When you open the refrigerator and find a wedge of cheese flecked with green mold, or a package of chicken that smells faintly sour, it can be tempting to gamble with your stomach rather than waste food.

But the line between harmless fermentation and dangerous spoilage is sharp. Consuming spoiled foods exposes the body to a range of ...Read more

Taylor Swift’s latest album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” generated a cultural whirlwind: chart-topping success, social media saturation and frenzied debate over her artistic evolution.

Nonetheless, despite this warm reception, opinions on Swift are deeply polarized by party. Democrats are far more likely to view her positively; ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Wendy Bohon approached a table at the California Geological Survey library in Sacramento and began to give Puck’s closing speech from William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

Only this time, some of the speech was adapted to be about earthquakes. Once again, Bohon was making her worlds converge.

Bohon ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — An effort in the Florida Legislature sounds simple and straightforward: ensure that only U.S. citizens vote in state elections.

Republicans who control the state Senate and House of Representatives are advancing legislation they say would do just that, brushing aside warnings that they are about to create a logistical ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Hundreds of schools, child cares, parks and other care facilities around San Diego County are located near idle oil wells, which can emit toxic gases, a new study finds.

They’re among the nearly 4,500 wells statewide that an analysis of state data by the Center for Biological Diversity found are within 3,200 feet of such ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Baltimore officials say they’ve boosted the number of 911 calls diverted to mental health professionals, but acknowledge that long wait times and continued police involvement show the city’s crisis response system remains a work in progress.

An investigation by The Baltimore Sun in July 2025 found a sharp drop in emergency ...Read more

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese dismissed the idea of immigration cuts or tighter border checks, even as electoral polls show a surge in support for the country’s hard-right One Nation Party.

“We have tight checks,” Labor leader Albanese said in an interview with Sky News aired on Sunday, when asked if he planned to harden ...Read more

DETROIT — Matthew Moroun, whose family owns the Ambassador Bridge, gave $1 million to a political action committee that supports Republican President Donald Trump less than a month before Trump threatened to block the opening of a new, competing span between Detroit and Canada.

The $1 million receipt for the super PAC MAGA Inc. was revealed ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Marylanders have for months faced high grocery prices and rising energy bills. Polls show affordability is a major issue. But lawmakers in Annapolis have focused on a more divisive topic: immigration.

While the state legislature has been slow to address cost concerns, they moved quickly to act against the U.S. Immigration and ...Read more

MIAMI — From the moment Philippe Bien-Aime stepped foot in the United States on July 25, 1995, immigration authorities, say the Haitian native has been living a lie.

The former mayor of North Miami arrived in the U.S. with his photo on someone else’s passport, authorities say in a federal lawsuit seeking to strip Bien-Aime of his ...Read more

Donald Trump called on Netflix to fire board member Susan Rice or “pay the consequences,” after she said that Democrats would take action against corporations that “take a knee” to the president.

Rice, who was former President Barack Obama’s national security adviser and United Nations ambassador and also served in Joe Biden’s White...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Montgomery County health officials on Saturday warned residents of a possible measles exposure at two locations in the county, after confirming another case of the highly contagious disease.

A person infected with measles visited a car dealership and a convenience store in Royersford and Limerick earlier this week, officials ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — At a luncheon this week for L.A. County politicos, Supervisor Kathryn Barger pitched what she framed as a commonsense reform.

Legislators in Sacramento, she argued, need to change a 2019 law that extended the statute of limitations for sex abuse lawsuits, opening the floodgates for decades-old claims that have cost the county ...Read more

BOSTON — The Massachusetts AG’s office is representing House Speaker Ron Mariano and Senate President Karen Spilka as they look to dismiss Diana DiZoglio’s lawsuit against them, a move that the state auditor describes as “insanity.”

DiZoglio is speaking out after the Attorney General’s Office wrote letters to the state Supreme ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — With costs mounting for alleged sexual misconduct cases, the Los Angeles school board has approved $250 million in bonds — on top of $500 million already authorized less than a year ago — to fund payouts to victims.

The cost of both bond issues, including financing, is expected to be more than $1 billion, based on cost ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Outside a hall where Southern California Edison was celebrating Black History Month on Friday, a group of Altadena residents stood on the sidewalk, waving signs and talking of the homes and family members they lost in last year's Eaton fire.

"They're in there celebrating Black history and they've destroyed a Black town," said ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Four people were killed Saturday in a fiery car crash near Long Beach Airport, and police are investigating whether speed played a role.

The National Transportation Safety Board, the federal agency that investigates significant crashes on highways, railroad lines and commercial airspace, said on X that it is sending its own team...Read more

DENVER — The Colorado Lottery is planning to introduce online ticket sales by 2027 as a way to increase revenue for outdoors projects, but critics warn it could be a slippery slope toward legalized internet gambling — similar to playing online slot machines.

A bipartisan group of Colorado legislators on Friday filed a bill to block online ...Read more

The Haitian judge who signed an arrest warrant for President Jovenel Moïse that figured prominently in the late leader’s July 7, 2021, assassination testified Friday that the document was illegal and that he had no authority to remove a sitting head of state.

Jean Roger Noelcius also admitted under oath during a deposition in Miami federal ...Read more

A march in Lyon organized by far-right groups to honor a man beaten to death in a fight went off without violence Saturday after authorities put a massive police presence on the streets.

About 3,200 people turned out for the rally and march, local media reported, citing estimates from the prefecture of the region. The event paid homage to 23-...Read more