Faith and community leaders gathered Wednesday evening at Friendship Missionary Baptist Church for an interfaith forum exploring the historical and spiritual connections between the Black experience and the Palestinian struggle. The event, "The Black Experience: Leadership, Palestine and Truth Telling," drew panelists from across Charlotte's religious community, including Jibril Hough, of the Islamic Center of Charlotte and founder of Ansar Justice Foundation, Wake Forest University Professor o

Luke Kuhn was attacked by a great white shark in South Australia on Wednesday, March 25

Two landmark jury verdicts against social media companies have arrived at the front of a wave of lawsuits alleging that the popular platforms endanger the mental health of children. Financial penalties total $381 million in the two cases involving tech giant Meta in New Mexico and both Meta and YouTube in California. The verdicts highlight a growing shift in the public perception of social media companies and their responsibilities toward child safety.

For years, parents, teenagers, pediatricians, educators and whistleblowers have pushed the idea that social media is detrimental to young people's mental health and can lead to addiction, eating disorders, sexual exploitation and suicide. In Los Angeles on Wednesday, a jury found both Meta and YouTube liable for harms to children using their services. In New Mexico, a jury determined that Meta knowingly harmed children’s mental health and concealed what it knew about child sexual exploitation

An empty lot between a fire station and a soccer field just outside Albuquerque soon will be the home of a federal medical center first promised to Native American patients more than 30 years ago. Earlier this month, Santa Ana Pueblo Gov. Myron Armijo took officials from the U.S. Indian Health Service and the Department of Health and Human Services on a tour of the location where patients are to receive everything from dialysis and diabetes care to optometry services.

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The California Department of Public Health is raising the alarm on an outbreak of death cap mushrooms, which has hospitalized dozens of people.

The law hasn't been invoked since the 1992 L.A. riots.

The clipper storms are coming from Central Canada.

Organ donations from the recently deceased dropped last year for the first time in over a decade, resulting in fewer kidney transplants, according to an analysis issued Wednesday that pointed to signs of public mistrust in the lifesaving system. More than 100,000 people in the U.S. are on the list for an organ transplant. The nonprofit Kidney Transplant Collaborative analyzed federal data and found 116 fewer kidney transplants were performed last year than in 2024.

At least 45 people in nearly two dozen states have been sickened with salmonella food poisoning tied to the Super Greens brand of diet supplement powder, federal health officials said Wednesday. Superfoods Inc., which makes Live it Up-brand Super Greens powder, recalled products including its original and wild berry flavors with expiration dates of August 2026 to January 2028. No deaths have been reported, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control a

Illnesses linked to the New York-based Live it Up Super Greens brand powder were reported in 21 states from Aug. 22 to Dec. 30, 2025.

New York City nurses are striking for a third day Wednesday, with both sides seemingly preparing for a protracted walkout. None of the three major hospital systems affected by the strike have met with union negotiators, though one said it plans to sit down with nurses Thursday. Picketing nurses instead held a rally at a Bronx hospital in which their leaders took aim at hospital administrators who they say are mischaracterizing their contract demands.

Footage captured before the December 2025 blaze at Palace Hotel Kristall in Ariano Irpino, Italy, shows sparklers grazing the ceiling

Officials continue to push the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccination.

Louisiana pushed Tuesday to extradite a California doctor accused of mailing abortion pills, setting up a likely test of laws designed to protect telehealth providers who ship abortion pills nationwide. This is the second time Louisiana has pursued an out-of-state doctor under its abortion restrictions, with Republican Gov. Jeff Landry saying on social media that he wants to bring the abortion provider “to justice.” The two criminal cases pit Louisiana, which has some of the strictest abortion

The "West Wing" actor "presented himself" to New Mexico police on Tuesday, NBC News reports, after the U.S. Marshals Service confirmed it had joined in the search for him.

Thousands of nurses at some of New York City's biggest hospitals could go on strike Monday during a severe flu season, three years after a similar walkout forced some of the same medical facilities to transfer some patients and divert ambulances. The looming strike could impact operations at several of the city’s major private hospitals, including Mount Sinai in Manhattan, Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx and NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Nearly 15,000 n

More than 15,000 NYC nurses are threatening to walk off the job on Monday.

California is completely drought-free for the first time in 25 years following winter storms that lashed the state with rain and snow in recent weeks.

The agency has spearheaded President Trump's immigration crackdown and been at the center of some of its most controversial incidents.

The outbreak centered in Spartanburg County grew to 310 cases over the holidays, and spawned cases in North Carolina and Ohio among families who traveled to the outbreak area in the northwestern part of the state. State health officials acknowledged the spike in cases had been expected following holiday travel and family gatherings during the school break. A growing number of public exposures and low vaccination rates in the area are driving the surge, they said.

An apartment in Quebec, Canada was covered in a thick layer of ice after pipes burst in the property amid freezing temperatures

After the ACA tax credit lapsed in December, enrollees are opting for less robust health plans or dropping coverage altogether.

Ross, 43, joined ICE in 2015 and has spent the last 10 years as a deportation officer in Minnesota.

In the US last year there were 23 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters, adding up to a total of $115 billion in damages. The database that tracks these costs used to be maintained by the federal government. It is now published by the climate research nonprofit Climate Central.

The 37-year-old was pronounced dead at a local hospital on Wednesday.

"I couldn't imagine life without him anymore," Melanie Smith said.

The fatal shooting of a woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis continues to spark outrage across the country as video evidence appears to contradict the administration’s claims.

Local government officials and the Trump administration are giving dramatically different accounts of the events that led to the shooting.