LOS ANGELES — For nearly a year, the only thing clear about the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez was that she met a gruesome end.

The missing 14-year-old’s body rotted for weeks until it was found in the trunk of a Tesla at a Hollywood tow yard last September, severed at the limbs and stuffed into black plastic bags, according to medical ...Read more

BOSTON — A new Super PAC that appears to be aligned with Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has emerged ahead of the state primary, where two Wu-backed challengers are vying to expel the two senators Wu blames for killing her tax bill.

Boston Leads Independent Expenditure Political Action Committee was formally organized Thursday with the state Office ...Read more

Human Rights Watch is pressing lawmakers in Washington to open an inquiry into America’s growing security role in Ecuador, arguing that joint counter-crime missions have unfolded with far too little oversight and too few guardrails to keep civilians safe.

The watchdog group laid out its case in a nearly 100-page report titled “A Dangerous ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — This week could bring Southern California its most sweltering temperatures of the year — a heat wave made all the more miserable, and dangerous, by oppressive muggy conditions and little nighttime relief.

"This looks to be the hottest stretch so far this year," said Ryan Kittell, a meteorologist with the National Weather ...Read more

DETROIT — The number of cyclosporiasis cases in Michigan since June 22 rose to 6,571 as of Tuesday morning, a 6.9% increase over Monday's case count of 6,148.

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services reported 423 additional cases of cyclosporiasis on Tuesday.

The new cases come as the Food and Drug Administration continues to ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — One day after a pair of mass shootings killed one person and injured 13 in Minneapolis, Tarik Asbu and Robert Hobot searched for what was left behind.

The Hennepin County library maintenance workers had been called to the Walker Hennepin Library across from the Reign Event Center to clean up. Earlier, investigators spent hours ...Read more

CHICAGO — As more than 900 wildfires continue to burn across Canada, predicting when air quality conditions will fully return to normal in Illinois and the rest of the Midwest can be tricky.

“Some of these fires in the boreal forest, they don’t end until the rain hits,” said Craig Clements, director of the Wildfire Interdisciplinary ...Read more

Israeli troops have withdrawn from parts of southern Lebanon under a U.S.-mediated ceasefire agreement, which aims to keep Iran-backed Hezbollah away from the Israeli border and end nearly five months of conflict.

The move comes after Lebanese President Joseph Aoun traveled to Washington for a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday...Read more

NEW YORK — The MTA failed to keep tabs on a contract for removing recycling from transit facilities — a move that’s cost the agency an estimated $800,000 over five years, according to an investigation by the transit agency’s inspector general.

Investigators at the MTA Office of the Inspector General surveilled 40 MTA facilities, ...Read more

In the 108-year history of daylight saving time in the United States, the country has three times moved to institute it year-round: during each of the two world wars and in 1973-74.

Now, after a 2022 attempt to reintroduce this policy floundered, the U.S. House of Representatives on July 14, 2026, passed the Sunshine Protection Act, ...Read more

Discharge day in the neonatal intensive care unit, or NICU, should feel like a finish line. After weeks or months of monitors, alarms, oxygen, feeding tubes, blood tests and waiting, a family can finally take their baby home.

As a neonatologist, I know how much work it takes to get that baby there. Their lungs have grown stronger. ...Read more

Why would a young Republican back solar power but reject a carbon tax? Why would two Democrats agree that climate change is real but split over a policy that would charge households more if they exceeded a monthly limit on energy use?

Those patterns may go against the partisan rhetoric of our times, but they reflect the reality that ...Read more

Spain’s 1-0 victory over Argentina in the World Cup final on Sunday wasn’t the most entertaining match but still served as the culmination of a monthlong celebration that spanned the North American continent. From Vancouver to Miami, Los Angeles to Mexico City, the three host nations collaborated to produce an experience that was as ...Read more

ST. LOUIS — Missouri healthcare advocate Leslie Ortbals and her husband want to start a family, but she worries they can’t afford it. The 27-year-old said she takes 10 medications daily to manage multiple chronic illnesses.

Now she worries the cost of those drugs could rise — not because of price increases, but because of a tax system ...Read more

Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker called on members of the state Legislative Ethics Commission to publicly release an inspector general’s investigative report of misconduct involving disgraced former state Rep. Harry Benton for participating in a “clear pattern of conduct” that included sexual harassment.

Pritzker’s call for the report’s ...Read more