The official New York Police Department count found that from January 2025 to January 2026, hate crimes in New York City increased by 152%. Experts caution that hate crimes tend to spike in response ...

Three cruise ship passengers died and several others fell ill because of a suspected hantavirus outbreak. The disease is typically caused by inhaling infected mouse droppings on land and isn’t usually ...

After law enforcement prevented a shooter from entering the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner — the third attempt on President Donald Trump’s life in less than two years — commentators ...

The federal government’s reclassification of medical marijuana products as Schedule III drugs doesn’t federally legalize marijuana, but it might extend tax breaks to some cannabis businesses. ...

Some social media users seized on footage from the April 25 White House Correspondents' Association dinner to investigate the shooting that disrupted the event, but using artifici ...

The Congressional Budget Office said in 2025 that the One Big Beautiful Bill — signed into law by President Donald Trump in July 2025 — would increase the number of people without health insurance by ...

Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne infectious disease in the United States. There is no vaccine to protect against it in humans. Biopharmaceutical company Pfizer and Valne ...

In Rucho v. Common Cause, Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for a 5-4 majority, said that although extreme partisan gerrymandering may seem reasonably "unjust," the Constitution provides no ...

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In 2024, Maine’s legislature passed a bill requiring the state to inventory untested rape kits and establish a rape kit tracking system. Gov. Janet Mills did not sign that or 34 other late-arriving ...

Graham Platner’s comments about rape more than a decade ago are the subject of a new ad attacking the Democrat trying to oust U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, in a nationally watched ...

The day before state lawmakers met for a special session on redistricting, Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis revealed his proposed state congressional map, which could set up Republicans to flip as ...