As communities across the Bay Area continue to grapple with jarring scenes of human suffering on the street, counties in the region are rolling out new state-mandated mental health courts aimed at getting people with serious psychiatric disorders into treatment and housing.

Statewide, most counties must launch CARE courts — conceived of by ...Read more

SpaceX is set for a Sunday evening launch from Kennedy Space Center with a Monday launch attempt from Cape Canaveral on tap.

First up is a Falcon 9 rocket from KSC’s Launch Pad 39-A on the Optux X/TD7 mission to launch a geostationary communication satellite built by Northrop Grumman for the Australian company Optus at 5:28 p.m. during a 4:29...Read more

An elite team of FDNY fire marshals, fire protection inspectors, and drone operators is being pulled together to combat the stunning rise in brush fires across New York City exacerbated by the area’s ongoing drought, the Daily News has learned.

The new task force will be dedicated to coordinating responses to brush fires and investigating ...Read more

A federal hiring freeze on seasonal U.S. Forest Service workers could mean fewer people putting out abandoned campfires, constructing trails and preventing wildfires across Colorado next year.

The freeze is projected to impact 156 temporary seasonal positions across Colorado. Those employees cover a wide range of critical tasks: wildfire ...Read more

Striped bass populations in the lower Chesapeake Bay are not doing well, marking the second year in a row for below-average numbers in Virginia waters.

According to a 2024 survey from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, which monitors the success of young bass in the lower Chesapeake Bay, this year was “significantly lower” than the ...Read more

Weeks after the start of her government, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is giving signs that she’ll come down on the side of the U.S. over China, if she’s forced to choose.

Whether that’s enough to prevent Donald Trump from sweeping her up in the punitive tariffs he’s threatened in his second term is another matter.

As Sheinbaum ...Read more

Nathaniel Smith was having dinner with his 24-year-old niece when her phone buzzed with a text message.

It buzzes all day, but this time, something was different.

“She said, ‘Look what I got,’ and showed it to me,” said Smith, the founder and CEO of the Partnership for Southern Equity, an Atlanta nonprofit.

The message said she had �...Read more

A New York woman is facing a murder charge after officials and news outlets report her 12-year-old daughter died due to untreated diabetes.

Ashley Bertino, 36, of Silver Creek, was recently taken in custody by deputies on a charge of second-degree murder, the Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Office announced in a Nov. 8 news release. Bertino’s ...Read more

The U.S. is approaching a final decision to lift some restrictions on Ukraine’s use of western-made weapons to strike limited military targets in Russia, according to people familiar with the matter.

The discussions have been shaped by North Korea ramping up support for President Vladimir Putin’s army and a decision would also follow an ...Read more

Joe Biden will announce new conservation efforts and funding when he becomes the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Amazon on Sunday.

The U.S. president is expected to visit a rainforest nature preserve and meet with local leaders engaged in conservation efforts.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who’s championed climate...Read more

Lawyers for the family of Malcolm X have filed a $100 million lawsuit against the U.S. government, Department of Justice, FBI, CIA and the NYPD for conspiring to allow the assassination of the civil rights leader in 1965.

“The government’s fingerprints are all over the assassination of Malcolm X,” civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump said...Read more

Federal and local authorities are calling for expanded testing for the presence of H5N1 bird flu amid growing evidence of infections of dairy farm workers.

Observed in poultry in multiple states, the virus was first diagnosed in U.S. dairy cows at the end of March. Days later, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the first ...Read more

Russia launched one of its largest missile and drone strikes against energy infrastructure and other targets across Ukraine on Sunday as its invasion nears the 1,000-day mark.

A total of about 120 cruise, ballistic and aeroballistic missiles — including Tsirkons, Iskanders and Kinzhals — and 90 drones were fired by Kremlin forces, ...Read more

Cuba is hemorrhaging people as the economy falters. Now, the country is coming under fresh political pressure as one of the government’s archrivals is poised to start calling foreign-policy shots in Washington.

With Donald Trump headed back to the White House and hawkish Sen. Marco Rubio picked as his secretary of state, the island’s ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — It’s a scene that’s become routine with big blazes in the West. A plane dips low over a smoldering ridgetop and unleashes a ribbon of fire retardant, coating the hillside a bright pink. Onlookers cheer the display of firefighting prowess.

The U.S. Forest Service and other agencies each year drop tens of millions of gallons ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The 2024 hurricane season has hurled one storm after another, with some of those storms turning deadly.

And the season, which ends Nov. 30, didn’t let up in recent days, with Tropical Storm Sara forming in the western Caribbean Sea.

Here’s a look at what the season — which forecasters earlier this year said ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho -- The state’s first — and the nation’s third — law-enforcement child care center is coming to the Ten Mile interchange area in Meridian.

The center would house up to 84 children of officers across the nine agencies in the Treasure Valley, would stay open on nights and weekends, and would charge below-market prices. Plans ...Read more

In the two counties around nurse practitioner Samantha Marsee’s clinic in rural northeastern Maryland, there’s not a single clinic that provides abortions. And until recently, Marsee herself wasn’t trained to treat patients who wanted to end a pregnancy.

“I didn’t really have a lot of knowledge about abortion care,” she said.

After...Read more

“F--- you, Elon Musk,” Brazil’s first lady said as her husband geared up to host a high-stakes summit of Group of 20 leaders.

Rosangela da Silva, the wife of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, took aim at the billionaire owner of the X platform at a Saturday event in Rio de Janeiro while talking about the need to regulate social media ...Read more