It was the week that finally may have shifted the momentum to work collectively, rather than separately, to understand the health effects of the decades-long sewage crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border.

It began the first Friday of September amid a record-breaking heatwave, when researchers from UC San Diego and San Diego State University ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Monique Lewis has figured out a few tricks to lure her foster child to school.

Some days, it's McDonald's frappuccinos. But on days the 13-year-old girl still struggles to get out of bed, a counselor from Aviva Family and Children's Services is available to help out.

Lewis' Compton home is the first one the girl has never run ...Read more

For people living and working near the Magellan-Dupont gasoline storage facility in Commerce City, Colorado, the company’s decision earlier this month to cancel its proposed expansion across the street from an elementary school was an environmental victory.

Yet the situation left people feeling disappointed when it comes to the state’s new ...Read more

The quiet halls of Charleroi High School briefly burst to life with the ring of a bell last week, signaling the end of seventh period.

Hundreds of students clad in jeans, athletic shorts and pajama pants made their way to their next class, embracing and jostling each other on their way, before the halls again fell silent.

The day was like any ...Read more

The electricity provider for Orlando, Florida, and its customers could use relationship therapy as they venture together into an era of sunshine powering homes, cars and most everything else.

What the municipally owned Orlando Utilities Commission aims to do is swift, consequential and risk-taking in a region of the nation only now going full ...Read more

Central Oregon Pathology Consultants has been in business for nearly 60 years, offering molecular testing and other diagnostic services east of the Cascade Range.

Beginning last winter, it operated for months without being paid, surviving on cash on hand, practice manager Julie Tracewell said. The practice is caught up in the aftermath of one ...Read more

Multiple people leading Republican Mark Robinson’s gubernatorial campaign staff have resigned following a CNN report about vulgar and racists posts made years ago on a pornography website.

Robinson, North Carolina’s lieutenant governor, denies the allegations. His campaign announced the departures in a news release Sunday evening.

Those ...Read more

Several dozen Haitians and allies gathered on Federal Plaza with an umbrella in one hand and Haitian flags in the other Sunday afternoon. The gloomy sky and near-constant downpour did not dampen their admonishment of former President Donald Trump’s unfounded accusations that Haitians were stealing and eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, and the ...Read more

Growing up, Nathan Gabriel was teased for his Haitian heritage. He’s now growing increasingly concerned about the claims former President Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance made at the national stage regarding Haitian immigrants — and that anxiety has empowered him to push others to vote.

“Being Haitian is a blessing,” said ...Read more

Senators in his own party expressed concern Sunday about the scathing report on North Carolina’s Republican gubernatorial nominee, Mark Robinson, acknowledging the grave allegations against Donald Trump’s preferred candidate.

“The charges are beyond unnerving. If they’re true, he’s unfit to serve for office,” Senator Lindsey Graham,...Read more

The battle between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump over the economy is set to intensify, with the rival presidential candidates planning dueling addresses this week on one of the campaign’s defining issues.

Harris told reporters Sunday she will deliver a speech “to outline my vision for the economy.” Trump, meanwhile, is set to offer ...Read more

For almost a year, Israel and Hezbollah have engaged in increasingly provocative cross-border skirmishes as onlookers warn that this escalating war of attrition could land the region in all-out conflict. The past few days have made that devastating scenario closer to a reality.

First came Israel’s pager and walkie-talkie attack, an ...Read more

A senior adviser for Angela Alsobrooks said Sunday that the Maryland Democratic U.S. Senate candidate was unaware she had been improperly taking advantage of tax breaks she didn’t qualify for and that her attorneys were working to resolve the issue, which was detailed in a CNN report that morning.

Alsobrooks claimed a homestead tax exemption...Read more

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., says North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson risks becoming a “political zombie” if he doesn’t have a credible defense to alleged lewd comments he made on a pornographic website a more than a decade ago.

“He deserves a chance to defend himself, Mark Robinson,” Graham said of the Republican nominee for ...Read more

The former cast of a fictional White House staff claimed Sunday that Donald Trump would impose a nationwide abortion ban if the Republican presidential candidate is voted back into the Oval Office in November.

A national bus tour featuring former cast members from the television drama "Scandal," which ran on ABC from 2012-18, stopped in Madison...Read more

Former President Donald Trump will make two campaign stops in Michigan on Friday, the day after absentee ballots become available to voters in the state for this fall's election.

The Republican presidential nominee will speak at 2 p.m. Friday at FALK Production in Walker in Kent County. Then, he will participate in a town hall at 6 p.m. Friday ...Read more

An overworked Secret Service was "casual" in preparing for former President Donald Trump's visit to Butler in July that almost ended in tragedy, the chair of the House task force investigating the attempted assassination said Sunday.

"The preparation for that event leaves a lot in our minds as to how in the world the most elite group, and the ...Read more

Assisted by favorable weather conditions, firefighters continue to increase containment of three major Southern California wildfires that have burned more than 117,000 acres, destroyed 242 structures and led to 24 injuries.

A late-summer heat wave fueled conditions for explosive growth, but cooler-than-usual temperatures and higher humidity in ...Read more

Authorities ordered the evacuation of approximately 150 homes in a Ventura, California, neighborhood Sunday because of "potentially dangerous levels of hydrocarbon vapors" and placed another 2,600 homes under a warning to possibly leave.

The initial evacuation order from the Ventura Police Department at 9:53 a.m. urged residents along Bayshore ...Read more