LOS ANGELES -- Methane, the second-biggest contributor to climate change, is spewing into the atmosphere from the oil and gas industry, landfills and dairy farms. It’s also coming from another lesser-known source: reservoirs.

As plants break down underwater, they form methane, which then bubbles to the surface. California doesn’t monitor ...Read more

Lucas Da Silva was born in Brazil but came to the United States as a baby. His first language was English. He speaks Portuguese but only at home with his family. He’d like to visit his native country — but doesn’t want to move back for good.

“That’s like moving to a foreign country, like I don’t really know Brazil,” he said. “I�...Read more

When 25-year-old Alex LaMorie called Howard County Police for help during a mental health crisis, his family expected officers trained to de-escalate the encounter. Instead, police fatally shot the Columbia man, who had autism.

Advocates say LaMorie’s March 1 death reflects a broader problem across Maryland and nationwide: Police are often ...Read more

For years, Nino Orsini Jr. thought his restless nights were normal.

“I would go to bed at a decent hour. I would log six to eight hours of sleep where I was unconscious, but I wasn't getting what is ‘actual’ sleep,” said Orsini, 48, of Seven Fields, Pennsylvania.

Like an estimated 30 million Americans, Orsini was living with ...Read more

As immigration authorities carry out what President Donald Trump has promised will be the largest mass deportation operation in U.S. history, several states are passing laws to keep children out of foster care when their detained parents have no family or friends available to take temporary custody of them.

The federal government doesn’t ...Read more

China has sent a group of warships to hold drills in the western Pacific Ocean, a move that comes as Japan for the first time joins massive exercises with the U.S. and the Philippines, highlighting growing tensions between Tokyo and Beijing.

The Chinese navy dispatched a naval task group led by the Type 052D destroyer Baotou to transit between ...Read more

The multitude of water managers tasked with overseeing the drying Colorado River system stand at a dire crossroads.

As a yearslong stalemate in negotiations persists between the seven states that share the river, it’s become increasingly likely that the federal government will impose its own long-term plan, choosing from a range of proposals ...Read more

Hungary’s outgoing government signaled it’s ready to unblock the European Union’s $106 billion loan to Ukraine as soon as this week just as the new leadership in Budapest kicked off intensive talks with Brussels to tap its own stalled funding.

Hungary has information from Ukraine “via mediation from Brussels” that Russian oil flows ...Read more

President Donald Trump and Iranian officials offered disparate views on the next stage of the war, casting uncertainty over whether the two sides would meet for peace talks with a ceasefire set to expire in the coming days.

Tensions in the war ratcheted up over the weekend as the U.S. Navy fired upon and boarded an Iranian-flagged cargo ship in...Read more

Beginning a week ago, what the local National Weather Service office called “an incredibly active stretch of weather” — including record-breaking rainfall and large hail — culminated Friday with more than a dozen tornadoes across northern and central Illinois. As water levels in area rivers kept rising over the weekend, the ripple ...Read more

Two academics have been tapped to analyze disparities in police street stops, the latest attempt to make sure officers don’t engage in racial profiling, according to the NYPD’s federal monitor.

The recently formed Racial Disparities Review Committee comes nearly 13 years after a federal judge ruled that the stop-and-frisk tactics of the ...Read more

Keir Starmer is preparing for a showdown with the senior official he sacked over the appointment of Peter Mandelson as U.S. ambassador, as calls for the prime minister to resign grow.

Starmer will make a statement to the House of Commons on Monday to address a fresh row over Mandelson’s security vetting clearance. He’s expected to set out a...Read more

Three times over the past decade, the U.S. Supreme Court has cut the Securities and Exchange Commission’s ability to extract millions of dollars from alleged wrongdoers.

Critics of the commission say it’s not enough. In arguments Monday they are asking the justices to put new limits on “disgorgement,” one of the SEC’s most potent ...Read more

Graffiti appeared outside the Chabad house at the University of Minnesota this weekend after a pro-Palestinian protest was held during a Friday night Shabbat dinner featuring a speaker who had served in the Israeli military.

The demonstration and graffiti, which included messages including “death to the IDF [Israel Defense Forces]” ...Read more

NASA recaptured the world's attention with Artemis II, which took astronauts to the moon and back for the first time in half a century. But the agency's scientific projects could again be under threat as the Trump administration makes a renewed push to drastically cut their funding — including at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

The cuts, ...Read more

President Donald Trump said the U.S. Navy fired upon and seized an Iranian-flagged cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman after it failed to heed warnings to stop as it left the Strait of Hormuz, the first major encounter in the week-old blockade.

“Today, an Iranian-flagged cargo ship named TOUSKA, nearly 900 feet long and weighing almost as much as ...Read more

Former President Rumen Radev, who opposes sanctions against Russia and military aid for Ukraine, claimed an overwhelming victory in Bulgaria’s election and pledged to turn the page on years of political gridlock and corruption.

In the country’s eighth general election since 2021, Radev’s Progressive Bulgaria party is heading for an ...Read more

Three Philadelphia scientists won a $3 million Breakthrough Prize for developing the first FDA-approved gene therapy for a genetic disease, prize sponsors announced Saturday.

Their work created a scientific and regulatory road map for gene therapies, paving the way for more than a dozen similar approvals to follow.

The awardees — Jean ...Read more

Patricia Gertsch Hodges spent her retired years doting on her five children and nine grandchildren. She cooked, went bowling and enjoyed basking in the sun on St. Pete Beach.

The 64-year-old lived alone in an apartment at 6100 Ninth St. N. She often drank coffee with a neighbor.

It was that neighbor who found Hodges stabbed to death in her ...Read more

US President Donald Trump promised a quick second round of U.S.-Iran talks in Islamabad this week, while again threatening to strike all power plants and bridges in the country if the negotiations fail.

Iran was noncommittal about joining any talks, with the semi-official Tasnim news agency reporting the Islamic Republic would not attend as ...Read more