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

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

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