Fifty-six million years ago, Earth’s forests reached a tipping point. They had grown dense, lush canopies at the start of one of Earth’s most intense episodes of greenhouse warming. But those canopies began to thin.

As global temperatures rose by as much as 11 degrees Fahrenheit (6 degrees Celsius), heat and drought put stress on ...Read more

A largely overlooked part of the executive order President Donald Trump issued this week scaling back the schedule for childhood vaccines threatens legal action against the four states that don’t allow personal or religious exemptions to school vaccine requirements.

Those states — California, Connecticut, Maine and New York — are among ...Read more

NEW YORK — Luigi Mangione is set to appear in a Manhattan courtroom Friday in his federal case for an eleventh-hour hearing that has fueled speculation he’s planning to plead out in relation to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

The New York Times reported Thursday that Mangione was planning to plead guilty to unspecified ...Read more

DETROIT — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced her opposition to Consumers Energy's plan to sell its 13 hydropower dams to a private equity company in a Thursday letter to state energy regulators, warning the deal "would impose unacceptable safety and financial risks on Michiganders."

The Democratic governor urged Michigan's three Public Service ...Read more

SEATTLE — The University of Washington canceled a planned speech by Hasan Piker, saying the popular and controversial far-left streamer was disinvited from a speaker series after questions about the internal process for selecting speakers.

“It was determined that that the process for organizing this event did not meet the necessary level of...Read more

Border czar Tom Homan on Thursday defended plans to spend $20 million to equip immigration agents with gloves that deliver painful electric shocks to help them carry out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign.

The tough-talking lawman said the 380-volt stun gloves would give Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents a useful tool...Read more

The U.S. Department of Energy is denying access to some information that the nation’s only independent safety agency for work on nuclear weapons says it needs to oversee operations at sites where the atomic arsenal is built and maintained.

The denials of access to records and meetings are “the most significant” in the history of the ...Read more

When college students head back to campus for the fall semester, more of them will have guaranteed access to abortion medication.

Colorado recently joined California, Illinois, Massachusetts and New York in requiring public colleges and universities to provide abortion medication to students on campus or arrange to make it available to them ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced charges Thursday against five non-U.S. citizens who allegedly voted in the 2024 presidential election and another person who allegedly registered their non-citizen spouse to vote.

The revelation came amid a push by Republican President Donald Trump's administration to scrutinize...Read more

BALTIMORE — A former Baltimore Police officer pleaded guilty to misconduct in office and will avoid jail time after admitting to wrongdoing involving sick leave, according to records from the Baltimore City Circuit Court.

Harrison Brandon will serve two years of probation, complete 120 hours of community service and pay $469 in restitution, ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Thursday kept its eyes on two Caribbean-bound tropical waves that could develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm while the short-live Tropical Storm Cristobal began to fall apart in the distant Atlantic.

As of 5 a.m., the center of what had diminished to Tropical Depression...Read more

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ stint in solitary is officially over, according to a report.

The disgraced music mogul has rejoined the general population at the Federal Correctional Institution in Fort Dix, New Jersey, where he was ordered to serve a 50-month sentence after being found guilty in July 2025 of two counts of transportation to engage in...Read more

In a summer of wildfires severe enough to trigger Spain’s first-ever national emergency for a forest fire, a historic stone structure called the Nevera de Castro stands in a landscape burned bare in the Castellón region. Its walls are blackened by smoke and heat. A local news outlet noted that “a technical inspection will be necessary to...Read more

It’s 2 a.m., and a teenage girl, worrying about a friend issue, lies awake. Rather than wake her parents, she picks up her phone, opens an AI app and types, “I’m so stressed out, I can’t sleep.”

A reply arrives swiftly: “I’m sorry you’re dealing with this. Want to tell me a bit about what is stressing you?” The ...Read more

Widespread denial accompanied the public exposure of Jeffrey Epstein’s decades-long sexual abuse and trafficking of girls and women.

After the U.S. Justice Department released millions of case documents on Epstein in January 2026, billionaires, politicians, heads of state and academics proclaimed their ignorance of Epstein’s ...Read more

Why do disagreements about vaccines, climate change or elections often feel so personal? Our research suggests it is not simply because other people have different beliefs. It is because we think those beliefs are mistaken.

We are behavioral scientists who study the role of beliefs in politics and everyday life. Our new research finds...Read more

The federal government is injecting millions of dollars into efforts to combat feral hogs – and it’s considering spending even more in the coming years. The problem has grown for decades, but our research has found that a recently revived federal effort offers the potential for bringing the hogs under control.

Feral swine roam in ...Read more