NEW ORLEANS — Elyse Stevens had a reputation for taking on complex medical cases. People who’d been battling addiction for decades. Chronic-pain patients on high doses of opioids. Sex workers and people living on the street.

“Many of my patients are messy, the ones that don’t know if they want to stop using drugs or not,” said Stevens...Read more

PORTLAND, Ore. — One year into President Donald Trump’s second term, Democratic attorneys general have filed 71 lawsuits against the administration.

There’s more to come in 2026. The lawsuits are part of a coordinated legal strategy by Democratic AGs in 22 states and the District of Columbia to resist the ever-widening power of the ...Read more

SANDY, Utah — Just outside Salt Lake City sits an old, two-story, brick hotel. It’s been given new life as a homeless shelter for seniors. The Medically Vulnerable People shelter — or MVP shelter, as it’s known — is for people 62 and older or for younger adults with chronic health issues.

Residents share rooms designed to be ...Read more

A few months into President Trump's second term, federal appeals court Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III — a conservative appointee of President Reagan — issued a scathing opinion denouncing what he found to be the Trump administration's unlawful removal of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to his native El Salvador, despite a previous court order barring it...Read more

After President Trump ordered strikes that led to the capture of Venezuela's president, Nicolás Maduro, celebrations erupted in Venezuelan communities across the U.S.

But for many of the hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants facing possible deportation, their relief and joy were cut by the fear about what comes next from an ...Read more

President Donald Trump said that the U.S. is closely monitoring the protests in Iran and is mulling potential options as the Islamic Republic faces its third week of nationwide protests, the largest since 2022.

“We’re looking at it very seriously. The military is looking at it, and we’re looking at some very strong options,” Trump told ...Read more

As protesters pour into the streets of Iran night after night, leaders across the region and around the world are grappling with the possibility that the Islamic Republic could be overthrown — a seminal event that would transform global geopolitics and energy markets.

The regime of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has weathered bouts of ...Read more

A group of European countries, led by the U.K. and Germany, is discussing plans for a military presence in Greenland to show U.S. President Donald Trump that the continent is serious about Arctic security and to try to tamp down American threats to take over the self-ruling Danish territory.

Germany will propose setting up a joint NATO mission...Read more

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the U.S. central bank had been served grand jury subpoenas from the Justice Department threatening a criminal indictment related to his June congressional testimony on ongoing renovations of the Fed’s headquarters.

In a statement released Sunday evening, Powell rejected the notion that the action was ...Read more

More than 60 largely peaceful protests took place this weekend against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions, including several in Southern California.

But while many protests were without incident, they were not short on anger and moments of tension. Organizers called the gatherings the "ICE Out for Good" weekend of action in ...Read more

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the U.S. central bank had been served grand jury subpoenas from the Justice Department threatening a criminal indictment, a dramatic escalation of the Trump administration’s attacks on the Fed.

In a forceful written and video statement released Sunday evening, Powell said the action was related to his ...Read more

Pete Hegseth, the U.S. secretary of war, will visit Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth on Monday as well as SpaceX in Brownsville, where “patriots work tirelessly, not with rifles, but with hardhats and relentless dedication, to ensure our military remains the most lethal and capable fighting force in the world,” the Pentagon said Sunday.

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Colorado will receive about $1 billion in federal funding to reshape rural health care over the next five years, but hospital CEOs aren’t happy with the state’s plan to spend the money.

Last year’s H.R. 1 — also known as the “big beautiful bill” — allocated $50 billion for the federal Rural Health Transformation Program over five ...Read more

Thousands of people gathered Sunday morning at River Park Shopping Center near Blackstone and Nees avenues in Fresno to protest the killing of Renee Nicole Good, a mother and U.S. citizen, in Minneapolis — a death that demonstrators said should never have occurred.

Protesters, lining the streets surrounding the shopping center, carried U.S. ...Read more

An alleged cult leader accused of targeting the Native American community and sexually assaulting multiple women appears to be heading to trial Tuesday after years of litigation.

Authorities have said Nathan Chasing Horse, 49, who played Smiles a Lot in the 1990 film “Dances With Wolves,” committed crimes in the U.S. and Canada while ...Read more

Thousands of demonstrators and a handful of elected officials turned out for a “No Kings” rally in Manhattan on Sunday, voicing their opposition to the Trump administration in the wake of the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, and U.S. military actions in Venezuela.

“This is an urgent ...Read more

Venezuela said the country is in "absolute calm, peace and stability” as the U.S. urged its citizens to leave and the opposition reported the death of a political prisoner.

The U.S. advisory, issued after the capture of ousted President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, is based on “nonexistent narratives aimed at manufacturing a perception of ...Read more

Yvette Hernandez has four grandchildren she wants to meet someday. But they’re halfway across the world.

Hernandez came to the U.S. about a decade ago after fleeing Venezuela’s authoritarian regime in search of a better future. She lives in Elgin, Illinois. Her daughter is in Venezuela, with Hernandez’s grandchildren.

“I haven’t been...Read more