NEW YORK — More than 138,000 New York City public school students, or about 1 out of every 8 — were homeless during the last school year, according to new data released Tuesday.

While the numbers mark the first sign the student homelessness rate is falling across the five boroughs after reaching consecutive record highs, advocates say the ...Read more

A Penn State fraternity was placed on interim suspension Friday and two more are under investigation for what a university spokesperson described as “allegations of misconduct.”

Zeta Beta Tau, 429 E. Hamilton Ave., in State College, Pennsylvania, is on interim suspension while facing allegations of what Penn State characterized as “...Read more

NEW YORK — New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin wants local university presidents to testify under oath about what their schools are doing to protect students from sexual assault amid outcry over 2024 gang rape allegations at a Cornell University fraternity house.

On Tuesday, Menin, D-Manhattan, plans to announce a Dec. 15 Council ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — An 8-year-old Haitian boy who lost protected status earlier this year was placed in federal custody after an immigration check-in last week in San Diego, according to federal and school district officials.

The boy, who has not been publicly identified, was placed in the government's custody during a routine check-in on Nov. 5, a...Read more

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth mounted a combative defense against the impeachment effort against him in Congress, casting the move as a politicized attack on U.S. troops and lawful military operations ordered by President Donald Trump.

“I was proud to execute” Trump’s orders, he said, “and I would do it again.”

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Ukraine and Russia wrapped up the first day of new U.S.-led peace talks, as Washington and Kyiv’s European allies stressed the importance of credible security guarantees as part of any deal to end the war.

The trilateral discussions in Abu Dhabi ended after more than four hours and will resume on Wednesday. Ukraine regards the talks as ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — A St. Cloud Middle School student was arrested Monday for allegedly threatening to shoot up his school on a social media livestream.

The 14-year-old student made the threats while live on TikTok, the St. Cloud Police Department said in a statement. The school’s resource officer was notified of the alleged threat late Sunday ...Read more

In most races in the midterm elections on Nov. 3, 2026, Americans had only two realistic choices: Democrats and Republicans.

As a scholar of parties and elections, I am often asked why the U.S. has only two major parties, while other democracies offer voters three, four or even five choices. The U.S. system looks weird compared to ...Read more

A family of five is exposed to the flu virus, but only two of them get sick. A lifelong chain-smoker lives 100 years, while a professional athlete in their prime dies of an unexpected heart attack. A drug fails a clinical trial due to harmful side effects in a subset of patients despite showing good results in others.

Could any of ...Read more

Unregulated peptides for weight loss, muscle building, longevity and more are a roaring wellness fad – even though these substances have not been proved safe and effective and have not been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Until now, consumers were getting wellness peptides online through the so-called gray market,...Read more

World leaders meeting at the annual U.N. climate summit in November 2026 are wrestling with a persistent challenge: how to get countries to follow through on their commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the planet.

One of the biggest problems has long been fossil fuel power plants, but new research shows that ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump indicated he’s keen to pursue diplomacy with Iran and wind down the war following a White House meeting with the prime minister of Qatar, the main mediator between the warring sides.

Further strikes on Iran won’t be necessary, though the U.S. remains “locked and loaded,” Trump said on Monday after talks with ...Read more

Central Florida Democrats celebrated one of their best nights in years last week after flipping six seats in the state House and one in the Senate.

But as part of the minority in both chambers, their power now largely rests in having broken the GOP supermajority in both the House and Senate, which allowed Republicans to push through ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Democrats swept back into full control of state government promising to make life more affordable, and Amy Klobuchar and DFL legislative leaders already agree lowering health care, child care and housing costs must come first.

Now comes the harder part: delivering on their promises with a tight budget and a governor-...Read more

CHICAGO -- When does punishment truly come to an end for those formerly incarcerated?

“Many people think they might be getting off pretty well with just probation or five years instead of 15 behind bars and yet what they often discover is that upon release, they find themselves locked in a permanent cage with invisible bars,” Michelle ...Read more

CHICAGO — The fish, caught in a net with dozens of others like it, had just been brought to the boat ramp and placed in one of several large, water-filled tubs, where it patiently waited its turn.

Soon enough, it was whisked up and away in a catch net, weighed in at 10.14 pounds, the same as a 12-pack of soda, measured at 25.7 inches, or ...Read more

Earlier this year, Madison Harden-Stein and her colleagues at the Georgetown University Center on Health Insurance Reforms posed as consumers interested in buying insurance as part of a secret shopper study.

They found that insurance brokers and sales representatives often pushed short-term health insurance plans with limited coverage, and used...Read more