Many LGBTQ+ travelers have expressed concerns about or decided to skip the World Pride gathering going on in Washington due to anxieties about safety, border policies and a hostile political climate

Jurors will resume deliberating in Harvey Weinstein’s New York sex crimes retrial after the ending their first day without reaching a verdict

A jury in California has awarded more than $3 million in damages to a former Orange County prosecutor who alleged the county's district attorney targeted her and forced her out of her position after she tried to protect women in the office from retalia...

Mountaineering rangers in Alaska have recovered the body of a Seattle man who died after falling 3,000 feet from a climbing route on Mount McKinley

Authorities are investigating an Instagram photo showing a man who identifies himself as Antoine Massey, a fugitive still at large after escaping more than two weeks ago from a New Orleans jail

A federal judge has ruled that two federal agencies cannot punish Catholic employers and health care providers if they refuse, for religious reasons, to provide gender-affirming care to transgender patients or won’t provide health insurance coverage fo...

Louisiana is poised to adopt new measures that watchdogs warn raise barriers to holding public officials accountable via the state’s ethics board

A Peruvian woman who crossed the U.S. border illegally has been acquitted of unauthorized access to a newly designated militarized zone along the southern border

A Hawaii-based U.S. Army soldier has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for killing his wife and her unborn child last summer

The Trump administration has accused the Wisconsin Elections Commission of violating federal law by failing to provide a state-based complaint process for voters bringing allegations against the commission itself

Vandals in Miami defaced a mural of baseball legends Jackie Robinson and Minnie Miñoso with racist graffiti earlier this week

President Donald Trump has ordered an investigation into pardons and other executive actions issued by his predecessor, Joe Biden — launching an unprecedented effort to show that the Democrat hid his cognitive decline and was otherwise too mentally imp...

A salvage team is expected to arrive early next week at the scene of a cargo ship that was carrying about 3,000 vehicles to Mexico when it caught fire in waters off Alaska’s Aleutian island chain

A boat captain convicted of theft for freeing 19 sharks from a fisherman’s longline off Florida says he felt like he was living in an alternate universe for the past five years

Authorities in Texas say investigators are looking into whether the sexual orientation of “King of the Hill” voice actor Jonathan Joss played a role in his shooting death

A judge has ordered a defendant accused in last weekend’s shootings at a house party in North Carolina that left one person dead and 11 others injured to stay in jail while awaiting trial

A corrections officer agreed to plead guilty to federal charges in the case of a mentally ill man who froze to death in an Alabama jail

Zohran Mamdani has buzz and some momentum in New York City’s mayoral race

The sheriff of a central Florida county was arrested on charges of racketeering and conspiracy as part of what state authorities described as a probe into a massive gambling operation

President Donald Trump is tapping an Air Force fighter pilot with extensive experience as a commander in the Middle East to be the next head of U.S. European Command

The U.N. food agency is appealing for $46 million for the next six months to help about 2 million Haitians in dire need of food, including 8,500 at the worst catastrophic level of hunger

A federal judge has issued a temporary block on the Trump administration’s cancellation of hundreds of millions of dollars in AmeriCorps grant funding and thousands of service workers in about two dozen states that sued in April

A Massachusetts high school student arrested on his way to volleyball practice is scheduled to appear before an immigration judge

Elon Musk is leaving the Department of Government Efficiency behind, but its playbook has impacted dozens of agencies, departments and organizations and left thousands of federal workers unemployed or in limbo

A new federal court filing shows that investigators believe the convicted murderer and rapist known as the “Devil in the Ozarks” has likely fled Arkansas after escaping prison last month

Bangladesh’s interim leader Muhammad Yunus has said national elections will take place in the first half April next year

More than 1.6 million Muslims are completing a core element of the Hajj, the symbolic stoning of the devil

The International Committee of the Red Cross has announced the closure of its offices in Niger and the departure of its foreign staff, four months after the ruling junta ordered the organization to leave the country

A Maltese jury has found two men guilty of complicity in the murder of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia

Iranians again face a U.S. travel ban imposed by President Donald Trump, with the decision drawing anger, frustration and some shrugs given the decades of tensions between the countries

India Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated one of the most ambitious and strategic railway projects the nation has ever built

Prominent Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong has been charged with conspiracy to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security under a Beijing-imposed law that critics say has crushed Hong Kong's once-thriving pro-democracy movement

Global police organization Interpol says 20 people have been arrested in Europe and Americas following a cross-border operation in 12 countries targeting child sexual abuse material

Veterans are gathering on the beaches of Normandy to mark the 81st anniversary of the D-Day landings — a pivotal moment during World War II that eventually led to the collapse of Adolf Hitler’s regime

A panel of independent experts who make up the United Nations Human Rights Committee says they have found that Guatemala violated the rights of a 14-year-old girl who was raped and forced to continue her pregnancy

