While West Nile remains the greatest mosquito-borne threat in Pennsylvania, state officials are monitoring another virus that has begun popping up in mosquito populations.

Jamestown Canyon virus, discovered in a Colorado town of the same name in 1961, was added to the state Department of Environmental Protection's West Nile Virus Mosquito ...Read more

A federal appeals court this week struck down California’s landmark law requiring background checks and in-person transactions for ammunition purchases, the latest in a string of judicial wins that have gun rights advocates celebrating.

For now, until further legal steps play out, Californians looking for ammo still face the same requirements...Read more

The new, glass-walled supercomputer called Betty sits on the top floor of a high-fenced brick data center on a hill 30 miles northwest — by road and two separate twin-fiber data lines — from its operators at the University of Pennsylvania.

Betty is a stack of central processing units, a “SuperPOD” of graphics processing units, plus ...Read more

A dollar store building in midtown Kansas City partially collapsed Sunday afternoon, killing one person and injuring at least three others, according to Michael Hopkins, a spokesperson for the Kansas City Fire Department.

KCFD responded to the reported building collapse in the 3700 block of Broadway Boulevard just after 2:45 p.m. Sunday. When ...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom further pressured state lawmakers to redraw congressional districts, as Democrats nationwide consider redrawing more favorable districts ahead of 2026 to shore up their chances of winning back congressional power after President Donald Trump urged Texas Republicans to guarantee him five more party seats in the midterm elections...Read more

The U.S. and European Union agreed on a hard-fought deal that will see the bloc face 15% tariffs on most of its exports, including automobiles, staving off a trade war that could have delivered a hammer blow to the global economy.

The pact was concluded less than a week before a Friday deadline for President Donald Trump’s higher tariffs to ...Read more

A man who was found naked Friday inside the Senate chamber at the State Capitol and taken to a hospital for mental health evaluations was arrested Saturday night after returning to the Capitol for a third time.

Capitol security was first alerted to the man just before midnight Friday and transported him to Regions Hospital, where he managed to ...Read more

The U.S. and European Union agreed to a deal that will see the bloc face 15% tariffs on most of its exports, including automobiles, staving off a trade war that could have delivered a hammer blow to the global economy.

The pact comes less than a week before a Friday deadline for President Donald Trump’s higher tariffs to take effect. The ...Read more

Tom Lehrer, the Harvard-educated mathematician whose brief side gig as one of America’s favorite satirical composers captured in tune some of the anxieties and absurdities of the 1950s and 1960s, has died, according to the New York Times. He was 97.

Lehrer died on Saturday at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Times said, citing a ...Read more

A protest Saturday in Atlanta was one of dozens in the state and nationwide to target the “big, beautiful bill” passed earlier this month by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump.

Attendees and speakers during the Families First demonstration at Impact Church on Sylvan Road criticized the law. They said it harmed working families ...Read more

While state leaders seek to stoke a tax revolt, at least 11 Central Florida cities and counties are signaling they may increase the rate they levy on property owners.

They cite a host of reasons, including the need to pay higher police and fire salaries, increased costs of insurance and construction materials, and the expense of unfunded ...Read more

With the fall semester starting next month, Indian students are struggling to get visas to study in the United States, a group of U.S. representatives — 14 Democrats and one Republican — told U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a letter Thursday.

Rep. Deborah Ross, a Democrat from Raleigh, was among the signees.

“As Members of ...Read more

The U.S. and European Union agreed to a deal that will see the bloc face 15% tariffs on most of its exports, including automobiles, staving off a trade war that could have delivered a hammer blow to the global economy.

The pact comes less than a week before a Friday deadline for President Donald Trump’s higher tariffs to take effect. The ...Read more

Israel increased aid distribution to Gaza over the weekend in an effort to defuse a growing international outcry over hunger convulsing the shattered Palestinian enclave.

The relief came after ceasefire talks faltered last week. Israel and the U.S. accused Hamas of stonewalling and hinted that a further escalation in the more than 21-month-old ...Read more

Thai and Cambodian leaders are set to hold talks on Monday in a bid to end the deadliest clash between the two Southeast Asian nations in over a decade, a peace initiative driven by U.S. President Donald Trump, who used the threat of tariffs to press for a ceasefire.

Thailand’s Acting Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai and Cambodian Prime ...Read more

Two wildfires that sparked Saturday in southwestern Colorado have forced several communities across La Plata County to evacuate, according to fire officials.

The Elkhorn fire, which started as a structure fire at about 5 p.m. Saturday and spread into the wildland, is burning on 145 acres with no containment, Operations Chief Nick Collard said ...Read more

Jul. 27—Sunburns are common — about a third of Americans get at least one each year — and are, most of the time, mild or treatable. But some burns are more severe than others.

More than 33,000 sunburns requiring emergency room consultation are reported each year, according to the National Cancer Institute.

Here's what to know and when to...Read more

President Donald Trump expressed hope he could resolve differences with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen over their trading relationship ahead of a Friday deadline, but suggested pharmaceuticals may not be addressed in a deal.

Trump on Sunday reiterated his view that the chances are “probably 50-50 of making a deal” while...Read more

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will meet President Donald Trump on Sunday in a bid to reach a trade agreement ahead of Friday’s deadline, at which point 30% tariffs on the bloc’s exports to the U.S. are otherwise due to kick in.

The stakes for the talks, scheduled for 4:30 p.m. local time at Trump’s golf resort in ...Read more