The arrival of a city-dwelling mosquito from Asia could spell disaster for a region that is rapidly urbanising

Oklahoma congressional candidate Abby Broyles allegedly became intoxicated and accosted tween girls at a Valentine's weekend party.

MIAMI (AP) — A businessman described as the main conduit for corruption in Venezuela was secretly signed up by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration as a source in 2018, revealing information about bribes he paid to top officials in President Nicolás Maduro's socialist government.

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva sent a cease-and-desist letter this week to the Board of Supervisors, demanding they and others stop using the phrase “deputy gangs” to refer to secretive groups that operate within department stations. Inspector General Max Huntsman, appointed by the supervisors to provide oversight of the Sheriff’s Department, said the agency has identified deputies who have tattoos associated with the Executioners and the Banditos, groups that operate at the department’s Compton and East L.A. stations, respectively.

The number of American children in poverty spiked dramatically in January after the expiration of President Biden’s expanded child benefit at the end of last year, according to new research released on Thursday. The Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University said that the child poverty rate rose from 12 percent in December 2021 to 17 percent last month, an approximately 41 percent increase. The study found that an additional 3.7 million children are now in poverty relative to the end of December, with Black and Latino children seeing the biggest percentage point increases. “The overall monthly child poverty rate rose sharply between December 2021 and January 2022,” the study found.

Fifty years after he gave us "The Godfather," the iconic director is chasing his grandest project yet—and putting up over $100 million of his own money to prove his best work is still ahead of him.

If health care is a human right, who is human enough to have that right?

Most bald and golden eagles in the United States have been repeatedly exposed to lead throughout their lives, new research shows. The primary source of exposure is ammunition—as eagles scavenge on the carcasses of animals shot by hunters, they can ingest lead fragments from rifle rounds and shotgun pellets. In the study, published February 17 in the journal Science, researchers examined lead levels in 1,210 eagles across 38 states—the biggest effort of its kind to date in North America. They found that more than half of the adult birds had bone lead concentrations above 10 parts per million, which pathologists define as chronic lead poisoning. This level of lead poisoning is slowing the population growth rate of both species, says study co-author Vincent Slabe, a wildlife biologist at Conservation Science Global, a research organization based in Bozeman, Montana. Since both species are of conservation concern, anything that might suppress their numbers is therefore highly relevant, he says.

Recent updates have made it harder to read, shop, and publish on the U.S.’s most popular digital comics platform

The NYPD chose to delete a controversial tweet celebrating the arrest of 12 people who allegedly stole things like diapers.

Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has another secret company that he used to donate big money to Republican campaigns.

On Wednesday, 93-year-old Chilean Cristina Calderon, the last native speaker of the Yaghan Indigenous language, died to COVID-19 in the Magallanes region. "I have deep regret for not being with you when you passed away. Be sure that everything I do is in your name and in that of our people," tweeted Calderon’s daughter Lidia Gonzalez, who is Vice President of the Constitutional Convention. Born in 1928 in Isla Navarino, Calderon lived throughout her life in the Villa Ukika community, where she maintained the customs and beliefs of her ancestors, canoe nomads that for 6,000 years inhabited the Tierra del Fuego archipelago.

A Cowboys representative says the team thoroughly investigated two alleged incidents involving Richard Dalrymple and found no wrongdoing. Two sources said the cheerleaders and their lawyers were not told whether images from security cameras, deployed all over AT&T Stadium, had been consulted or might have recorded any of the incident. One said the women were angry because they felt that team officials seemed to have concluded Dalrymple had done nothing wrong before the cheerleaders were formally interviewed eight days after the incident. "It was a 'he said, she said' -- and the team chose to believe Dalrymple's side of things," a source with knowledge of the allegations said about how the cheerleaders' felt. "But four women swore this happened." The cheerleaders were instructed by their bosses not to go public and not to tell their teammates what had happened, multiple sources said. Frustrated and angry, the women hired W. Kelly Puls, a Fort Worth attorney, later that month to represent them in a possible lawsuit against the Cowboys, according to sources. The cheerleaders "were upset and felt certain the team wasn't going to do anything about it," a source added. "They were told to just keep cheering -- and saw Dalrymple often at games and events."

Jane Doe, who filed her lawsuit last year, has accused the comedian of grooming her from the age of 15—and alleges that he often did so in front of his NBC colleagues.

The new Flying Dutchman is here.

President Emmanuel Macron welcomed African leaders for dinner in Paris Wednesday ahead of an expected announcement that France is withdrawing its troops from Mali after nearly 10 years fighting a jihadist insurgency.

PETROPOLIS, Brazil (AP) — The death toll from devastating mudslides and floods that swept through a mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro state has reached 78, Gov. Claudio Castro said Wednesday afternoon.

A 500-pound bear that pounces on properties with a craving for all things food has a community at odds with wildlife officials who want it dead.

The priest was beloved by his parishioners — yet for years he made a one-word ritual mistake, repeatedly, that has caused confusion and anxiety for thousands of Catholics in the Phoenix area now worrying that they were improperly baptized. Under scrutiny are baptisms performed by the Rev. Andres Arango, who served in Arizona for 16 years. Catholic officials estimate that thousands of baptisms are now presumed to be invalid because he used incorrect wording, and they say those affected may need to be re-baptized. Some may feel obliged to have other church ceremonies performed again, even including marriage. Arango’s error was in saying, “We baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,” when he should have begun the sentence by saying, “I baptize you.” The difference is theologically crucial, the Vatican ruled in 2020, because it’s not the “we” of the congregation doing the baptizing but the “I” of Jesus Christ, working through the priest.

The troops are organizing in response to a slew of problems with the state's border mission.