WASHINGTON — The cash-strapped U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency is set to be tested by back-to-back major disasters as Hurricane Milton barrels toward Florida’s Gulf Coast less than two weeks after Helene devastated the Southeast.

“This could result in a significant strain on FEMA’s resources,” said Daniel Kaniewski, a former ...Read more

IRVINE, Calif. — On the first anniversary of the Hamas-led terrorist attacks against Israel that have precipitated a wider war in the Middle East, a couple hundred University of California, Irvine, students and faculty marched around the campus Monday calling for an end to the war, an end to the Jewish state and UC divestment from companies ...Read more

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida — Refrigerators, couches, dressers, bookshelves and desk chairs are among the destroyed possessions found piled high in the front yards of almost every single home in Shore Acres.

“It’s like you’re driving through a canyon of people’s lives on the curb,” said Kevin Batdorf, president of the neighborhood ...Read more

NEW YORK — Four more aides to Mayor Adams have left his administration in the past week — a dramatic set of City Hall departures that comes on the heels of multiple other high-level resignations and the mayor’s indictment on federal corruption charges, sources told the Daily News on Monday.

Among those leaving are two longtime aides ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — Mexico bid farewell Monday to Ifigenia Martínez, a feminist icon of the country’s political left, who died at age 99 on Saturday — just four days after presiding over the hand-over of power to Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s first woman president.

Martínez’s coffin, draped with the Mexican flag, was wheeled into the ...Read more

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris declined to say if she would support Ukraine’s push to join NATO if elected, but vowed she would insist Kyiv’s leaders were part of any U.S. negotiation with Vladimir Putin over ending the ongoing conflict.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has sought to secure an invitation from the U.S...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Hurricane Milton surged Monday into a monster Category 5 storm with 180 mph winds in the Gulf of Mexico, and is forecast to remain a dangerous major hurricane ahead of landfall on Florida’s Gulf Coast.

“Milton is a potentially catastrophic Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale,” the NHC alerted,...Read more

DENVER — Former President Donald Trump will speak at a rally at Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Center in Aurora on Friday afternoon, his presidential campaign announced in a news release Monday.

The Republican presidential nominee first talked about Aurora’s recent problems with blighted apartment complexes and the Venezuelan gang ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns warned that misjudgments could get in the way of efforts to dampen rising tensions between Iran and Israel over the next few weeks.

“We face the very real danger of a further regional escalation of conflict,” Burns said Monday during a fireside chat at the Cipher Brief ...Read more

Antisemitic incidents have spiked across the U.S. in the year since the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack in Israel — an “avalanche” of disturbing reports as assaults, death threats, Nazi salutes and more have been reported at local schools.

More than 10,000 antisemitic incidents have been recorded in the U.S. since last year’s Oct. 7 Hamas...Read more

MIAMI — Florida’s highways were filled with evacuees on Monday, streaming away from the Gulf Coast ahead of what is expected to be a catastrophic landfall from Hurricane Milton in just a few days.

To their west, in the open Gulf of Mexico, Milton exploded into a frightening Category 5 storm with 180 mph maximum sustained winds. The monster ...Read more

Two Massachusetts scientists have been recognized with the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their role in the discovery of microRNA — key to the understanding of gene regulation and potential treatments of heart disease, cancer, neurodegenerative diseases and more.

Researchers Victor Ambros, a University of Massachusetts Medical ...Read more

ATLANTA — Authorities have released video and additional details in the death of an off-duty Atlanta police investigator who was allegedly trying to break into a Douglas County home Friday morning when he was shot by the homeowner.

According to the Douglas sheriff’s office, Aubree Horton arrived at the home on Orkney Way in Winston around 5...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Crews were battling a fast-moving brush fire threatening structures near the rural community of Campo in East San Diego County on Monday.

The fire had reached about 350 acres shortly before 7 p.m. Pacific time. “Firefighters are making good progress. The fire activity has decreased significantly,” the agency said on X, ...Read more

NEW YORK — At least four aides are leaving the Adams administration — a dramatic set of City Hall departures that comes on the heels of multiple other high-level resignations over the past few weeks and the mayor’s indictment on federal corruptuion charges, the New York Daily News has learned.

Among those leaving are two longtime aides ...Read more

Two years after Queen Elizabeth’s death, former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is making claims about the end of the queen’s life.

In his new memoir “Unleashed,” Johnson is claiming the queen battled bone cancer at the time of her death.

The claim comes as several members of the royal family, including her son, King Charles, are ...Read more

Walt Disney World, Universal Orlando and other Florida theme parks are “closely monitoring” Hurricane Milton as the Category 5 storm moves through the Gulf of Mexico and heads toward the central part of the state.

Hurricane Milton is forecast to make landfall on Wednesday, Oct. 9, on Florida’s west coast and cut across the middle of the ...Read more

While the Florida Keys are not expected to take a major hit from the powerful Hurricane Milton, forecasters are telling residents and visitors to prepare for some nasty weather, including high winds, heavy rains and coastal flooding, over the course of the week.

The National Weather Service issued a Tropical Storm Warning for the entire island ...Read more

Cocaine is considered a Class B narcotic — with a lethal twist.

Cocaine is often diluted — “cut” — with a variety of substances including the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl. That’s where the bodies of unsuspecting users are piling up.

The Drug Enforcement Agency reported 29,918 deaths in 2023 due to cocaine overdoses, up 5% ...Read more