Infant deaths have increased in the United States since the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe vs. Wade and allowed states to make abortion illegal, researchers reported Monday.

The change became detectable three months after the June 2022 ruling with an elevated rate of infant mortality involving babies born with serious congenital ...Read more

BOSTON — Top Massachusetts Republicans are filing legislation that they say would give local courts more tools to protect the public from illegal immigrants who have been arrested for violent crimes.

Senate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr and House Minority Leader Brad Jones are leading a push that addresses a “critical statutory gap” ...Read more

BALTIMORE – At Downtown Baltimore Child Care, 3-year-old Jaylen Robinson emphatically pronounces the letter “O” four times, waving a black-and-white alphabet tile in the air and placing it to spell the word “octopus.” His classmate Layla, also 3, marches down the stairs from the dramatic play area in a bright-red fire hat.

Normally, ...Read more

Foreign influence campaigns aimed at meddling in the 2024 general election are not expected to stop when the polls close on Nov. 5, experts and U.S. officials say, warning that adversaries could seek to undercut trust in the integrity of the contest.

The intelligence community said in a briefing that foreign actors are pushing to exacerbate ...Read more

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Is a zombie apocalypse caused by fungi, like the Cordyceps from “The Last of Us,” something that could realistically happen? – Jupiter, age 15, Ithaca, New York

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A growing number of students in public schools – right now, about 15% of them – are eligible for special education services. These services include specially designed instruction for students with autism, learning or physical disabilities, or traumatic brain injuries. But going into the current school year, more than half of U.S. public ...Read more

The Taliban, an ultraconservative Islamic political group, retook control of Kabul a little more than three years ago, dashing many Afghans’ hopes for a tolerant, democratic government.

As U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan days after the Taliban’s resurgence in 2021, hundreds of thousands of Afghans flocked to the Kabul ...Read more

The 2024 election is rife with controversy, from the politics of the campaigns to the politics surrounding the administration of elections. Accusations of wrongdoing and ineptitude continue to plague election officials, despite their explanations of legal compliance and process.

This is not new. During the 2016 election season, there ...Read more

U.S. officials traveled to the Middle East in a last-ditch effort to secure a cease-fire in Israel’s wars with Iran-backed Hezbollah and Hamas ahead of the presidential election early next month.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to visit Israel and other countries starting Monday — his 11th trip to the region since the Israel-Hamas...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Monday proposed making over-the-counter contraception available at no cost and with fewer administrative hurdles.

“Today, my Administration is taking a major step to expand contraception coverage under the Affordable Care Act. This new action would help ensure that millions of women with private ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla, — The surprise hurricane that popped up and lashed Cuba over the weekend lost some steam Monday, and is forecast to turn and head toward the Bahamas and away from Florida by Tuesday, according to the National Hurricane Center.

As of the NHC’s 5 a.m. advisory, the center of what is now Tropical Storm Oscar was located about 5 ...Read more

In Washington state, Bigfoot rules the forest. But the skies? That's for the little green men.

In 2007, Yakima resident Troy Hampton-Peterson was looking at the stars outside Moses Lake when he and a girlfriend noticed something strange.

"It looked kind of like a bat," Hampton-Peterson said, "and it moved across the sky, and we said 'That was ...Read more

Getting your election news from social media? There's a chance it could be false.

Health myths — such as abortions occurring in the last stages of pregnancy, the government controlling the weather, and vaccines causing developmental disability — have spread during the current election cycle and gripped much of the nation.

While it's not ...Read more

The two aviators who were missing after a Navy Growler crashed east of Mount Rainier last week have died, officials said Sunday.

The announcement comes five days after the EA-18G Growler crashed Tuesday afternoon near White Pass during a training flight. Authorities located the wreckage a day later.

No information was immediately provided ...Read more

More Republicans than Democrats turned out to cast their ballots on Saturday, the first day of early voting in Nevada, according to statewide totals.

Those totals showed 52.8% of ballots were cast by registered Republicans, 28.1% by voters registered as Democrats and 19.2 percent by voters not registered to either party.

Republican voter ...Read more