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

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

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

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.

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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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A federal judge in July gave digital equity advocates a partial victory against President Donald Trump, stopping his attempt to unilaterally kill a multibillion-dollar grant program Congress created.

But U.S. District Judge John D. Bates, in a 35-page opinion, also agreed with the administration that it was unconstitutional for the government ...Read more

President Donald Trump responded to a pardon plea from Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer last week after the mistrial, saying the situation is within the state’s jurisdiction.

“It’s a very sad situation,” Trump said in response to a question on the pardon plea in runway video Sunday. “I certainly heard that, but look, it’s a very sad. There...Read more

Representative Tom Tiffany, a Republican running for governor of Wisconsin, said he suffered minor injuries after the plane he was traveling in landed in a lake, leaving him and the pilot to swim to safety.

Tiffany, 68, was returning home from dinner with the La Crosse County Republican Party on Saturday when the plane lost power while ...Read more

The Lucas Fire in Northern California has burned 4,008 acres in Lake and Mendocino counties, state fire officials said.

An update posted at 7 a.m. Sunday reported that the blaze, which began Thursday near the county line, has reached 20% containment, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said.

The cause of the fire remained...Read more

A new report found that Helicobacter pylori, the bacterium best known for causing stomach ulcers, may be associated with one in five cases of bowel cancer worldwide.

Although H. pylori infects nearly half of adults, the authors cautioned that their findings do not prove the bacterium causes bowel cancer. Also known as colorectal cancer, the ...Read more