Minnesota laws and policy changes taking effect Jan. 1 will create new work break requirements, end a long-standing hunting restriction and end state-funded health insurance for adults without legal immigration status.

Perhaps the most impactful change will be the launch of the state’s paid family and medical leave program. Minnesota is the ...Read more

San Diego officials say they’re helping to solve the local housing crisis with a little-known “gap financing” program that has spurred nearly two dozen apartment complexes with more than 2,000 units across the city.

Launched four years ago, the program pools an array of funding sources from city, county, state and federal governments to ...Read more

Rob Simmons estimates that, over the last decade, Oak Park Public Library employees have helped save the lives of about 20 people who overdosed on opioids.

In some cases staff members saw that a patron had potentially overdosed in the library and called 911. In other instances, staffers administered a naloxone nasal spray that can reverse the ...Read more

Some Kentuckians felt the shake of an earthquake Sunday along Madison and Garrard County lines, according to the United States Geological Survey.

A 3.1 magnitude earthquake was recorded Sunday afternoon, according to the Louisville National Weather Service.

Around 12:47 p.m., the earthquake struck the Madison and Garrard county lines near the ...Read more

Routine mammograms are best known as a front-line tool for detecting breast cancer. But new research suggests the same X-ray images may also offer an early warning sign for cardiovascular disease — the leading cause of death among women.

A study presented at a Dec. 3 Radiological Society of North America meeting found that calcium deposits ...Read more

At least three people were killed and 60 injured in Latakia, with Syria’s Interior Ministry blaming the violence along the country’s Mediterranean coastline on the remnants of Bashar Assad’s toppled regime.

The area — home to many of the country’s Muslim Alawite minority, to which Assad belongs — has been restive since the downfall...Read more

President Donald Trump said he had a “good and very productive” phone call with Russian leader Vladimir Putin just before he began a face-to-face meeting with Ukraine’s president.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Trump are meeting Sunday at the U.S. president’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida as he pushes for a peace deal in the long-running war. ...Read more

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called Europe “the main obstacle to peace” as U.S. and Ukrainian negotiators prepare for talks on a way to end Moscow’s four-year invasion of its neighbor.

“After the change of administration in the U.S., Europe and the European Union have become the main obstacle to peace,” Lavrov said in an ...Read more

A New Jersey actor was indicted earlier this month on attempted murder and other charges in connection with accusations he shot a woman in the face following a traffic dispute.

Ernest W. Heinz, 46, of Port Republic, faces 31 charges, including aggravated assault and weapons infractions, stemming from the September incident in Galloway Township,...Read more

President Donald Trump said he had a “good and very productive” phone call with Russian leader Vladimir Putin ahead of a face-to-face meeting with Ukraine’s president.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Trump are set to meet Sunday afternoon at the U.S. president’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida as he pushes for a peace deal in the long-running war....Read more

LOS ANGELES — For all the talk of recruitment struggles at the Los Angeles Police Department and other law enforcement agencies nationwide, some local agencies are finding that hiring new officers has gotten easier.

Take the California Highway Patrol, which in November graduated a class of 146 officers from its academy in West Sacramento. The...Read more

When Yraida Faneite was on trial for drug-related charges, the judge had to halt proceedings at one point because her period was so heavy that blood was running down her legs.

The same struggle followed her into a federal prison in Florida after she was convicted. For about a decade, officials allowed her only a small ration of menstrual ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Democratic lawmakers in Annapolis say their relationship with Gov. Wes Moore is on ice — a revelation that comes just weeks before the 2026 legislative session in which lawmakers aim to close Maryland’s $1.4 billion budget deficit and lower energy costs among a host of other pressing issues.

The Baltimore Sun spoke to several ...Read more

As pennies vanish from the American landscape, many businesses are clamoring for federal guidance on how to handle cash transactions in a penniless world.

Should retailers round up or down? Should they round in favor of the customer? Or in favor of the business?

So far, calls for federal direction have gone unanswered. Some businesses are ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — The driver told San Diego police he had passed out in a mall parking lot and woke up to find his car crashed into a pole.

The officer who responded to the scene earlier this month noted that the driver displayed signs of impairment — dilated eyes, swaying back and forth, an elevated pulse, Sgt. Greg Minter said.

While the ...Read more

NEW YORK — Elon Musk threw cold water on Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s pick of Lillian Bonsignore as the city’s FDNY commissioner, warning it would have dire consequences because she lacks firefighting experience.

“People will die because of this. Proven experience matters when lives are at stake,” the Space X and Tesla owner said ...Read more