CHICAGO — Hundreds of people gathered in Chicago’s Federal Plaza Wednesday night less than a day after former President Donald Trump won his reelection bid to affirm their support for progressive policies like abortion access, immigrant rights and an end to U.S. military aid to Israel.

The protest, the first of what organizers promised ...Read more

MIAMI — Hurricane Rafael, now a Category 2 storm, is expected to slowly trek west across the Gulf of Mexico for the next few days.

This path is lined with less friendly conditions than the Caribbean — biting wind shear, dry air and cooler waters — that could work together to weaken the storm. By the time it nears Mexico on Sunday, the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Humanity’s heating of the planet, driven by the burning of fossil fuels and unchecked emissions of greenhouse gases, has become the main driver of worsening droughts in California and the American West, according to new research.

A team of UCLA and NOAA scientists found that while droughts in the last century were caused ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — The election of Donald Trump— whose campaign featured incendiary proposals on tariffs, immigration and combating drug trafficking — is sending shock waves through Mexico, a nation with close economic, social and cultural ties to its northern neighbor.

The president-elect’s vows to impose steep taxes on goods imported from...Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump's election victory, combined with the Republican takeover of the Senate, may extend conservative control of the Supreme Court for another two decades.

For much of the last four years, progressives focused their energies on proposals to expand the size of the court or impose term limits on the current ...Read more

Clouds form when water vapor – an invisible gas in the atmosphere – sticks to tiny floating particles, such as dust, and turns into liquid water droplets or ice crystals. In a newly published study, we show that microplastic particles can have the same effects, producing ice crystals at temperatures 5 to 10 degrees Celsius (9 to 18 ...Read more

America’s military veterans make up about 6% of the adult population but account for about 20% of all suicides. That means that each day, about 18 veterans will die by suicide.

In the U.S., the overall rate of suicide has largely increased since the start of the millennium, but veterans are disproportionately represented among this ...Read more

During cheerleading practice in April, Jana Duey’s sixth-grade daughter, Karter, sustained a concussion when she fell several feet headfirst onto a gym floor mat. Days after, Karter still had a headache, dizziness, and sensitivity to light and noise.

Karter rested for a week and a half at home in Centennial, Colorado, then returned to school ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Madie Moore went to prison in 1995, convicted of murdering her 8-year-old niece, LaToya. The little girl’s battered body was found stuffed in a trash can, encased in concrete, in a shed behind the family home.

Moore had gone in at 45. At 74, in a wheelchair and blind in one eye, she was trying to get out.

As she spoke to the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In downtown Los Angeles, parking lots are often placeholders, eventually giving rise to future development, but in the district known as South Park, one parking lot might just stay low.

Surrounded by residential towers, this ordinary patch of asphalt at 11th Street and South Grand Avenue, smaller than an ice-skating rink, may ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s victory Tuesday heralds a potential sea change in court fights over a swath of Biden administration policies, including access to gender-affirming care, immigration, environmental rules and gun control.

The highest profile of those shifts may come at the Supreme Court, where the Biden administration is currently ...Read more

CHICAGO — Before they lost contact, Ellie Dyckman relied on her younger brother Joey. He helped her cope with her divorce, taught her two daughters how to swim and ride a bicycle and coached her daughters’ softball team in grade school.

He had a messy room, but his car was “always immaculate,” Dyckman said. He loved “The Three Stooges...Read more

For one reason or another, Americans occasionally find themselves asking what steps are needed to become a citizen of another country. According to the American Bar Association, immigration lawyers in the U.S. are fielding a larger than usual number of questions about getting a second passport or obtaining permanent residency abroad.

America ...Read more