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Search and rescue teams fan across Florida after Hurricane Milton strikes with storm surges up to 10 feet and 120-mph winds and pummels communities with deadly tornadoes.

California H5N1 outbreaks have had little impact on overall milk production, but experts warn that outbreaks could soon increase substantially.

Hurricane Milton brought powerful winds, a storm surge and flooding to much of Florida after making landfall along the Gulf Coast as a Category 3 storm.

A Netherlands museum confirms staff recovered French artist Alexandre Lavet's realistic beer-can art pieces after they were mistaken for trash and thrown out.

NASA JPL's Europa Clipper spacecraft, the largest planetary probe ever built, will launch as early as Friday to explore Jupiter's icy ocean moon.

People hospitalized for COVID-19 early in the pandemic suffered an increased risk of heart attacks, strokes and other serious "cardiac events," researchers say.

Democratic nominee Kamala Harris appeared Tuesday on Howard Stern's satellite radio show and 'The View,' two programs with starkly different audiences.

Kamala Harris was introduced to much of the nation as the next Barack Obama. The comparison has been a blessing and a burden.

Milton was expected to make landfall late Wednesday or early Thursday. The Tampa Bay region could face a direct hit, but the exact path of the storm remains unclear.

Rep. Adam B. Schiff and former Dodger Steve Garvey squared off in the only head-to-head debate of California's U.S. Senate race on Tuesday evening.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum unveils her strategy to fight organized crime in a nation facing cartel wars, assassinations and massacres.

When the effort to boost one's polling numbers involves suppressing life-saving information, it's clear that American politics have hit a cynical apex.

Many Iranians, especially educated ones, were reconciled to constraints on nuclear weapons development. Now, fear of an Israeli strike may be changing that.

During arguments Tuesday, the justices suggested they will uphold regulation that prohibits the sale of the kits as a reasonable interpretation of the 1968 law that restricts the sale of firearms.

Former President Trump is holding a rally Saturday at a polo field in the Coachella Valley, even though he will likely lose California by millions of votes.

John Hopfield dreamed up the modern neural network while at Caltech. Geoffrey Hinton built on it, creating an AI firm that Google bought for $44 million.

Hurricane Milton, a Category 5 hurricane, threatens disastrous winds and storm surge to the Tampa Bay area and the west coast of Florida, officials said Monday.

Everett Titterington, who died at Pearl Harbor, was interred at Riverside National Cemetery after his remains were identified.

The stiff sentence given disgraced Colorado elections official Tina Peters should serve as a deterrent to others promoting Donald Trump's Big Lie about the 2020 election being stolen. The judge was having none of her nonsense.

Ifigenia Martínez, feminist icon of the Mexican left, died at 99 — just days after presiding over the inauguration of Mexico's first woman president.

'Call Her Daddy' host Alex Cooper says she interviewed Kamala Harris because 'one of the main conversations in this election is women' and she wanted in on that.

The Supreme Court refuses to shield Uber and Lyft from California state labor lawsuits that seek back pay for tens of thousands of drivers.

The takeaway is obvious: Each additional day of suffering is driving a wider wedge between Israelis and Palestinians. Enough is enough.

More than 140 people have been killed in the last month in Culiacán as two factions of the Sinaloa compete to fill a power vacuum.