President Donald Trump on Monday defended ordering the extensive redevelopment of a historic Washington, D.C. public golf course in defiance of a federal judge’s orders.

The duffer in chief announced the imminent closure of the East Potomac Golf Course, the closest links to the White House, for a planned 15-month renovation to transform it ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani is announcing an expansion of free childcare for 2-year-olds Monday with an additional 10,000 seats, bringing the “2-K” program to a majority of all New York City school districts in 2027, including all of Staten Island and the Bronx.

Mamdani, with a boost of $425 million in state money set aside in January...Read more

California has designated its first tribal-championed marine protected areas, often described as underwater parks. While environmentalists celebrate the historic move, commercial fishers warn they will lose access to key waters.

The California Fish and Game Commission voted Thursday to create two roughly nine-square-mile State Marine ...Read more

BALTIMORE — A former Baltimore Police sergeant was sentenced Monday to six months with the entire sentence suspended after pleading guilty in August to misconduct in office and committing a theft scheme.

Before handing down Mark Rutkowski’s sentence, Baltimore City Circuit Judge Anthony Vittoria called the former officer’s actions a “...Read more

Four soldiers with the Armed Forces of El Salvador remain unaccounted for in Haiti’s capital on Monday after suspected gang members ambushed their armored vehicle and set it ablaze, prompting a rescue operation in which Salvadoran military helicopters also came under fire, according to a statement issued Sunday by El Salvador’s armed forces....Read more

French officials, acknowledging law-enforcement failures, rolled out tougher security measures and pledged aid for businesses after cost-of-living protests this weekend degenerated into violence, vandalism and looting.

Demonstrations were banned in Marseille on Monday, and Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu called on regional authorities to ...Read more

French officials, acknowledging law-enforcement failures, rolled out tougher security measures and pledged aid for businesses after cost-of-living protests this weekend degenerated into violence, vandalism and looting.

Demonstrations were banned in Marseille on Monday, and Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu called on regional authorities to ...Read more

Israeli police arrested 10 people in connection with attacks on an American photojournalist and foreign diplomats by West Bank settlers, an incident that’s stoked European and U.S. calls for a crackdown.

Extremist settlers have escalated violence against Palestinians in recent weeks, coinciding with the West Bank olive harvest — an annual ...Read more

Right-wing candidate Flávio Bolsonaro and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are locked in a tie less than a week ahead of Brazil’s runoff election, according to a new poll.

Bolsonaro would take 50.3% to Lula’s 49.7% of valid votes, excluding blank and null ballots, according to a BTG Pactual/Nexus survey published Monday. The senator ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center continued Monday to keep an eye on a system off the U.S. East Coast with the potential to develop into a more dangerous storm.

As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical outlook, a nontropical area of low pressure, which had formed Sunday night, was located along a frontal boundary a few miles off the ...Read more

Earlier this year, I gave birth to my fourth child. My baby and I entered “karasunk,” the traditional Armenian 40-day postpartum period during which mother and newborn remain close to home, sheltered from the outside world.

During that time, a close childhood friend died of cancer. Because we were still in our karasunk, I could ...Read more

Give politicians the power to decide who gets a government contract, and people will naturally want to get on their good side. After all, the power to hand out something valuable is itself something valuable.

Consider the recent ProPublica investigation involving Sen. Susan Collins of Maine. Martin Kao, the former head of a Hawaii ...Read more

Amid wars, inflation, emerging risks from artificial intelligence and threats to democracy, Americans have a lot to be worried about these days. But polls show the majority of voters in 2026 are also concerned about climate change as temperatures and disaster risks rise.

So why are fewer candidates talking openly about climate change ...Read more

The 50% tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump’s administration on imports from Canada in July 2026, and the reciprocal 50% tariffs imposed by Prime Minister Mark Carney’s administration on imports to Canada from the U.S. a month later, do not include oil and natural gas. Electricity and some petroleum products were also left out, ...Read more

Ultraprocessed foods have a terrible reputation.

Studies have linked them with multiple chronic diseases. Journalists and health influencers characterize them as poison. Some public health experts call for a global halt to producing and consuming them.

But the debate around ultraprocessed foods is not nearly as settled as it ...Read more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Donald Trump of trying to pressure Kyiv into surrendering to Russia, escalating a week-long row with the U.S. president.

In an interview with Bloomberg in Kyiv, Zelenskyy also offered a new proposal to accede to Trump’s request to stop targeting Russian refineries, which was aimed at combating ...Read more

With winter only weeks away, San Jose and county water officials are taking advantage of an unseasonably warm stretch of autumn weather to ramp up preparations against potential “Super El Niño” storms.

In a joint session Oct. 13, the San Jose City Council and the Santa Clara Valley Water District hashed out how to prepare for the storm and...Read more

After the third day of squirting an experimental drug up his nose, Dylan Meetze felt horrible.

“It was like I was underwater, like it took the most to do anything,” he said.

Meetze stopped taking the drug but endured fatigue and anxiety for months afterward, and his eyes and muscles twitched, he said.

He had taken BPC-157, a peptide drug ...Read more

Three years ago, members of the civilian board that monitors the Santa Cruz County juvenile hall sought to eliminate potential conflicts of interest by moving the commission from underneath the court and its probation department to the county’s chief administrative office.

“We were getting less and less administrative support,” said the ...Read more