For years, people fishing along the banks of the White River that winds through Indianapolis were met by ominous signs warning about eating the fish they catch.

One of those risks was mercury poisoning.

Mercury is a neurotoxic metal that can cause irreparable harm to human health – especially the brain development of young ...Read more

CELO COMMUNITY, N.C. — On a 15-degree morning in January, a clinic in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina began to fill up with patients.

An older couple in flannel pajamas sat together in the waiting room. A toddler waved as Patricia Hall walked past him, a stethoscope draped over her neck. The family physician waved and smiled back....Read more

In the winter of 2018, Jeffrey Epstein was afraid his world was crashing down.

The disgraced financier had spent millions of dollars over the previous decade rehabilitating his image after pleading guilty to solicitation charges in a Florida state court in 2008.

But a 2018 Miami Herald investigation documenting his crimes — and how he and ...Read more

For anyone who has stood freezing in an endless lift line at a ski resort, or flinched as some out-of-control “rad Brad” whooshes by like a Red Bull-and-vodka-fueled missile, the allure of backcountry skiing needs no explanation.

Out there, far from the madding crowd, it can be just you and your friends, gliding through acres of untracked ...Read more

MIAMI — Florida is having a language moment in 2026. But what language is it?

A new state law requires driving tests to be English-only. Florida, the state with the third largest foreign-born population, behind California and Texas, enacted the English-only driving tests in February. The law banished tests in Spanish and Creole.

Then there ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to strike down many of Donald Trump’s tariffs offers some relief to Mexico and Canada, but a much bigger set of risks still hangs over the trade relationship that joins the three countries.

The president said in the afternoon the U.S. would impose a 10% levy on foreign goods under a different law. It took ...Read more

Mexico's secretary of the economy, Marcelo Ebrard, urged "prudence" Friday in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling invalidating part of President Donald Trump's sweeping tariff regimen.

"We have to see where this is going," Ebrard told reporters. "We have to see what measures (Washington) is going to take to figure out how it is going...Read more

A man is dead after trying to crash his vehicle into a Los Angeles Department of Water and Power substation not far from the Hoover Dam this week, authorities said, in what they alleged was an attempted terrorist attack.

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Sheriff Kevin McMahill identified the suspect as 23-year-old Dawson Noah Maloney of ...Read more

Detroit’s automakers learned Friday night that they had been spared from tariffs that President Donald Trump imposed after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down most of his global duties.

Trump on Friday night put in place a flat 10% levy on foreign goods that is to take effect on Tuesday. But in a fact sheet, the White House affirmed that ...Read more

Detroit’s automakers asked the White House to shield them from new tariffs that President Donald Trump vowed to impose after the Supreme Court struck down most of his global duties.

The American Automotive Policy Council, which represents General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co. and Jeep-maker Stellantis NV, sent a letter to Trump’s trade team ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The conditions that led to California’s deadliest avalanche in modern history began forming weeks ago, when the high Sierra’s snowpack thawed and froze again and again into glass-like shards of ice.

That fragile layer sat exposed for much of January, warming during the day and hardening at night. Then this week’s ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Supreme Court's decision Friday to strike down the majority of tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump could provide some relief to L.A.'s trade-reliant economy — but only if they are not reimposed again through other means.

The court's 6-3 ruling that Trump didn't have the authority to impose tariffs under the ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — President Donald Trump’s administration won its first court victory in the President’s House case Friday afternoon, when a federal appeals judge paused the injunction ordering the restoration of the slavery exhibits to the site.

Third Circuit Judge Thomas M. Hardiman, a George W. Bush appointee, overruled a district judge�...Read more

Canada’s aviation regulator issued certificates for some Gulfstream jet models after President Donald Trump complained the country had “refused” to greenlight the aircraft and threatened tariffs and other measures in retaliation.

So-called Type Certificates, which Canada uses when a product meets airworthiness standards, were issued for ...Read more

A ship believed to be carrying Russian fuels is on its way to Cuba, putting U.S. President Donald Trump’s sanctions to the test amid the island’s deepening energy crisis.

The vessel Sea Horse, expected to arrive in early March, is carrying much-needed fuels to Cuba, according to data from maritime intelligence firm Kpler Ltd.

The country...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A federal judge on Friday delivered a rebuke of the U.S. Attorney’s Office’s handling of court orders tied to immigration cases in Minnesota, saying the repeated claim of low staffing amid a high caseload “has worn out its welcome.”

In a nine-page order, U.S. District Judge Laura Provinzino admonished the federal ...Read more

A late-weekend storm could blanket parts of the Eastern Seaboard with snow, with more than half a foot possible in New York and several inches across southern New England through Monday.

A wave of warm, moist air from the U.S. Gulf is expected to collide with cold air sweeping south from Canada. The resulting nor’easter will be capable of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s ruling against President Donald Trump’s worldwide tariffs threw a monkey wrench into budget projections that assumed a hefty spike in tariff revenue to help reduce federal deficits. But at least in the short term, a replacement tariff regime may keep that bucket from leaking too much.

The high court on ...Read more