About 90 miles north of Phoenix, the town of Yarnell nestles atop a winding mountain road. Phoenix, a sprawling city of more than 1.6 million people, has one physician for every 2,407 people. But in Yarnell and other rural areas in Arizona, the ratio is one for every 3,896. Like many rural residents across the U.S., people in this small town ...Read more

Reducing rampant pollution across the United States was so important that when Congress passed many environmental protection laws, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act, it didn’t want to leave enforcement only to the executive branch.

Congress specifically wrote into those laws ways for citizens ...Read more

Spain’s foreign minister said nearly everyone who illegally crossed into the African enclave of Ceuta last week has left, pledging to return “every last” person to Morocco.

“The vast majority of those who entered have already returned to Morocco,” José Manuel Albares said in an interview Monday morning on TVE, Spain’s state-owned ...Read more

Iran suggested negotiations to get more ships moving through the Strait of Hormuz are making progress, after President Donald Trump called off what he said was a major attack on the Islamic Republic.

Oil fell on Monday, with Brent crude down about 4.5% to just over $83 a barrel, after Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said discussions...Read more

Israel has stepped up strikes in Gaza since Hamas conditionally agreed to disarm late last week, sparking concerns that U.S. President Donald Trump’s proclaimed revival in a long-delayed peace plan may have been premature.

July was already the deadliest month for Gazans since a U.S.-brokered ceasefire was agreed in October, with 152 ...Read more

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s advantage over right-wing challenger Flávio Bolsonaro narrowed ahead of Brazil’s October election, a new poll found.

Lula would earn 46% to Bolsonaro’s 45% in a runoff scenario, according to the BTG Pactual/Nexus survey published Monday.

The leftist leader held a 4-point lead, 47% to 43% in the ...Read more

A fight is heating up over a California ballot initiative to implement voter ID as it heads to the courts, pitting advocates who say it will ensure election integrity in the vote-by-mail era against critics who say it would impose needless burdens that could disenfranchise voters.

The state initiative, known as Proposition 39, drew dueling ...Read more

Minnesotans with disabilities and their families are used to a fight.

They are quick to describe decades of work pushing state officials, school districts, employers and others to allow them to live fuller lives that are more integrated into the community.

But many said the number of threats to that progress now feels overwhelming.

The ranks ...Read more

As temperatures in the Las Vegas Valley climbed to 110 degrees on a recent Wednesday afternoon, an elderly woman who had been outside became dizzy and then passed out.

The 78-year-old’s body temperature was about 105 degrees when she arrived at MountainView Hospital in northwest Las Vegas, said Dr. Clarence Dunagan. That’s far above the ...Read more

Mark Vantrease regularly sees his Vietnam War buddies over breakfast, attends his grandchildren’s Little League games, and, when he’s up to it, tends to his lush front-yard garden, which is dotted with shells retrieved from his abalone-diving days.

Time is precious for him. Last year, doctors told the 76-year-old former truck driver that a ...Read more

Over the past decade, Louisiana hospitals began stocking specialized carts designed to treat hemorrhages, one of the most common pregnancy complications in the state. The plug-in cart can be wheeled from room to room and holds surgical tools and lifesaving medications to stem blood loss.

A state law passed in 2024 forced hospitals to remove a ...Read more

President Donald Trump said new Iran talks would begin Monday afternoon after he called off a planned attack on Iran partially in response to pleas from U.S. allies in the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia.

“It would have been the biggest attack since World War II,” Trump said Sunday to reporters on Air Force One. “We’re just going to...Read more

Days before the city of St. Paul is set to begin a shutdown down of its major homeless encampments, the mood of residents at Pig’s Eye Park encampment is tense.

The city says about 140 people call Pig’s Eye Park, the largest homeless encampment in the city, their home. The encampment is tucked away from public view, accessible only by foot....Read more

The Border Patrol has been putting a renewed focus on highway checkpoint operations in the San Diego area as migrant crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border have quieted under the Trump administration.

Border Patrol officials said they are now able to restore some operations, and the region could get an infusion of money under the latest federal ...Read more

The U.K. government has more than doubled the number of crime agency officers deployed to combat human smuggling in the past 18 months as it steps up efforts to stop the gangs behind illegal migration.

Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on a trip to the port of Dover that he would be “relentless” in addressing small-boat crossings and build ...Read more

Hennepin County’s top prosecutor says the state’s case against Vance Boelter is moving forward this week not only for the victims and their families — but also because a conviction would not be eligible for a pardon by the president.

Boelter will be in a Hennepin County courtroom for the first time Monday to face charges in last year’s ...Read more

Hundreds of residents north and west of Spokane were told to flee their homes after stiff, dry winds fanned wildfire flames throughout the region in eastern Washington state.

As of about 2 p.m. New York time Sunday, the Old Trails incident had consumed 3,619 acres, the Fairview fire just north of the city had grown to 981 acres, and the Autumn...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump said he’s holding off delivering new strikes on Iran, after Tehran and other Middle Eastern powers told him they’re working on an agreement that might quickly reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump said he’d agreed to cancel the attack, “subject to being able to rapidly make a DEAL,” according to a post on ...Read more

Hundreds of residents north and west of Spokane have been told to flee their homes after stiff, dry winds fanned wildfire flames throughout the region in eastern Washington state.

As of about 4 a.m. local time, the Fairview fire just north of the city had grown to 981 acres (400 hectares), while the larger Old Trails incident had consumed 3,...Read more