticed, and little is known about their effects on the ecosystem, a new study ...Read more

U.S. Senator Chris Murphy was hospitalized with a stroke on Saturday and, according to a statement from his chief of staff, doctors said he is expected to make a full recovery.

“Yesterday afternoon, Senator Murphy started experiencing numbness in his arm while at his son’s hockey game. He was taken to a local hospital, where it was ...Read more

Prime Minister Mark Carney said he spoke with President Donald Trump and both sides would work on a “mutually beneficial” U.S.-Canadian trade deal in the weeks ahead.

Carney’s update in a social post came two days before Election Day in U.S. midterms, where most polls suggest Democrats are likely to win control of the House of ...Read more

A federal judge dismissed a Trump administration lawsuit that sought to preemptively stop Alaska election officials from certifying the results of the state’s U.S. Senate contest if the Republican candidate loses by a small margin.

U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason sided with Alaska two days before U.S. midterm elections in which ...Read more

Prime Minister Mark Carney said he spoke with President Donald Trump and both sides would work on a “mutually beneficial” U.S.-Canadian trade deal in the weeks ahead.

Carney’s update in a social post came two days before Election Day in U.S. midterms, where most polls suggest Democrats are likely to win control of the House of ...Read more

Mass demonstrations in Germany that passed largely peacefully on Saturday erupted in violence as night fell and rioters faced off against police in Frankfurt, Cologne, Hamburg and Berlin.

Authorities blocked off Frankfurt’s main shopping street Die Zeil and arrested more than 30 people after demonstrators smashed shop windows and made off ...Read more

Protesters began gathering in New Delhi for a major opposition rally over voter rolls that has drawn increasingly sharp criticism from India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Supporters of the INDIA bloc headed toward Ramlila Maidan — a sprawling ground in the heart of the capital that has hosted some of the nation’s biggest political ...Read more

Colorado has spent years pursuing policies aimed at reducing its reliance on natural gas. Despite that, voters are now being asked to make it a right to buy the fossil fuel under the state’s constitution, a status no other such commodity has.

Natural gas heats more than two-thirds of homes in Colorado, which holds the eighth-largest reserves...Read more

Protesters began gathering in New Delhi for a major opposition rally over voter rolls that has drawn increasingly sharp criticism from India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Supporters of the INDIA bloc headed toward Ramlila Maidan — a sprawling ground in the heart of the capital that has hosted some of the nation’s biggest political ...Read more

Gulf states fear that another U.S.-Israeli attack on a better-prepared Iran could unleash an even more destructive war across the region, leaving them to pick up the pieces.

“We find ourselves drawn within a crisis that we worked diplomatically very hard to try to avert,” Anwar Gargash, diplomatic adviser to UAE’s president, told the ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Four Maryland school systems expect to blow past their bus fuel budgets by a combined $6 million or more this school year if diesel prices stay high, with Anne Arundel County alone projecting at least $2.6 million in overspending.

Carroll County Public Schools estimates it will spend $1.8 million more than planned, Harford County ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A video showing a federal officer pointing a gun inches from the face of a bystander during an immigration operation Friday in North Hollywood has sparked new outrage about the tactics being used in the Trump administration's ongoing crackdown.

The video, obtained by the Los Angeles Times, shows the masked federal agent shoving ...Read more

NEW YORK — The father of the 15-year-old Ghanaian immigrant fatally shot in a caught-on-camera attack sobbed at the Bronx street corner where his son was murdered Saturday as local elected officials lamented how the U.S. “failed” his son.

While President Donald Trump — at Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s request — agreed to grant a visa to ...Read more

NEW YORK — As a Bronx family continues to reel from a devastating e-bike fire that took the lives of four family members, blazes caused by lithium-ion batteries have skyrocketed across the city, new FDNY statistics show.

The three new deaths linked to Wednesday’s e-bike blaze in Mott Haven’s Patterson Houses bring the city’s lithium-ion...Read more

WASHINGTON — The FBI said that North Korea was responsible for stealing more than $6 billion in cryptocurrencies in a brazen hacking attack on Binance.

“The FBI, together with partners at the USSS and IRS-CI, has observed TraderTraitor actors converting stolen assets primarily into Ethereum,” the FBI said Saturday in a statement, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A 51-acre piece of land along the Pacific Crest Trail above Santa Clarita is going back to descendants of the people who once lived there. The couple who owned it marketed the plot as a potential glamping site, but they decided to sell it instead to the Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians.

The tribe traces its history ...Read more