No matter where you live in the United States, you have likely seen headlines about PFAS being detected in everything from drinking water to fish to milk to human bodies.

PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are a group of over 10,000 synthetic chemicals. They have been used for decades to make products waterproof and stain- ...Read more

America’s role in the world is changing. If this wasn’t obvious before, it should be now, following President Donald Trump’s efforts to take over Greenland and his visibly strained relations with traditional allies in Europe and elsewhere.

But how much will the world change if America’s stance is different?

Some ...Read more

Nigeria “must do more to protect Christians,” a senior U.S. State Department official demanded on Jan. 22, 2026, during a high-level security meeting in the African nation’s capital, Abuja.

The comment followed an attack just days earlier in which more than 160 worshipers were kidnapped from three churches in Nigeria’s ...Read more

Medical marijuana could soon be reclassified into a medical category that includes prescription drugs like Tylenol with codeine, ketamine and anabolic steroids.

That’s because in December 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to reschedule marijuana to a less restricted category, continuing a process initiated by ...Read more

Over the past two decades, the concept of mindfulness has become hugely popular around the world. An increasingly ubiquitous part of society, it’s taught everywhere from workplaces and schools to sports programs and the military.

On social media, television and wellness apps, mindfulness is often shown as one simple thing – ...Read more

California marked a milestone this month with the return of an uninterrupted Highway 1 through the perilous, yet spectacular cliffs of Big Sur.

The famed coastal road was closed for more than three years after two major landslides buried the two-lane highway, and it took unprecedented engineering might and precarious debris removal to once ...Read more

In the roiling debate over California's proposed billionaire tax, supporters and critics agree that such policies haven't always worked in the past. But the lessons they've drawn from that history are wildly different.

The Billionaire Tax Act, which backers are pushing to get on the November ballot, would charge California's 200-plus ...Read more

MIAMI — Nearly every sunny windowsill at New River Middle School is occupied by a reused jar filled with a handful of pebbles, an inch or two of water and a few slender, brown, pen-like tubes.

They’re baby mangroves — propagules, to be exact — and they’re the future of this Fort Lauderdale school’s campus.

Mangroves are everywhere ...Read more

Last spring, Illinois county judge Jeffrey Goffinet noticed something startling: A legal brief filed in his courtroom cited a case that did not exist.

Goffinet, an associate judge in Williamson County, looked through two legal research systems and then headed to the courthouse library — a place he hadn’t visited in years — to consult the ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Martha Weiman’s parents told her and her brothers to stay in an upstairs bedroom the night of November 9, 1939, so they wouldn’t see what was about to happen in their beloved hometown of Bocholt, Germany. They peered out anyway.

They saw Nazi soldiers smashing the windows in the synagogue across the street and setting the ...Read more

When specialized Haitian police units and a drone task force broke through barricades and entered the home of one of Haiti’s most notorious gang warlords earlier this month, their mission was simple, but highly symbolic.

They would occupy the house for several hours — then destroy it.

The target was a residence linked to gang leader and ...Read more

STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. — The mayor of Michigan's fourth-largest city made headlines last week by lambasting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and expressing a desire for the Police Department to sever ties with federal law agencies and change traffic stop procedures.

Not so fast, police said this week.

While city officials said the ...Read more

Month after month, Patricia Hunter and other members of the Nursing Home Reform Coalition logged onto video calls with congressional representatives, seeking support for a proposed federal rule setting minimum staff levels for nursing homes.

Finally, after decades of advocacy, the Biden administration in 2023 tackled the problem of perennial ...Read more

In Philadelphia, lawmakers on Tuesday unveiled legislation that would institute some of the nation's toughest limits on federal immigration-enforcement operations.

In Harrisburg, a top Democrat floated making Pennsylvania a so-called sanctuary state to protect undocumented immigrants.

And in Washington, senators faced mounting pressure to hold...Read more

All seven Democratic members of the U.S. House representing Pennsylvania cosigned a letter to Sens. John Fetterman and Dave McCormick on Tuesday calling on them to vote against funding for the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees both ICE and the Border Patrol.

The letter, which was first obtained by The Inquirer, comes a day after ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Inaction by government agencies and other systemic failures contributed to a 2025 midair collision that was the worst U.S. civil aviation disaster in more than two decades, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday.

The NTSB has been investigating what caused a U.S. Army helicopter to slam into an American...Read more

Gov. Tim Walz is facing criticism from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum for comparing the experience of Minnesota children living through the state’s chaotic federal immigration enforcement surge with that of Anne Frank’s experience hiding from Nazi Germans.

His comment came during a news conference Sunday following federal agents’ ...Read more