Wildfires may be responsible for raising local deaths by about 67 percent in a given month, a new study has found. Scientists linked 82 “excess deaths” to the devastating blazes that struck Maui, Hawaii, in August 2023 — or two-thirds more fatalities than they would have otherwise expected for that month, per the study, published...

A federal judge Thursday night ordered a halt to work at "Alligator Alcatraz" and banned the federal government from sending any new detainees to the immigrant detention facility that Florida erected to help President Trump.

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A federal judge in Florida ordered late Thursday that some of "Alligator Alcatraz" be shut down and barred the Sunshine State from bringing in more detainees to the migrant detention facility in a blow to the administration as it ramps up its immigration crackdown.  U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams, an appointee of former President Obama,...