Maine has confirmed its sixth measles case of 2026, renewing concern over a disease that had gone unreported in the state for seven years before returning this winter. The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the latest case…
A Quarter-Point That Changes Everything — and Nothing, Yet On Wednesday, the Federal Open Market Committee voted unanimously to raise interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point — the first hike since the summer of 2023, and the…
The House of Representatives has run out of patience with Leon Black. In a unanimous vote Wednesday, the full House held the billionaire former Apollo Global Management CEO in contempt of Congress for defying two subpoenas issued by the House…
A Preventable Crisis Turns Fatal Pennsylvania has now recorded four measles-associated deaths in 2025 — the first in the state in 35 years — as a growing outbreak spreads across 38 counties and federal health officials actively undermine the public…
The Kremlin is threatening nuclear-level annihilation of a NATO ally — and doing so in plain language, through state media, with apparent impunity. Nikolai Patrushev, a senior adviser to Vladimir Putin and former secretary of Russia’s Security Council, warned last…
A Russian drone struck a passenger train near the Ukraine-Poland border shortly after a delegation of European officials — including former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson — had traveled through the area, Ukrainian and Western officials confirmed. The attack, which…
Picture a metal box, roughly four feet by four feet — sixteen square feet of Florida heat, open to the sun, the insects, and the thick Everglades air. Now picture a human being locked inside it. That is what the…
A new book makes the case that the world’s bogs and fens may be the most consequential ecosystems most people have never thought about. Long before the first environmental protection law was written, peatlands were doing the slow, unglamorous work…
President Donald Trump suggested on September 13 that the United States might “stay in Iran” and “keep the oil” after the ongoing military conflict concludes, drawing a direct parallel to what he described as a lucrative resource arrangement the administration…
Philadelphia’s sports venues wear their corporate names proudly. But the same commercialization logic that put Lincoln Financial on an NFL stadium has quietly crept into places far more consequential — the hallways and gymnasiums of public schools. Lincoln Financial Group…