A new study has found that baby boomers, people born from 1946 to 1964, are experiencing worse health outcomes than their predecessors, despite living longer on average than these previous generations.

In what the study calls a “generational health drift,” baby boomers across the United States and Europe have higher levels of diabetes, high...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Five people are dead after a twin-engine plane crashed on Catalina Island on Tuesday night, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said.

Just after 8 p.m., deputies at the sheriff’s Avalon station on the island received a 911 emergency notification from a cellphone alerting them that the plane had been in a crash ...Read more

North Carolina’s lawmakers moved quickly to rush the first round of Hurricane Helene relief to the western part of the state devastated by flooding caused by the storm.

The General Assembly convened Wednesday to take up a $273 million bill that leaders describe as a “first step.”

Back in Raleigh for a one-day session, Republicans, who ...Read more

Gov. Roy Cooper vowed Wednesday that the state government will continue to provide the resources Western North Carolina communities need to recover from Tropical Storm Helene.

“This is a true all-hands-on deck moment,” Cooper said.

In a wide-ranging briefing, officials touched on a number of topics related to the Helene response.

Notably,...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Hurricane Milton is nearing landfall on the Florida Gulf Coast on Wednesday night as a major Category 3 hurricane with 120 mph winds as the state has endured an assault of more than 120 tornado warnings throughout the day.

“The northern eyewall of Hurricane Milton is beginning to move onshore of the Florida gulf coast near ...Read more

The scam before the storm comes in the form of price gouging, illegally jacking up the cost of goods and services at the time they’re needed most. Once the storm has passed, the scammers move on to a new tactic: Pretending they’ve come to help.

Federal, state and local officials wants consumers to know it’s against the law. But price ...Read more

Hurricane Milton moved into Florida on Wednesday evening, as forecasters warned that the once-in-a-generation storm was expected to bring life-threatening storm surge, destructive winds and flooding.

“This could be the worst storm to hit Florida in over a century,” President Joe Biden said Wednesday. “God willing, it won’t be, but that�...Read more

NEW YORK — The Randalls Island migrant shelter is closing this winter as the number of asylum seekers in the city’s shelter system has decreased, Mayor Eric Adams announced Wednesday.

The shelter will close at the end of February and the land returned to use as athletic fields and parkland. Already, one of the biggest tents, which held more...Read more

Hospitals throughout the nation are taking steps to conserve intravenous fluids that have been in short supply since Hurricane Helene flooded a key North Carolina production plant.

After the storm shut down a facility near Asheville, North Carolina, operated by Baxter International — producer of more than 60% of IV solutions used in the U.S. ...Read more

The first email came in early September, around the time the Haitian American Facebook page began posting about the Trump campaign’s falsehoods about Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, eating their neighbors’ pets.

Too busy to look at the email invite at first, Wanda Tima, the founder of the social media page with a half-million followers, ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Still haven’t caught a glimpse of those shimmery northern lights? Minnesotans have a good chance to snag one of those popular aurora borealis photos at the end of this week thanks to a “severe” geomagnetic storm expected to reach Earth on Thursday.

The Space Weather Prediction Center has issued a G4 (Severe) storm watch ...Read more

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey issued a formal commendation to a Cape Cod gun store owner who is leading a campaign to repeal a firearms reform law only a week after she effectively stifled an attempt to immediately suspend the statute until the 2026 elections.

Toby Leary, owner of Cape Gun Works and head of the Civil Rights Coalition, received a...Read more

BALTIMORE — Over the last 12 years, Baltimore spent at least $197 million — an average of more than $16 million a year — combating the raging opioid epidemic, an expert hired by the city testified in its civil suit against two drug distribution companies.

William V. Padula, a professor of pharmaceutical and health economics at the ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams’ former top aide Sheena Wright took to social media Wednesday to post a cryptic message about “testimonies” and having “stories to tell” days after resigning as first deputy mayor.

Wright, along with former Deputy Mayor of Public Safety Phil Banks, did not submit formal resignation letters to Adams before...Read more

Federal authorities possess "several terabytes of electronic data from Sean 'Diddy' Combs" and his empire as part of the sex trafficking and racketeering prosecution of the 54-year-old hip-hop mogul who was arrested last month, officials said.

The "voluminous" amount of data taken during discovery in the sweeping sex abuse and racketeering case...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — A series of tornadoes have spun up across the state ahead of Hurricane Milton’s forecast landfall on Florida’s Gulf Coast possibly before midnight as a major hurricane, according to the National Hurricane Center.

“Damaging winds, life-threatening storm surge, and heavy rainfall will extend well outside the forecast cone,...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The University of Kansas placed an instructor on administrative leave following comments he made endorsing violence against men who would not consider voting for a woman to be president.

A video of the incident was first posted to X, formerly known as Twitter, Wednesday and has since been viewed more than 2 million times.

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NEW YORK — Embattled hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has appealed a judge’s decision to keep him locked up in jail as he fights federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges, arguing the decision relied on witness tampering allegations by the prosecution based on “exaggerated rhetoric.”

Combs has been incarcerated since his Sept...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Bryan Kohberger’s murder trial in Boise has been rescheduled to later in summer 2025.

Ada County Judge Steven Hippler, now handling the closely watched case, delayed the trial by about two months to a start of July 30, 2025, in a scheduling order issued Wednesday. Kohberger’s trial in the killing of four University of Idaho...Read more