Tulare Lake was drained by farmers more than a century ago, and it has reappeared only rarely when floods have reclaimed farmlands in its ancient lake bed in the San Joaquin Valley.

Now, a coalition of tribal leaders, community activists and environmental advocates has begun an effort to restore the lake. They have been discussing a proposal to...Read more

SEOUL, South Korea — It's a worldwide shift that has taken political scientists and sociologists by surprise: the growing ideological divide between young men and women.

In the recent U.S. presidential election, President Donald Trump won 56% of the vote among men ages 18 to 29, according to an analysis from Tufts University's Center for ...Read more

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ended its emergency response for bird flu as the outbreak that sickened dozens of people, spread to cattle and drove up egg prices has abated.

The emergency designation ended in the last week, according to a person familiar with the matter who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly about it.

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The U.K. government is moving to ban employers deploying nondisclosure agreements to muzzle workers who have been victims of misconduct on the job, the Guardian reported on Monday.

Under the reforms being prepared as part of broader employee rights legislation by Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government, any NDA that tried to head off ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he’d ship more weapons to Ukraine, marking an apparent reversal after the Pentagon halted flows of some air-defense missiles and artillery shells to the country.

“We’re going to send some more weapons,” Trump told reporters at the start of a dinner with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on ...Read more

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told President Donald Trump he nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize, using a visit to the White House to further cement the pair’s relationship as the U.S. presses for a ceasefire in Gaza.

“He’s forging peace as we speak,” Netanyahu told reporters at the start of a dinner with Trump and other...Read more

President Donald Trump said he would travel to Texas on Friday, a trip that will allow him to survey firsthand the devastation from extreme floods that have left at least 100 people dead and scores still missing.

“We’ll be going on Friday,” Trump told reporters Monday at the White House, as he hosted a dinner for visiting Israeli Prime ...Read more

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday announced a settlement with Gateway Energy Storage, LLC — the company that operates a battery facility in Otay Mesa where a stubborn fire smoldered for two weeks in May 2024.

The EPA said it will require comprehensive safety measures and monitoring “to protect nearby residents and workers�...Read more

Chinese students studying at Washington state colleges and universities could face an uncertain future following this week’s announcement that the U.S. will start revoking some of their visas.

The U.S. State Department will work with the Department of Homeland Security to “aggressively revoke” visas for Chinese students, including those ...Read more

The sex case against a good friend of the Alexander brothers unraveled on the eve of trial Monday, with the Miami-Dade State Attorney saying evidence that Ohad Fisherman wasn’t at the scene of the crime was too much for state prosecutors to overcome.

The dismissal of charges against Fisherman — accused of pinning a woman down in a Miami ...Read more

The Republican-led House passed a budget resolution last month calling for a $2 trillion reduction in spending over the next decade. To meet this goal, lawmakers could end up targeting major safety-net programs, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

The program, also known as food stamps, helps low-income Americans afford ...Read more

The Republican-led House passed a budget resolution Tuesday calling for a $2 trillion reduction in federal spending over the next 10 years. To meet that target, lawmakers are now eyeing cuts to a broad range of programs including Medicaid, which provides health coverage for millions of low-income Americans.

Any such cuts would be felt across ...Read more

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz reportedly spent the weekend hitting tourists spots in Europe while a devastating Lone Star State flood killed at least 90 campers in the Hill Country.

The Republican lawmaker, who infamously fled his home state for Mexico in 2021 when a freezing winter storm shut down Texas’ power grid, was spotted in Greece checking out ...Read more

Tropical depressions may sound minor compared to hurricanes, but both weather events can cause major damage.

Chantal made landfall as a tropical storm in South Carolina and was later downgraded to a tropical depression.

The depression brought heavy rain to North Carolina late Sunday and early Monday, flooding parts of Orange, Durham and ...Read more

As the Texas flooding death toll reached 95 on Monday — at least 27 of them children — and Tropical Storm Chantal prompted dozens of water rescues in North Carolina, some Floridians were reminded of the disastrous “rain bomb” in 2023 that hit faster and harder than any hurricane in living memory.

Though no one died from the 2 feet of ...Read more

Three days after cataclysmic floods tore through a stretch of the Texas Hill Country, officials have confirmed the deaths of 27 children and counselors who had been missing from a girls’ summer camp. Authorities counted more than 90 deaths statewide and said the number was almost certain to climb as rescuers sorted through mounds of debris.

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says he wants to “strike a proper balance” of keeping the State Capitol open to the public while also ensuring it’s secure.

Some lawmakers have said they want Capitol security tightened after the assassination of Rep. Melissa Hortman last month. She was shot and killed in her own home alongside her husband, Mark. ...Read more