Nearly 50 million Americans ages 18 to 29 are eligible to vote in the upcoming midterm elections, and about 60% say they plan to. If they follow through, it would break midterm turnout records for voters under 30.

Gun control is an issue these young voters care about more than the public at large does, and it’s easy to understand ...Read more

With Election Day 2026 just weeks away and control of Congress hanging in the balance, the results will almost certainly hinge on voter turnout, just as they did in 2024.

Given that genuinely undecided voters are scarce — as little as 5% to 7% of the electorate, according to major polls — both Democrats and Republicans must look ...Read more

Former Cornell student Jane Doe, who filed a civil lawsuit in September 2026 alleging that seven fraternity members raped her at a party, said the young men who assaulted her pressured her into taking the drug ketamine.

As an emergency room physician, medical toxicologist and the head of student health services at the University of ...Read more

Americans who trust science and reason more than their churches’ teachings, but still believe in God or attend services, are also more likely to believe in magic than those who prioritize religious teachings.

This was the central finding of a study my co-authors and I published in the journal Social Forces in July 2026. We analyzed ...Read more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has ordered attacks on Russian oil refineries to resume in a spiraling confrontation with Donald Trump over restrictions on U.S. intelligence assistance.

Zelenskyy said he’s ending a three-day pause on strikes in response to the U.S. president’s call on Sunday for an “energy ceasefire” after he ...Read more

JOSHUA TREE, Calif. — Rescue dogs Merlin and Siska are readying for an important mission out in the Mojave Desert: find animal poop.

As the fall brings cooler temperatures, the pups will trot among the Joshua trees wearing orange vests, “doggles” to shield their eyes from the sun and booties to protect them from the prickly cholla cacti....Read more

The pitch behind California’s billionaire tax proposal is simple: Tax the richest residents in the nation’s wealthiest state to offset steep federal cuts to healthcare, food assistance, and education.

But if approved by voters in November, it’s unclear how much money the ballot initiative would raise, how quickly the funding would become ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — When a county judge put the brakes on what would be the largest data center in California, ruling the whole project needed extensive environmental review, Kristian Salgado was relieved.

The community organizer lives in Imperial County, where the nearly one-million-square-foot facility was proposed. The rural county near the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The woman didn’t have much time to talk.

Speaking in Mandarin, she told a police dispatcher she was being held against her will in a Sun Valley home. She pleaded for officers to arrive quickly. If her captors caught her using a phone, she said she’d be beaten.

The call for help in 2024 ended up pulling back the curtain on ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In 2019, two years before Guojun Xuan and Silvia Zhang began amassing a family of more than 20 surrogate children, Zhang was accused of misdemeanor child abuse after leaving her then-8-year-old daughter in a hot car for hours.

That case — detailed in a recent motion by prosecutors opposing bail for the couple and a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The man was sure only his lawyers and family knew about his lawsuit against Los Angeles County over sexual abuse he says he endured inside a juvenile hall as a teenager.

The case, filed under a pseudonym, was one of thousands resolved by county officials last year in a historic $4 billion sex abuse settlement. He asked to remain...Read more

The hardest disease to care for when I was training as a pediatrician in the late 1970s was cystic fibrosis, a disease in which abnormally thick mucus secretions block the lungs’ airways and make it progressively harder to breathe.

Back then, there was no treatment for the disease itself. All we had was physical therapy to clear ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s new top congressional liaison has entered the job in limbo, with control of the House and Senate too close to call and a boss who could be slowed by a slew of investigations over his final two years in office if Democrats take the majority in one or both chambers.

Trump on Saturday announced that Katie Bailey would ...Read more

CHICAGO — As three women got ready for their very first fraternity party on Saturday, reports of a gang rape at Cornell University lingered in their minds. If nothing else, they figured, the upstate New York allegations might offer a lesson in staying safe.

So they told their two male friends to stay close. They pledged to hold hands whenever...Read more

The ex-boyfriend accused of pushing a young mother to her death off a Bronx building balcony as she desperately held her baby, saving the infant’s life, pleaded not guilty to murder charges.

Angel Carrasco, 31, appeared virtually before a Bronx judge from a hospital bed in a psychiatric ward where he is being evaluated following the push-and-...Read more

The parents of an 8-year-old California girl who died after an extended asthma attack in her family's squalid San José home have been charged with felony child neglect, Santa Clara County prosecutors announced this week.

The girl's mother, Gabrielle Hanson, 32, and stepfather, Jacob Randolph, 39, were arraigned Tuesday in Santa Clara County ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Justice threatened legal action Tuesday if California fails to take action on what it claims are thousands of noncitizens on the state’s voter rolls.

In letters sent to Secretary of State Shirley Weber and Los Angeles County Registrar Dean Logan, acting-U.S. Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter gave the state 48 hours...Read more