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A man stands outside his house surrounded by floodwaters after Hurricane Julia swept through the area in Bluefields, Nicaragua, on Sunday. The storm hit Nicaragua's central Caribbean coast and dumped torrential rains across Central America before reemerging over the Pacific as a tropical storm.

World News

At least 28 are dead as Julia drenches Central America with rainfall

11:13pm October 10, 2022

by The Associated Press

Now a tropical depression, former Hurricane Julia drenched Guatemala and El Salvador with torrential rains Monday after it reemerged in the Pacific following a pounding of Nicaragua.

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) speaks during a campaign rally at Minden-Tahoe Airport on Saturday in Minden, Nevada.

Alabama Sen. Tuberville equates descendants of enslaved people to criminals

5:18pm October 10, 2022

by Juliana Kim

Tuberville spoke at a pro-Trump rally in Nevada on Saturday ahead of the November midterm elections. The NAACP called the comments "flat out racist, ignorant and utterly sickening."

A screenshot of a portion of the interactive map from Native Land Digital shows which Native territories have inhabited different regions of the Americas, based on a variety of historical and Indigenous sources.

Which Indigenous lands are you on? This map will show you

1:30pm October 10, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

Native Land Digital, a Canadian nonprofit, offers resources for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people to learn more about the land and its history. It hopes its map will be just a part of that journey.

Emergency workers clear debris from the crater of a missile strike at a bus stop in a residential area of Dnipro, Ukraine. Missiles struck multiple cities across the country Monday morning.

World News

Deadly missile strikes hit Kyiv as explosions reported in other cities across Ukraine

9:48am October 10, 2022

by The Associated Press

The attacks came only hours after Russia blamed Ukraine for a weekend explosion that partially damaged a strategic bridge that connects Russian-occupied Crimea to mainland Russia.

Yael Bensoussan, MD, is part of the USF Health's department of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery. She's leading an effort to collect voice data that can be used to diagnose illnesses.

Artificial intelligence could soon diagnose illness based on the sound of your voice

8:10am October 10, 2022

Everything from your vocal cord vibrations to breathing patterns when you speak offers potential information about your health. Researchers are collecting voice data to one day use in an app.

Former Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Ben Bernanke.

Economy

Ben Bernanke among 3 American winners of Nobel Prize in economics

7:33am October 10, 2022

by Scott Horsley

Former Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke and two academic economists — Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig — share this year's Nobel Prize in economics for their work on bank runs.

A parents' lawsuit accuses Amazon of selling suicide kits to teenagers

4:44pm October 09, 2022

by Joe Hernandez

Amazon sold the food preservative sodium nitrite, which lawyers say has no household use at high purity levels, to people who later killed themselves using the substance, the suit claims.

Ye attending Paris Fashion Week, where he ignited controversy wearing a shirt with the slogan "White Lives Matter."

Ye takes to Twitter after Instagram restricts his account following antisemitic posts

4:17pm October 09, 2022

by Andrew Limbong

Ye, the rapper and fashion designer formerly known as Kanye West, had recently accused hip hop mogul Diddy of being under the influence of "the Jewish people."

Flame and smoke rise fron Crimean Bridge connecting the Russian mainland and Crimean peninsula over the Kerch Strait, in Kerch, Crimea, on Saturday.

World News

Putin calls the attack on a key bridge to Crimea a terrorist act

2:53pm October 09, 2022

by The Associated Press

The Russian president accused Ukrainian special services of carrying out an attack on the Kerch Bridge, a key supply line for Russian forces.

Rail passengers wait for a train on a platform at the main train station in Berlin on Saturday following major disruption on the German railway network.

World News

An act of sabotage shut down parts of Germany's rail system for hours this weekend

1:14pm October 09, 2022

by Rob Schmitz

Officials say a key train communications system was compromised, stranding passenger and cargo trains across the northwest of the country on Saturday.