LOS ANGELES — Three years ago, environmental regulators discovered garbage burning deep inside the Chiquita Canyon Landfill in the Santa Clarita Valley. Few imagined the calamity that would follow.

Somehow the landfill’s pollution control system introduced oxygen below, causing decades-old waste to rapidly decompose, generating intense heat...Read more

The Trump administration is proposing a sweeping overhaul of Head Start that would largely relinquish federal control of the early learning program for low-income babies, toddlers and preschoolers.

Standards, such as the number of children a teacher can supervise, would soon be under local control, leading to variations across the country, ...Read more

Pornhub is trying to convince Texas lawmakers to rethink the state’s age verification law for adult websites.

The effort comes more than a year after the pornography website blocked access in Texas instead of complying with the requirement.

Now, Pornhub is making a new push to change the law that led to that decision.

So what exactly is the...Read more

OKLAHOMA CITY — State leaders of both parties say the federal government — including the president — wields too much power, and they want to see more authority returned to the states.

Bipartisan groups of governors and state lawmakers held major gatherings in recent days where issues of state authority became a major focus. They agreed ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Attorneys for Twin Cities journalist Georgia Fort asked a judge on Thursday to throw out federal charges against her over an anti-ICE protest at a St. Paul church, arguing the indictment violates her First Amendment free speech rights among other things.

Fort was indicted alongside former CNN host Don Lemon and several ...Read more

BALTIMORE — A lawsuit alleging that negligence by the cargo ship Dali’s shipbuilder led to the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse was dismissed this week by a federal judge, who ruled that another jurisdiction would be a more appropriate forum for the suit.

Filed by the ship’s owner and operator in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern ...Read more

The 2026 FIFA Men's World Cup delivered record audience levels for Fox and it showed up on the balance sheet.

Fox Corporation reported revenues of $4.12 billion for the three months ending June 30, an increase of 28% over the same quarter last year and well ahead of estimates from Wall Street analysts. Adjusted earnings per share were $1.79, ...Read more

HOLLY SPRINGS, N.C. — Holly Springs police are investigating an incident in which Wake County parents responded to a school bus driver missing some bus stops by allegedly blocking the bus with a car, prompting some of the children to open an emergency exit and jump out.

A police report shows Holly Springs police officers responded shortly ...Read more

One malfunctioning valve has been identified as the reason why Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded during a test that destroyed much of the company’s launch pad in Cape Canaveral.

Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp gave an update on the company’s investigation to the May 28 incident that resulted in a massive fireball that destroyed the rocket...Read more

The wait for an Iran-Oman deal that partially reopens the Strait of Hormuz continued through Thursday, after the Islamic Republic said an agreement on proposed shipping lanes is in the final stages.

The two countries that border the crucial waterway have been negotiating a plan for the management of maritime traffic through the strait since ...Read more

The Democratic Republic of Congo is preparing a sweeping overhaul of its response to the country’s largest Ebola outbreak as the number of new cases continues to spike.

The government plans to provide free healthcare in its Ebola-affected eastern provinces, test experimental vaccines against the Bundibugyo strain of the virus and shift to a ...Read more

If you’ve followed mental health topics on TikTok or Instagram lately, you have probably heard the term emotional regulation. But emotional regulation isn’t just a trendy buzzword. It’s a nuanced concept that psychologists like me have been studying for decades.

At its core, emotional regulation is how well someone can manage ...Read more

When a wildfire is headed your way, evacuating may sound straightforward: Gather your belongings, get in the car and leave.

In reality, it is one of the most complex decisions a person can face.

Fast-moving fires, shifting winds, heavy smoke and limited escape routes can quickly turn an orderly evacuation into gridlock. In ...Read more

After Luigi Mangione was arrested in December 2024 in connection with the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the internet did what it often does: It turned something serious into a joke.

Although Mangione has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in New York and to federal stalking charges, viral memes at the time ...Read more

“Crimes against humanity.”

That’s what an investigation in March 2026 called Russia’s “deportation and forcible transfer” of Ukrainian children and “their enforced disappearance.”

The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine wrote that “thousands of children have been deported to the Russian...Read more

The wait for an Iran-Oman deal that partially reopens the Strait of Hormuz continued into Thursday, after the Islamic Republic said an agreement on proposed shipping lanes was in the final stages.

The two countries that border the crucial waterway have been negotiating a plan for the management of maritime traffic through the strait since last ...Read more