Texas' legislature isn’t helping with scorching heat, San Antonio's mayor says

Texas is in the midst of a record-breaking heatwave, with temperatures reaching up to 120 degrees in areas. In San Antonio, Mayor Ron Nirenberg said Sunday, the state’s legislature has only made things worse. “We're certainly grateful for a president now that's treating this heatwave with the urgency that I think is necessary. Especially given the fact that one of the challenges...

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30 days over 110 F in Phoenix. But expected monsoon rains could cool historically hot Southwest.

PHOENIX — A historic heat wave that has gripped the U.S. Southwest throughout July, blasting residents and baking surfaces like brick, is beginning to abate with the late arrival of monsoon rains. Forecasters expect that by Monday, people in metro Phoenix will begin to see high temperatures fall under 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43.3 degrees Celsius) for the first time in a month. But...

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Judge blocks Arkansas law allowing librarians to be criminally charged over ‘harmful’ materials

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas is temporarily blocked from enforcing a law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing “harmful” materials to minors, a federal judge ruled Saturday. U.S. District Judge Timothy L. Brooks issued a preliminary injunction against the law, which also would have created a new process to challenge library...

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Labor battle brews as Trump heads to Biden’s backyard

Donald Trump is headed to hotly contested Erie County Saturday evening, a western Pennsylvania bellwether Joe Biden won by a razor-thin margin almost three years ago. Known for its labor union roots, Eric County is emblematic of the ongoing battle for organized labor ahead of next year’s election, particularly if the country sees another Biden-Trump rematch. Trump, who won...

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Trump hits back at GOP candidate who said he’s running to ‘stay out of jail’

Donald Trump said it's "wrong" to suggest he's running for the presidency to stay out of prison — and the former president signaled Saturday that he's prepared to punch down at any of his rivals who suggest he's doing so. During the Lincoln Dinner on Friday evening — a key Republican event in the lead up to the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses — Will Hurd and Asa Hutchinson...

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DeSantis clarifies comment that he would ‘sic’ RFK Jr. on FDA or CDC

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis clarified his comment that if elected president he would "sic" Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on a medical agency, saying instead he would put the Democrat on a bipartisan task force that would hold medical agencies accountable for supposed government overreach. “It wouldn’t be he would be the head of CDC,” DeSantis told Megyn Kelly in an interview on Friday....

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ER visits spike as extreme heat scorches New York City

NEW YORK — More New Yorkers are heading to the emergency room for heat-related illnesses as the city bakes under a dayslong heat wave. Hospitals across the city reported 25 heat-related emergency room visits Thursday, up from just six visits the day before and the most reported in any one day so far this summer, according to public data. Temperatures Thursday felt hotter...

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