While the risk of contracting and dying from the H5N1 avian flu remains low for humans, researchers continue to hunt for vaccines and treatments in case the virus mutates to spread more easily between animals and humans — or among humans themselves.

A team that includes researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and the National Institutes...Read more

The University of Florida announced a sole finalist to be its next president: Santa J. Ono, president of the University of Michigan.

The announcement follows a search that began after former President Ben Sasse resigned last July, citing his wife’s health. After his resignation, reports of a surge in spending on administrative hires and ...Read more

President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post that he has ordered the reopening of Alcatraz as a prison to “house America’s most ruthless and violent Offenders.”

Trump said he’s directing the Bureau of Prisons, Department of Justice, the FBI and Homeland Security to rebuild and substantially enlarge the former maximum security ...Read more

President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he plans to impose a 100% tariff on films produced overseas, extending his restrictive trade policies on U.S. imports to the entertainment sector for the first time.

In a post on Truth Social, the American leader said he was directing the Commerce Department and his trade representative to “...Read more

President Donald Trump suggested that his administration could strike trade deals with some countries as soon as this week, offering the prospect of relief for trading partners seeking to avoid higher U.S. import duties.

“It could very well be,” Trump told reporters on Sunday when asked whether any trade agreements were coming this week. He...Read more

Service members looking to leave the military could fill an important space in their workforce, according to offshore wind labor leaders and developers.

With more offshore wind units coming online over the next few years, more trade jobs will be necessary, according to a 2024 report from the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. The...Read more

At least 32 people were injured Saturday after a commercial bus crashed into a ditch about 70 miles west of St. Louis, Missouri, according to authorities.

The bus was traveling along Missouri Highway 100 west of Hermann when the driver veered off the road to the right, Missouri State Highway Patrol said in a crash report. The driver then ...Read more

A Romanian ultranationalist aligned with Donald Trump will head to a presidential runoff against the centrist mayor of Bucharest later this month after securing victory in a repeat election on Sunday, the latest blow to the nation’s ruling establishment.

George Simion of the ultranationalist Alliance for the Union of Romanians secured 40%, ...Read more

The city is planning to put panic buttons linked to the NYPD in about 500 bodegas across the five boroughs, the mayor and police commissioner announced Sunday.

Mayor Adams and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said the city will allocate $1.6 million through an emergency grant to the United Bodegas of America, as part of the city budget, to equip...Read more

President Donald Trump has twice been sworn in to do the job of leading the country with his vow to uphold the Constitution, but on Sunday he expressed uncertainty about whether or not that included “due process.”

During a wide ranging interview aired Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press with Kristen Welker, Trump didn’t have an answer when ...Read more

Voters in Bensenville, Illinois, recently made clear how they felt about a proposed 1% tax on groceries. In a referendum on April 1, 91% voted against it.

Even though the measure failed in Bensenville, at least 163 communities around the state have recently enacted local grocery taxes.

Gov. JB Pritzker signed a bill last year repealing the ...Read more

A far-right Romanian opposition leader who aligned himself with Donald Trump secured a first-round victory in a repeat presidential election, dealing a blow to the Black Sea nation’s ruling establishment amid outrage over persistent corruption and poverty.

George Simion of the ultranationalist Alliance for the Union of Romanians secured 40.2...Read more

Katrina Roman’s four Spanish students are slowly walking around their small classroom looking for something. These students, in grades K-12, don’t know what they’re searching for, but Roman prompts them by telling them if they are getting warm (“calor”) or cold (“frio”).

“Mucho frio (very cold), hace mucho frio (you’re very ...Read more

The Trump administration’s funding shell game over the health program that treats 9/11 first responders with Ground Zero-related illnesses continued this weekend with a fresh round of layoffs — and New York’s Senate delegation is calling on their Republican colleagues to step up and save the program.

Friday’s mass layoffs at the ...Read more

Romania’s far-right opposition leader won the first round of a presidential election repeat as voters took aim at the ruling establishment over persistent corruption and poverty in the Black Sea nation, exit polls showed.

George Simion of the ultranationalist Alliance of the Union of Romanians secured 30%, according to exit polls released by...Read more

Twenty-two voicemails.

That’s how many Vickie Schaefer left during a five-day stretch, trying to get someone at Hennepin County, Minnesota, to help her renew the financial assistance her 92-year-old mother relies on to pay rent at her assisted living facility.

Eventually, the Plymouth woman reached someone — on call 23 — but she worries ...Read more

Voters in Bensenville, Illinois, recently made clear how they felt about a proposed 1% tax on groceries. In a referendum on April 1, 91% voted against it.

Even though the measure failed in Bensenville, at least 163 communities around the state have recently enacted local grocery taxes.

Gov. JB Pritzker signed a bill last year repealing the ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he is willing to lower tariffs on China at some point because the levies now are so high that the world’s two largest economies have essentially stopped doing business with each other.

Trump has placed tariffs as high as 145% on Chinese imports. China has retaliated with tariffs of 125% on American imports. The ...Read more