Israel’s defense minister is set to travel to Washington as the country weighs how to respond to an Iranian missile attack a week ago and steps up its military operation against Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Yoav Gallant will discuss “ongoing Middle East security developments” with U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Wednesday, the Pentagon ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Hurricane Milton remained a major Category 4 hurricane Tuesday with a projected path that could bring it into Tampa Bay, across Central Florida south of Orlando and out through Brevard County.

As of the National Hurricane Center 5 a.m. advisory, Hurricane Milton was located about 560 miles southwest of Tampa already turning ...Read more

Threats to the U.K. from Russia and Iran and the danger posed by the Islamic State group have increased in recent months, according to the head of Britain’s domestic spy agency.

Ken McCallum, the director-general of MI5, said the security service face “stretched” resources as it grapples with the domestic fallout from Russia’s war in ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Tuesday finalized revisions to a lead-in-drinking-water rule that requires water systems to replace service lines containing the toxic metal within 10 years.

Senior White House officials said on a call with reporters that the revisions are “significantly” more stringent than previous proposals and ...Read more

Wildfires are becoming increasingly destructive across the U.S., as the country is seeing in 2024. Firefighters were battling large blazes in several states from California to North Dakota in early October 2024, including fires burning near homes and communities.

Research shows wildfires are up to four times larger and three times ...Read more

If history holds true to form, I expect the presidential campaigns of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris to begin touting their support for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative as Election Day approaches.

The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, or GLRI, is a federal program that funds water and habitat protection and restoration for the...Read more

In one of the most memorable moments of the current presidential campaign, Donald Trump in July 2024 contended that Democratic nominee Kamala Harris recently stopped identifying as Indian and “happened to turn Black.”

With these false remarks, Trump implied that Harris emphasized one part of her background to appeal to voters and ...Read more

In response to national pollsters’ failure in forecasting election outcomes in 1948 and 1952, The New York Times pursued in 1956 a weekslong, multistate exercise in on-the-ground reporting to assess public opinion about the presidential race.

The Times’ experiment, which these days would be recognized as “shoe-leather reporting,...Read more

Jon Tester has never had it easy.

The three-term Democratic senator from Montana has scored more than 50% of the vote only once in his three runs for the U.S. Senate, attracting 50.3% of the vote in 2018 against state auditor and future U.S. Rep. Matt Rosendale.

This year, Tester’s always-perilous path to reelection seems ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Hurricane Milton began its turn toward Florida on Tuesday still a powerful Category 4 hurricane with a forecast landfall near Tampa Bay and projected path that will cut through Central Florida.

The powerful hurricane surged Monday into a monster Category 5 storm with 180 mph winds in the Gulf of Mexico, but lost some steam ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Local and state lawmakers and Jewish community leaders and advocates addressed a crowd of about 2,000 in Beverly Hills on the Oct. 7 anniversary of the attack on Israel, honoring those who died while repeatedly calling for the release of those still held hostage.

"I want to simply hug my daughter," said Eitan Gonen, recounting ...Read more

State Sen. Victor Torres represents predominantly Hispanic Osceola County in central Florida. At Sunday Mass at his local church, immigrants often tell him they are scared to seek health care.

“They say, ‘My mother is ill, or my kid is sick, but I don’t have insurance,’’’ the Democrat said in an interview. “And I tell them, ‘You...Read more

CULIACÁN, Mexico — In this city built from the spoils of Mexico's richest drug-trafficking empire, they're calling it the "narco-pandemia'' — not a virus but a deadly reckoning inside the Sinaloa cartel that has left businesses shuttered, schools empty and the streets nearly deserted.

Even the glitzy bars, exclusive car dealerships and ...Read more

A growing number of utilities are resorting to an extreme measure to prevent their equipment from sparking catastrophic wildfires: turning off the power.

Electric companies serving about 24 million homes and businesses across the fire-prone U.S. West now have plans to preemptively cut electricity during dangerous fire conditions, according to ...Read more

BALTIMORE — In June 2022, Angela Coleman filed an application with the Baltimore County Department of Housing and Community Development. The Owings Mills nonprofit executive wanted financial help building 22 apartment units after buying a single-acre property on Eastern Avenue near Beasley Lane in Bengies-Chase, a historically Black village in...Read more

LOS ANGELES — At less than a month old, unsteady on his small paws, the jaguar cub was already working.

While others born in the Amazon rainforest were still being nursed by their mothers, he was rented out to do a photo op in a Texas hotel room for $1,000 an hour.

People snapped their fingers to get the cub’s attention and held him on ...Read more

PEACHTREE CORNERS, Ga. — Almost as soon as state Rep. Scott Hilton sat down at Darlene Penner’s dining room table, he was faced with a question that has dogged him and fellow Republicans even before news that a 14-year-old had allegedly used an assault-style rifle to kill four people at a Barrow County high school 45 minutes away.

“There ...Read more

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