Wind isn’t the only danger a hurricane can bring to coastal communities. Storm surges are often more destructive.

Of all Tomie dePaola’s books, ‘Strega Nona’ is by far the most beloved. Here are seven things you might not have known about the story.

Not only is there a chronic shortage of organ donations in the U.S.—there multiple myths about the process.

“I think he was speaking for me, but I really didn’t [discuss a federal abortion ban with Vance].” Normally, that quote — of Donald Trump disowning his running mate’s vow that Trump would veto any federal abortion ban — would be big debate news. But it was overshadowed by media coverage of the debate’s more sensational moments. Regardless, J. D. Vance will face a tricky task come October 1, when he’s scheduled to face off with his Democratic counterpart, Tim Walz. The running-mate debate...

Many cities have been reshaped by immigrants in the last few years without attracting much notice. Not Springfield, Ohio. Its story of economic renewal and related growing pains has been thrust into the national conversation in a presidential election year – and maliciously distorted by false rumors that Haitian immigrants are eating their neighbors’ pets. Donald Trump amplified those lies during a nationally televised debate on Sept. 10, exacerbating some residents’ fears about growing...

Gen Z is looking to leave United States because they can no longer afford to live there, according to a new report from Greenback Expat Tax Services. The 2024 Expat Report found that 45 percent of Gen Z expats had left the country because they wanted a lower cost of living. That differed from their millennial elders, who were far more likely to leave the United States for political reasons (40 percent). "It's a wake-up call," Michael Ryan, a finance expert and the founder of michaelryanmoney....

ROME (AP) — The World Food Program needs better access to people at risk of starvation in and more money from the crisis-weary West to feed more than , the U.N. agency’s director said Thursday. “Sudan’s nearly a forgotten crisis right now,” WFP director Cindy McCain told The Associated Press. “There are so many crises going on that people kind of just, you know, it’s just too much and their eyes glaze over,’' she added. Sudan plunged into conflict in mid-April 2023, when long-simmering tensions...

Lottie Moss, younger sister of British supermodel Kate Moss, said she landed herself in the hospital after taking a high dose of Ozempic. The model, 26, made the admission on an episode of her podcast, Dream On, titled “My Ozempic Hell,” that was released Thursday. “A few months ago, I was not feeling happy about my weight, I had a friend, and she could get it for me,” said Moss, who explained that the drug was “below board” and not prescribed for her by a doctor after blood work and...

Attorney General Merrick Garland gave a speech on Thursday to staff and US attorneys in which he claimed that there had been efforts to turn to the Department of Justice into a "political weapon." Garland has prosecuted Donald Trump in two cases and has been said to have used the department to go after the political enemies of the Biden-Harris administration. "Over the past three and a half years," he said, "there has been an escalation of attacks on the Justice Department's career lawyers,...