Bottlenose dolphins in Sarasota Bay in Florida and Barataria Bay in Louisiana are exhaling microplastic fibers, according to our new research published in the journal PLOS One.

Tiny plastic pieces have spread all over the planet – on land, in the air and even in clouds. An estimated 170 trillion bits of microplastic are estimated to...Read more

The global aquaculture industry has tripled in size since the year 2000, with producers raising a mind-boggling diversity of species, from seaweeds and clams to carp, salmon and cuttlefish. Many of these creatures are undomesticated and lead complex and highly social lives in the wild.

The rapid growth in aquaculture means that ...Read more

BALTIMORE — A federal judge has rejected former State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby’s request to replace her home detention with a nightly curfew.

Mosby had asked U.S. District Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby to amend her home detention to a nightly curfew allowing her to travel throughout Maryland, without prior approval, between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m. ...Read more

Israel stepped up air strikes on Lebanon and said a senior Hezbollah commander in the south of the country had been killed, the latest escalation of its conflict with the Iran-backed militant group.

The Israeli military reported the assassination of Hezbollah’s head of the Qana area on Wednesday. Earlier, Lebanese officials said Israeli ...Read more

DETROIT — A Genesee County woman and her son are facing charges after police found 44 neglected dogs and 13 dead ones in their home over the weekend, officials said.

Officials held a news conference Tuesday at the home to announce authorities have charged the two.

Some of the dead dogs were found in a freezer while others were found on the ...Read more

ORLANDO — The National Hurricane Center lowered its outlook Wednesday that an Atlantic system approaching the Caribbean will develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm, while also keeping tabs on a second system already in the Caribbean.

As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical outlook, the broad area of low pressure in the ...Read more

NASA has officially given SpaceX the next two missions to the International Space Station under its Commercial Crew Program with Boeing’s Starliner still potentially available for a late visit in 2025 if it achieves certification.

NASA announced updated crew rotation plans Tuesday including a crew assignment for Crew-10, the program’s next ...Read more

The Las Vegas man arrested Saturday after authorities said he was found with loaded guns outside a California rally for former President Donald Trump filed a federal lawsuit against the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Tuesday, alleging officers violated his constitutional rights.

Vem Miller, 49, was booked on suspicion of misdemeanor ...Read more

Israel stepped up air strikes on Lebanon and said a senior Hezbollah commander in the south of the country had been killed, the latest escalation of its conflict with the Iran-backed militant group.

The Israeli military reported the assassination of Hezbollah’s head of the Qana area on Wednesday. Earlier, Lebanese officials said Israeli ...Read more

MIAMI — More than a hundred organizations are asking the White House to shut down a migrant processing facility at the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and stop detaining asylum seekers found at sea at the center.

“The U.S. government cannot continue to hide its diversion and mistreatment of asylum seekers by exiling them to Guantá...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Former Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles was sentenced Wednesday to 28 years to life in prison for the murder of Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter Jeff German.

In August, a jury found Telles guilty of first-degree murder with a deadly weapon against a victim 60 or older, for killing German in September ...Read more

Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s announcement Monday to expel six Indian diplomats after an investigation found that India’s government was tied to the murder of several Sikh activists and a campaign of repression has sent shock waves across the border, and especially in California.

“The evidence brought to light by the RCMP (Royal ...Read more

Lebanon said Israeli airstrikes on the southern town of Nabatieh killed six people including the local mayor, as Israel resumed attacks on Beirut in the latest escalation of its conflict with Hezbollah.

Interior Minister Bassam Al Mawlawi said the strikes hit a municipality building during a meeting to coordinate relief efforts for the area, ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Just a day after Governor Gavin Newsom passed a law intended to curb price spikes, Republicans have called on the state’s air regulator to postpone an upcoming vote that analysts warn could drive prices higher at the pump.

More than two dozen state Republican lawmakers blasted the Air Resources Board in a letter Tuesday...Read more

In the history of narco-corruption in Mexico, no higher-ranking official than Genaro García Luna has ever faced justice in the United States.

He's nowhere near as infamous as Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, the former Sinaloa cartel leader now serving life in prison. He doesn't have a nickname or a Netflix series. But according to federal ...Read more

Wearing a traditional Palestinian scarf, Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel once again led a rally in front of the U.S. embassy in Havana on Monday to signal both his government’s criticism of the war in Gaza and its anti-American alignment.

But in the second row, wearing sunglasses, a black T-shirt and holding a Palestinian flag, the once ...Read more

DENVER — The Colorado Bureau of Investigation plans to hire a fledgling Wisconsin consulting firm to audit its forensic services as the agency attempts to move forward after discovering its star DNA scientist manipulated testing data for years.

CBI officials intend to award a $770,000 contract to Forward Resolutions LLC, which was founded in ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — This election season, the two most expensive ballot initiatives in the country are in Florida.

Supporters of the campaigns to expand abortion access and to legalize recreational marijuana have contributed more than $178 million since summer 2022. That makes them the two costliest ballot measures in the state in at least two ...Read more