UPPSALA, Sweden — For Swedish youth, it’s unavoidable.

Enter nearly any restaurant or bar in Sweden, and you’ll see tables with a cluster of plastic packs of nicotine pouches, or snus, in the center. On social media, influencers tout mini-crocheted purses designed to fit a plastic canister and crystal adorned boxes.

Nicotine pouches have...Read more

As super-contagious measles continues to spread and nears a six-year U.S. record, cases in its original epicenter of West Texas may be subsiding as hesitant residents become more concerned and willing to vaccinate, while North Dakota is a new focus with the highest rate of any state.

The reality of measles may be overcoming vaccine ...Read more

A butterfly flits past the window at the Castlewood Canyon Visitor Center, where dozens of volunteers have gathered to learn about Colorado’s declining butterfly population and how they can do their part to save it.

Shiran Hershcovich, a lepidopterist at the Westminster-based Butterfly Pavilion who’s leading the Saturday morning training, ...Read more

A new kind of mRNA vaccine developed by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Penn State University could be cheaper to produce and offer a greater level of immunity across multiple variants of the virus.

The news comes as mRNA vaccines have been targeted by the Trump administration's recent funding cuts, and Health Secretary Robert F...Read more

Veronica Montoya relies on Medicaid for the $15,000 infusions that restrain her immune system from attacking her body, and worries she may lose that access if Congress adopts drastic changes to the health care program.

Provisions of congressional Republicans’ “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” would add work requirements for some people covered...Read more

In an age of social media tirades and escalating polarization, Vance Boelter did not strike people who knew him or worked with him as someone motivated by political rage.

Boelter was apprehended by police Sunday night, officials said, and is alleged by law enforcement to have carried out a political assassination. He’s been charged with two ...Read more

The criminal complaint alleging that Vance Luther Boelter killed Minnesota House DFL leader Melissa Hortman and her husband and attempted to kill state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife was unsealed late Sunday night after he was apprehended in a field in Sibley County.

Boelter, 57 of Green Isle, Minn., stands charged with two counts of second-...Read more

Shooting suspect Vance Boelter’s two-day escape from authorities ended Sunday night in a field in Sibley County, where he surrendered amid drones and SWAT teams. It marked the end of an intense manhunt that had put Minnesotans across the state on edge.

A massive dragnet had encircled woods and farm fields throughout much of the day Sunday ...Read more

A Pottstown resident who would give her name only as Kathy Lou paced the sidewalk outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Center City on Sunday morning, waiting to see if her husband would be permitted to leave.

"It feels a bit off," she said in Spanish, fidgety with anxiety and shivering from the cold.

This was a long ...Read more

Tina Smith woke up Saturday to a barrage of text messages.

The U.S. senator spent the evening before catching up with fellow Democratic leaders at the party’s annual fundraising dinner, including longtime DFL legislative leader Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark.

By morning, Gov. Tim Walz and other colleagues relayed to her the ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he believed it’s possible Israel and Iran could reach an agreement to end their conflict, though the two sides may need to continue fighting before they’re ready to broker a peace deal.

“Sometimes they have to fight it out, but we’re going to see what happens,” Trump told reporters at the White House on ...Read more

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he has no doubts that the Aukus defense pact with the U.S. and Australia will continue despite President Donald Trump’s review of the initiative.

The Pentagon last week launched a review of the Joe Biden-era deal to develop nuclear-powered submarines with Australia and the U.K., as part of Trump’s push...Read more

China’s government is reviewing impacts on the nation’s scientific research after President Donald Trump’s moves to withdraw funding from some U.S. agencies and halt publication of certain categories of data.

Several Chinese ministries and bodies have in recent weeks started assessing potential disruption to their work, and made efforts ...Read more

State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, continued to recover Sunday evening after each being shot multiple times in their Champlin home a day earlier, according to a statement the family shared with Sen. Amy Klobuchar who posted on Instragram.

“John is enduring many surgeries right now and is closer every hour to being out of the woods,...Read more