As an island country in the Caribbean Sea, hurricanes aren’t new in Jamaica. Hurricanes hovering over the island while continuously dumping rain and blasting Category 4 or 5 winds, however, are a different brand.

Category 4 Hurricane Melissa, at 145 mph maximum sustained winds as of Sunday 5 p.m. and forecast by the U.S.’s National ...Read more

Argentina voted Sunday in a midterm election that will serve as a crucial referendum on President Javier Milei’s ambitious austerity policies and, potentially, a $40 billion rescue package from the Trump administration.

Voting stations closed at 6 p.m. local time. Argentines are electing representatives for half the seats — 127 — in the ...Read more

The government shutdown has not had much effect on the human visitors at the Cosumnes River Preserve, but it may have a lasting impact on sandhill cranes and other birds that pass through this fall: Federal water bird counts in October were canceled.

“That is a critically important piece of data that gets entered usually twice a month,” ...Read more

Nearly four weeks into the federal government shutdown, a staffing shortage at Los Angeles International Airport prompted a temporary ground stop Sunday morning affecting flights at the West Coast's largest and busiest airport.

The restriction began around 8:45 a.m., affecting departing flights for Oakland ,and was lifted at 10:30 a.m. with a ...Read more

The blue and green ribbons adorning trees and lampposts across the Twin Cities in support of those affected by the shooting at Annunciation Church and School soon will be made into an art project.

Bows of Love, the volunteer project that distributed and tied the bows, is beginning to remove them across Minneapolis. The organization is asking ...Read more

A slasher who cut a stranger’s face on a Brooklyn subway train went on to carry out two more random blade attacks over the next 24 hours, police sources said Sunday.

Police released a surveillance image of the suspect, who is still being sought, after he cut a 37-year-old man on the left side of the face on a Manhattan-bound Q train in ...Read more

With the city’s mayoral election racing into the home stretch, Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani and Independent candidate Andrew Cuomo both held rallies in Queens to make their final pitches to voters on a picture-perfect fall Sunday.

Cuomo, a former New York governor, held a “rally to support the Jewish state of Israel” in Kew Gardens, ...Read more

Top trade negotiators for the U.S. and China said they came to terms on a range of contentious points, setting the table for leaders Donald Trump and Xi Jinping to finalize a deal and ease trade tensions that have rattled global markets.

After two days of talks in Malaysia wrapped up Sunday, a Chinese official said the two sides reached a ...Read more

Argentina is voting Sunday in a midterm election that will serve as a crucial referendum on President Javier Milei’s ambitious austerity policies and, potentially, a $40 billion rescue package from the Trump administration.

Voting stations close at 6 p.m. local time and results are expected later Sunday evening. Argentines are electing ...Read more

Hurricane Melissa strengthened into a 140 mph Category 4 storm early Sunday morning and continues on its path toward Jamaica, Cuba and the Bahamas.

“Tropical storm conditions are likely occurring in Jamaica, with hurricane conditions expected to begin by Monday,” the National Hurricane Center said in its 2 p.m. Sunday advisory.

As for the ...Read more

A team co-led by a Pitt professor was able to restore sight to blind patients with advanced macular degeneration, according to a report published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The study was conducted in Europe by a team of researchers including senior author José-Alain Sahel, who moved from his native France to join ...Read more

Argentina is voting Sunday in a midterm election that will serve as a crucial referendum on President Javier Milei’s ambitious austerity policies and, potentially, a $40 billion rescue package from the Trump administration.

Voting stations close at 6 p.m. local time and results are expected later Sunday evening. Argentines are electing ...Read more

In the crucial final days before voting ends on California’s redistricting ballot measure, the Republican-backed campaigns opposing Proposition 50 are just about out of cash to spend.

Together, the two main ‘No’ campaigns have about $2.3 million in the bank — not nearly enough to fund the kind of statewide ad blitz typically seen to ...Read more

Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed the test of a new nuclear-powered cruise missile that his military said was capable of traveling for at least 14,000 kilometers (8,700 miles).

Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov said the Burevestnik was tested on Oct. 21, according to footage of a meeting with military commanders posted on the ...Read more

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney offered a terse response to President Donald Trump’s promise to further hike tariffs on Canadian goods, saying just that his government is prepared to resume trade talks with the U.S. at any time.

“Canada stands ready to build on the progress that we had been making in our negotiations or discussions with...Read more

The Space Coast hosted its 89th orbital launch of the year with another SpaceX Starlink mission on Sunday morning.

A Falcon 9 on the Starlink 10-21 mission carrying 29 satellites lifted off at 11 a.m. from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40.

The first-stage booster made its 24th flight with a recovery landing ...Read more

Top trade negotiators from the U.S. and Brazil are set to meet Sunday after President Donald Trump predicted the nations could “pretty quickly” strike a trade deal as he met with counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Trump said the pair “get along very well” and indicated a willingness to claw back the punishing tariffs he had imposed ...Read more

Top trade negotiators for the U.S. and China said they came to terms on a range of contentious points, setting the table for leaders Donald Trump and Xi Jinping to finalize a deal and ease trade tensions that have rattled global markets.

After two days of talks in Malaysia wrapped up Sunday, a Chinese official said the two sides reached a ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled a flurry of trade deals during his first day in Asia, looking to shore up access to critical minerals and a market for U.S. agricultural goods ahead of a critical meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

“My message to the nations of Southeast Asia is that the United States is with you 100% and we intend...Read more

Hurricane Melissa strengthened into a 140 mph Category 4 storm early Sunday morning and continues on its path toward Jamaica, Cuba and the Bahamas.

“Tropical storm conditions are likely occurring in Jamaica, with hurricane conditions expected to begin by Monday,” the National Hurricane Center said in its 11 a.m. Sunday advisory.

As of the ...Read more