ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center forecasts Tropical Storm Rafael to grow into the season’s 11th hurricane on Tuesday as it moves toward Cuba with winds and storm surge expected to only sideswipe Florida as it moves into the Gulf of Mexico.

As of the NHC’s 7 a.m. advisory, Rafael was located about 80 miles south-southwest of ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center forecasts Tropical Storm Rafael to grow into the season’s 11th hurricane on Tuesday as it moves toward Cuba with winds and storm surge expected to affect the Florida Keys this week.

As of the NHC’s 10 a.m. EST advisory, Rafael was located about 65 miles southwest of Montego Bay, Jamaica and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Blanca de Leon won’t be closing up shop or boarding up the windows of her beauty parlor on Pennsylvania Avenue Southeast because of fears about the election, even as other businesses around the city brace for the worst.

That doesn’t mean de Leon, who owns Capitol Hair Salon a block away from the Capitol, isn’t nervous.

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ATLANTA — Six people, including a Fulton County Jail officer and several members of the Goodfellas gang, have been indicted on charges of conspiring to kill two detention officers, the U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday.

The alleged plot was attempted in exchange for money and to protect a drug ring inside the jail, officials said, and ...Read more

NEW YORK — The NYC Board of Elections is sending out technicians to polling sites across Queens Tuesday after reports that machines at several locations have been rejecting ballots.

Vinnie Ignizio, BOE’s deputy executive director, confirmed to the Daily News that some scanners in the borough have been “kicking ballots out,” requiring ...Read more

It’s Election Day in America.

Voters are heading to the polls in one of the most consequential elections in American history. In a politically polarized country, potential delays in reporting results might further fuel conspiracy theories that have spread widely.

Across the country, more than 77 million voters already cast their ballots ...Read more

Republican leaders in several key states are vowing to keep federal election monitors away from voting sites in the name of election integrity, spurring anger from many who say the party is doing the opposite of protecting voters’ rights.

In Texas, Democrats are calling for the involvement of federal election monitors as an added layer of ...Read more

DENVER — The Denver City Council voted down eight proposed amendments to the city’s 2025 budget on Monday night, including rejecting a request to give another $2.5 million to the Denver Basic Income Project, a program that is gauging the impact of providing direct cash assistance to homeless or formerly homeless Denverites.

The final vote ...Read more

As the nation celebrates our 16 million living veterans, it is also important to know that the chance these heroes will end their own lives prematurely is still higher than among civilians.

Among veterans with PTSD, suicide is the fourth most common cause of death. Among veterans younger than 35, it’s second.

Over the past ...Read more

The horrors of war are all too familiar: lives lost, homes destroyed, entire communities forced to flee. Yet as time passes, places that once were sites of death and destruction can become peaceful natural refuges.

One of the deadliest battles fought on U.S. soil, for example, was the Battle of Gettysburg. Tens of thousands of men ...Read more

A man was arrested at a polling station in Illinois after he tried to cut the line to cast his vote, then punched an election judge who ordered him to wait his turn, police said.

Approximately 100 people were waiting to cast an early ballot at the Orland Park Township Office when the chaos erupted Sunday morning, CBS Chicago reported. Officers ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALES, Fla. — We’ve reached Election Day, the final day of voting in the 2024 presidential election after millions of Floridians already have cast their votes.

Neighborhood polling places will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday.

Those heading to the polls are less likely to face rain earlier in the day: The rain chances are ...Read more

When the founders of the United States designed the Constitution, they were learning from history that democracy was likely to fail – to find someone who would fool the people into giving him complete power and then end the democracy.

They designed checks and balances to guard against the accumulation of power they had found when ...Read more

With U.S. voters across the political spectrum strongly concerned about border security, presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have been trying to one-up each other on who can reduce migration at the nation’s southern border fastest and most effectively.

Trump’s rhetoric is more extreme: He’s called the U.S. a �...Read more

Ever had the feeling that you can’t make sense of what’s happening? One moment everything seems normal, then suddenly the frame shifts to reveal a world on fire, struggling with war, climate change and political violence and upheaval.

That’s “zozobra,” the peculiar form of anxiety that comes from being unable to settle into ...Read more

Johanna Neumann was 8 when she witnessed a mob of local citizens and Nazis vandalizing the Bornplatz Synagogue in Hamburg. They were “shouting and throwing stones at the marvelous glass windows,” as she later said in an oral history interview. Other students at the Jewish school nearby described a mountain of prayer books and Torah ...Read more

Houses of worship may be busier than usual come Election Day as Americans head to the polls rather than the pews.

A 2010 census of religious congregations identified nearly 350,000 churches, mosques, temples and other religious establishments attended by more than 150 million Americans, primarily for spiritual needs and social ...Read more