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A woman running the NYC marathon for charity dies 2 miles from the finish

NEW YORK (AP) — A young Pennsylvania woman running the New York City Marathon for the first time to raise money for charity collapsed in Central Park, just over two miles from the finish line, and later died. Rachel Apa, 24, of Lewisberry, Pennsylvania, was approaching the 24-mile mark of the 26. 2 mile race Sunday when she collapsed, according to the New York Police Department. Her father said she'd been stricken with rhabdomyolysis, a rare condition in which muscles can break down during a...

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Trump says US will halt $4B in aid to Israel as the Mideast ally weans itself American dependence

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States will stop providing $4 billion in aid each year to Israel in 2027 but will sell arms to its closest ally in the Middle East, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday. The Republican president told Fox News Channel during a phone call on Election Day for the midterms that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had approached him about the idea and that they have been talking about it for a couple of years. Trump said Israel doesn’t need the aid and a lot...

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Monarch butterflies get tiny trackers to help scientists follow their mysterious migration

As a child, Rebeca Quiñonez-Piñón wondered where monarch butterflies stop for a meal and a night's rest on their long migrations across North America. Now she and other scientists are attaching tiny tracking devices to hundreds of butterflies to find those critical stopover locations before they disappear. Swarms of dazzling orange-and-black monarchs use environmental cues to travel some 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometers) from as far as southern Canada to spend the winter in forests of oyamel a...

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