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SpaceX mission today 1st of 5 launches in 8 days on tap for Space Coast
ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX and United Launch Alliance are combining for a busy week or rocket launches on the Space Coast.
First up Thursday afternoon is SpaceX’s planned Starlink 6-90 mission with 29 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40. Liftoff is targeting 3:26 p.m. during launch window that...Read more
Rape, pregnancy and a stroke: The scars that sexual violence leaves on Haiti's victims
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Judith and her family had just returned home after weeks of sleeping outdoors in a public square near the airport when gunmen stormed their Brooklyn neighborhood in Port-au-Prince’s sprawling Cité Soleil slum.
Going house to house, the men fired automatic weapons indiscriminately, forcing their way inside. The ...Read more
Venezuela's Machado says she plans to return and hide soon
OSLO, Norway — Venezuelan dissident María Corina Machado said she plans to ultimately go back home and disappear from authorities to continue fighting for democracy.
Speaking at a news conference in Oslo on Thursday, after emerging in the Norwegian capital in the early hours, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate said she will return “as soon as...Read more
Thai citizens urged to leave Cambodia as border clash grinds on
Thailand has urged its citizens to leave Cambodia or reconsider travel as border clashes look set to stretch into a sixth day and casualties mount on both sides.
Thais who do not need to stay in Cambodia should consider leaving and those who don’t need to travel there should refrain from doing so until the situation resolves, the Thai ...Read more
Ukraine allies to meet as Kyiv sends draft plan to Trump
A coalition of Ukraine’s allies will discuss a bid to move swiftly on U.S. President Donald Trump’s peace proposal on Thursday as Kyiv’s forces carried out their first-ever attack on Russian Caspian Sea oil production.
Leaders from more than 30 countries that are part of the so-called coalition of the willing will hold a virtual meeting,...Read more
'A new era': Miami voters resoundingly reject the city's political dynasties
MIAMI — Miami found itself in the national spotlight this week after Eileen Higgins defeated Trump-backed opponent Emilio González in the runoff for Miami mayor, making her the city’s first woman mayor and also the first Democrat elected to the position in decades.
But Miami voters also sent a resounding message on the local level this ...Read more
Charlotte church adds ICE agents to nativity scene that aims to 'disturb' passersby
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A Charlotte church says it wants to “disturb” passersby this Christmas with a nativity scene pictures Jesus, Mary and Joseph with masked immigration agents wearing bulletproof vests and brandishing handcuffs.
The installation went up this week outside Missiongathering Church at 420 East 15th St. in the Optimist Park area...Read more
Plan-switching, sign-up impersonations: Obamacare enrollment fraud persists
Florida resident Keith Jones says his Affordable Care Act insurance plan was changed multiple times this year without his permission. Now the 52-year-old is struggling with his health problems while facing large premium bills he says he shouldn’t owe.
The third time, he sought help from an insurance agent, who got Jones on the phone with the ...Read more
Medicare's new AI experiment sparks alarm among doctors, lawmakers
A Medicare pilot program will allow private companies to use artificial intelligence to review older Americans’ requests for certain medical care — and will reward the companies when they deny it.
In January, the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will launch the Wasteful and Inappropriate Services Reduction (WISeR) Model to ...Read more
Under Kennedy, America's health department is in the business of promoting Kennedy
As health and human services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wields one of the louder megaphones the federal government has. Yet he insists he doesn’t want to impose his opinions on Americans.
“I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me,” Kennedy told a Democratic congressman in May.
Kennedy once expressed different ...Read more
With homelessness rising, new federal rules could benefit states that take tougher approaches
As the housing shortage pushes more Americans into homelessness for the first time, the Trump administration wants to focus federal housing aid on mental health treatment and enforcement against street homelessness, rather than on finding people permanent homes as quickly as possible.
The administration’s new plan to tie federal housing aid ...Read more
Drugs took both her sons and her leg. Now, Kelly Wyatt is committed to staying sober
PHILADELPHIA — Kelly Wyatt winced as a nurse unwrapped layers of gauze from her left leg, exposing the massive wound beneath.
Yellow and red and gray, weeping plasma and agonizingly painful at the slightest touch, it covered almost the entirety of the end of her leg — the site of the amputation she had undergone four years before.
...Read more
You can touch them, just don't eat them: Death cap mushrooms sicken Californians
LOS ANGELES — The winter season has brought cold and wet conditions that are perfect for fungi like death cap mushrooms, or Amanita phalloides, to grow in California, experts say, but with that has come a rash of people mistakenly eating them thinking they're safe.
So far this year, at least 23 people have been sickened by eating death cap ...Read more
A North Carolina hospital was slated to open in 2025. Mired in bureaucracy, it's still a dirt field
Madison County, tucked in the mountains of western North Carolina, has no hospital and just three ambulances serving its roughly 22,000 people.
The ambulances frequently travel back and forth to Mission Hospital in Asheville, the largest and most central hospital in the region. Trips can take more than two hours, according to Mark Snelson, ...Read more
In first year in Senate, Schiff pushes legislation, party message and challenges to Trump
Five months after joining the U.S. Senate, Adam Schiff delivered a floor speech on what he called "the top 10 deals for Donald Trump and the worst deals for the American people."
Schiff spoke of Trump and his family getting rich off cryptocurrency and cutting new development deals across the Middle East, and of the president accepting a free ...Read more
Kamala Harris quells new speculation about CA governor run in 2026
Kamala Harris’ team is shooting down speculation that the former vice president is again considering a run for California governor next year, after she announced in July that she would not.
Fueled by polls showing a weak Democratic field of gubernatorial candidates, political circles were abuzz this week that Harris, the former Democratic ...Read more
Minneapolis officials decry ICE arrest of Somali American citizen
Minneapolis leaders stood in silence as they watched footage of Mubashir, a Somali American, getting slammed against a metal door and put in a chokehold in the snow by federal immigration agents.
The security and bystander video of the arrest in the city’s Cedar Riverside neighborhood was shown at a Wednesday press conference, where Mayor ...Read more
UC Berkeley, Pomona College settle with Jewish groups over antisemitism allegations
Two prominent California higher education institutions said Wednesday they have reached settlement agreements with Jewish groups or individuals who filed complaints about alleged antisemitism stemming from pro-Palestinian campus protests in 2023 and 2024.
UC Berkeley said it agreed to pay an Israeli sociologist and dance researcher $60,000 for...Read more
Driver slams into 8 Anaheim High runners -- a 'nightmare scenario,' says one SoCal track coach
Eight students on the Anaheim High School track team have been transported to a hospital after a man plowed into the group while they were on a practice run, authorities said.
The car veered off the road and hit the students while they were waiting for a light to change at the southwestern corner of Harbor Boulevard and North Street in Anaheim ...Read more
Chaos, bloodshed as driver slams into 8 Anaheim High School runners
Eight students on the Anaheim High School track team have been transported to a hospital after a man plowed into the group while they were on a practice run, authorities said.
The car veered off the road and hit the students while they were waiting for a light to change at the southwestern corner of Harbor Boulevard and North Street in Anaheim ...Read more
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