Far right-wing firebrand Steve Bannon is calling on Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to “surround” polling places in the upcoming midterm elections, a move that would amount to an unprecedented effort to intimidate voters.

The ally of President Donald Trump claimed that ICE agents, who have spearheaded the president’s ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A bald eagle found recently at a Kentucky state park with a gunshot wound will need to be euthanized, according to a Facebook post from Kentucky State Parks.

The eagle was found Monday at Lake Cumberland State Park in Russell County. The park said an employee spotted the eagle alongside the road, and other employees helped ...Read more

The United States and Russia have agreed to restart high-level military contacts that had been suspended shortly after the invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. announced.

The agreement came during negotiations in Abu Dhabi aimed at seeking an end to Russia’s war, facilitated by President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law ...Read more

Like the sight of people huddled against the cold, Kansas City’s data about people living outside or without stable housing presents a bleak picture — but one that the city, in a new collaboration with local businesses, is seeking to change.

The numbers, according to the city, are dire:

More than 2,000 people are homeless in Kansas City at...Read more

MIAMI – Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner on Wednesday defended his decision to flag a resident’s critical Facebook comment about him and denied directing police to knock on the resident’s door, his first public comments about the controversy since email records revealed that he had sent the comment to the city’s police chief.

Speaking to...Read more

The United States and Russia have agreed to restart high-level military contacts that had been suspended shortly after the invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. announced.

The agreement came during negotiations in Abu Dhabi aimed at seeking an end to Russia’s war, facilitated by President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law ...Read more

Ukraine and Russia agreed to exchange prisoners as the warring parties pressed ahead with “detailed and productive” negotiations to end the four-year conflict, according to President Donald Trump’s special envoy.

The two sides agreed to swap 314 prisoners in the first such exchange in five months, Steve Witkoff said in a post on platform...Read more

When Noah Hulsman, who owns a skate shop in Louisville, Kentucky, learned he no longer qualified for federal subsidies to help him pay for his “gold” Affordable Care Act health plan, the 37-year-old opted for skimpier coverage. But the deductible is about a quarter of his yearly income.

Loretta Forbes realized she would have to drop her ...Read more

Inside a cancer research laboratory on the campus of Harvard Medical School, two dozen small jars with pink plastic lids sat on a metal counter. Inside these humble-looking jars is the core of Joan Brugge’s current multiyear research project.

Brugge lifted up one of the jars and gazed at it with reverence. Each jar holds samples of breast ...Read more

Health policy changes in Washington will ripple through the country, resulting in millions of Americans losing their Medicaid or Affordable Care Act coverage. But there are still ways to find care.

Over the next decade, the GOP’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act is expected to slash nearly $1 trillion in spending from Medicaid, the state-federal ...Read more

When she noticed an unusual craving for hot dogs, Matte’a Brooks suspected her body was telling her something, so she decided to take a pregnancy test. She took two just to be sure. Both were positive.

“I was definitely scared,” said Brooks, 23, who was uninsured. “I was like, OK … I’m pregnant, so where do I go from here?”

Until...Read more

WASHINGTON — California’s high-speed rail project will officially lose $928 million in federal funding under the transportation spending bill President Donald Trump signed into law this week, a cut the Trump administration and Republicans hailed as an important cost-cutting move.

But state rail officials say the cut was applied months ago, ...Read more

CHICAGO — As sweeping changes to the federal Clean Water Act in recent years have weakened protections for wetlands, Illinois has become the first state in the nation to officially recognize a conservation tactic known as rewilding.

The Illinois Rewilding Law, which took effect last month, empowers the Illinois Department of Natural Resources...Read more

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani plans to back the state’s governor, Kathy Hochul, in her re-election bid, according to people with knowledge of the matter, a key endorsement from one of the most influential progressive voices in the nation.

Mamdani will make the announcement this week, said one of the people, who asked not to be named as ...Read more

National union leaders, including the head of one of California's largest labor organizations, on Wednesday urged Gov. Gavin Newsom to protect workers as artificial intelligence threatens to replace or surveil employees — and warned that a failure to do so could hurt his presidential ambitions.

"This is a priority for the entire nation," ...Read more

Savannah Guthrie and her two siblings posted a tearful video Wednesday in which they pleaded for the return of their mother, Nancy Guthrie, and asked her possible kidnapper to communicate with them.

“We live in a world where voices and images are easily manipulated. We need to know, without a doubt, that she is alive and that you have her. We...Read more

Savannah Guthrie and her two siblings posted a tearful video Wednesday in which they pleaded for the return of their mother, Nancy Guthrie, and asked her possible kidnapper to communicate with them.

“We live in a world where voices and images are easily manipulated. We need to know, without a doubt, that she is alive and that you have her. We...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In a visit to Pacific Palisades on Wednesday, top White House officials vowed to take over and speed up building permitting, a core state and local function, for rebuilding after the Los Angeles wildfires.

Administrators for the Environmental Protection Agency Lee Zeldin and Small Business Administration Kelly Loeffler also held...Read more