Rioters attacked French public buildings and looted stores in cities including Paris as protests against the high cost of living drew more than half a million people, underscoring the nation’s challenges ahead of presidential elections next year.

Some 550,000 demonstrators took part in marches across France on Saturday, including 110,000 in ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — First came the letter from acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter — just three weeks before the Nov. 3 election — demanding that Los Angeles County's top elections official launch a sweeping investigation into thousands of voters the Trump administration alleges are "likely noncitizens" and withhold their ballots in ...Read more

Republican members of Congress blasted President Donald Trump’s decision to waive a tariff law passed last month to restrict Russian energy exports, arguing that the move will help Moscow wage its war on Ukraine.

The Trump administration has cast the waiver as a way to facilitate a deal with Russia on diesel exports — aimed at lowering ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — A 71-year-old Winter Garden man was killed in an alligator attack Friday, reportedly while fishing at the Dr. Bradford Memorial Park near Lake Apopka, police say.

Winter Garden’s police and fire departments responded around 5 p.m. to the park, located just off Lake Apopka, to reports that a man fishing there was being ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The rugged shrub-filled hills where the Bryson fire ignited — triggering evacuations and putting Malibu residents on edge — burned just eight years ago, a painful reminder of the speed at which freshly scarred communities are finding themselves once again at risk.

The natural chaparral’s ability to quickly regrow has ...Read more

Infighting gripping Donald Trump’s White House spilled into public view this week, with the abrupt exit of his hand-picked press secretary and the president forced to quash swirling questions about his chief of staff’s future.

The palace intrigue threatens to distract the White House at an already fraught moment, with just over two weeks ...Read more

Over the past few decades, Halloween celebrations have gained in popularity, not only with children and families, but with all those fascinated with the spooky and scary.

As a scholar of myth and religion in popular culture, I look at Halloween with particular interest – especially the ways in which today’s Halloween tradition ...Read more

People often joke that their favorite snack is “like crack” or call themselves “chocoholics” in jest.

But can someone really be addicted to food in the same way they could be hooked on substances such as alcohol or nicotine?

As an addiction psychiatrist and researcher with experience in treating eating disorders and ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — It’s been over a year since Idaho ended a program that allowed parents and spouses to be paid for care they provided to their family members with disabilities.

The Department of Health and Welfare terminated the Family Personal Care Services program in July 2025 after the agency said it found fraud and abuse, and didn’t ...Read more

At the top of Grassy Mountain, some 6,700 feet above sea level, seams of coal are baked into the mountainside, visible through mining in this stretch of the Rocky Mountains in southwestern Alberta from the early to mid-1900s. This and other former mines dot the picturesque mountain towns on the eastern side of the continental divide, the ...Read more

The year 2026 has been an expensive one for social media platforms.

Since March, YouTube and Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, have settled or paid out in multiple lawsuits to the tune of more than US$17 billion for allegedly acting negligently, deliberately designing their platforms to hook kids and misleading the ...Read more

Within three months of the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran on Feb. 28, 2026, the average price of gasoline for American drivers climbed from US$2.94 to $4.35 a gallon. If there was ever a moment for Americans to switch to electric vehicles, this was it.

From March to May 2026, in fact, sales of hybrid electric vehicles were 18% ...Read more

For more than 2,000 years, scientists have scratched their heads over one of the most basic mysteries of the natural world: Where do birds go?

Billions of birds appear and disappear with the seasons every year. Early naturalists offered explanations for the disappearances that today seem fantastical: Birds transformed into other ...Read more

From Alaska to Florida, there once was an important job in government that most Americans rarely thought about: the secretary of state.

That changed after the 2020 presidential election, when secretaries of state in places such as Arizona, Georgia and Michigan were thrust into battles over election results, certification and false ...Read more