NEW YORK — City Hall and the union representing the city’s deputy sheriffs have reached an agreement on a contract more than four years after their last deal expired and just two months after Mayor Zohran Mamdani ousted controversial former Sheriff Anthony Miranda from his job.

The new deal, ratified Wednesday, grants deputy sheriffs pay ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Manhattan judge on Wednesday ordered former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani to sit for a deposition in his sexual harassment case while urging both sides to prioritize settlement talks.

Scheduling the Jan. 30 deposition at a virtual hearing, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Nicholas Moyne chastised Giuliani’s lawyer for trying to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — With three months remaining until Election Day, there is now little the Trump administration can do to bring relief to Americans battered by years of stagnant wages and steep inflation before they hit the polls, experts say — complicating midterm campaigning for Republicans and sharpening the opportunity for Democrats to win ...Read more

The United Nations has issued a warning about an alarming surge in women and girls being raped in Haiti, many of them homeless after being forced out of their homes and neighborhoods by armed gangs.

The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said local partners recorded more than 3,000 incidents of gender-based violence ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Convicted former Philadelphia labor leader John Dougherty will remain in prison after a federal judge again denied Dougherty’s request to be released on house arrest to provide care for his gravely ill wife.

U.S. District Judge Jeffrey L. Schmehl wrote in a memorandum filed Thursday that Dougherty and his lawyers had failed ...Read more

MIAMI — A heat advisory was issued Thursday for the second straight day, with the National Weather Service in Miami warning that feels-like temperatures could soar as high as 110 degrees between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. with possible record highs in South Florida. .

“Heat risk will peak in the MAJOR category across most of coastal Southeast ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA – The smartphone alerts and the battery of weather watches and warnings were chilling. But they failed to capture what actually happened in the immediate Philadelphia area.

As it turned out Tuesday, not all that much happened, beyond a beneficial rainfall, some flash-bulb lightning, and wind gusts that officially didn’t get ...Read more

A Russian missile was likely the object that crashed in eastern Poland early on Thursday, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said.

The announcement came Thursday after Polish armed forces said it had detected an unidentified object entering the country’s airspace during a large Russian attack on Ukraine. Poland borders Ukraine and is a NATO member.

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WASHINGTON — Voters in battleground states and congressional districts tend to voice support for proposals in Congress that would expand access to health care or lower drug costs — often irrespective of their party affiliation — according to new polling from the University of Maryland.

The poll, first shared with CQ Roll Call, surveyed ...Read more

The U.S. launched a fresh wave of strikes on Iran in response to an attack on American forces in Jordan, escalating a conflict that’s now spreading across the Middle East.

Washington hit dozens of military targets in an operation early Thursday aimed at degrading Tehran’s ability to threaten U.S. troops, its Arab allies and commercial ...Read more

The race to develop the first vaccine against the Ebola virus driving the outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo accelerated Thursday, after a top United Nations official warned the epidemic is spreading faster than responders can contain it.

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations is funding production of the first ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Extreme heat is set to roll into Southern California, extending a summer of misery-making stickiness and hot temperatures.

"We've had so many heat waves," said V. Kelly Turner, who leads the heat research group at the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation. "There's a slight reprieve between them, but not really."

The weekend is ...Read more

A Russian missile was likely the object that crashed in eastern Poland early on Thursday, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said.

The announcement came Thursday after Polish armed forces said it had detected an unidentified object entering the country’s airspace during a large Russian attack on Ukraine. Poland borders Ukraine and is a NATO member.

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LOS ANGELES — California lawmakers rejected legislation that would have banned pesticides with so-called "forever" chemicals from use on California's farms, a restriction strongly opposed by the state's billion-dollar agriculture community.

Assembly Bill 1603 by Assemblymember Nick Schultz, D-Burbank, would have phased out the use of ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — That bump in the night you might have heard in the wee hours of Thursday morning could have been for national security.

That’s because a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the NROL-95 mission carrying a classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex ...Read more

The U.S. and Iran exchanged airstrikes as fighting in the five-month war flared up once again, with hostilities now spreading across the Middle East.

Washington hit dozens of Iranian military targets in an early Thursday operation aimed at degrading Tehran’s ability to threaten U.S. troops, its Arab allies and commercial shipping in the ...Read more

Although menopause is not a new phenomenon by any means, the past few years of what some have called the “menopause moment” have brought it to the forefront of national conversation.

One form of treatment, called menopausal hormone therapy, can address several bothersome symptoms, particularly hot flashes, and can improve quality ...Read more

Thick smoke from massive wildfires has been spreading in North America and Europe once again in 2026. The health impacts of breathing this particle-filled air are becoming well known, but wildfires’ influence on the weather is less widely recognized.

We often think about weather controlling wildfires: Dry air, heat, wind and ...Read more

Kashmir remains one of the world’s most contentious geopolitical flash points. In April 2025, India and Pakistan, two nuclear-armed countries that share a tense border, came dangerously close to a major confrontation after militants attacked Indian tourists near the popular resort town of Pahalgam in Indian Kashmir. Against this backdrop, ...Read more

If you live in Philly and want to know information about your tap water quality, start with the latest consumer confidence report, which is required to be produced annually by every community water system in the country. Most people never read them, but the reports provide essential information about drinking water quality.

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