Mosquito-Borne Virus Kills 5 as Infections Surge
Los Angeles County’s West Nile season was not merely unpleasant; it was measurably more dangerous, with human illness, infected mosquitoes, and virus-positive dead birds...
CIA’s Strange Gift to Journalist Freed From Russia
What looks like an odd footnote to a historic prisoner exchange is, in fact, a window into how the United States repatriates people who...
Cop Shoots Family’s Pet Donkey During Search
A Georgia police officer shot and killed a family's pet donkey on their own fenced pasture during a search for a missing girl, and...
Salmonella Outbreak Triggers Nationwide Seed Recall
An unnamed seed supplier at the center of a multistate Salmonella outbreak remains shielded from the public, even as more sprouting seeds are recalled.Story...
Porch Flick Triggers 1,000-Acre Inferno
Wildfire prosecutions turn on a simple chain: ignition, causation, and intent; in the Bouquet Fire case, federal prosecutors say they can run that chain...
Mother and 2-Year-Old Stabbed in Random Attack
The hard problem at the center of this story is not identifying evil; it is managing risk when the law says a person is...
Massive Waves Flood Homes Across California
A tropical storm rarely needs to make landfall in Southern California to flood it — it only needs to raise the ocean a foot...
$268K in Opioid Funds Spent on Something Else
Opioid-settlement dollars were created to remediate a public health crisis, yet in one New Jersey township they underwrote police SUVs and automated license-plate readers—a...
Bangkok Drenches – The Real Disaster Is Upcountry
Satellite analysis shows floods spread across 50 Thai provinces, disrupting life for over 4 million people and swamping vast croplands.Story HighlightsNationwide flooding since mid-September...
$55 Million Crypto Scheme Takes Bizarre Turn
A New York jury found a cybersecurity consultant guilty of stealing nearly $55 million in cryptocurrency and blowing part of it on rare trading...