It's no longer a new trend: Large retail pharmacies have been shuttering hundreds of stores across the nation. But an interactive map by University of Pittsburgh pharmacy researchers may help the public visualize the volume of those closures over the past 10 years — and glean the impact the closures may be having on the health of communities. ...Read more

At least 52,000 Colorado homes lost power during the peak of last week’s snowstorm, which dropped feet of wet, heavy snow across the state, according to Xcel Energy.

As of 11 a.m. Sunday, 8,297 homes were without power across Colorado, a jump of nearly 6,000 homes from 10 a.m., according to the energy outlet’s outage map. The majority of ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump announced that Susie Wiles, who managed his reelection campaign, would become his chief of staff. It makes Wiles the first woman to hold the role, the most senior political appointee in the White House with significant power and influence.

Though she’s considered a “Washington outsider” by some, Wiles is a ...Read more

Street battles have started in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kurakhove, Russian security agencies told state-run Tass, as Kremlin troops attempt to press their ground advantage at a time each side has ramped up drone launches.

“There is urban fighting in the territory” of the city, the agencies said, adding without evidence that Ukraine’...Read more

President Joe Biden will argue in favor of continued U.S. aid to Ukraine during the transition to President-elect Donald Trump’s administration, according to Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser at the White House.

“President Biden will have the opportunity over the next 70 days to make case to the Congress and to the incoming ...Read more

The residents of Camarillo Heights knew all too well the dangers of fire.

Their corner of Ventura County was battered by powerful Santa Ana winds every fall, and those gusts stoked fires that came close but never swept into their hillside community.

That is until Wednesday, when the Mountain fire made a direct hit, burning numerous homes and ...Read more

The National Hurricane Center is continues to monitor a system in the Atlantic with low odds of developing into the seasons next tropical depression or storm and weakening Tropical Storm Rafael.

As of the NHC 7 a.m. tropical outlook, disorganized showers and thunderstorms have decreased in area coverage since yesterday near a trough of low ...Read more

One of my patients – who had been struggling with obesity, uncontrolled diabetes and the cost of her medications – agreed in June 2019 to adopt a more whole-food plant-based diet.

Excited by the challenge, she did a remarkable job. She increased her fresh fruit and vegetable intake, stopped eating candy, cookies and cakes and cut ...Read more

Do names on a map matter? When they are in border territories, the answer is probably “yes.”

In 2023, China’s Ministry of Natural Resources ordered that new maps must use the former Chinese names of its lost territories in what is now Russia’s Far East. Vladivostok, home to Russia’s Pacific fleet headquarters, became ...Read more

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com.

Can rainbows form in a circle? – Henry D., age 7, Cambridge, Massachusetts

The legend goes that there is a pot of gold hidden at the end of every rainbow. But is there ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Now that a proposed amendment to enshrine abortion access in Florida’s constitution has been defeated, hundreds of volunteers and organizers across the state face the difficult question: What’s next?

Will Floridians of childbearing age continue to live under a six-week abortion ban indefinitely? Could restrictions ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — What should you do if you see a lizard the size of a dog running around your yard or in the woods?

South Carolina Department of Natural Resources says call them. Argentine Black and White Tegus are not native to the state, and in fact, were outlawed in 2021.

Will Dillman, assistant chief of wildlife at DNR, said call or ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York City public schools are fearful that anti-immigrant rhetoric will reverberate in classrooms in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s election as president amid political tensions running high and an increasing focus on the possibility of mass deportations.

Teachers and students on the East Coast woke up to the news on ...Read more

Evelin Weber and her neighbors fled their Malibu homes as the deadly Woolsey Fire tore across the California coast in 2018. Ever since, haunted by fears of another blaze, she’s spent $300,000 on fireproofing her house.

Weber installed a fire hydrant outside her $4 million home, built a new turnaround for firetrucks in her driveway, planted ...Read more

A series of wildfires ravaging parts of rain-starved New Jersey were sending plumes of smoke across the Hudson River and into New York, leaving much of the city blanketed in an eerie haze.

At least six fires, all of them fueled by bone-dry conditions and windy weather, were actively burning across the Garden State on Saturday, from the ...Read more

Russia and the U.S. have had contact on the subject of the war in Ukraine via “closed channels” at the military and political levels, according to a top Russian foreign relations official.

“As for the situation in Ukraine, the exchange of signals via closed channels is periodically carried out,” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump said he won’t invite his former ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, or former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join his new administration.

“I very much enjoyed and appreciated working with them previously, and would like to thank them for their service to our country,” he said in a Saturday post ...Read more

NEW YORK — Firefighters extinguished a second brush fire in Prospect Park on Saturday, roughly a mile away from the site of Friday night’s larger blaze, New York City Fire Department officials said.

Forty smoke eaters responded to a fire near the LeFrak Center at Lakeside ice skating rink at about 2:40 p.m. and quickly put out the flames by...Read more

WASHINGTON — A Federal Emergency Management Agency employee who ordered workers to bypass homes with yard signs supporting President-elect Donald Trump has been fired, the agency’s head said Saturday.

“This is a clear violation of FEMA’s core values and principles to help people regardless of their political affiliation,” FEMA ...Read more