Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich, who died March 15, 2026, in Palo Alto, California, was a scientific crusader whose dire predictions about population growth, world hunger and environmental collapse made headlines and sparked controversy for decades.

Sometimes called a “prophet of doom” by his detractors, Ehrlich was ...Read more

The waves of U.S. and Israeli bomb strikes in Tehran and Beirut, and Iran’s missile and drone attacks on neighboring countries in response, are damaging more than buildings – they are sending toxic debris into the air in cities that are home to millions of people.

Military strikes have hit Iran’s missile stockpiles, nuclear ...Read more

DETROIT — A Colombian drug ring laundered at least $14.9 million through banks in Metro Detroit, including one Bank of America account belonging to a successful Latin American musician, federal prosecutors allege.

U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents seized the money from Bank of America, Truist Bank, JPMorgan Chase Bank and Regions ...Read more

MIAMI — Two brothers found guilty of buying tens of millions of dollars worth of black-market HIV drugs and reselling them to numerous pharmacies in the Miami area and other locations will be imprisoned for a couple of decades.

Defendants Charles and Patrick Boyd were sentenced to 20 years and 18 years in prison, respectively, on Friday after...Read more

DENVER — Colorado lawmakers are poised to pass legislation requiring social media companies to more swiftly respond to search warrants, months after law enforcement said they were slow to provide information on a student who later shot two classmates at a Jefferson County high school.

Senate Bill 11 passed the state House with bipartisan ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The University of Florida’s College Republicans chapter filed a federal lawsuit Monday accusing the university of violating the First Amendment after administrators abruptly shut down the student group last week over antisemitic remarks attributed to one of its members.

In the lawsuit, filed in federal court in ...Read more

BOSTON — The Massachusetts House Committee on Energy and Commerce is requesting information from Gov. Maura Healey related to “concerning” reports of Medicaid fraud in the state as part of a cross-country probe after hundreds of millions of dollars in fraud has been uncovered in Minnesota.

The committee, in a letter sent to Gov. Maura ...Read more

BOSTON — The administration of Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is considering dropping GLP-1 coverage for weight loss for City of Boston employees due to “skyrocketing” health insurance costs that are straining the city’s finances.

Chief Financial Officer Ashley Groffenberger said in a letter to the Boston City Council Monday that the city has...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani is considering poaching the New York City Council’s finance division head to be his finance department commissioner, sources familiar with the matter told the Daily News — coming in the midst of budget negotiations between the two sides of City Hall.

Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin have assumed...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A former California Highway Patrol officer was charged with murder on Monday for his role in a chain-reaction crash that left four people dead on the 605 Freeway near Norwalk last summer, authorities said.

Angelo Rodriguez, 24, allegedly slammed his patrol car into a Nissan Versa near the Rosecrans Avenue exit of the 605 Freeway...Read more

Judging by more than 16,400 comments recently posted on a federal government website, you’d think there was a groundswell of older Americans demanding that federal officials hike payments to their Medicare Advantage health insurance plans.

Yet about 82% of the comments are identical to a letter that appeared on the website of a secretive ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — For more than six decades, communist Cuba thwarted every destabilizing measure Washington aimed its way — assassination plots, a trade embargo, sabotage, travel bans and, most notoriously, the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, when Fidel Castro’s revolution was still young and the Cold War raging.

Now, many are wondering: Is ...Read more

DETROIT — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and several state lawmakers Monday pushed for action against terrorism and antisemitism in the wake of an attack on a West Bloomfield Township synagogue last week, including updating the state's anti-terrorism law and funding security measures for Jewish congregations.

A gunman rammed through ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As President Donald Trump’s Iran war enters its third week with the Islamic Republic government still intact, lawmakers from both parties say they have not heard administration officials describe an exit strategy.

The commander in chief on Sunday night again contended that the U.S. and Israel have “essentially defeated Iran.�...Read more

NEW YORK — The New York City Department of Health has confirmed the first case of a severe strain of the mpox virus, formerly known as monkeypox, in New York City.

Health officials said Friday that the case is travel related and there is no known local transmission at this time of the mpox clade I virus.

“Mpox spreads through close or ...Read more

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles has been diagnosed with “early stage” breast cancer but is expected to make a full recovery, President Donald Trump announced Monday.

The main gatekeeper and trusted adviser for Trump will be able to continue working through the treatment, he said.

“She has a fantastic medical team, and her ...Read more

E. coli illnesses in Florida, Texas and California of the deadly E. coli form have been linked by investigators to cheese from the Fresno, California, company Raw Farm, the FDA announced Monday morning.

Here’s what’s known so far about this outbreak of E. coli O157:H7.

Where have people been infected with E. coli in this outbreak?

There ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For the first time in more than a decade, offshore oil is again flowing through a controversial network of pipelines that run from California's Central Coast to Kern County.

Following an executive order from President Donald Trump last week, Sable Offshore Corp. announced Monday that it resumed oil flow through pipelines that ...Read more

For decades, one of the greatest challenges to treating neurological disorders like attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder is that its symptoms often resemble those of several other conditions. Overlapping disorders are extremely common when it comes to neurological diagnoses.

A child who struggles to sit still, focus or complete ...Read more

Silent retreats have become increasingly common in the United States in recent years.

To calm down and reset their nervous systems, people relinquish their phones and reading materials and commit to speaking at a bare minimum to learn practices of self-awareness.

Silent meditation and silent prayer have shaped spiritual lives ...Read more