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The American Academy of Pediatrics updated its recommendations for immunizations Tuesday, including calling for COVID shots for healthy kids, diverging from controversial advice from the federal government.

The group said...Read more

The Minnesota-based Vaccine Integrity Project followed through Tuesday on a promise to provide scientific data on vaccine safety and effectiveness ― even though it contradicts President Donald Trump’s federal health ...Read more

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the state’s law banning counselors from practicing “dangerous” conversion therapy on LGBTQ+ kids.

Weiser’s office filed an 83-page ...Read more

A coalition of environmental groups and state lawmakers on Tuesday called on Gov. Gavin Newsom to put in place tougher rules to reduce plastic pollution in the oceans and across California’s landscape, five months after ...Read more

Gov. Josh Stein declared a state of emergency for North Carolina on Tuesday, Aug. 19, ahead of Hurricane Erin.

The storm, which was about 615 miles south-southeast of Cape Hatteras as of 5 p.m. Tuesday, is not expected ...Read more

ATLANTA — Two of Georgia’s largest universities quietly removed language from their nondiscrimination policies earlier this year, a move some fear will lead to increased harassment of LGBTQ students as the new semester...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida bear hunt opponents, unable to dissuade state wildlife commissioners last week from authorizing a sanctioned killing of the once imperiled species, are now trying their luck in court.

This year�...Read more

WASHINGTON — California is a crucial battlefront in a coast-to-coast political civil war over congressional redistricting, a war that Republicans nationally appear better positioned to win.

“If all these Republican ...Read more

As Floridians breathe a collective sign of relief from escaping the worst impacts of Hurricane Erin, there’s one group of people that are particularly thrilled with the exact track of this storm — surfers.

The large ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida officials are accusing two publishers of systematically overcharging some school districts for textbooks, including more than $279,000 billed to Osceola County schools.

The state is taking legal ...Read more

Republican legislators asked the California Supreme Court to intervene and hit the brakes on redistricting efforts underway in the statehouse.

Legislators are making fast work this week on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposal ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said Tuesday any executive order from President Donald Trump banning mail ballots will have no impact on elections in the commonwealth.

The governor’s comments come a day ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Ridership across Metro's transit system plunged in June after federal immigration authorities conducted dramatic raids across Los Angeles County, sowing fear among many rail and bus riders.

Last month, the...Read more

ATLANTA — A Georgia Senate committee Tuesday kicked off what could be a yearslong effort to eliminate the state’s income tax.

The committee heard testimony from advocates who say Georgia must eliminate its tax on ...Read more

NEW YORK — A new super PAC is funding phone bankers and canvassers to rally white working-class communities behind Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani as a broad array of independent groups involved in the mayor’...Read more

BOSTON — A top Boston Police Department official disputed claims from two city councilors that BPD radio communications were offline for nearly 30 minutes at the height of overnight violence that broke out in the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — On July 10, a church signed the deeds transferring a half-acre of land hosting a community center in the heart of San Gabriel — less than a mile down the road from the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel — to...Read more