Over the last decade, poison control centers around the country have received tens of thousands of calls from consumers of kratom products reporting adverse and life-threatening health effects, with researchers saying reports in 2025 reached a new level.

Last month, researchers analyzed information from the National Poison Data System and found...Read more

LOS ANGELES — ICE on Thursday arrested a plaintiff involved in a class action lawsuit challenging Los Angeles immigration raids, prompting concerns from lawyers of retaliation and calls for his release.

Isaac Antonio Villegas Molina, a Pasadena resident, was detained Thursday during a check in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ...Read more

The Pima County Sheriff’s Department in Arizona is facing backlash not just for its investigation into Nancy Guthrie’s abduction but for posting that it had found another elderly Nancy, leading many to believe it was the matriarch who’s been missing for more than two months.

The department shared on X, formerly Twitter, late Thursday, “...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — A transgender man was sentenced to 13 months in federal prison earlier this month after threatening a mass shooting in Raleigh because he said he could not receive continued gender-affirming care.

Federal court documents refer to the person as Ashley Moore. The News & Observer was not able to determine if Moore goes by a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Details are emerging about the arrest of the musician known as D4vd in the 2025 slaying of teenager Celeste Rivas Hernandez in Hollywood.

David Anthony Burke, 21, was taken into custody Thursday shortly after 4:30 p.m. in Hollywood and booked at LAPD’s 77th Street jail hours later.

Images, posted on social media, show members...Read more

MIAMI — A 27-year-old Cuban man died this week in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Florida — the second presumed suicide in the Sunshine State in less than a month.

Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt was found in his cell “in what appeared to be a suicide attempt” on April 12, ICE said in a press release Thursday. The...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Iran has agreed to suspend its nuclear program indefinitely, fueling optimism that a deal to end their war is in reach after Tehran announced the Strait of Hormuz was open again.

In a Friday phone interview, Trump asserted that any moratorium on Iran’s nuclear activities would not expire, saying it ...Read more

TACOMA, Wash. — It’s been more than 15 years since Washington state executed a death row inmate.

In 2014, then-Gov. Jay Inslee placed a moratorium on executions for the remainder of his term. This followed continuing federal conversations on capital punishment and increasing actions by states to pause or prohibit the practice.

Four years ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Iran agreed to suspend its nuclear program indefinitely, and will not receive any frozen funds from the Untied States.

Trump said in a phone interview Friday that a deal to end the war, which the U.S. and Israel began with Iran in late February, is mostly complete. Talks over a lasting agreement will �...Read more

A member of Cuba’s National Assembly has lashed out at a new Miami Herald poll showing overwhelming support among Cuban Americans in South Florida for U.S. military intervention in Cuba, dismissing the findings as politically skewed even as the survey underscores hardening attitudes within the exile community.

Carlos Miguel Pérez Reyes, a ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Delaware County prosecutors on Friday expanded their already-sprawling case against Jonathan Christian Gerlach, filing new burglary charges tied to break-ins at cemeteries in Luzerne and Lancaster counties.

Gerlach, who was arrested in January, is charged with more than 500 offenses stemming from a series of break-ins in Mount ...Read more

MIAMI — The FBI informant at the center of the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse nearly five years ago saw himself as an angel — and assigned the plot’s participants angelic names.

But Arcángel Pretel Ortiz, who helped managed Counter Terrorist Unit Security, a firm based in Doral, Florida, that hired a squad of ...Read more

Saying the course promotes ideology, Florida's State Board of Education on Friday removed sociology from the list of general education offerings available at the state’s 28 public colleges.

With its unanimous vote, the board directed trustees at the 23 schools that included sociology on their course lists for 2026-27 to remove them as soon as...Read more

The Trump administration is taking aim at what it calls rampant fraud in state Medicaid programs. But by focusing almost exclusively on Democratic-led states, it has handed ammunition to critics who say it mainly wants to embarrass its political enemies, not save taxpayer dollars.

In announcing earlier this month that Vice President JD Vance ...Read more

Days after their capsule splashed down in the Pacific, the four astronauts of Artemis II have had time to contemplate the gravity of their historic mission around the moon — but they still haven’t fully weighed what it all means.

“Where I keep coming back to is what kept grabbing my attention when the lighting was right and we were ...Read more

Thousands of Americans will soon gather to celebrate April 20 – or “4/20” – the most important day of the year for cannabis enthusiasts.

But this year, a cloud of uncertainty will hang over these celebrations. After years of success, the movement to legalize recreational and medical cannabis has stalled.

It’s a ...Read more

President Xi Jinping is wrapping up what’s been an unusually busy week of diplomacy in Beijing, showcasing the fervent interest of world leaders to develop ties with China while the U.S. is embroiled in a conflict with Iran.

Xi has held at least five high-profile tête-à-têtes, despite the lack of any formal gathering in China’s capital ...Read more

The war with Iran has led to a surge in anti-Muslim rhetoric – spilling into political discourse.

U.S. Rep. Randy Fine of Florida posted on X that “the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one,” and added in another post, “We need more Islamophobia, not less.” Similarly, U.S. Rep. Brandon Gill of Texas called ...Read more

In Latin America, as in other parts of the world, the second Trump administration has adopted an increasingly aggressive policy.

From drone strikes on purported drug traffickers to increased tariffs on imports, and from the blockade on fuel shipments and threats of invasion in Cuba to the Jan. 3 military incursion into Venezuela, the ...Read more