A powerful winter storm that swept across the United States in late January 2026, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power in freezing temperatures for days, has been linked to at least 80 deaths. And several East Coast states are under a new winter storm warning just days later.

The causes of the deaths and injuries ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — NASA had planned to run its wet dress rehearsal for the Artemis II mission at Florida's Kennedy Space Center as early as Saturday, but it will have to thread the needle before temperatures drop below the agency’s limits for the tanking test. Any delays could cut into February launch opportunities for what would be the first ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration defended Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s participation in an FBI raid of a Georgia county election office to investigate the 2020 election, while senior Democrats raised concerns about her involvement.

An administration official confirmed that Gabbard was on-site during the Wednesday ...Read more

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he will reopen Venezuela’s airspace to commercial flights, clearing the way for airlines to resume service to the South American country following the apprehension earlier this month of former strongman Nicolás Maduro by U.S. forces in a predawn raid in Caracas.

Speaking at the White House, Trump ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — White House border czar Tom Homan said Thursday that, after conversations with numerous political and law enforcement leaders in Minnesota, a plan is in the works to reduce the number of federal agents in the area.

That drawdown, Homan added, will require the cooperation of Minnesota law enforcement and political leaders with ...Read more

In January 2025, Seema received an email from the International Organization for Migration saying that her flight from Pakistan to the United States, which she and her family were booked on after months of extensive interviewing and background checks by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, had been canceled.

“We had sold our ...Read more

Only 33 of Colorado’s 64 counties have an emergency shelter program specifically for survivors of domestic violence. In the greater Denver area, which includes Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and Jefferson counties, there are only five shelter programs for survivors.

I study the policies and programs that serve...Read more

Imagine being a dentist, and your clients roll their eyes at you, comment that you don’t know what you’re doing – or even spit at you.

Unimaginable, right? But that’s what nurses experience when patients or their families do the eye roll or hit, bite or spit at them. What’s more, a bedside nurse may repeatedly endure bad ...Read more

When I worked for the Environmental Protection Agency in the 2010s as an Obama administration appointee, I helped write and review dozens of regulations under the Clean Air Act. They included some groundbreaking rules, such as setting national air quality standards for ozone and fine particulate matter.

For each rule, we considered ...Read more

Heat pumps can reduce carbon emissions associated with heating buildings, and many states have set aggressive targets to increase their use in the coming decades. But while heat pumps are often cheaper choices for new buildings, getting homeowners to install them in existing homes isn’t so easy.

Current energy prices, including the ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Sitting between a pair of Space Force colonels in room full of military and commercial aerospace representatives, U.S. Rep. Mike Haridopolos spoke his mind about some of the hurdles that have slowed launch endeavors in the U.S.

“What frustrates me as an American is capitalism is supposed to be faster than communism, and yet ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota’s chief federal judge canceled a contempt hearing ordering the Trump administration’s acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to appear in court, while lambasting federal immigration authorities over his concerns about how operations are being carried out in the state.

U.S. Chief District Judge ...Read more

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Former Sangamon County Sheriff’s Deputy Sean Grayson was sentenced to 20 years in prison Thursday after his second-degree murder conviction for the 2024 fatal shooting of Sonya Massey, a killing that generated national outrage, protests and calls for changes to police hiring practices.

Sangamon County Judge Ryan Cadagin...Read more

Medicare Advantage health plans are blasting a government proposal this week that would keep their reimbursement rates flat next year while making other payment changes.

But some health policy experts say the plan could help reduce billions of dollars in overcharges that have been common in the program for more than a decade.

On Jan. 26, ...Read more

Just more than a week before he was gunned down by ICE agents, Alex Pretti was involved in another incident with federal officers in Minneapolis, bystander video shows.

One clip — initially published by digital outlet The News Movement on Wednesday — was recorded on Jan. 13 near E. 36th Street and Park Avenue in Minneapolis’ Powderhorn ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — An independent election analysis gives Democrats a slightly better — but still not good — chance of winning the 2026 U.S. Senate race in Florida following the entrance of the newest candidate, Alexander Vindman.

The ratings change was one of two updates Thursday from Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of ...Read more

FORT MYERS, Fla. — Two people detained at Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz immigration detention facility testified in federal court Wednesday to having to write lawyers’ phone numbers on their bunks and walls using bars of soap after being refused pens and paper — and then having the available phones glitch and fail when they tried to call ...Read more