Smoke and grit from hundreds of forest fires have spread across large parts of Canada and the northern U.S., sending air quality across the Midwest and northeast U.S. and Toronto to unhealthy levels.

Air quality deteriorated to moderate in Chicago early Sunday with some areas deemed unhealthy for sensitive groups, and to unhealthy in Milwaukee ...Read more

Democratic lawmakers said they are leaving the state of Texas in an effort to temporarily block Republicans from redrawing its congressional maps — a redistricting initiative pushed by President Donald Trump.

By fleeing, Democrats will leave the state legislature short of the minimum number of lawmakers required to hold votes. They will be ...Read more

The National Hurricane Center continued Sunday to track three systems in the Atlantic with the potential to form into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. tropical outlook, it had increased chances for a system off the U.S. East Coast to form while also forecasting a tropical wave to roll off the African ...Read more

The Las Vegas gunman who killed four people in a Manhattan office building housing the NFL’s headquarters before taking his own life had sought medical treatment for debilitating headaches, ESPN reported on Sunday.

Shane Tamura, 27, regularly visited doctors, including a neurologist, and received yearly MRI exams, injections in the back of ...Read more

Lesson No. 1, perhaps, in taking a role in the administration of President Donald Trump: If you’ve previously described yourself in social media posts as a “progressive, Bernie Sanders fan” and a “political liberal, closest to Elizabeth Warren,” best delete those posts if you want to stay employed.

Otherwise, as Bay Area physician and...Read more

By opening the door to a pair of polarizing corporate taxes, Mayor Brandon Johnson could galvanize a progressive base itching to see him deliver on a campaign promise to “make the ultra-rich pay their fair share,” but also infuriate business opponents already set on defeating him in 2027.

Facing a more than $1 billion deficit and having ...Read more

Two groups of people assembled Friday morning on a dirt hill overlooking a freeway.

On one end were more than a dozen individuals in reflective vests. They stood holding shovels and rakes and eyed several mattresses lying on the ground. Closer to the bedding were Maria Garcia, 55, and a man in his 20s. Garcia ignored the crew as she picked up a...Read more

President Donald Trump’s first confirmed nominee for U.S. Attorney is a Miami-Dade judge whose professional background includes poor job evaluations in the office he will now lead.

On Saturday, Judge Jason A. Reding Quiñones secured a 51-41 cloture vote in the U.S. Senate. He will now head the U.S. Attorney’s Office in South Florida, ...Read more

Skies over much of Minnesota looked — and smelled — clearer and cleaner Sunday, with the most troublesome air from Canadian wildfires moving east into Wisconsin.

But state and federal air quality monitors still are predicting sections of unhealthy air for people with sensitivity through Monday at noon.

Minneapolis had the fifth worst air ...Read more

Smoke and grit from hundreds of forest fires have spread across large parts of Canada and the northern U.S., sending air quality across the Midwest and northeast U.S. and Toronto to unhealthy levels.

Air quality deteriorated to moderate in Chicago early Sunday with some areas unhealthy for sensitive groups, and to unhealthy in Milwaukee and ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s firing of the chief labor statistician was criticized by her predecessor, who called it an unfounded move that will undermine confidence in a key data set on the U.S. economy.

“This is damaging,” William Beach, whom Trump picked in his first term to head the Bureau of Labor Statistics, said on CNN’s "State of ...Read more

Billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Yass along with crypto industry donors helped President Donald Trump raise $236 million for his political operation in the first six months of 2025 — an unprecedented sum for a second-term president.

The latest filings to the Federal Election Commission show that the fundraising haul, which includes donations ...Read more

People tend to think about pain as a biological process, says Elizabeth Losin, a biobehavioral health professor at Pennsylvania State University.

“You step on a thumbtack, it sends a message up to your brain and sets off an alarm, and that’s it,” she said in a recent interview.

But people of different genders and races often report ...Read more

Secretary General Antonio Guterres is slashing more than $700 million in spending and laying plans to overhaul the United Nations as its largest sponsor, the U.S., pulls back support.

Guterres’s plan calls for 20% cuts in expenditures and employment, which would bring its budget, now $3.7 billion, to the lowest since 2018. About 3,000 jobs ...Read more

A Blue Origin rocket launched cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun and five others on a trip to the edge of space and back.

The flight lifted off Sunday at 7:42 a.m. local time from West Texas on a short suborbital joyride to space.

Sun founded TRON, a blockchain platform, and serves as an adviser to HTX, one of the world’s largest ...Read more

A third child has died as a result of Monday’s barge-sailboat collision in Biscayne Bay, the Miami Yacht Club announced Sunday.

“The Miami Yacht Club (MYC) and the Miami Youth Sailing Foundation (YSF) are deeply heartbroken to share that a third young sailor has tragically passed away as a result of the incident that occurred on the water ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s firing of the chief labor statistician was criticized by her predecessor, who called it an unfounded move that will undermine confidence in a key data set on the U.S. economy.

“This is damaging,” William Beach, whom Trump picked in his first term to head the Bureau of Labor Statistics, said on CNN’s "State of ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Four Guatemalan siblings, detained as undocumented immigrants after a traffic stop, spent several days last month at the Orange County Jail before being picked up in a van and driven around for hours.

Finally they reached their destination, their attorneys say: Right back at the Orange County Jail.

This directionless odyssey ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Texas Republicans are moving forward with an effort to redraw the state’s congressional map to be more favorable for the GOP, prompting states around the country to consider whether they too should revisit their district lines ahead of next year’s midterm elections.

The White House is encouraging at least one other state — ...Read more