Haiti’s first general elections in a decade are less than 100 days away, and already questions about preparations are fueling doubts about whether the country will be ready to vote as scheduled on Dec. 13.

Among the biggest warning signs is a sluggish voter-registration process. With just 34 days left before registration closes and barely a ...Read more

BALTIMORE — An Eastern Shore hospital system lost Internet, phone service and access to electronic records last month after construction workers inadvertently struck a sprinkler pipe that damaged an IT area.

TidalHealth’s clinical teams sprang into action, shifting to paper documentation using pre-printed forms, switching to backup ...Read more

Iran and the U.S. are digging in for a protracted war, with little sign of a near-term ceasefire or return to normal Middle East energy flows even if hostilities remain at a low intensity.

Tehran’s leaders are resolved to keep fighting despite mounting economic costs as they see the conflict as an existential threat, Bloomberg reported, ...Read more

NEW YORK — Roughly 2,000 children started their first day of school on Thursday at New York City’s new free child care program for 2-year-olds.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani launched his signature initiative, known as 2-K, in five local school districts across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx. The mayor plans to add 10,000 more 2-K seats ...Read more

Do you remember where you were and what you were doing when you learned of the September 11 terrorist attacks that occurred 25 years ago?

Do you remember what you saw on television or how you felt? Is your memory highly detailed, and are you confident that what you are remembering is an accurate recollection of those details?

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Despite being divided on most issues, an overwhelming majority of Americans agree that their democracy is in a state of crisis or facing serious challenges.

A few of the symptoms of the problem: Close allies see the U.S. as a threat to peace. Immigration raids by poorly trained federal agents have terrorized cities. President Donald ...Read more

As late summer fades into early autumn, garden care shifts from active harvesting to preparation and planning for the next growing season. Weeds can feel like an overwhelming management task as the summer species burst into flower and spread seeds.

However, late summer and early fall is the single best time for weed control that lasts...Read more

Pennsylvania has over 180 levees that span approximately 155 miles (255 kilometers) and keep its rivers from flooding. They protect about 158,000 people and US$26.2 billion in property across the state, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

However, those levees are aging, and funding to maintain and improve them is becoming ...Read more

Drugs for treating depression are among the most prescribed category of medications in the U.S. – 1 in 6 American adults take them.

Some health researchers and advocates have raised concerns that too many patients are using antidepressants and that patients who want to stop taking them struggle to do so. One of the most prominent ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s latest trade maneuver leaves the door open to compromise with Canada, even as it threatens to exacerbate the cost-of-living crisis for Americans and further sour relations with Ottawa.

A set of actions announced this week left out some of the harshest retaliatory measures, delayed others and pulled back some ...Read more

A group of Democratic lawmakers is calling for the Trump administration to suspend a new surveillance program it quietly launched to collect the personal and identifiable health data of Americans who visit emergency rooms.

KFF Health News first reported that the Consumer Product Safety Commission — a federal agency tasked with monitoring ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Terry Hulse knew when he watched the horror of airliners crashing into the World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11, 2001, that the months ahead were going to be challenging for the FBI in Las Vegas.

“It’s going to be all-out boots on the ground,” said Hulse, a Henderson resident who was the assistant special-agent-in-charge of...Read more

On Aug. 10, in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order telling American parents to break the measles, mumps, and rubella shot into three separate injections and to space childhood vaccines across many more trips to the doctor.

He said the change would "align the United States with other advanced and developed nations....Read more

LOS ANGELES — The huge inland body of water that is the heart of California’s water system is under major stress.

That’s why state officials say they worked for years to come up with a plan to help halt the ecological decline of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

Now that plan is under attack from the Trump ...Read more