Eliot Engel, who represented the Bronx and Westchester County in Congress for 32 years and wielded considerable influence over American foreign policy as House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman, died from complications of Parkinson's disease at a Bronx hospital on April 10, 2026. He was 79. The New York Democrat's decades-long...

Virginia Beach officials are pleading for state-level support and new enforcement tools after a burst of gunfire lasting just 12 seconds wounded eight people near the city's crowded Oceanfront boardwalk Saturday night, despite the presence of 90 officers patrolling a 10-block area. Mayor Bobby Dyer and Police Chief Paul Neudigate...

More than 100 civilians, including children, were killed when Nigerian military jets bombed a market in the country's northeast on April 11, 2026, marking one of the most catastrophic misfires in Nigeria's 17-year fight against jihadist insurgents. The strike at Jilli market continues a devastating pattern of military errors. According...

A tense confrontation on the White House lawn Saturday afternoon captured the gap between President Donald Trump's declarations of total victory over Iran and the persistent reality that the Strait of Hormuz — the world's most critical oil chokepoint — remained effectively shut down more than six weeks into...

More than half a million people in the United Kingdom now travel abroad each year for dental treatment. The number jumped from 431,000 to approximately 523,000 according to Office for National Statistics data — a 50% increase driven by soaring costs at home and the collapse of NHS dental...

A retired judge has concluded that improved cooperation from the parents of Axel Rudakubana in the final days of July 2024 would have "almost certainly" prevented the mass stabbing that killed three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport, U.K. The finding is among the most...

When Rev. Al Sharpton put the question directly to Kamala Harris at the National Action Network convention in New York City on April 1, the former vice president didn't dance around her answer. "Listen, I might. I might. I'm thinking about it," she told the crowd, addressing whether she...

When CNN accidentally aired his obituary on April 8, 2026, Michael J. Fox had already spent 35 years refusing to let Parkinson's disease define him. His response came two days later in the form of a simple Instagram post that summed up his entire approach to the degenerative neurological...