If your home isn’t in a federally designated flood zone, flooding might seem like someone else’s problem. No one requires you to buy flood insurance, and the map suggests you’re in the clear. But reality may be very different.

Mounting evidence reveals that significantly more homes are at risk of flooding than is indicated by ...Read more

Starting in March, about 175,000 people currently covered by the Medicaid expansion in Colorado will have to meet new federal work requirements or get an exemption — though the state will more or less take their word that the requirement doesn’t apply to them for the first year.

People applying for new Medicaid coverage will need to attest ...Read more

At least 14 people have died in Cook County this summer from heat-related causes, with July marking the area’s deadliest month for heat-related deaths in more than a decade, according to data from the medical examiner’s office. Successive heat waves in late June and early-to-mid-July this year pushed the heat index, a combination of ...Read more

Kids and candy are a classic pairing. From trick-or-treating to Easter baskets, to local parades and birthday parties, it can feel like kids are almost always bringing home another bag of treats. But while these holidays and events may be exciting for kids, they often end with parents dreading what comes next: negotiations around how much ...Read more

Nine people aboard a Learjet bound from Austin to the Bahamas were killed when it crashed in Florida’s Palm Beach County on Sunday.

The Learjet 60 came down near Cresthaven at 12:50 p.m., U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a post on X. The Federal Aviation Administration is sending a team to the site to support an investigation ...Read more

Gulf states fear that another U.S.-Israeli attack on a better-prepared Iran could unleash an even more destructive war across the region, leaving them to pick up the pieces.

“We find ourselves drawn within a crisis that we worked diplomatically very hard to try to avert,” Anwar Gargash, diplomatic adviser to the UAE’s president, told the...Read more

A federal judge on Sunday tossed a lawsuit from the Trump administration that sought to delay the certification of the Alaska Senate race if Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan loses.

Sullivan faces Democratic former Rep. Mary Peltola and two other candidates in a contest that could help decide control of the Senate. One of those candidates is ...Read more

Sen. Christopher S. Murphy was hospitalized after having a stroke on Saturday, the Connecticut Democrat’s office said in a statement.

The 53-year-old started experiencing “numbness in his arm while at his son’s hockey game” and was “was taken to a local hospital, where it was discovered he had experienced a stroke,” Allison Herwitt...Read more

One lot of a vegan supplement sold under the 365 Whole Foods Market brand has been recalled because the capsules might have salmonella.

Albuquerque, New Mexico’s Vitality Works’ recall notice says it made the move with 365 Whole Foods Market Standardized + Full Spectrum Blend Ashwagandha Capsules 120 count after “potential contamination ...Read more

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and her challenger Nithya Raman darted across the city over the weekend, foraging for votes as the clock ticks down before Tuesday's election.

The former allies, and now competitors, took veiled shots at each other as they each hit multiple campaign stops Sunday morning, with both attending church services and other...Read more

More than 70 Minnesota children were detained by federal immigration officers last winter, while workers and businesses lost hundreds of millions of dollars during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, according to a preliminary report released Saturday by a state council.

The report, issued by the Minnesota Truth Council, ...Read more

Every two years heading into November, as state and federal elections draw nearer, voters are inundated with campaign advertisements on TV, websites and social media — some of which deliver misleading messages about candidates.

If an ad is misleading, why are television stations still allowed to run them?

For a station to censor a TV ...Read more

Six years after suspending service to Cap-Haïtien, American Airlines returned to the northern Haitian city on Sunday, restoring daily flights and marking a milestone in the carrier’s decades-long relationship with the Caribbean nation.

The flight from Miami International Airlines marked American’s 100th destination in Latin American and ...Read more

A federal judge dismissed a Trump administration lawsuit that sought to preemptively stop Alaska election officials from certifying the results of the state’s U.S. Senate contest if the Republican candidate loses by a small margin.

U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason sided with Alaska two days before midterm elections in which Republicans ...Read more

A pipeline that spilled at least 1.3 million gallons of hazardous natural gas liquids in Wisconsin two months ago garnered national attention and more calls for scrutiny. But thousands of small oil spills in the Great Lakes over the past decade have gone largely unnoticed, and little is known about their effects on the ecosystem, a new study ...Read more

U.S. Senator Chris Murphy was hospitalized with a stroke on Saturday and, according to a statement from his chief of staff, doctors said he is expected to make a full recovery.

“Yesterday afternoon, Senator Murphy started experiencing numbness in his arm while at his son’s hockey game. He was taken to a local hospital, where it was ...Read more

Prime Minister Mark Carney said he spoke with President Donald Trump and both sides would work on a “mutually beneficial” U.S.-Canadian trade deal in the weeks ahead.

Carney’s update in a social post came two days before Election Day in U.S. midterms, where most polls suggest Democrats are likely to win control of the House of ...Read more

A federal judge dismissed a Trump administration lawsuit that sought to preemptively stop Alaska election officials from certifying the results of the state’s U.S. Senate contest if the Republican candidate loses by a small margin.

U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason sided with Alaska two days before U.S. midterm elections in which ...Read more