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Iran-Gulf talks delayed as Saudi Arabia counters Houthi attacks

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A meeting between Iran and several Gulf Arab nations over a temporary shipping lane through the Strait of Hormuz was postponed, highlighting tensions with the Islamic Republic.

Talks were set to take place in Oman on Monday but was delayed “for now” after a request from Saudi Arabia, according to Iran’s foreign ministry. That was partly ...Read more

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Coalition of states suing Trump administration over immigration rule change

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A coalition of states Monday is suing to block the Trump administration from implementing a new rule that would make it easier to deny legal residency to immigrants deemed likely to use public assistance.

The lawsuit, filed Monday morning in federal court in New York, argued that the administration exceeded its authority by attempting to ...Read more

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Detainees confined to small metal cages at Alligator Alcatraz, report finds

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MIAMI — The state-run immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz” violated a host of federal and state detention standards, according to a new government report.

At the center, which cost an estimated $1 billion and closed on June 25, detainees lacked adequate living space, access to showers, ...Read more

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Amazon suspends ties with cargo airline, and MIA still faces delays after crash

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MIAMI — Amazon has suspended ties with a cargo airline operating the plane that crashed at Miami International Airport a week ago.

Meanwhile, the Federal Aviation Administration lifted a ground delay advisory at the airport as flight operations improved Monday morning for travelers.

“Operations are normal,” as far as the FAA is concerned...Read more

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Hayden Panettiere likely killed by fentanyl-laced oxycodone, report says

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Hayden Panettiere most likely died after ingesting a single oxycodone pill laced with fentanyl, according to a new report.

While toxicology results are still pending, the lethal combination is law enforcement’s working theory, TMZ reported, citing sources close to the investigation.

The 36-year-old “Heroes” and “Nashville” star was ...Read more

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US companies get creative as tariff refunds start flowing in

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U.S. companies getting refunds after the Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s import tariffs are using the temporary windfall in a range of creative ways.

The refunds are being used to cover rising costs, supplement employee retirement accounts and repay debt. Some are sharing the bounty with vendors. And a number of consumer ...Read more

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University of Michigan spent over $1 million in secret probe of former CFO

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DETROIT — The University of Michigan spent over $1 million for legal services in connection with the internal investigation of a former university executive, according to documents released to The Detroit News through an open records request.

Five invoices spanning from Sept. 19, 2025, to Dec. 3, 2025, showed the university paid the New York-...Read more

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New report points to worsening hunger crisis in Chicago, with 1 in 3 families facing food insecurity

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CHICAGO — A new report released Monday by Chicago’s leading anti-hunger organization indicates a worsening hunger crisis across the city and its surrounding areas, exacerbated by affordability challenges, cuts to assistance programs and economic pressures that are making it harder for families to put food on the table.

Data compiled by the ...Read more

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Hurricane center ups odds on newly tracked Atlantic system

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ORLANDO, Fla. — After a lull in activity, the National Hurricane Center on Monday continued to track a system now with an increased chance to develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical outlook, a trough of low pressure in the central subtropical Atlantic about 1,000 miles east-southeast of...Read more

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Colorado has 6th-lowest rate of kindergarteners vaccinated against measles

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DENVER — Colorado had one of the lowest measles vaccination rates in the country for kindergarteners during the last school year, but that appears to reflect a large number of kids arriving at school without records, rather than an unusually high opt-out rate.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated about 87.7% of ...Read more

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Why so few older Americans get counseling – and how it could help

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People are living longer, reshaping what it means to grow old.

By the late 2060s, an estimated 2.5 billion people worldwide will be age 60 or older – more than the number of people under 18. The population age 80 and older is expected to grow even faster, more than tripling between 2023 and 2060 to about 545 million.

Living ...Read more

Providing drug users with clean syringes is part of Portugal's harm-reduction approach to substance use. Horacio Villalobos/Corbis News via Getty Images

Portugal decriminalized drugs 25 years ago, but the real lesson is what it built around this policy

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Nearly 70,000 Americans died of a drug overdose in 2025. While that is a decline from the nearly 108,000 deaths recorded in 2022, these grim figures distinguish the U.S. from other high-income countries. At the peak of the opioid crisis, the U.S. overdose death rate was 68% higher than Canada’s and nearly five times that of Australia.

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Shingles can cause severe chronic pain – new research on how exosomes alter neurons offers pathways to treatment

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Shingles can cause pain that is notoriously difficult to manage and can last for months to years for some people. The pain can be so severe that it causes a significant decline in quality of life and can be accompanied by suicidal thoughts and emotional distress.

If the pain lasts longer than three months, doctors call the condition ...Read more

Thousands of Jewish and Israeli Americans participate in the annual Israel Day on Fifth parade on May 31, 2026, in New York City. Spencer Platt/Getty Images

What is Zionism? The different meanings of a contested term

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Haverford, a small liberal arts college in Pennsylvania, has become the latest U.S. school to settle a lawsuit over how it handled allegations of antisemitism. In a statement on Aug. 7, 2026, its president, Wendy Raymond, wrote that “all students including those who identify as Jewish, and/or Israeli, and those who support Zionism: that is,...Read more

A firefighter monitors a backfire in California, set to clear away dry vegetation that could fuel wildfires.   Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images

Wildfire strategy doesn’t need a winner – with 3 camps fighting for dominance, the system can’t keep up with the risk

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One of the problems with how America deals with wildfires is thinking there is one primary strategy that can end the nation’s wildfire crisis. Whether that’s detecting and putting out every fire fast, increasing logging and forest thinning, or allowing fires to burn under safe conditions, the default choice today is to pour more money and...Read more

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Trump demands Ukraine halt refinery strikes as diesel surges

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he’d warned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to stop targeting oil refineries in Russia amid strikes that have shut down diesel refining and helped drive prices for the fuel to record levels.

“Mr. Zelenskyy has to do one thing: He has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia,” Trump ...Read more

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Iran-Gulf talks delayed as Saudi Arabia counters Houthi attacks

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A meeting between Iran and several Gulf Arab nations over a temporary shipping lane through the Strait of Hormuz was postponed, highlighting tensions with the Islamic Republic.

Talks were set to take place in Oman on Monday but was delayed “for now” after a request from Saudi Arabia, according to Iran’s foreign ministry. That was partly ...Read more

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Swedish left edges ahead with vote result too close to call

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Sweden’s election will go down to the wire, the tightest in its history, and one that will hinge on the complete counting in coming days of late-arriving ballots and votes from overseas.

At the beginning of the night, exit polls indicated the center-left bloc was on course to reclaim power. By morning, its lead stood at three seats, still ...Read more

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New York City to streamline B38 route in Brooklyn to increase bus speed

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NEW YORK — The Mamdani administration is proposing to speed up buses on two key Brooklyn avenues — at the expense of some daytime parking for car owners.

The proposal, part of the administration’s Bus Action Plan, would put bus lanes and protected bike lanes down Lafayette and DeKalb Aves through Fort Greene, Clinton Hill and Bedford-...Read more

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He was a highly educated doctor. Now, he faces the death penalty for a lawyer's murder

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Tomasz Roman Kosowski is an Ivy League-educated doctor with advanced degrees in business and the sciences and a career as a plastic surgeon.

He’s also a criminal defendant, accused of murdering a lawyer who’d faced him in a contentious lawsuit. He’s accused of killing Steven Cozzi in the men’s room of a Clearwater law office, then ...Read more