It happened before the break of dawn.

On June 24, 2021 — while many residents were asleep — the Champlain Towers South condominium in Surfside, Florida, began to crumble.

It’s taken half a decade for federal officials to come forward with an explanation for what caused the disaster. They pointed to a shoddy building design and corroding ...Read more

Unintentional injuries kill more than 7,000 children ages 1-19 in the U.S. each year – close to 20 deaths per day. Injuries are the leading cause of child death, and these injuries are often preventable.

Prevention takes many forms. Government policy helps tremendously. As an example, regulations requiring carbon monoxide detectors ...Read more

Did the founders of the United States intend to create a Christian nation?

Political leaders who addressed a prayer rally on the National Mall on May 17, 2026, seem to think so: House Speaker Mike Johnson led the crowd in “rededicat(ing) the United States of America as one nation under God.”

Some, and perhaps many, ...Read more

American farmers are expected to plant several million fewer acres of corn in 2026 than they did in 2025, as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz throttles a key fertilizer trading corridor, along with the energy and raw materials needed to produce and transport fertilizer.

The closure is disrupting deliveries of about one-third of the...Read more

Each June, the nation turns its attention to the U.S. Supreme Court as it hands down some of its most consequential decisions.

Long before a landmark Supreme Court ruling dominates the headlines, it is shaped by a highly structured legal process, much of which takes place out of public view. This procedure involves strict gatekeeping ...Read more

Angel Foster had a backup plan.

It was the first weekend in May. A federal appeals court had just made it illegal to mail mifepristone, a pill that’s part of the most widely used abortion method in the U.S.

But Foster, a doctor who specializes in reproductive health, was prepared. As leader of the Massachusetts Medication Abortion Access ...Read more

NEW YORK — Frank Carone, a close friend and longtime political confidant to former New York Mayor Eric Adams, was arrested on federal bribery charges Wednesday after he and three others, including his brother, were accused of manipulating the city’s migrant crisis for financial gain.

Carone is accused of illegally steering nearly $7 million...Read more

PHILADELPHIA —An overwhelming majority of Philadelphians feel safe in their neighborhoods and more than 40% believe that the city has become cleaner under the leadership of Mayor Cherelle L. Parker, according to a new poll, suggesting that city residents see significant progress on the mayor’s key campaign promises.

However, there is not a ...Read more

The largest earthquake in California in more than three years shook a rural part of southern Mendocino County on Wednesday morning, causing power outages and disruption near Ukiah.

The magnitude 5.6 quake was centered about seven miles north of the small community of Redwood Valley in Mendocino County near Ukiah, according to the U.S. ...Read more

Iain Robertson, a Scottish actor who appeared in “Band of Brothers,” has been found guilty of raping one woman and assaulting two others.

In total, Robertson was convicted on Tuesday of five counts — including domestic abuse in addition to rape — involving three different women between 2004 and 2019, BBC News reported.

During his trial...Read more

The Declaration of Independence, with its block of cursive letters scrawled onto parchment, looks like a relic from the distant past. Likewise, you might think the 27 grievances against King George III, his government and the British people listed in the body of the document would have little relevance to our lives today.

After all, ...Read more

Right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori moved significantly closer to becoming Peru’s next president after an electoral tribunal on Tuesday rejected a challenge seeking to annul overseas votes, while new vote counts showed her lead over leftist rival Roberto Sánchez had grown beyond the number of ballots remaining to be counted.

With 99.79% of ...Read more

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met the leaders of the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait on Wednesday, as he looks to reassure Persian Gulf allies of the strength of an interim peace agreement with Iran.

Rubio met UAE’s President, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, in Abu Dhabi before departing for Kuwait. He will end the day in Bahrain, ...Read more

NEW YORK — The NYPD and the FBI raided the homes of several former and current high-ranking NYPD officers as part of an ongoing bribery probe, the Daily News has learned.

Former NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey and former NYPD Deputy Commissioner Tarik Sheppard were among those raided by a joint FBI and NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As firefighters continue to battle a stubborn and complex fire at a massive refrigerated warehouse in Boyle Heights, residents and businesses owners have expressed frustration and health concerns as neighborhoods have been engulfed by smoke.

Inside Jim's Burgers, not far from the burning warehouse, restaurant owner Manuel Orozco...Read more

For months, Delcy Rodríguez has been crisscrossing Venezuela atop a truck in what she describes as a pilgrimage. Motorcycles and cars follow her caravan in a scene that looks remarkably like the presidential campaign that opposition leader María Corina Machado ran less than two years ago.

It’s a carefully choreographed spectacle by ...Read more

MIAMI — Pediatric Associates, Florida’s largest pediatric provider, is sounding the alarm about a change by the state that could make it difficult for doctors to treat children who are insured through Medicaid in the future.

And it’s suing to stop that from happening.

The group, which has over 95 locations across the state, including ...Read more

Andy Burnham is all but certain to become the U.K.’s next prime minister after Darren Jones, who had been talked up as a potential rival, said he would not launch his own leadership bid.

Jones, a minister and ally of outgoing prime minister Keir Starmer, ruled himself out of the race in an interview with Sky News on Wednesday, saying he ...Read more

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday, as he looks to assure Gulf allies of the strength of an interim peace agreement with Iran.

Rubio is also scheduled to travel to Kuwait and Bahrain, visits that come after U.S.-Iran negotiations to secure a more ...Read more