Fear of federal interference in the 2026 midterms, from intimidation stoked by armed officials at the polls to seizure of ballots, has been growing in the United States. That’s led state and local voting officials across the country to draw up plans for scenarios requiring them to summon law enforcement or prepare legal filings so they can ...Read more

Six Flags is closing several rides across the U.S. and Canada after a man fell to his death from a roller coaster at one of its parks in Georgia.

Park officials said Tuesday that the closures were out of an abundance of caution and were temporary.

On Monday afternoon, Hassan Jihad Ibn Kariem, 42, of Atlanta, was ejected from a roller coaster ...Read more

BOSTON — A Massachusetts State Police trooper was fired from the agency after he made offensive remarks to young people, according to an MSP spokesperson.

Former Trooper Jack B. Cesarz, who was still in his probationary period, was dishonorably discharged effective Oct. 8.

When asked about whether Cesarz was discharged because he allegedly ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The U.S. Secret Service in December took down a drone using electronic jamming equipment at the Army-Navy game in Baltimore, where President Donald Trump, Gov. Wes Moore and other federal and state leaders were present, according to CBS News.

Federal law prohibits drones in designated airspace around certain major sporting events,...Read more

MIAMI — A man from Cuba was found almost 20 miles from shore off Miami-Dade County on Monday floating on a homemade foam raft that was no bigger than a small bed mattress, federal agents say.

A boater saw the man about 16 miles out in the ocean off Key Biscayne and called VHF Channel 16, the preferred method for calling in a maritime ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- For more than four decades, the 1736 Family Crisis Center has offered care for victims of domestic violence, running shelters and crisis hotlines in L.A. and Orange counties on what today is a $15-million budget.

But the primary residence of the nonprofit's chief executive has been in Hawaii for at least the last 10 years. And ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Santiago Cruz, a junior at Bert Corona Charter High School in Pacoima, hopes to graduate alongside the classmates he grew up with, but worries that some of them may be derailed by nitrous oxide, the odorless gas that is being inhaled by young people and others as an illicit way to get high.

He was among several students, ...Read more

DENVER -- When staff at Denver’s Fairmount Cemetery stumbled across splatters of fake blood staining a family’s private mausoleum last week, they suspected an unsanctioned photo shoot was behind the imitation gore.

The fake blood stained the property and is difficult to remove, Fairmount Cemetery events manager Karna O’Neill said. While ...Read more

CHICAGO -- Eight-year-old Gloria Kowalewicz’s school and church were less than a half-mile from her back door in West Englewood.

On Nov. 12, 1960, a Saturday, her mother Esther was up early to get her dressed. Gloria had received her First Holy Communion recently, and a nun at St. Mary of Mount Carmel Church had urged the third grader and her...Read more

BEIRUT — This wasn't the way the story was supposed to go for Saudi Arabia. In recent years, headlines about the country focused on the scale of its ambition, or the fantastical giga-projects girding Vision 2030, the full-steam-ahead drive to remake the kingdom into a business and entertainment powerhouse.

But all that was upended Saturday, ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX launched a cargo mission to the International Space Station before dawn Tuesday that brought a sonic boom and a space jellyfish effect to the skies over Central Florida.

A Falcon 9 rocket on the CRS-35 mission topped with a crew Dragon spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch ...Read more

Brightly colored packaging, promises of better sexual performance and names like “Rhino,” “Anaconda” and “Magnum” make sexual enhancement products difficult to miss. They can be found online, in convenience stores and at gas stations, and some can even be ordered through delivery services.

But what’s inside the package ...Read more

“Do you smoke cigarettes?” I asked my patient succinctly in a recent clinic appointment.

He matter-of-factly responded, “Not anymore, I use Zyn pouches now.”

As with any patient, I gauged his readiness – or reluctance, in some instances – to disrupt his use of nicotine.

I asked about his interest in trying ...Read more

Media critic Ben Bagdikian warned in 2004 that five corporations had accumulated “more communications power than was exercised by any despot or dictatorship in history.” More than 20 years later, a major media merger is bringing his warning back into focus.

Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery in October 2026 ...Read more

Regardless of their views on politics or climate change, most Americans oppose the development of data centers in their communities.

These large buildings filled with computers that store and process digital information, increasingly to support various applications of artificial intelligence, are being built rapidly across the United ...Read more

A common complaint today laments the “shamelessness” of politicians. Until recently, the argument goes, more elected officials had a sense of shame to hold them back from ugly words and deeds, at least in public. Many in the current crop, however, seem to have no fear of disgrace; they revel in contempt for the niceties of old – ...Read more

Public comments quietly closed Oct. 6 in response to the proposed rescission of the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, an undercelebrated piece of federal legislation that has protected about 58.5 million acres of roadless areas across our National Forest System. That’s about one-third of the 193 million acres that make up our national ...Read more

CHATHAM COUNTY, N.C. — Despite being in one of the nation’s fastest-growing states, this rural county of roughly 85,000 people is still brimming with red foxes, coyotes, white-tailed deer, and wild turkeys.

But in recent months, Enbridge Gas North Carolina’s proposed plans for a natural gas pipeline have exposed how population growth, ...Read more

As Americans grow increasingly frustrated with their healthcare system, a proposal that has long been kicked around on the Democratic periphery is showing up in debates and on political platforms: “Medicare for All.”

According to a 2025 Economist-YouGov poll, nearly 60% of Americans favor a system of Medicare for All, while 85% of Democrats...Read more

Federal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington, D.C., home on Monday.

Homeland Security Investigations agents conducted the search. The Department of Justice said in a statement that the raid was “part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation,” but provided no further details.

President Donald Trump remained silent on the raid ...Read more