WASHINGTON — As a deadline arrives this week to nominate a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director, some Republicans are skeptical the administration will find someone who can check all the boxes necessary for confirmation.

The candidate will need the “Make America Healthy Again” mindset of Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ...Read more

Fighting between the U.S.-Israeli alliance and Iran raged unabated, even as President Donald Trump claimed talks are under way to end the conflict.

Iran carried out overnight missile and drone attacks on the Israeli cities of Tel Aviv, Eilat and Dimona, as well as on U.S. bases in the Middle East. Israel launched a wave of strikes in western ...Read more

It’s been half a century since the Vietnam War, when journalists had almost unrestricted access to the battlefield.

In the years since the fall of Saigon ended that first conflict of the television age, restrictions on press freedom have grown.

Now, with the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran — the first major military engagement with American ...Read more

MIAMI – Gas leaf blowers aren’t just noisy — they spit out pollutants that affect health and contribute to climate change. That’s why cities including Miami Beach, South Miami, Pinecrest and Key Biscayne enacted bans to ditch gas-powered lawn equipment like leaf blowers and chainsaws for quieter and cleaner electric alternatives.

Now, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The union representing thousands of local hospitality workers is demanding that Southern California hotels and stadiums refrain from hosting federal immigration agents as guests on their properties.

In a letter sent to scores of local hotels, stadiums and airport vendors on Monday, Unite Here Local 11 said that after the chaos ...Read more

Hidden beneath the surface of the world’s rivers, some of Earth’s great animal movements unfold – migrations that rival, in sheer biomass, the famous mass movements of zebra and wildebeest across the Serengeti.

For centuries, fish migrations were as predictable as the seasons. Salmon, sturgeon, giant catfish and many other ...Read more

Three weeks into the U.S. war with Iran, it seems increasingly evident that President Donald Trump and his administration miscalculated how Iran would respond to attacks.

Besides appearing unprepared by the escalation of war, the president has offered contradictory statements on the U.S. rationale for bombing Iran, including that ...Read more

With the war in Iran a topic on everyone’s lips, you might have noticed an inconsistency in the way that nation’s name is said, varying between a more native-like “Ih-ron” pronunciation and a more Americanized “Ih-ran” one.

An everyday listener might just chalk this up as being the result of regional differences or the ...Read more

Bracket-busting upsets, Cinderella stories, OT buzzer beaters – March Madness is here! Or, as some urologists think of it, vasectomy promotion season.

Since 2004, urologists have been promoting vasectomies every March, promising patients who elect the procedure an excellent excuse to relax on the couch and watch college basketball.<...Read more

I first heard the popular “Swasthani Vrata Katha” – a devotional text – recited in Sankhu, a village on the outskirts of Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley, some 25 years ago.

The text tells the story, or “katha,” of the ritual vow, or “vrata,” that women devotees perform to earn the favor of Swasthani, a local Nepali Hindu ...Read more

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — In the early 2000s, Michelle Warfield worked at a factory, hauling heavy seats for Ford trucks on and off an assembly line. To suppress daily aches in her back and hips, her doctor prescribed opioid painkillers.

They worked for a bit. But by 2011, Warfield struggled to walk.

And “by that time, I was addicted,” said ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas -- In his homeschool curriculum, 12-year-old Luke Lunday is learning about Section 504, a cornerstone of disability rights.

Championed by disability rights activist Judy Heumann, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act is responsible for what’s known as the integration mandate, which requires that people with disabilities have...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Hunters. Churchgoers. Felons.

These are among the groups of untapped voters that Republicans targeted at sportsmen's conventions, Walmarts, and county fairs that helped them come within striking distance of taking the lead as the political party with the most registered voters in Pennsylvania for the first time since the state ...Read more

Drugs found in treated wastewater can be stored in the leaves of vegetables irrigated with that water, Johns Hopkins researchers found. But are drug-infused greens sitting on your grocer’s shelf, and how powerful is the dose?

“Farming practices place a high demand on freshwater resources. With limited rainfall and droughts threatening ...Read more

The supply shock waves from the United States' and Israel’s war in Iran are spreading across the global economy, raising concerns about an inflation hit to companies and consumers that will require policymakers to raise borrowing costs.

While President Donald Trump’s chaotic tariff campaign took months to filter through supply chains, the ...Read more

SPRINGFIELD, ILL. — A text from Gov. JB Pritzker to Comptroller Susana Mendoza is exposing a split between the two Illinois Democrats over whether the state should participate in a federal tax incentive program championed by Republicans and signed into law by President Donald Trump.

Pritzker, who has not yet decided whether Illinois will opt ...Read more

U.S. investigators are decoding the black box from an Air Canada Express plane that collided with a fire truck shortly after landing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport to determine what caused the first deadly accident at the airport in more than 30 years.

The cockpit voice recorder and data recorder have been recovered and sent to Washington ...Read more

BEIRUT — President Trump and Iranian officials gave conflicting statements Monday about a possible deal to end the war — with Trump extending a deadline he’d set for bombing Iranian power plants and claiming negotiations were underway, while Iran denied having any dialogue with Trump officials.

“We are in the throes of a real ...Read more

The woman in a viral video of immigration agents arresting her in front of a crying child at San Francisco International Airport may have ties to Sacramento, though details about the woman’s residency remain unclear.

Rep. Doris Matsui, D-Sacramento, said in a post on X Monday afternoon that the woman, Angelina Lopez-Jimenez, lives in the ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The State Water Resources Control Board on Friday unveiled a draft approval that would advance Sites Reservoir, marking another step forward for what would be the largest reservoir project for California since the 1970s.

The draft decision came two months after the Bureau of Reclamation gave the project a green light on ...Read more