The Trump administration is doubling to $50 million a reward for the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and accusing him of working with cartels to flood the U.S. with fentanyl-laced cocaine
Trump to nominate top economic aide Stephen Miran to Federal Reserve board
President Donald Trump said Thursday he will nominate a top economic adviser to the Federal Reserve’s board of governors for four months, temporarily filling a vacancy while continuing his search for a longer-term appointment
Vance, UK foreign secretary will meet before US vice president’s vacation
U.S. Vice President JD Vance is expected to meet with U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy at a stately home south of London before heading off on a family vacation in the English countryside
Ailing bull moose on Adirondack mountain hiking trail in New York put down
A bull moose that forced the closure of an Adirondack hiking trail this summer has been euthanized because of deteriorating health
Trump’s broad tariffs go into effect, just as economic pain is surfacing
Global financial markets have taken President Donald Trump's tariff adjustments in stride, with Asian and European shares and U.S. futures mostly higher
Iowa shooting, explosion and fire leave 2 dead and 1 critically injured
Authorities say a shooting and subsequent explosion and fire in a house in western Iowa left two people dead and a third critically injured
Senior FBI official who resisted Trump administration demands has been pushed out, AP sources say
A senior FBI official who served as acting director in the first weeks of the Trump administration and resisted demands to turn over the names of agents who participated in the Jan. 6 investigations is being forced out of the bureau
Officials plan to seek the death penalty for a Tennessee man charged with killing 4
Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty against a Tennessee man charged with killing the parents, grandmother and uncle of an infant found abandoned in a home’s front yard
As temperatures soar, it’s time to close the green space gap
While urban greening can help mitigate extreme heat, such spaces are not distributed equitably It has been a summer of heatwaves in western Europe, with record highs of 46C (115F) in Spain and Portugal. An estimated 2,300 people died of heat-related causes across 12 European cities in June, according to...
Air pollution filters help scientists produce first UK wildlife survey using eDNA
Social media post led to discovery that samplers measuring toxic particles in air can also detect fragments of DNA As the UK’s Big Butterfly Count reaches more than 100,000 submissions, an international group of scientists have produced the first national survey of biodiversity using an entirely different approach. Instead of...