Guatemala are evacuating some residents from the slopes the Volcano of Fire after a new eruption spewed gas and ash high into the sky

North Korea says it righted a capsized destroyer and moored it at a pier in the northeastern port of Chongjin as it continues to repair a new warship leader Kim Jong Un has described as a significant asset for his nuclear-armed military

Colombia’s deforestation dropped 33% in early 2025 compared to last year, with significant reductions in Amazon national parks

Western nations are planning to table a resolution at an IAEA meeting that will find Iran in non-compliance with its so-called safeguards obligations for the first time in 20 years, a senior western diplomat said

Brazilian prosecutors filed Thursday criminal charges against the man accused of ordering the 2022 killings of Indigenous peoples expert Bruno Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips in the Amazon

The advocate general for the European Union’s highest court is urging the court to rule that Hungary violated EU law by restricting LGBTQ+ content for minors

Former Zambian President Edgar Lungu has died at 68

This year's Hajj in Saudi Arabia had the lowest attendance in 30 years excluding the pandemic period

Pope Leo XIV has met with members of the Vatican’s child protection advisory commission for the first time amid questions about his past handling of abuse and demands from survivors that he enact a true zero tolerance for abuse policy across the Cathol...

Taiwan is offering aid to its lone Central American diplomatic ally, Guatemala, as it guards against efforts by China to win away its last remaining partners

Indonesian authorities on the tourist island of Bali have announced the arrests of several foreign nationals, including an Australian, an Indian, and an American, on suspicion of possessing narcotics, charges that could carry the death penalty

At least 11 people were killed and more than 30 injured in a stampede outside a cricket stadium in southern India's Bengaluru city on Wednesday

Queen Maxima of the Netherlands has handed over a bell made partly from Russian weapons to a church in the Czech Republic in a sign of solidarity with Ukraine

Turkish authorities say they have suspended five elected mayors from duty, as the country’s opposition faces an ongoing crackdown

Europe’s top official monitoring illegal drugs is nearing the end of his decade-long tenure with one clear message: the non-stop rise in cocaine and other stimulants is producing more violence than ever before in the heart of the world’s safest society

The president is barred from being elected more than twice by the Constitution.

Here’s what Colorado Gov. Jared Polis is telling fellow governors about when to work with Trump and when to oppose him.

He received a standing ovation in some of the most raucous applause at the gathering.

The one-time Biden adviser is reclaiming her seat atop one of the most influential liberal think tanks.

We're relaunching one of our signature products to capture this historical moment. West Wing Playbook: Remaking Government.

The occasionally contrarian Democratic governor said government could be more efficient — but Elon Musk’s DOGE is butchering it.

The Kentucky governor said his party wasn’t using ‘normal language’ in an interview during POLITICO’s Governors Summit.

The Trump administration's immigration crackdown, combative trade policies and spending cuts create challenges for state executives.

Trump in his first weeks of his second term has targeted the city like few presidents before him.

The Democratic response to Trump, one Texas lawmaker said, is “too slow and too tepid and not meeting the moment.”

The legal complaint marks yet another challenge to the sweeping access and authority granted to the so-called Department of Government Efficiency.

Conservatives won the culture war by riding the backlash to Black Lives Matter protests.

Biden cut off access to briefings for Trump in 2021.

Ellen Weintraub has served on the commission since 2002.

POLITICO has been the subject of debate on X this week. Some of it has been misinformed, and some of it has been flat-out false. Let’s set the record straight.

The billionaire's strategy of moving fast and breaking things isn't going over so well with the public.

Britain’s competition regulator says Amazon has pledged to beef up its systems to combat fake online reviews

President Donald Trump’s pick to be U.S. surgeon general has said the nation’s medical and food systems are corrupted by special interests and people out to make a profit at the expense of Americans’ health

Elon Musk is threatening to decommission a capsule used to take astronauts and supplies to the International Space Station for NASA

A private Japanese spacecraft falls silent while trying to land on the moon, company officials say

Shares of Elon Musk’s electric vehicle maker fell sharply Thursday as investors fear his dispute with President Donald Trump could end up hurting the company

A study published in the academic journal Science has found that cutting off the horns of rhinos in Africa leads to a reduction in poaching of the endangered species

Three decades ago, foreign students at Harvard University accounted for just 11% of the total student body

It's kitten season in warm-weather areas and animal shelters need all the help they can get

The Nintendo Switch 2 finally hit store shelves on Thursday, eight years after the initial release of Japanese video-game maker Nintendo’s popular video-game console

Eager customers have lined up outside electronics stores hours in advance in Tokyo to collect Nintendo’s much-anticipated Switch 2 video game consoles

Google has signed an agreement with Chile to build an undersea fiber optic cable connecting South America with Asia and Oceania

