There is a long-standing belief that drinking milk when you’re sick can worsen cold symptoms and increase mucus production. However, research suggests this belief is more related to perception than to actual effects on the body.

“No. Drinking milk does not cause the body to make phlegm,” said Dr. Julie Baughn of the Mayo Clinic. She ...Read more

DENVER — City planning officials quietly released an unusual edict this fall that has loud implications for the future of several long-overlooked west Denver neighborhoods.

Denver’s Community Planning and Development announced that until further notice, its staff would not recommend approval for any rezoning applications in six ...Read more

Two people aboard a small plane were killed when their aircraft crashed into a commercial warehouse near Fullerton Municipal Airport in Southern California, bursting into flame and injuring 19 people working in the facility, officials said.

Security camera footage captured a fireball exploding Thursday afternoon when the plane hit the roof of ...Read more

Both the vehicles used in two New Year’s Day attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas were rented through Turo, a car-sharing app.

The attacks thrust the San Francisco company that created the app, which relies on a model similar to Airbnb to enable users to rent cars directly from their owners, into the spotlight and raised questions about the ...Read more

Almost a decade before driving a truck into a New Year’s Day crowd in New Orleans, in a terrorist attack that killed at least 14 people and injured dozens of others, the man believed to be responsible talked to a student journalist at Georgia State University for a story about veterans’ transition to civilian life.

Shamsud-Din Jabbar was a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Two people were killed and 18 others injured when a small plane crashed into a commercial warehouse near Fullerton Municipal Airport and started a fire, officials said. Harrowing audio from the incident indicated that the flight went suddenly and horribly wrong.

Security camera footage captured a fireball exploding when the ...Read more

BEIRUT — Screams, carnage — and a black banner.

The attacker in the deadly New Year’s truck-ramming strike on revelers in New Orleans’ French Quarter had a black Islamic State flag, the FBI says.

Law enforcement says it believes the assailant acted alone, killing at least 15 people in what they are investigating as a terror attack. ...Read more

BOSTON — State Auditor Diana DiZoglio plans to again ask the Massachusetts Legislature Friday to participate in an audit of “high-risk areas” after she faced repeated rejections from top legislative leaders who claimed an audit law did not formally take effect until this month.

In an interview with The Boston Herald, DiZoglio said she is ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The family member of a Green Beret who drove a rented Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside the Trump International on New Year’s Day is not convinced that he intended to harm anyone.

Dean Livelsberger, the uncle of Matthew Livelsberger, on Thursday described his nephew as a patriot and a Trump supporter who had served in the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — More than 100 women have filed a new lawsuit against obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. Barry J. Brock and the facilities where he worked, claiming that Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and other medical practices knowingly concealed his alleged sexual abuses and medical misconduct.

The 107 new plaintiffs join 60 other former patients who...Read more

LAS VEGAS — An increased law enforcement presence continued across Las Vegas Thursday, a day after a Tesla Cybertruck carrying fuel and commercial fireworks exploded outside the Trump International hotel on the Strip.

The Tesla vehicle’s lone occupant — identified as an Army military member from Colorado — took his life seconds before ...Read more

President-elect Donald J. Trump has announced members of his senior leadership team at the Treasury Department, who’ll work alongside Scott Bessent, his pick for secretary.

Ken Kies will be assistant secretary for tax policy, placing him as a point person at the Treasury Department working on tax cuts Trump has touted as a signature policy ...Read more

A report containing findings by the Office of Congressional Ethics, released Thursday, provides details of multiple campaign transactions and official government office activities by U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick that investigators said may have violated House rules and federal law.

The Broward-Palm Beach county Democrat, first elected ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Two people were killed and 18 people were injured when a small plane crashed into a commercial warehouse near Fullerton Municipal Airport and started a fire, officials said.

Security camera footage captured a fireball exploding when the plane made impact with the roof of the facility, sending thick clouds of dark smoke and ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A new expanded paid family leave law that took effect Jan. 1 will “improve the lives of millions of Californians” and provide a “major boost” for workers taking time off to care for a loved one, according to Gov. Gavin Newsom.

But it will also mean a tax increase to help pay for the program.

The increases are ...Read more

CHICAGO — Attorneys in the corruption trial of ex-House Speaker Michael Madigan came to court Thursday expecting a drag-out fight about the implications of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision on the federal bribery statute, including a dispute over how jurors should define the word “corruptly.”

But toward the end of the five-hour jury ...Read more

A federal appeals court on Thursday dealt a blow to President Biden's Federal Communications Commission, striking down the agency's hard-fought and long-debated open internet rules.

The FCC had sought to reinstate a sweeping policy established under President Obama that was designed to treat internet service as an essential public service, ...Read more

NEW YORK — The shooting of 10 young people who were wounded outside a Queens nightclub happened during a “celebration of life” for a teen shot to death three months ago, said cops investigating a possible connection to the New Year’s Day bloodshed and the October murder.

Four gunmen fired nearly 30 shots at a crowd of about 15 people ...Read more