BALTIMORE — By Sunday afternoon, BWI Marshall Airport advised travelers to arrive three hours early as long security lines persisted, driven in part by staffing shortages among Transportation Security Administration officers.

This is a slight improvement from Saturday, when passengers waited for more than four hours. Sunday afternoon, there ...Read more

NASA pulled off the moon landing in 1969 with a clear goal from the outset — to be the first nation to put people on the lunar surface.

The U.S. was locked in a space race with the Soviet Union, and the Apollo 11 landing helped cement America’s lead in the competition to be the reigning geopolitical superpower in the depths of the Cold War....Read more

NEW YORK — New York City has denied another request for data about the toxins that swirled above Ground Zero after 9/11 — claiming nothing could be found — despite the discovery of 68 boxes worth of information on the subject just four months ago, the Daily News has learned.

Advocates for 9/11 survivors are again suing for the data, ...Read more

Pakistan’s foreign minister said Islamabad was ready to facilitate peace talks between the U.S. and Iran in the coming days as the war in the Middle East intensified into its fifth week.

“Pakistan is very happy that both Iran and the U.S. have expressed their confidence in Pakistan to facilitate their talks,” Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, ...Read more

NEW YORK — A suspected drug trafficker held on Rikers Island died in custody early Sunday, marking the second death in the city jail system in less than a week.

City Department of Correction officials said John Price, 49, was being held without bail at the Eric M. Taylor Center on Rikers when he needed medical attention around 5:40 p.m. ...Read more

Attacks in the Middle East conflict extended into a fifth week Sunday, with Israel striking Tehran and Saudi Arabia intercepting almost a dozen drones, a day after Yemen-based Houthi militants entered the war.

The strikes came as 3,500 additional U.S. troops arrived in the Middle East and regional powers including Saudi Arabia and Turkey met in...Read more

WASHINGTON — With the Iran war in its fifth week, support for President Donald Trump is at its lowest point ever, with a growing body of recent polling showing him losing ground with key voting blocs that helped power his 2024 victory.

While public dissatisfaction is evident among many groups surveyed, the decline in support for the ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — With a diverse population of 23 million people, a $115 billion budget and a long list of complicated, unsolved problems like housing affordability and high property insurance costs, Florida may have outgrown its part-time citizen Legislature.

“It is structurally set up to fail,” said Bob Jarvis, a law professor at Nova...Read more

Federal Medicaid cuts could exact a heavy toll on psychiatric units at hospitals across the country, many of which are already struggling to keep their doors open but provide essential mental health care to people who need it.

Psychiatric units are costly and, like labor and delivery services, typically lose money for hospitals and tend to be ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In California's spendy cities, living comfortably costs more than almost anywhere else.

From the Bay Area to Orange County, living well requires incomes north of $150,000 in the pricier places, according to a recent study. A family with two kids needs more than $400,000 per year in some spots.

The study, conducted by financial ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — University of Pennsylvania scientist Robert Vonderheide sees cancer researchers making progress on two fronts: finding new treatments for the most challenging cancers, and studying ways to stop disease before it becomes cancer.

The newly elected president of the American Association for Cancer Research will lead the world’s ...Read more