Earlier this year, I gave birth to my fourth child. My baby and I entered “karasunk,” the traditional Armenian 40-day postpartum period during which mother and newborn remain close to home, sheltered from the outside world.

During that time, a close childhood friend died of cancer. Because we were still in our karasunk, I could ...Read more

Give politicians the power to decide who gets a government contract, and people will naturally want to get on their good side. After all, the power to hand out something valuable is itself something valuable.

Consider the recent ProPublica investigation involving Sen. Susan Collins of Maine. Martin Kao, the former head of a Hawaii ...Read more

Amid wars, inflation, emerging risks from artificial intelligence and threats to democracy, Americans have a lot to be worried about these days. But polls show the majority of voters in 2026 are also concerned about climate change as temperatures and disaster risks rise.

So why are fewer candidates talking openly about climate change ...Read more

The 50% tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump’s administration on imports from Canada in July 2026, and the reciprocal 50% tariffs imposed by Prime Minister Mark Carney’s administration on imports to Canada from the U.S. a month later, do not include oil and natural gas. Electricity and some petroleum products were also left out, ...Read more

Ultraprocessed foods have a terrible reputation.

Studies have linked them with multiple chronic diseases. Journalists and health influencers characterize them as poison. Some public health experts call for a global halt to producing and consuming them.

But the debate around ultraprocessed foods is not nearly as settled as it ...Read more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Donald Trump of trying to pressure Kyiv into surrendering to Russia, escalating a week-long row with the U.S. president.

In an interview with Bloomberg in Kyiv, Zelenskyy also offered a new proposal to accede to Trump’s request to stop targeting Russian refineries, which was aimed at combating ...Read more

With winter only weeks away, San Jose and county water officials are taking advantage of an unseasonably warm stretch of autumn weather to ramp up preparations against potential “Super El Niño” storms.

In a joint session Oct. 13, the San Jose City Council and the Santa Clara Valley Water District hashed out how to prepare for the storm and...Read more

After the third day of squirting an experimental drug up his nose, Dylan Meetze felt horrible.

“It was like I was underwater, like it took the most to do anything,” he said.

Meetze stopped taking the drug but endured fatigue and anxiety for months afterward, and his eyes and muscles twitched, he said.

He had taken BPC-157, a peptide drug ...Read more

Three years ago, members of the civilian board that monitors the Santa Cruz County juvenile hall sought to eliminate potential conflicts of interest by moving the commission from underneath the court and its probation department to the county’s chief administrative office.

“We were getting less and less administrative support,” said the ...Read more

A Miami judge has signed an arrest warrant for Raul Castro, finding probable cause that the former Cuban president in 1996 conspired with spies within the state to commit first-degree murder.

The warrant, signed Friday, was approved by the chief judge on the 11th Judicial Circuit Court following an investigation by the Florida Department of Law...Read more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Donald Trump of trying to pressure Kyiv into surrendering to Russia, escalating a week-long row with the U.S. president.

Zelenskyy also offered a new proposal to accede to Trump’s request to stop targeting Russian refineries, which was aimed at combating high diesel prices, in exchange for ...Read more

A small plane carrying three people, one a child, nosedived into San Jose traffic on Saturday afternoon, according to local news reports.

The crash happened shortly after 3 p.m. near the intersection of Capitol Expressway and Excalibur Drive, according to the San Jose Fire Department.

Two adults and a child were in the plane when it went down,...Read more

Back in July, the resignation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s education minister swiftly ended India’s first major round of student “Cockroach” protests just as they were gaining momentum. This time, he has no easy way out.

Modi’s rivals are now demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, alleging that ...Read more

Violent crimes like murder and assault have steadily declined in Minnesota after reaching a pandemic-era peak in 2021. But that hasn’t stopped public safety from being thrust to the center of elections for top statewide offices in recent weeks.

After a series of suburban shootings and an alleged ISIS terror plot at the Mall of America where ...Read more

The Norte fire was 50% contained as of mid-morning on Sunday, fire officials announced.

A total of 467 firefighters remain assigned to the fire, working to strengthen containment lines and extinguish hot spots, the Orange County Fire Authority said.

Firefighters also plan to remain at the fire in San Clemente and San Juan Capistrano for ...Read more

The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — the ATF — has announced that it would stop enforcing requirements to register and pay tax on gun suppressors, often called silencers, and other items.

Last week, Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador celebrated that announcement, which followed a victory in a lawsuit Idaho ...Read more

When Victoria Bayle was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease at the age of 46, her neurologist gave her a prognosis of 10 years.

She didn’t know anyone in her family with the condition, nor were there medications she could take to slow the disease’s progression.

The resident of Edinboro, in Erie County, went on a road trip with...Read more

St. Paul Police Chief Axel Henry recently filed an amended version of his lawsuit against Mayor Kaohly Her, adding a seventh count and new details, including reference to media coverage of an hour-long interview the mayor conducted on a Hmong-language podcast shortly after his lawsuit was filed.

Henry sued the mayor and the city on Sept. 23 ...Read more

Russia and Ukraine continued to trade attacks overnight as Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he was ready for fresh talks with the U.S. and renewed an appeal for Washington to put pressure on Moscow.

The Ukrainian president said Russian forces hit substations in the Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, and Odesa regions, leaving tens of thousands of ...Read more