Does politics stress you out? Did the last election cause you to lose sleep, lose your temper or lose a friend? If so, you weren’t alone.

For the better part of two decades, the American Psychological Association has documented a steady increase in the phenomenon of “political stress” among American voters. However, research and...Read more

“People can assess me, interview me, incarcerate me, observe me, and they can think they know what I need,” said Shawn, a man in his early 50s who spent 15 years in and out of prison. “And that can be an educated assessment, but at the end of the day, I live inside of this body, inside of this head. I know what I need.”

Shawn ...Read more

When the bombing of Iran began on Feb. 28, 2026, the Trump administration had not informed the American people exactly what it was prepared to achieve.

Was the attack intended to degrade Iran’s nuclear program? Trump had declared that “obliterated” after last June’s bombing.

Was it to slow Iran’s ballistic missile ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The United States plunged further into conflict with Iran on Tuesday as a new round of strikes heightened fears of an expanding war in the Middle East, sending markets reeling and oil prices soaring and drawing urgent calls from European leaders for a plan forward.

President Donald Trump acknowledged during an Oval Office ...Read more

​WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump decided negotiations would go nowhere with Iranian officials after Tehran’s “clever” negotiators “procrastinated” and masked their true nuclear capabilities and goals, senior administration officials said Tuesday.

The officials, during a midday call with reporters that lasted just over an hour,...Read more

Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., is preparing for President Trump to declare a national emergency in order to seize control of this year's midterm elections from the states, including by bracing his Senate colleagues for a vote in which they would be forced to either co-sign on the power grab or resist it.

In the wake of reporting last week that ...Read more

John “Jack” Horner, lecturer and famed paleontological adviser for the first five “Jurassic Park” films, is “no longer with” Southern California's Chapman University, the parting following his appearance in the latest release of Epstein files.

After retiring from his 33-year tenure as regents professor of paleontology at Montana ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado lawmakers advanced a bill Tuesday that would give voters more time to vote and drop off their ballots amid President Donald Trump’s threats to buck the Constitution by trying to nationalize elections.

Democrats in the state House passed House Bill 1113 in a 41-22 vote, sending the measure to the Senate over Republican ...Read more

Prostate tumors contain more microplastics than healthy prostate tissue, researchers from New York University Langone Health found.

Tiny plastic particles were present in nine of 10 men diagnosed with prostate cancer, and appeared in greater amounts in the tumors than in nearby noncancerous tissue, they found.

“Our pilot study provides ...Read more

A Kansas City resident has been diagnosed with measles, the first since 2018, the Kansas City Health Department and the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services confirm.

The adult with measles was not vaccinated, according to a press release.

The Kansas City Health Department did not immediately respond to questions about when the ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — It’s not COVID-19 or the flu, but a respiratory virus has been hammering Northern California cities including Sacramento and Davis, testing shows.

WastewaterSCAN data shows “high concentrations” of human metapneumovirus, or HMPV, in Sacramento and Davis, along with San Francisco, Marin, Vallejo, Napa, Novato and ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania had 12 confirmed cases of measles among state residents and another two involving visitors to the state as of Tuesday, the state Department of Health said.

Eight cases are associated with an outbreak in Lancaster County, where the state declared an outbreak involving five cases a month ago.

The latest case was ...Read more

NASA announced it had found the source of a helium flow blockage that forced it to roll the Artemis II rocket back from the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center and delay its lunar fly-by mission until at least April.

In an update to its website Tuesday, NASA stated that technicians had gained access to the launch vehicle stage adapter next to ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani called right-wing radio host Sid Rosenberg’s remarks bigoted and “dehumanizing” on Tuesday, after the personality called him a “Jew-hating cockroach” a day earlier.

Rosenberg is a mainstay of the Republican political scene in New York despite his track record of making racist and Islamophobic remarks....Read more

The Arizona sheriff leading the search for Nancy Guthrie, mother of “Today” show co-host Savannah Guthrie, is confident his investigators are making progress more than a month after her disappearance

In an interview Monday with NBC News correspondent Liz Kreutz, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said he believes officers “are definitely ...Read more

NEW YORK — Sean “Diddy” Combs is scheduled to be released from prison earlier than previously believed.

The Bureau of Prisons’ inmate locator shows that the music mogul convicted of transportation for prostitution is expected to be sprung from New Jersey’s FCI Fort Dix on April 25, 2028. He was previously expected to come home on June...Read more

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — William & Mary has joined a growing list of universities that have been rebuked by military leadership in a recent Pentagon effort to divert federal resources from institutions deemed “woke” and “anti-American.”

After saying in mid-February it was cutting ties with Harvard University, the Pentagon announced Friday ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the manslaughter conviction of the captain of the Conception dive boat who was in charge when 34 people died in a fire while trapped below deck over Labor Day weekend in 2019 off the Channel Islands.

Jerry Boylan, 72, was sentenced to four years in federal prison in May 2024 for his role...Read more