Dozens of people were killed near two aid-distribution stations in the Gaza Strip, the latest setback to a new humanitarian relief operation backed by Israel and the U.S. as a way of sidelining Hamas.

Medics and witnesses claimed Israeli forces had fired on Palestinians massed near the stations in southern Rafah and the Netzarim Corridor in ...Read more

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. “is never going to default” as the deadline for increasing the federal debt ceiling gets closer.

“That is never going to happen,” Bessent said Sunday in an interview with CBS’s "Face the Nation." “We are on the warning track and we will never hit the wall.”

Republican congressional ...Read more

Dr. Marty Makary, the Johns Hopkins surgeon and professor whom President Donald Trump tapped to lead the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, says it’s up to patients and their doctors whether they should get the COVID-19 vaccine — not the federal government.

Makary stood alongside Robert F. Kennedy Jr. earlier in the week as the ...Read more

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. “is never going to default” as the deadline for increasing the federal debt ceiling gets closer.

“That is never going to happen,” Bessent said in an interview for CBS’s "Face the Nation" scheduled to air Sunday. “We are on the warning track and we will never hit the wall.”

Republican...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A Florida appeals court took an unusual legal step when it last month struck down as unconstitutional a law allowing minors to get abortions without parental consent.

Florida youth have for decades been able to petition a judge for permission to have an abortion without their parents’ knowledge.

This May, a pregnant 17-...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A new survey of victims of the Palisades and Eaton fires shows most would like to return to their old neighborhoods, but they're worried that government officials can't make it happen soon enough.

The vast majority of burned-out homeowners surveyed said they intend to rebuild the homes destroyed in the devastating January fires ...Read more

Colton George felt sick. The 9-year-old Indiana boy told his parents his stomach hurt. He kept running to the bathroom and felt too ill to finish a basketball game.

Days later, he lay in a hospital bed, fighting for his life. He had eaten tainted salad, according to a lawsuit against the lettuce grower filed by his parents on April 17 in ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — The Trump administration is offering $1,000 to people who choose to leave the country.

As part of Project Homecoming, federal officials took CBP One, an app used during President Joe Biden’s administration to manage the arrival of more than a million immigrants, and turned it into a tool called CBP Home. Now, it helps people ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — It’s as if she’s squinting through a smoke-filled room. But it’s Charisse Brown’s eye condition, glaucoma, that diminishes her vision.

Brown, 38, has worked all her adult life, with a personal policy of keeping two jobs at once. But when she started losing sight in her left eye last year, she was forced to quit her ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — One Baldwin Park police officer was killed and another wounded after a shooting Saturday evening, three sources told the Los Angeles Times.

Multiple law enforcement agencies were responding to the shooting in Baldwin Park located near 4200 Filhurst Ave., said California Highway Patrol spokesperson Megan Curtiss.

One suspect had...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Law enforcement are responding to reports of at least two Baldwin Park police officers shot Saturday evening.

Multiple law enforcement agencies were responding to the shooting in Baldwin Park located near 4200 Filhurst Ave., said California Highway Patrol spokesperson Megan Curtiss.

Curtiss said it was unclear at this point how...Read more