July 19 (UPI) -- The Iranian Revolutionary Guard announced Friday that they seized a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, the same region where the United States says one of its ships shot down an Iranian drone earlier this week.

An uptick in preterm births among Hispanic women occurred in the nine months after President Trump was elected, a new study found.

July 19 (UPI) -- A Scottish family vacationing on one of the country's islands found a message in the bottle launched from Maine about 21 years earlier.

July 19 (UPI) -- A Maine jury Wednesday convicted a 77-year-old man once deemed too old to be a continued threat by a judge with the death of a woman in 2018.

July 19 -- After a month of blistering heat waves across Europe, relentless rising temperatures in India and sweltering temperatures in Alaska, last month was the hottest June on record, a new report by the NOAA.

July 19 (UPI) -- A Chicago artist is developing a following using the streets as his canvas for mosaic art put to a practical use -- filling pot holes.

July 19 (UPI) -- Wildlife rescuers in India shared photos of a wild tiger that escaped a flood and wandered into a family's home, where it was found taking a rest on a bed.

July 19 (UPI) -- A new hospital-based smoking cessation program has shown success in getting cancer patients to quit smoking, new research shows.

For some people, caffeine may help with concentration and provide an energy boost, but it can cause problems for those with general anxiety disorder, Penn State Health researchers said.

July 19 (UPI) -- Fire at a pair of electricity substations in Wisconsin's capital Friday cut power to thousands of residents in the midst of a heat wave, officials said.