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3 days ago | 
san.com | Craig Nigrelli |Devin Pavlou |Evan Hummel |Emma Stoltzfus
As the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season ramps up, a longtime Florida meteorologist is sounding the alarm over staffing cuts at the National Weather Service (NWS). Miami’s NBC6 meteorologist John Morales warned that reductions in personnel and resources could degrade the accuracy of storm forecasts, putting lives and property at greater risk. It comes as forecasters predict an above-average season in 2025.
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4 days ago | 
san.com | Craig Nigrelli |Devin Pavlou |Jack Henry |Jason Morrell
The 2026 midterm elections are still more than a year away, but Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst is already facing heat — and challengers. State Rep. J.D. Scholten announced Monday, June 2, that he will run for Ernst’s seat, just days after a controversial moment at one of her town halls made national headlines. During a town hall on Friday night, May 30, at a high school in Parkersburg, Iowa, Ernst was asked about proposed cuts to Medicaid and food assistance programs.
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1 week ago | 
san.com | Devin Pavlou |Evan Hummel |Jake Larsen |Kalé Carey
Authorities have accused a New York City detective, assigned to Mayor Eric Adams‘ security detail, of driving an Italian Bitcoin millionaire to a house where kidnappers later tortured him for several days. Multiple law enforcement agencies told CNN the detective picked up the victim at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
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1 week ago | 
san.com | Cole Lauterbach |Devin Pavlou |Kalé Carey
Two years after Utah banned gender-affirming care for minors, state health officials have released findings that undercut key arguments made by lawmakers who supported the law. The Department of Health and Human Services, tasked with studying the potential risks to children, found little evidence to back claims that such treatments are inherently harmful.
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1 week ago | 
san.com | Cole Lauterbach |Devin Pavlou |Kalé Carey
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’ first action after taking office in 2022 was an overarching emergency declaration to tackle the city’s homelessness problems. At the time, city leaders backed her move, but now some are looking to scale back and revisit the root cause of the issue. Bass’ emergency order gave her immediate authority to bypass certain rules and regulations, accelerating the process of building both temporary and permanent housing for people experiencing homelessness.
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1 week ago | 
san.com | Bast Bramhall |Cole Lauterbach |Devin Pavlou |Karah Rucker
President Donald Trump celebrated a Florida appellate court’s decision to allow his defamation lawsuit against the Pulitzer Prize Board to move forward. The case focuses on Pulitzer Prizes awarded to The New York Times and The Washington Post for their reporting on alleged ties between Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia —coverage often referred to as “Russiagate.”Conservatives, including Trump, later labeled the story the “Russia hoax” after investigators found no evidence of collusion.
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1 week ago | 
san.com | Chris Francis |Devin Pavlou |Joey Nunez
The WNBA’s investigation into alleged racist fan behavior during the season opener between the Chicago Sky and Indiana Fever did not turn up evidence of any hateful comments. The league is now hoping to move past the incident involving two of the game’s biggest stars. The incident allegedly took place at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis after a hard foul given by Fever guard Caitlin Clark against Sky forward Angel Reese.
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1 week ago | 
san.com | Cole Lauterbach |Devin Pavlou |Kalé Carey
Two rare 19th-century photographs of enslaved individuals are heading to a South Carolina museum after Harvard University agreed to release them, bringing an end to a 15-year dispute. A descendant of the individuals in the photographs led the fight to have them released, seeking justice for her ancestors and greater recognition of their story. Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology currently holds photographs of Renty and his daughter Delia, ancestors of Tamara Lanier.
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1 week ago | 
san.com | Devin Pavlou |Evan Hummel |Kalé Carey |Shianne DeLeon
A humanitarian group backed by the U.S. and Israel has started to take over aid operations in Gaza, despite opposition from the United Nations and other aid organizations. The move coincides with Israel reaching 600 days since the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas — the inciting event for the war in Gaza. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the new lead aid group, began operations this week, just as its executive director resigned on Sunday, May 25.
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1 week ago | 
san.com | Chris Field |Cole Lauterbach |Diane Duenez |Devin Pavlou
Over the past few decades, the number of families using school choice programs has increased. Hundreds of thousands of families are now using programs like vouchers, Education Savings Accounts or some type of school choice tax credit. According to EdChoice, a school choice advocacy group, more than a million U.S. students participated in private school choice programs in 2024, a record-breaking number. This is the second part of a two-part series on school choice programs across the nation.
