RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina State University leaders gathered Thursday for Board of Trustees committee meetings — their first since police search warrants revealed evidence of horrific hazing at the school’s Sigma Nu fraternity. Fraternity brothers, according to search warrants, were being forced to eat one another’s vomit, put ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Public health officials in Santa Cruz County this week closed Capitola Beach — a popular stretch of sand lined with cheery pastel-colored homes and cozy waterfront cafes — amid an E. coli outbreak.

The E. coli O157 outbreak has sickened at least nine children, the Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency said in a statement....Read more

President Donald Trump on Thursday was facing major questions about his cozy financial and political ties to Jensen Huang after the disgraced Nvidia CEO resigned over reports of affairs with a fellow executive and an alleged Chinese spy.

Critics, including Democrats who will control the next Congress, are asking if Trump looked the other way ...Read more

United Launch Alliance is set for the return of its Vulcan rocket Friday after nine months of delays on a mission that looks to reinvigorate Amazon’s game of catchup to SpaceX’s lucrative Starlink satellite program.

Flying for only the fifth time, the replacement for ULA’s Atlas V and Delta IV family of rockets, is targeting liftoff from ...Read more

NEW YORK — A 26-year-old immigrant construction worker with a wife about to give birth has been identified as among the at least eight dead in the Brooklyn building collapse.

José Luis Caguana Cosquillo emigrated from Ecuador about six years ago and leaves behind a 4-year-old son and pregnant wife.

“She’s heading to the hospital ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Two more members of Gov. Wes Moore’s Cabinet are leaving their posts before the end of the year, including the heads of the Maryland departments of the Environment and Emergency Management.

Department of the Environment Secretary Serena McIlwain will leave the position on Dec. 31, with Deputy Secretary Adam Ortiz taking over as ...Read more

NEW YORK — Despite backing away from a controversial contract for an AI-enhanced cellphone tracking device, Mayor Zohran Mamdani is facing increasing pushback over his administration’s surveillance approach.

In a letter Thursday, 45 nonprofit and civil rights organizations called for the Mamdani administration to stop pursuing the ...Read more

U.S. envoys left Moscow for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after meeting with President Vladimir Putin, as Kyiv warned restrictions had reappeared on the Starshield air-defense system used by frontline troops.

U.S. negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met with Putin in the Kremlin for more than two hours, according to...Read more

President Donald Trump said the U.S. doesn’t need a deal with Iran and instructed Vice President JD Vance to focus on domestic issues rather than negotiations with Tehran.

The directive, posted on social media on Thursday, threw cold water on ongoing back channel talks and dampened prospects for a diplomatic breakthrough to end the war. It ...Read more

MIAMI — Alina Garcia, Miami-Dade’s elections supervisor, now has a cartoon avatar who stars in a tax-funded coloring book about democracy and, this fall, looked out from lapel pins that were distributed to poll workers.

Like Garcia, “Super Ali” has long blonde hair, but Super Ali has a red cape and a star-spangled ballot box for a body....Read more

An open letter from several Texas Republicans in what had been known as the largest red county in the nation demands new leadership at the helm of the county party after voters swept Democrats into office in last week’s midterm.

Democrats won all of the statewide races in Texas and all of the countywide races in Tarrant County, deserting its ...Read more

Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven wealthy nations are throwing their support behind the United Nations-authorized Gang Suppression Force in Haiti as a massive buildup of Salvadoran military troops in the country raises concerns about coordination, accountability and protection of civilians during the stepped-up fight against powerful ...Read more

As communities around the world shore up their infrastructure in anticipation of one of the most powerful El Niños on record in late 2026 and early 2027, they need to think about rising health risks, too – and include them in early weather warnings.

El Niño is part of a natural climate phenomenon that shifts global weather ...Read more

With vaccines and regular screening, cervical cancer is one of the most preventable cancers.

Yet women living in rural areas of the United States have a 25% higher rate of cervical cancer – and a 42% higher rate of death from the disease compared to urban women.

In Colorado, rural counties such as Prowers, Moffat and ...Read more

Democrat Abdul El-Sayed made history on Nov. 3, 2026, when Michigan voters elected him the first Muslim to the U.S. Senate despite significant efforts to defeat him.

He wasn’t alone. A record number of American Muslims won their races in the midterms.

As political scientists who study minority politics, we think their wins ...Read more

Mountains of scientific evidence support both the negative and positive effects of our eating habits on our health. Research shows that a healthy diet can help those suffering from chronic health conditions like Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure.

This is where “food is medicine” comes in. Food is medicine, ...Read more

Stephen Miller was already one of the most powerful people in Washington when he stepped in to replace Susie Wiles as President Trump's chief of staff on Monday, a position that expands his extraordinary influence over the hard-charging executive.

But whether the bellicose former Santa Monica High School Viking can make good on his muscular ...Read more

U.S. envoys arrived at the Kremlin for talks with President Vladimir Putin in a renewed push for a Ukraine peace deal, as Kyiv warned restrictions had reappeared on its Starshield internet terminals used by frontline troops.

Video posted by Russian state media on Thursday showed the motorcade for U.S. negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner...Read more