As communities around the world shore up their infrastructure in anticipation of one of the most powerful El Niños on record in late 2026 and early 2027, they need to think about rising health risks, too – and include them in early weather warnings.

El Niño is part of a natural climate phenomenon that shifts global weather ...Read more

With vaccines and regular screening, cervical cancer is one of the most preventable cancers.

Yet women living in rural areas of the United States have a 25% higher rate of cervical cancer – and a 42% higher rate of death from the disease compared to urban women.

In Colorado, rural counties such as Prowers, Moffat and ...Read more

Democrat Abdul El-Sayed made history on Nov. 3, 2026, when Michigan voters elected him the first Muslim to the U.S. Senate despite significant efforts to defeat him.

He wasn’t alone. A record number of American Muslims won their races in the midterms.

As political scientists who study minority politics, we think their wins ...Read more

Mountains of scientific evidence support both the negative and positive effects of our eating habits on our health. Research shows that a healthy diet can help those suffering from chronic health conditions like Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure.

This is where “food is medicine” comes in. Food is medicine, ...Read more

Stephen Miller was already one of the most powerful people in Washington when he stepped in to replace Susie Wiles as President Trump's chief of staff on Monday, a position that expands his extraordinary influence over the hard-charging executive.

But whether the bellicose former Santa Monica High School Viking can make good on his muscular ...Read more

U.S. envoys arrived at the Kremlin for talks with President Vladimir Putin in a renewed push for a Ukraine peace deal, as Kyiv warned restrictions had reappeared on its Starshield internet terminals used by frontline troops.

Video posted by Russian state media on Thursday showed the motorcade for U.S. negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s postelection statements about working with Democrats have presented the incoming majority with a kaleidoscope to decipher, but some Democratic lawmakers have their doubts.

On the one hand, the Republican president has contended that he can work with House and Senate Democrats after the new Congress is ...Read more

Ebola remains out of control in the Democratic Republic of Congo six months after the outbreak was declared, with frontline workers going unpaid and health facilities lacking basic supplies despite hundreds of millions of dollars mobilized for the response, a medical aid group said.

“Despite the vast amounts of money provided for the response...Read more

SUQUAMISH, Wash. — Stacks of shipping containers lined the banks of the Duwamish River as Simeon Barker, an officer for the Suquamish Police Department's Marine Division, navigated a boat through the waterway’s industrial maw on an October morning.

On his upper sleeve was a green patch featuring a double-headed eagle design symbolic of The ...Read more

Eli McCreary of Omaha, Nebraska, said he had recently been diagnosed with kidney cancer when he got a call from a local hospital run by CHI Health. He said he was informed that he wasn’t insured anymore under Medicaid — and that the hospital would cancel his appointments unless he paid out-of-pocket.

McCreary, who was 64 at the time, said ...Read more

Rico Marquez, 24, remembers the first time he felt like a hero.

It was during his time at Pine Grove Youth Conservation Camp, a fire camp for incarcerated youth in Amador County, California, where he spent more than 1,600 hours fighting fires as an 18- and 19-year-old.

As the campers spent their days fighting wildfires, locals living in the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California’s sky-high housing costs cast a dark shadow on its sunny disposition, sending some fleeing to more affordable climes.

Yet voters decisively rejected a state ballot measure that promised to make it easier and cheaper to build housing by changing the law often blamed for driving up costs: the California Environmental ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A resident of a Two Harbors, Minnesota, nursing home received the wrong medication dose 39 times in a row last spring, resulting in emergency hospitalization for seizures the drugs were supposed to prevent.

A federal investigation of Waterview Shores found other medication errors and documented the mistakes, resulting in a $203,...Read more

Before this spring, Salt Lake City-based pediatrician Trahern W. Jones had never seen a case of measles in person.

Then he saw a few in one week. One of his patients had a rash and fever that were subsiding, but breathing was a struggle. Because of a swollen airway, the toddler was making a high-pitched squeaking sound, a tell-tale sign of ...Read more

One person has died in an E. coli outbreak that spread at a pumpkin farm in San Luis Obispo County last month, health officials confirmed Tuesday.

The outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli left more than a dozen people who visited the popular Brookshire Farms in late October with symptoms, including three children reportedly put in ...Read more

CHICAGO — Richard A. Posner, known for his storied career as a federal appellate judge and pioneering work in the field of law and economics, died Tuesday. He was 87.

The University of Chicago Law School, where Posner spent much of his tenure, announced the eminent scholar’s death in a news release Wednesday.

“There has never been a ...Read more