Cigarette smoking in the United States hit an historic low this year, according to Gallup, which has been monitoring smoking trends for eight decades. Come November, Missouri voters will decide whether to enshrine the right to abortion in the state's Constitution, the Missouri secretary of state said Tuesday. A U.S. Army soldier and intelligence analyst with top secret security clearance pleaded guilty Tuesday to selling American military secrets to China. Rep. Steny Hoyer suffered a "mild ischemic stroke" over the weekend and sought medical treatment. The 85-year-old Democratic congressman from Maryland is responding well to treatment, his office announced Tuesday. New Hampshire residents and visitors to a Lincoln resort are being warned to monitor themselves for symptoms of Legionnaires' disease after five people developed the bacterial pneumonia in June and July. NASA officials scheduled a status update for Wednesday regarding the Boeing Starliner's 10-day shakedown run that turned into a months-long stay aboard the International Space Station for two test pilots. Former Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., will have an anonymous jury hear his case and render a verdict when the trial gets underway in a New York federal court in September. Scientists in North Dakota announced Tuesday they are prepared to repopulate the iconic orange monarch butterfly, which has been classified an endangered species in North America, in the event "of a rapid extinction." A man who was kicked out of a Tampa, Fla., strip club intentionally drove his semi-truck cab into a group of people gathered outside early Tuesday morning, police said. President Joe Biden announced a Cancer Moonshot award of $150 million to eight teams of researchers Tuesday for the development of technologies that will make cancer tumor removal more successful. The large wildfire burning in Greece now has killed at least one person and injured multiple others as scores of property and thousands of acres of land have been devastated, according to sources. As Tropical Storm Ernesto headed toward the Virgin Islands late Tuesday, National Hurricane Center forecasters say they expect the storm to become a hurricane during the night while passing northeast of Puerto Rico. A federal judge has ruled that independent presidential candidate Cornel West must be on North Carolina's ballot for the November election, ruling that the state's logic to keep West off the ballot was flawed. A planned protest expected to draw thousands of participants during the Democratic National Convention will have to use the current route provided Chicago officials, a federal judge ruled Monday. Bangladesh's ex-PM and six other high-level current or former government officials are now subject of a murder investigation over the killing of a grocery store owner stemming from the recent deadly civil unrest. An animal control deputy in Oregon plunged into a retention pond to rescue a fawn in danger of drowning. An estimated 210 dogs turned up with their owners to watch a movie in Vermont, but the event was just shy of breaking a world record. Rising tensions among Iran and its proxies and Israel forced U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday to postpone a planned trip to broker a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas. A Massachusetts man went out to buy a birthday gift for a friend and along the way bought a lottery ticket that earned him a $4 million prize. For the first time, ultra-cold atoms have been used to detect changes in the surrounding environment in space, taking a step of revolutionizing how quantum science can be used. Officials for the United Automobile Workers union say former President Donald Trump and Tesla founder Elon Musk illegally threatened union workers who might go on strike Monday night. Starbucks announced Tuesday that Chipotle chairman and CEO Brian Niccol will become its new chair and CEO next month. "Grotesquerie," a new horror series co-created by Ryan Murphy and starring Niecy Nash-Betts, is coming to FX and Hulu. Many nonsmokers have lung nodules that have been linked to lung cancer, a new study warns. |
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