Since President Donald Trump issued a July 2025 executive order aimed at “ending crime and disorder on America’s streets,” national attention has increasingly focused on involuntary treatment as a response to visible homelessness and drug use.

A few months later, in September 2025, officials in Utah announced plans for a 16-acre...Read more

A well-designed 10-minute online exercise can spark small reductions in depression. That’s the key finding of my team’s paper, published in Nature Human Behaviour.

Many people believe that to start overcoming depression, they need a therapist, medication or a radical change in their environment. However, our study shows that ...Read more

If you gathered every American with a prison record into one contiguous territory and admitted it to the union, you would create the 12th-largest state. It would be home to at least 7 million to 8 million people and hold a dozen votes in the Electoral College.

In a close presidential race, this hypothetical state of the formerly ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The late Rev. Jesse Jackson is being honored in South Carolina on Monday, with a public visitation at the State House and later a memorial service at Brookland Baptist Church.

Jackson, a civil rights leader who was with Martin Luther King Jr. when he was assassinated, died on Feb. 17, 2026.

The Greenville native was 84. In ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Monday that military operations in Iran are likely to last four to five weeks, but he is prepared to "go far longer than that" if necessary.

Speaking at the White House, Trump did not mention plans to deploy American troops to the Middle East, but in interviews with media outlets in recent days he said...Read more

MIAMI — Miami prosecutors appealed a judge’s order granting a new murder trial for an inmate who made national headlines when she became pregnant while behind bars.

Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Lody Jean granted Daisy Link, 30, a new trial because Link was “prejudiced” by photos that prosecutors showed jurors — hoping to discredit ...Read more

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Monday defended the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, calling the widespread and ongoing attacks a necessary response to threats of nuclear and terror attacks even as the conflict showed signs of spreading across the Middle East.

“We didn’t start this war but under President Trump we will end it,” Hegseth said....Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Sunlight streamed into a fifth-grade classroom at Wellstone Elementary in St. Paul in late February, but no kids were there — just 26 empty chairs and a teacher on her laptop in the corner of the room.

Dawn Windham delivered a virtual lesson to students afraid to go to school due to the recent ICE surge, and while happy to ...Read more

A British base in Cyprus struck by a drone. A French facility in Abu Dhabi targeted. A base hosting Italian troops in Kuwait hit. Saudi oil facilities attacked as ships queue outside the Strait of Hormuz. Missiles over Bahrain and Qatar. Gulf airspace shut down.

In just over 48 hours since the U.S. and Israel began striking Iran, the conflict ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump said the bombing campaign against Iran could last for weeks and called on the nation’s leaders to capitulate, while the Islamic Republic’s security chief ruled out negotiations.

The conflict continued to reverberate across the Middle East on Monday, with blasts heard across Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the ...Read more

Russia and Ukraine still expect planned U.S.-led peace talks to take place this week, even as President Donald Trump’s administration continues a military campaign against Iran.

With airspace in the United Arab Emirates currently closed amid the risk of missile and drone attacks, the talks are unlikely to take place in Abu Dhabi, according to...Read more

CHICAGO — A reputed high-ranking member of the Sinaloa drug cartel has been indicted on federal charges in Chicago alleging he ran security and helped the sons of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman-Loera smuggle and distribute large quantities of narcotics into the U.S.

Jesus Omar Ibarra Felix, also known by the alias “El Chuta,” was charged ...Read more

NEW YORK — It cost taxpayers more than $117 million in 2025 to resolve lawsuits accusing NYPD ​officers of misconduct, the fourth straight year payouts surpassed $100 million, according to a new report.

The Legal Aid Society, which analyzed city data and released its findings Monday, said the ramifications of police misconduct will continue...Read more

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — At around 2 a.m., 7-year-old twin brothers arrived at Mission Hospital in Asheville. Both had a fever, a cough, a rash, pink eye, and cold symptoms.

The boys sat in one waiting room and then another. Two hours and 20 minutes passed before the two were isolated, according to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services records ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The soft hum of Chicano soul music bled onto the darkened street as a steady stream of people made their way into a record store in San Fernando, passing a sign in the window: "'ICE, BIGOTS, MAGA' are not welcome."

Vendor booths replaced vinyl racks, some selling miniature lowrider replicas and Chicano-inspired artwork. ...Read more

For the bulk of her tenure with the Minnesota Department of Human Services, Shireen Gandhi found comfort in being a less visible part of its engine, working under the hood to keep the massive state agency running.

She did not expect to become top boss within eight years of joining the department, which is now at the center of national ...Read more

There is a statuette of a cheetah in Antonio Romanucci’s law office in a skyscraper overlooking the Chicago River. It sits next to a magazine cover of Romanucci, Chicago Lawyer’s “2021 Person of the Year.”

The cheetah is sleek and black. And, as the 65-year-old attorney explains, it represents a story he often recites to juries in civil...Read more

Three rounds of nuclear talks between the U.S. and Iran failed to persuade President Donald Trump that a solution to the two country’s nuclear impasse lay in diplomacy, rather than military action. A perceived lack of progress in the last of those indirect negotiations on Feb 26, 2026, was enough to prompt Trump to green-light a massive ...Read more