An explosive device was found at the Westchester County, New York, home of billionaire philanthropist George Soros on Monday afternoon.

In a statement to NPR, the Bedford Police Department said an employee of the house found a suspicious package in the mailbox. They opened it, revealing what "appeared to be an explosive device." The employee placed the package in in a nearby wooded area and alerted authorities.

Hurricane Willa, downgraded slightly after briefly ramping up to a Category 5 storm — remains "extremely dangerous" and is poised to bring "life-threatening storm surge, wind and rainfall" to the Pacific coast of Mexico on Tuesday, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Willa, with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph, is about 85 miles from Las Islas Marias — or about 140 miles west of Puerto Vallarta — moving north at 9 mph, the latest NHC's advisory says.

The Supreme Court has temporarily shielded Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross from having to sit for questioning under oath in the lawsuits over a controversial citizenship question the Trump administration added to the 2020 census.

U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton arrived in Moscow this weekend to a murmur of dampened outrage over President Trump's announcement to leave the 1987 arms control treaty that marked the end of the Cold War.

Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader who signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with then-President Ronald Reagan, called the decision a "mistake" that didn't originate from a great mind.

Microplastics have been found in human stool samples from countries in many parts of the world, according to a small pilot study being presented this week at the 26^th annual United European Gastroenterology conference in Vienna, Austria.

Hold on to your hats: A sea cucumber that looks like a headless chicken has been caught on video in the deep seas near East Antarctica.

It's a surprising location for the species, Enypniastes eximia, to turn up. The last place it was filmed was thousands of miles away in the Gulf of Mexico last year.