It’s 9:15 in the morning. The wind is roaring at 110 miles per hour (177 kph); the sound is deafening. Dust swirls through the air. We are watching a single-wide manufactured home rock back and forth, as it is pounded by turbulent wind.

Then, in an instant, the screws shear off and the entire unit tumbles backward, rolling two full ...Read more

You have probably noticed it on a hot summer day: A basement feels cool even when the air outside is baking. The ground does not heat up and cool down as fast as the air does. A few hundred feet down, it stays close to the local yearly average all year, which can be around 50 degrees Fahrenheit (10 Celsius).

In Verona, Wisconsin, the ...Read more

Surrogacy arrangements – agreements for someone to carry a pregnancy for the intended parents – have existed for millennia, and modern surrogacy contracts for half a century.

These contracts typically address parental rights, the possibility of abortion, medical instructions, health insurance and payment of expenses, each side ...Read more

Every autumn, homeowners and gardeners tend to engage in a familiar ritual. As trees shed their leaves, people drag out rakes, leaf blowers and lawn bags to strip their yards bare before winter arrives.

It is a tidy habit rooted in aesthetics, but ecologically, clearing away fallen leaves strips the very foundation of local ecosystems...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Recent bursts of gunfire have shattered the peace in these typically placid suburban Twin Cities settings: A high school homecoming game, a church basketball court, a middle class residential street.

Police are sounding the alarm about the recent shootings, saying they’re believed to be connected, and the result of a new kind ...Read more

Over the course of two years, Flock cameras have popped up across the nation, and multiple groups are organizing to ban them across Texas.

Flock cameras are automated license plate readers used by law enforcement. Any law enforcement agency with a Flock contract can plug in a license plate number and their reason for search to detect where that...Read more

Iran has managed to preserve its missile and drone factories despite months of U.S. and Israeli bombing, officials familiar with the matter said, allowing it to replenish its arsenals while President Donald Trump holds off on strikes ahead of the midterm elections.

Tehran still has the capacity to manufacture weapons to rebuild its arsenal, ...Read more

A U.S. judge blocked a key component of the Justice Department’s efforts under the Trump administration to obtain state voter records as part of a nationwide probe into alleged election fraud by non-U.S. citizens.

In a 78-page opinion on Friday, a federal district judge in Washington delivered a strong rebuke of the department’s Civil ...Read more

The Trump administration imposed fresh sanctions against the International Criminal Court, signaling its determination to cripple the organization on the same day that a former ICC judge won the Nobel Peace Prize.

The Treasury Department added the entire court to its Specially Designated Nationals list, a move that would impose severe financial...Read more

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin defended the shooting of a man by an immigration officer in New York City and pushed back on calls from Mayor Zohran Mamdani and other officials to end immigration enforcement in the city.

The shooting injured the man and occurred in front of a 5-year-old boy, drawing an immediate outcry from New ...Read more

Politicians on both sides of the aisle criticized Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for his plan to livestream the execution of a former Army major who killed 13 people in 2009, saying it violates American values and could fuel terrorist recruitment.

“I absolutely support the sentence of death, but live-streaming executions is what jihadists do,...Read more

A military transport aircraft carrying U.S. Marines made a “hard landing” and caught fire in rural Bladen County, according to media reports from eastern North Carolina.

It happened around 10:20 a.m. Thursday and led to four Marines receiving medical care, 1st Lt., Cailin Altonen of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing at Cherry Point said in a ...Read more

In a rare move, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy says he was blocked from seeing a key American air base in the Middle East during an official Congressional trip.

A vocal critic of President Donald Trump’s administration and the Iran War, Murphy traveled overseas to get a first-hand look at the damage from the war that he says is being covered up by ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Jose Argumedo's nickname is "Humble," but authorities say his approach to collecting money was anything but.

When a Pomona business owner balked at paying for protection, Argumedo showed up with a gun and loaded the business' property into a U-Haul truck, prosecutors wrote in a complaint filed earlier this year. In a second ...Read more

President Donald Trump is establishing a committee to investigate mortgage fraud allegations against Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook and is forcing her to appear at a White House hearing to defend herself, a dramatic escalation in his efforts to oust her from her role.

The White House shared a memorandum dated Wednesday from Trump to ...Read more

NEW YORK -- Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were “not aware” there was a 5-year-old child in the backseat of an SUV when they opened fire at the vehicle, striking the child’s father in the neck during an enforcement operation in the Marble Hill section of the Bronx and sparking outrage across the city, Homeland Security ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. -- Hurricane Isaias, on a path to become the first Atlantic hurricane to strike the U.S. this year, muscled up to major hurricane strength Friday morning as it churned closer to the Florida Panhandle, according to the National Hurricane Center.

As of 11 a.m. Friday, Isaias was about 195 miles south of Pensacola and had sustained ...Read more

The State Controller’s Office violated teleworking and salary overpayment laws, according to a new audit, providing fresh fodder for critics of Controller Malia Cohen, who is running for a second term in the Nov. 3 election.

Two employees at the controller’s office teleworked from Idaho, Tennessee and Alabama in violation of state law, the ...Read more