Each spring, birds across America are in full voice. Cardinals chatter, sparrows sing and warblers warble. Birdsong lifts the human spirit – “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers,” after all. Yet birds are not singing to soothe our nerves after a stressful day at the office. Instead, they sing to defend their territories and attract ...Read more

John Jones knows about voter suppression. Currently the president of Dickinson College, Jones – nominated in 2002 by President George W. Bush and confirmed unanimously by the U.S. Senate – served for almost two decades as a federal court judge. In that role, Jones presided over a case, filed just prior to the November 2020 presidential ...Read more

Using an in-home HEPA purifier for one month spurs a small but significant improvement in brain function in adults age 40 and older. That’s the result of a new study we co-authored in the journal Scientific Reports.

HEPA purifiers – HEPA stands for high efficiency particulate air – remove particulate matter from the air. ...Read more

Rotavirus is a highly contagious virus that spreads easily and can make babies and young children very sick. This year, doctors have been seeing more cases earlier in the season than usual.

Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that almost 8 in 100 people tested for rotavirus have the virus. This is only a ...Read more

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller told CNN in January 2026 that “we live in a world … that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power” – what he called the “iron laws of the world.”

This “might-makes-right” mindset, which seems to permeate the Trump administration, sees...Read more

The biggest piece of rocketry needed for the next Artemis mission is headed to Florida.

While the base of the Space Launch System rocket’s core stage has been waiting at Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building since last summer, the top four-fifths of what will be a 212-foot-tall piece of hardware was loaded onto NASA’s Pegasus ...Read more

The International Criminal Court’s appeals chamber ruled that the tribunal has jurisdiction over the case of ex-Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s crimes against humanity and rejected his bid for release.

The appeals chamber by a majority “has rejected all four grounds of appeal,” Judge Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza said in live-...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump indefinitely extended a ceasefire with Iran after the two sides failed to meet for more peace talks, with the war developing into a game of brinkmanship over the critical Strait of Hormuz.

Trump said Pakistan, the main mediator between the warring sides, asked the U.S. to hold off on a threatened resumption of ...Read more

Ukraine has asked Turkey to help arrange a summit meeting between President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian leader Vladimir Putin in a renewed effort to end the war, Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said in Kyiv.

“We have addressed the Turks directly. But if another capital — other than Moscow and Belarus — organizes such a meeting, we will...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles reservoir that was notoriously empty during the 2025 Palisades fire has been drained once again as crews replace its floating cover, to the dismay of area residents who worry that there won't be water available to fight wildfires.

The Santa Ynez Reservoir stores drinking water for Pacific Palisades, and the $19.5...Read more

Democratic lawmakers are demanding that the Trump administration halt plans to collect sensitive medical records for millions of federal workers and retirees, as well as their family members.

The Office of Personnel Management has asked 65 insurance companies to provide monthly reports with detailed medical and pharmaceutical claims data of ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — A Boise-based day care sued in December over the Idaho Medical Freedom Act, a controversial 2025 law that lawyers argued won’t let the facility send sick kids home or require vaccines.

The Idaho Medical Freedom Act, signed by Gov. Brad Little on the last day of the 2025 legislative session, prevents schools, businesses and ...Read more

HAVANA — A decade ago this spring, President Barack Obama stepped off Air Force One at José Martí International Airport — the first time a U.S. leader had touched ground in Cuba since Fidel Castro's communist revolution.

More than half a century of Cold War hostilities were thawing. The U.S. had relaxed travel restrictions to the island, ...Read more

The number of babies born in the United States fell again last year.

According to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were 3.6 million births in 2025, a 1% decline from 2024. The fertility rate dropped to 53.1 births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44, down 23% since 2007.

The Trump administration has said it wants ...Read more

It may sound hard to believe, but the almost trillion-dollar U.S. military is struggling to fight cheap drones in its war with Iran.

Iran has built a simple drone, the Shahed, with a motorcycle-type engine, loaded it with explosives and successfully targeted its neighbors’ cities and power plants.

Iran has also hit U.S. ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A Santa Clara County judge Monday ordered District Attorney Jeff Rosen’s fundraising records to be turned over to defense attorneys, citing the documents as necessary to determine whether the prosecutor has a conflict of interest that should bar him and his entire office from retrying a felony vandalism case against five ...Read more

BOSTON — A doctor who practiced at Brigham and Women’s Hospital faces 81 sexual assault charges, including rape, indecent assault and battery, and assault with intent to rape.

Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden announced Dr. Derrick Todd’s grand jury indictment Tuesday, describing the case as unprecedented.

“The allegations ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is facing a fresh legal challenge in its bid to collect and store voters’ personal information before the midterm elections.

Four registered voters backed by advocacy groups are suing the U.S. Justice Department over the data collection push. Their lawsuit, filed Tuesday in federal court in Washington, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced he was extending a ceasefire with Iran indefinitely a day before it was set to expire, even as plans for a fresh round of talks between the two countries fell apart.

In a Truth Social post, Trump said Tuesday he would maintain a blockade over ships coming to and from Iran in the Strait of Hormuz. ...Read more