Former astronaut and Canadian Foreign Minister Marc Garneau has died

A private lunar lander from Japan has crashed into the moon

Social media platform Reddit has sued the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, alleging that it is illegally “scraping” the comments of Reddit users to train its chatbot Claude

Federal prosecutors have charged two Chinese researchers with smuggling a crop-killing fungus into the U.S. last summer

When the threat of wildfires has forced power to be cut in the tourist town of Calistoga, California, on the edge of Napa Valley, it’s meant firing up a bank of noisy, polluting diesel generators

A federal judge has barred state officials from enforcing a Florida law that would ban social media accounts for young children, while a legal challenge against the law plays out

Meta has cut a 20-year deal to secure nuclear power to help meet surging demand for artificial intelligence and other computing needs at Facebook’s parent company

More than 1,800 people have been arrested in a joint anti-scam operation across Asia, police said

Scientists say a new planetarium show about the Milky Way has helped them unlock one of the solar system’s many secrets

Space weather forecasters say northern lights may be visible in parts of the northern United States following weekend solar storms

It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all

Trump is withdrawing nomination of tech billionaire Jared Isaacman to lead NASA.

New Orleans celebrated the repatriation and burial of the remains of 19 African American people whose skulls had been sent to Germany for racist research practices in the 19th century

Czech Republic Justice Minister Pavel Blažek has resigned from his post over a bitcoin-related scandal

Jurors will resume deliberating in Harvey Weinstein’s New York sex crimes retrial after the ending their first day without reaching a verdict

The blockbuster horror film “Sinners” features the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians in a short, but impactful scene

Years before Ana de Armas was using an ice skate to slice a neck in “From the World of John Wick: Ballerina,” she co-starred with Keanu Reeves in a much different film

Authorities have made an arrest in the theft of two irreplaceable instruments owned by members of the rock band Heart that were stolen from a venue in New Jersey last weekend

The original Draco Malfoy from the “Harry Potter” movies will slip into his old role on Broadway this winter in “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.”

Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman have become co-owners of the Australia SailGP team

Jurors have started deliberating in Harvey Weinstein’s New York sex crimes retrial

The long-running gang case involving Atlanta rapper Young Thug will end without a single murder conviction

As if a movie about sharks wasn’t scary enough, the filmmakers behind “Dangerous Animals” have upped the screams by adding what every thriller should demand — a serial killer

“John Proctor is the Villain” is about high schoolers studying “The Crucible” as the #MeToo movement arrives in their Georgia town

The English pop singer Jessie J says she has been diagnosed with early breast cancer

So vividly drawn is Stephen King’s fiction that it’s offered the basis for some 50 feature films

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“Wicked” star Cynthia Erivo will release her sophomore solo album on Friday

Getting to call a Stanley Cup Final for the third time on national television would qualify as the top moment of the year for most announcers

British writer Bernardine Evaristo has won the Women’s Prize Outstanding Contribution Award for her “transformative impact on literature.”

Marty McFly grabbed a guitar in “Back to the Future” and rocked out with the band at a 1950s high school dance, helping him narrowly avoid blinking out of existence before time-traveling back to the 1980s

It remains unclear what prompted the fatal shooting of Jonathan Joss

A federal judge sentenced disbarred celebrity lawyer Tom Girardi to seven years and three months in prison for embezzling tens of millions of dollars from his clients, including several with severe physical injuries and families of people killed in acc...

Kara Young’s work in the play “Purpose” has earned her a Tony Award nomination and a chance to make history

Former CIA director and Biden cabinet official William J

MrBeast plans to turn the success of his Amazon Prime Video reality competition series into millions of dollars for charity

Scientists say a new planetarium show about the Milky Way has helped them unlock one of the solar system’s many secrets

Renée Victor has died at 86

When he was first asked to lead the Broadway hit musical “Death Becomes Her,” director and choreographer Christopher Gattelli loved it, but refused to work on the big, splashy opening number

WebMD brought together experts from four federal agencies to talk prevention, monitoring, and what the “what ifs” of bird flu might look like.

As WebMD’s chief medical officer, John Whyte, MD, is in a unique position to see both the current state of medical care for America’s older adults and the way things are trending for the future. We asked him to share his insight on a few topics, along with a bit of advice.

What to expect at the doctor’s office, hospitals, and long-term care facilities, the future of telemedicine, and how to get the best care during COVID-19.

A savvy black entrepreneur guides you on an eczema-friendly shopping spree.

Colorectal cancer cases increased a whopping 333% among 15- to 19-year-olds and 185% among 20- to 24-year-olds from 1999 to 2020.

Schizophrenia caregiver support is essential to avoid burnout. Learn how to build a support network when you're a mental-health caregiver.

Schizophrenia treatment is tricky when your loved one resists it. Learn ways to help someone with schizophrenia stick with their treatment plan.

