Iran’s death toll from ongoing protests may be in the thousands, activist groups said, as U.S. President Donald Trump urged Iranians to continue demonstrations against the regime of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency reported Tuesday that at least 2,000 people have died in just over two ...Read more

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a case that seeks to overturn state bans on transgender women competing in high school and college sports.

The conservative justices, who have been mostly skeptical of trans rights, will decide whether bans on trans women in team sports violate the Constitution or the landmark federal law known ...Read more

Greenland’s government said it will intensify efforts to ensure the island’s defenses are managed within the NATO military alliance, pushing back on renewed threats from the U.S. about taking over the territory.

“All NATO member states, including the United States, share a common interest in the defense of Greenland,” the prime minister...Read more

Greenland’s government said it will intensify efforts to ensure the island’s defenses are managed within the NATO military alliance, pushing back on renewed threats from the U.S. about taking over the territory.

“All NATO member states, including the United States, share a common interest in the defense of Greenland,” the prime minister...Read more

MIAMI — Hialeah has begun a new chapter with a fresh City Council and a new mayor, bringing a sense of hope to many residents after years of political scandals at City Hall. But with one seat now vacant, Mayor Bryan Calvo faces an early challenge as he works to secure a governing majority.

Former Councilman Jesus Tundidor, who ran in the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Allegations of widespread fraud in social service programs have rocked Minnesota in recent months, thrusting the state into the national spotlight.

President Donald Trump has slammed Gov. Tim Walz’s handling of the situation and called for the deportation of the state’s Somali residents, pointing to a viral YouTube video ...Read more

MIAMI — It is typically a somber day, one in which Haitians remember the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010, destroying much of Port-au-Prince and surrounding cities, killing hundreds of thousands of people and leaving 1.5 million injured and an equal number homeless.

But on Monday, as residents of South Florida ...Read more

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi sought deeper economic security ties with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, as Tokyo moves to contain a deepening diplomatic and trade dispute with China and counter Beijing’s efforts to drive a wedge between key U.S. allies.

“There will be further talks between relevant departments to deepen ...Read more

Greenland’s government said it will intensify efforts to ensure the island’s defenses are managed within the NATO military alliance, pushing back on renewed threats from the U.S. about taking over the territory.

“All NATO member states, including the United States, share a common interest in the defense of Greenland,” the prime minister...Read more

LODGE GRASS, Mont. — Brothers Lonny and Teyon Fritzler walked amid the tall grass and cottonwood trees surrounding their boarded-up childhood home near the Little Bighorn River and daydreamed about ways to rebuild.

The rolling prairie outside the single-story clapboard home is where Lonny learned from their grandfather how to break horses. It...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Since the beginning of the new year, California has implemented a new ingredient to tortillas that is expected to improve the health of generations moving forward.

In an active effort to reduce a gap in healthy births in the Latino community, the state is requiring tortilla producers to add folic acid to corn masa.

But ...Read more

On the same day President Donald Trump’s administration targeted ultra-processed foods in its new federal nutrition guidelines, Penn researcher Alyssa Moran published an academic journal article explaining why they’re hard to regulate.

For starters, there’s no consensus on how policymakers should define the term, she and two co-authors ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Researchers at the University of California, San Diego are among five groups nationwide selected to share $176.8 million in grant funding to explore replicating vital organs, an approach that, if successful, would revolutionize transplant surgery, making organ failure vastly more survivable.

Announced Monday by the Advanced ...Read more

The electricity it makes is expensive, its technology has been superseded, and it’s incinerating thousands of birds mid-flight each year. The Trump administration wants to see this unusual power plant closed, and in a rare instance of alignment, the Biden administration did, too.

But the state of California is insisting the Ivanpah power ...Read more

Nearly a third of Latino adults without home broadband rely on their smartphone for internet access.

A new analysis by the Pew Research Center found that 28% of U.S. Latino adults are smartphone dependent, meaning they rely on their handheld device for internet access as opposed to broadband — also known as high-speed internet.

Smartphone ...Read more