While many respiratory viruses — including COVID-19, RSV and influenza — circulate year-round in California, they are typically more active between October and March, according to the California Department of Public Health.

You might be wondering whether your cold-like symptoms might be coronavirus, and whether you can use the old at-home ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Within the next couple of weeks, the first blood samples from patients will arrive at the loading dock of Adaptimmune, a biotechnology company headquartered on the northeastern edge of the Navy Yard.

Their arrival will open a new chapter in medicine's ongoing search for a therapy that converts the body's own immune system into ...Read more

MIAMI — Evacuees streamed away from the Gulf Coast, clogging roads and draining gas stations. Major airports in Tampa and Orlando prepared to shut down. Schools announced pending closures across much of the state, including in South Florida. Millions of residents across the state were under hurricane warnings or watches.

On Tuesday, much of ...Read more

Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz offered support for eliminating the Electoral College but acknowledged that appeared unlikely in the current political climate.

“The Electoral College needs to go,” Walz said at a fundraiser Tuesday in Sacramento, California, hosted by that state’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, according ...Read more

Philadelphia-area hospitals are giving patients Gatorade and oral medications instead of IV fluids as they grapple with a national shortage of sterile IV fluids after a major manufacturer was shut down by Hurricane Helene in late September.

Storm damage has halted production at Baxter International's North Carolina plant, which produces about ...Read more

Magistrates at Colombia’s electoral council voted to open an investigation over an alleged breaching of financing limits in Gustavo Petro’s presidential campaign.

The board of the nation’s electoral authority decided to also investigate the CEO of state-controlled oil producer Ecopetrol SA, Ricardo Roa, for his role as chief of the ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Hurricane Milton began its turn toward Florida on Tuesday rebounding back to Category 5 strength with a forecast landfall on the Gulf Coast south of Tampa Bay still as a major hurricane and the threat of 15-foot storm surge, according to the National Hurricane Center.

“Stronger vertical shear is expected to set in about 24 ...Read more

The Boston City Council slammed the U.S. Postal Service for blowing off an emergency hearing aimed at addressing service failures it says are causing residents to miss out on bills and prescriptions, and raising mail-in voting concerns.

Councilor Sharon Durkan, who called for the hearing last month, said Tuesday that the USPS chose not to ...Read more

The FBI has arrested an Afghan national who was plotting an Election Day terrorist attack in the name of ISIS, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.

Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, of Oklahoma City, allegedly conspired to carry out a violent attack on large crowds next month, officials said. No information on exact locations or targets was ...Read more

A convicted arsonist who was sentenced to 17 years in prison for starting wildland fires has been arrested on suspicion of igniting two more, said officials with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

Donald Shawn Anderson, 41, was scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in a Lake County courtroom on four felony counts of arson ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Authorities lifted evacuation orders and reopened roads Tuesday evening in rural East County after firefighters fully contained a fast-moving brush fire that had scorched more than 400 acres.

“It is looking good out here,” Cal Fire Capt. Robert Johnson said.

The Posta 3 fire started north of Campo shortly after noon Monday ...Read more

Vice President Kamala Harris outlined a proposal to allow Medicare to expand its coverage of home health care for older Americans. The Democratic presidential nominee announced this plan on the television talk show “The View.”

Harris explained that she aimed to take the burden off members of the “sandwich generation,” who are ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — Rejecting a renewed "war" against drug-traffickers, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Tuesday unveiled her strategy to battle organized crime in a nation where each day brings word of new assassinations, gang wars, massacres and other carnage.

"The war against el narco will not return," Sheinbaum, who took office last week,...Read more

South Florida may not be getting a direct hit from Hurricane Milton, but nerves here are on edge nonetheless.

Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis blames it on PTSD from all the storms that have come before.

“We are not going to get the brunt of this hurricane — we’re going to get the outer edges,” he told the South Florida Sun ...Read more

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration is threatening to criminally prosecute Florida television stations if they do not stop running a political advertisement featuring a brain cancer patient who supports a November ballot measure that would broaden access to abortion in Florida.

But nearly a week after the state warned TV stations to pull the ad...Read more

NEW YORK — The testimony of social worker Justyna Rzewinski about the extended lock-ins – or “deadlocking” – of severely mentally ill people in a Rikers Island jail Tuesday drew the full attention of a city jail oversight board and pledges from a top Correction Department official to investigate.

Rzewinski appeared before the Board ...Read more

With the Gulf of Mexico on simmer, for the people on Florida’s West Coast the reality horror show that is an approaching hurricane is forecast to reach a climax Wednesday night somewhere near the heavily developed Tampa Bay region, with potentially catastrophic results.

This, less than two weeks after much of the Sunshine State was soaked by ...Read more

The Dominican Republic is carrying out “a discriminatory campaign” against Haitians based on their nationality and the color of their skin, Haiti’s acting representative to the Organization of American States charged Tuesday.

That campaign, which the Dominican government said focuses on expelling up to 10,000 Haitians a week, risks ...Read more