Is it time for a change in your loved one's schizophrenia treatment? Learn the signs caregivers should watch for.

If you’re a schizophrenia caregiver, communication with your loved one's doctors is important. Learn how to stay in the loop.

The American College of Lifestyle Medicine and Blue Zones will soon offer a new clinical certification to physicians and health professionals.

If you have two copies of the APOE4 gene, new research suggests that you’re very likely to develop Alzheimer’s. Experts break down the findings and share what you can do to lower your risk.

The virus variant that is circulating among cattle is not an efficient cause of disease in humans. There may be more concern if H5N1 passes to pigs, because their viral receptors are closer to those in humans.

Three women with eczema describe how they combat nighttime flare-ups.

Two moms reveal the great lengths they went to in their determination to give their children relief and good health.

Three keys to managing your eczema at the gym and then heading off to a productive and itch-free workday.

Cow udders have the same receptors for flu viruses as humans and birds, raising concerns that cows could become “mixing vessels” that help the bird flu virus spread between people.

Estimates show that by 2040, age-related macular degeneration may affect nearly 300 million people worldwide. And we are very limited in our ability to treat or prevent it. Here's what to know.

Turn around those bad family genes with four lifestyle changes.

Kidney care in the U.S. is at a watershed moment of moving past a deeply entrenched, institutionally racist equation.

Vegans and vegetarians sleep around 30 more minutes per night than average and up to 90% of them report good or excellent sleep quality, according to a new survey published by the Sleep Foundation.

What, exactly, does anorexia nervosa do inside the human body? The heart and bones suffer the most.

Many new mothers aren’t aware that postpartum PTSD even exists, but it’s far from rare. Here's what to know.

See how one person manages the ups and downs of major depressive disorder -- and how her depression inspired her career as a therapist.

A therapist talks about managing major depressive disorder (MDD): what to expect, strategies for dealing with setbacks, and when to talk to your therapist.

Learn from a mental health advocate how the stigma of depression is changing and how acceptance is the first step to managing major depressive disorder.

A person with major depressive disorder shares how they talk about their condition with others.

Major depressive disorder (MDD) at work: tips, strategies, who to tell, what to do, and asking for accommodations.

Not all exercises are created equal. Some are simply more efficient than others, whether they target multiple muscle groups, are suitable for a wide variety of fitness levels, or help you burn calories more effectively.

These tips will help you enjoy the foods at social events when you have ulcerative colitis and still steer clear of a flare.

Ulcerative colitis is a relapsing-remitting disease, so it’s hard to predict symptoms over time. Here’s what to expect and how to recognize remission.

Friendship can be a good medicine when you have ulcerative colitis. Learn how to keep your social life going when you don’t always feel like going out.

Curious if your body’s aging is normal? WebMD discusses healthy and normal signs of aging.

Your dietary needs change as you age. WebMD advises what should be on your grocery list.

After falling for over a decade, the death rate climbed for several years and now is about the same as in 1999.

There are far more powerful motivators than “get abs!” to help you start an exercise routine you’ll stick to.

The goalpost for old age has been moving. Until now.

More than 1 million Americans live with Crohn’s, a chronic and sometimes crippling bowel disease that affects the intestines and leads to digestive issues. But in 2024, breakthroughs could bring relief in different ways. Here's what to know.

How realistic is the Grey’s Anatomy episode that shows a Parkinson’s disease cure? A neurosurgery professor weighs in.

You shouldn’t draw major conclusions about the safety of marijuana amid the recent announcement that federal regulators may reclassify the drug, experts are cautioning.

A new study suggests female doctors may provide patients better care, especially when those patients are women. Here's what to know.

Eliseo Pérez-Stable, MD, director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, talks about health disparities and how his studies aim to improve interventions in clinical settings and across communities.

A data scientist who has accurately predicted COVID waves since the beginning of the pandemic warns that a surge is on the horizon.

New Season Brings Boost of Energy, but Also Unplanned Pregnancies

With age, your body doesn’t absorb nutrients well, so every calorie you consume must be packed with nutrition. Here are 9 nutrients older adults often need more of.

How does getting older affect your immune system? How can you keep those effects to a minimum? Your answers are here.

Trouble chewing and swallowing? WebMD shares six ways to make everything go down a little easier.

Staying healthy as you enter your golden years has a lot to do with your diet. Here are some foods that are good for your heart, your brain, your bones, and your muscles.

Losing your hearing, or learning a loved one is, can bring about a range of uncomfortable emotions. Here's how you can deal with this tough transition.

Before there was Ozempic, there were these cost-friendly, safe, and highly effective weight loss drugs. FDA-approved obesity medication like orlistat (Xenical), phentermine/topiramate (Qsymia), and naltrexone/bupropion extended release (Contrave) have been on the market for decades.

Learn how genes and lifestyle interact to affect your health over the course of your life.