WASHINGTON — Federal officials unsealed charges Tuesday against an Oklahoma man accused of mailing hundreds of letters containing suspicious substances to members of Congress and other officials last month and ahead of the 2024 election.

The court records, unsealed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, show ...Read more

The United Nations is distancing itself from El Salvador’s unprecedented military buildup in Haiti, confirming that the vast majority of the Central American nation’s troops are operating outside the Gang Suppression Force authorized by its Security Council and beyond the mandate and reporting of its U.N. Support Office.

The Miami Herald ...Read more

Beginning Tuesday night, all travelers arriving at United States airports from overseas will face a new requirement.

They’ll need to write and provide a statement saying they’ve not spent time in the Democratic Republic of Congo during the prior 21 days, including for transit or layovers.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Tuesday continued to forecast a low pressure system could form in the Atlantic with a chance to develop into a more dangerous storm.

As of the NHC’s 1 p.m. Eastern time tropical outlook, the prediction was that an area of low pressure was likely to form along a weakening frontal boundary a ...Read more

U.S. Sen Chris Murphy continues to respond to treatment after having a stroke, according to a statement from a spokesperson for Murphy. The spokesperson declined to offer any additional information Monday on the senator’s condition.

The 53-year-old Connecticut senator experienced numbness in his arm Saturday afternoon while at his son’s ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said Israel will no longer get U.S. aid after the end of the year, contending that the U.S. ally is a "thriving" country and no longer needs the help. Israel is historically the largest recipient of U.S. military aid.

Trump specifically cited the critiques by Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis unveiled his final budget proposal on Monday, teeing up some hard decisions on healthcare cuts for the state’s next chief executive and the legislature to consider next year.

Polis, a Democrat, is term-limited and will leave office in January. This is his eighth and final budget proposal as governor. While...Read more

CHICAGO — Amid deepening national tensions over election integrity, local elections officials on Tuesday announced a bolstered group of field investigators will be on hand across Chicago to help ensure a smooth final day of in-person voting.

The chair of the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners, Marisel Hernandez, said Tuesday morning that...Read more

It’s getting harder and harder to figure out what to eat. A scroll through social media raises many questions. Why is food so expensive? Am I getting enough protein? What about fiber? Do I need supplements? Should I be making all my bread at home? What foods were recalled this week?

These questions make trips to the grocery store ...Read more

A skeleton hanging on a door or standing in your neighbor’s yard for Halloween looks like a finished structure. But the skeleton inside a living body is constantly changing. Around menopause, those changes can tip toward bone loss, often without pain or another obvious warning.

I am a skeletal biology researcher at Washington ...Read more

Pediatric medicine generally entails caring for patients at the beginning of their lives – performing newborn checkups, treating childhood illnesses and supporting adolescents in their health as they move toward adulthood.

So people are often surprised to hear about specialists like us who work in pediatric palliative care, helping ...Read more

As temperatures rise and development expands, the number of homes and other structures damaged or destroyed by wildfires across the U.S. is on pace to triple by mid-century, my colleagues and I found in a study just published.

The 2026 wildfire season has been a sharp reminder of that risk and why making homes and properties less ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The significant coastal flooding that hit Southern California in recent days points to what a worst-case scenario would look like in an El Niño-fueled winter with sea levels expected to rise even farther.

Last week’s flooding was so bad because of two events that are expected to worsen over the next few months: a record-hot ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Earlier this year, the staff at one of Kentucky’s juvenile detention centers left an autistic boy inside a flooded cell for a day to punish him and laughed at him, according to documents the Lexington Herald-Leader obtained under the state’s Open Records Act.

The incident happened April 27 at the 43-bed McCracken Regional...Read more

The Eastern coyote is now a common sight in Connecticut, with the population spreading across all of the state’s 169 towns and cities, but they haven’t been here for long, according to officials with the state’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.

Over the last 100 years, the coyote has spread from the western plains and ...Read more

The only Colombian commando to escape after the middle-of-the-night assault on Haitian President Jovenel Moïse’s residence told a federal jury on Monday that he evaded capture with help from two associates of a South Florida pastor accused in the plot, as well as two Haitian police officers, a former senator and a gang boss.

Mario Antonio ...Read more

A child died of measles in upstate New York, marking the state’s first measles-related death in 30 years, Governor Hochul announced Monday.

“I’m heartbroken to learn that a child in Lewis County has died from measles,” Hochul said in a statement. “My heart goes out to their family and everyone who knew and loved them.”

Hochul ...Read more

Meryll Quirong Costi was mortified, her lawyer said, as she sat in federal court with her legs shackled together, wearing orange pants and a white T-shirt emblazoned with the word “Prisoner” across the back.

A lawful permanent resident of the United States but not a citizen, Costi was among 12 people in California arrested or charged by ...Read more