Paolo Zampolli, a special envoy for President Donald Trump, was part of a United Nations passport-selling scheme that led to the death of a former U.N. president, according to Amanda Ungaro, an ex-Brazilian model and former U.N. diplomat who had a 20-year-relationship with Zampolli.

In an interview she gave to a Brazilian journalist ...Read more

You’ve probably heard it for years, every time you get a prescription for antibiotics: “Make sure to take all the pills.”

Traditionally, clinicians have given two reasons for these strict instructions: So the infection doesn’t come back, and so you don’t end up with bugs so hearty that antibiotics can’t kill them.

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On Aug. 27, 2026, President Donald Trump issued an executive order renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America,” claiming his administration had already “notified all of the various people you have to notify.”

The name change, which Ontario Premier Doug Ford had dismissed as rhetoric when it was first suggested, comes amid an ...Read more

WASHINGTON — For the last six months, President Donald Trump has attempted to control the narrative of the Iran war.

As days, weeks and months passed, he repeatedly said that an agreement to end the conflict was close at hand and that Iran was already defeated. Between fraught negotiations, Trump has gone from conciliatory to antagonistic, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A new analysis of California data shows that four years after college graduation, students who obtain among the most competitive and in-demand bachelor degrees, mostly tied to fields in STEM — science, technology, engineering and math — are the highest-earning graduates, with salaries over $100,000 a year.

Also among the ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Though SpaceX’s powerful Starship won’t be flying from Florida for some time, the company’s powerhouse Falcon Heavy is set for a rare launch early Sunday.

The Falcon Heavy – essentially three Falcon 9 rockets strapped together – is set to take flight with NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from Kennedy Space ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Friday said the short-lived Tropical Storm Dolly had broken apart to become just a tropical wave as it sped toward the Caribbean.

As of the NHC’s 11 a.m. advisory, the remnants of Dolly was located about 1,000 miles east of the Leeward Islands moving west at 25 mph. It still had maximum ...Read more

In January 2026, during Operation Country Roads, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and state and local law enforcement detained roughly 600 immigrants across West Virginia.

Many of those arrested were held in the state’s already overpopulated jail system, which until this spring was part of a national network of immigrant ...Read more

Iran’s top diplomat said resuming diplomacy with the U.S. “isn’t impossible,” after what he described as “creative discussions” with Qatar, a mediator in the war between Washington and Tehran.

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on X on Friday that progress “hinges on U.S. understanding of one simple fact: pressure doesn’t work...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Friday said the fast-paced Tropical Storm Dolly was keeping form for now in the Atlantic as it heads toward the Caribbean, but is forecast to degenerate before any landfall.

In the NHC’s 5 a.m. advisory, the center of Dolly was located about 1,145 miles east of the Caribbean’s Leeward ...Read more

Before Prem Prasad Subedi could see anything, his keyboard began to shake.

“It felt like a cyclone forming,” said Subedi, a customs officer in Nepal. “Like the blast of wind you feel when a helicopter is landing.”

On Wednesday, the 50-year-old had turned up around 8 a.m. at his office in Nepal’s Rasuwa District, near Timure Bazaar ...Read more

On a July afternoon in 2024, a private jet carrying three men from Mexico touched down at a small airport a few miles west of El Paso. Federal agents were waiting on the tarmac to greet them, handcuffs at the ready.

The first to disembark was Joaquín Guzmán López, a son of the infamous Sinaloa cartel leader "El Chapo." Pudgy and dark-haired ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — You've heard of gun buyback programs across the country, but in Orange County, they've taken it one step further to get another item that authorities say can be a deadly weapon off the streets — the e-bike.

In September, the Orange County district attorney's office will host an e-bike buyback program, offering anywhere from $...Read more

WASHINGTON— A federal judge temporarily blocked the U.S. Postal Service from enforcing key parts of its new restrictions on mail-in ballots, delivering the latest setback to President Donald Trump as Republicans defend their slim majority in Congress in the November midterm elections.

The order on Thursday from U.S. District Judge Indira ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Shelley Fabares' cause of death has been revealed.

Fabares was known best for her television roles , including Christine Armstrong on the '90s sitcom "Coach," Francine Webster on the 1970s sitcom "One Day at a Time" and Mary Stone on "The Donna Reed Show," as well as her Billboard Hot 100 song "Johnny Angel" and appearances ...Read more

Almost 20 days after the Timber fire broke out in Big Sur, threatening hundreds of residents and structures as well as beloved local businesses, the fire is continuing to grow at a rapid pace, officials said.

On Thursday, the Timber fire grew about 4,000 acres over the course of the day, said Cal Fire Battalion Chief Josh Silveira. It surged ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration is pushing Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum to do more to stop undocumented migrants from crossing the U.S. border after apprehensions reached the highest level of his second term.

Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Marco Rubio delivered the message during a private ...Read more

The Assembly unanimously passed a bill Wednesday to ban marriage under the age of 18, pushing the legislation to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk.

If Newsom signs Assembly Bill 1267, California will join 17 U.S. states that impose outright bans on child marriage. Currently, California is one of three states that has no minimum age requirement to get ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The city of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $5.8 million to the family of a man who was holding a plastic fork and experiencing a mental health crisis when he was fatally shot by a rookie Los Angeles Police Department officer, attorneys for the family said.

The settlement announced Thursday brings to a close a two-year legal ...Read more

WINDSOR, Ontario — Canadians are a polite people, a friendly people — but they’ve just about had a belly full of the guy across the border.

An executive order by President Donald Trump changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America has them disliking the American leader more than they thought possible.

“You don’t think he can do ...Read more