When nuclear accidents happen, many people imagine radiation spreading everywhere and lasting forever. The reality is more complex. Radioactive materials move, change and sometimes disappear faster than people expect.

The Chernobyl accident in 1986 and the Fukushima Daiichi accident in 2011 released radioactive materials into the air,...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A storm is hitting California late in the wet season, bringing rain to the north and snow to the Sierra Nevada, with Los Angeles expected to receive light rain in time for the Tuesday afternoon commute.

Strong winds could make driving difficult, especially for high-profile vehicles such as big rigs. Fierce gusts of up to 65 mph ...Read more

When Ukrainian military draft officers stopped two men to check their identity documents, a passing group of youths suddenly attacked them, enabling one of the detainees to flee.

The confrontation in the western city of Lutsk last week was among a growing number of incidents involving officers attempting to catch draft dodgers, as an unpopular ...Read more

A man long sought in connection with the deadliest terrorist attack in Panama’s history arrived in the country Monday after being extradited from Venezuela, marking a breakthrough in a case that had remained unresolved for more than three decades, U.S. officials in Panama said.

Ali Zaki Hage Jalil, a Colombian-born Venezuelan national accused...Read more

The first time the placebo effect really got under my skin was when I read that roughly one-third of people with irritable bowel syndrome improve on placebo treatments alone. Usually this statistic is presented as a fascinating quirk of medicine. My reaction was anger.

Humanity possesses an extremely effective treatment, with ...Read more

Many consumers – and state policymakers and even utility companies – are worried about the possibility of large numbers of data centers raising electricity demand and power prices.

Those are real concerns, but our engineering research finds that if designed, constructed and operated carefully, data centers can actually help the ...Read more

Most U.S. adults who attend religious services attend multiple congregations, at least occasionally, according to our new research.

As sociologists who research congregational life in the United States, we fielded a nationally representative survey in 2023. We asked over 2,000 adults across many religious affiliations, and those with ...Read more

Florida’s Indian River Lagoon has been an ecosystem in decline going back to 2011, when harmful algal blooms led to a severe decline in seagrass, the foundational component of shallow coastal ecosystems.

Seagrass meadows stabilize sediments, improve water clarity and provide critical habitat and forage for species ranging from ...Read more

The U.S. is waiting on whether Iran will take part in a second round of talks before a ceasefire expires on Wednesday, with the sides deadlocked on how to end a war that’s engulfed the Middle East and triggered a growing energy crisis.

U.S. President Donald Trump said his vice president, JD Vance, is ready to leave for negotiations in ...Read more

When Ukrainian military draft officers stopped two men to check their identity documents, a passing group of youths suddenly attacked them, enabling one of the detainees to flee.

The confrontation in the western city of Lutsk last week was among a growing number of incidents involving officers attempting to catch draft dodgers, as an unpopular ...Read more

Keir Starmer’s office tried to secure an ambassadorial role for his former communications chief Matthew Doyle, former top civil servant Olly Robbins said in a revelation that’s likely to pile further tricky questions on the prime minister about political influence in the Foreign Office.

Robbins was speaking during an evidence session ...Read more

DENVER — An outside firm is investigating workplace conditions within the Colorado Department of Human Services amid high turnover in its leadership team, a cascade of formal complaints and millions of dollars in settlements with departing staff.

The state in January contracted with Flynn Investigations Group, a Denver firm that specializes ...Read more

When Hurricane Michael, a Category 5 storm, tore through Florida’s Tyndall Air Force Base in 2018, it battered F-22 stealth fighter jets, destroyed hundreds of buildings and churned up 700,000 cubic yards of debris. The total cost of the damage approached $5 billion.

Now, Tyndall is being rebuilt as a super-resilient “installation of the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Advocates for a swift legislative response to the fatal shooting of two children inside a south Minneapolis church last summer knew gun control measures would be extremely difficult to push through the narrowly divided Legislature.

That’s proven true, with Republicans holding up every major gun bill in the evenly split House. ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — Every few minutes, the quiet of a muggy spring evening in the Park Glen neighborhood in far north Fort Worth was broken by the clanging of pots, pans, air horns, and other noisemakers as residents looked skyward at unwanted guests.

These residents have gathered every night for the past few weeks to scare away migratory ...Read more

HAY SPRINGS, Neb.— The sun was just warming the horizon as Mark Pieper left his house near his cattle ranch on a crisp February morning.

It’s not unusual for the rancher to wake up early to tend to livestock, but at 5:45 a.m. this day his cattle wouldn’t come first. For the past 3½ years, three days a week, Pieper has made an early ...Read more

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is departing her post, becoming the latest member of President Donald Trump’s cabinet to exit as he reshapes his team ahead of midterm elections.

“Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer will be leaving the Administration to take a position in the private sector,” White House Communications Director Steven ...Read more

Satirical news site The Onion has moved to license the intellectual property of Alex Jones’ Infowars website in its latest attempt to take control of the right-wing conspiracy theorist’s platform.

A court-appointed receiver controlling Infowars parent Free Speech Systems LLC filed papers Monday in a Texas state court seeking approval of a ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A Republican lawmaker is urging Gov. Mike Dunleavy not to veto a bill updating Alaska’s voting and election laws.

Dunleavy has until the end of the month to decide whether to sign or veto Senate Bill 64, which would create a ballot curing process that allows voters to fix minor mistakes on their ballots; allow the ...Read more