Today’s Lead News Stories

All 14 victims from the UPS cargo plane crash in Kentucky have been named. The heartbreaking list includes a 3-year-old girl and her grandfather.

A former Connecticut police officer has pleaded guilty to mistreating prisoner Richard “Randy” Cox after he was paralyzed in a police van

Donald Trump claims military buildup is necessary to stem flow of drugs to US but some believe goal is regime change

Mike Johnson, the House speaker, had prevented the representative from taking her seat after a special election

Expert says military action may be ‘imminent’ in Venezuela, while others suspect deployment is a negotiating tactic

Headlines have been filled with talk of the catastrophic power of Hurricane Melissa after the Category 5 storm devastated communities across Jamaica, Cuba and Haiti in October 2025. But to see this as a singular disaster misses the bigger picture: Melissa didn’t hit stable, resilient islands. It hit islands still…

"She was struggling to breathe," said the father of a 1-year-old exposed to the chemical.

Families say the housing contractor’s strict timing rules dampen holiday spirit on the base

More than 250 Venezuelans detained in Cecot prison report violations. Plus, supply boom in cheaper renewables will make decline of fossil fuels ‘inevitable’