ORLANDO, Fla. — In the wild, Florida’s manatees already face threats from cold stress, habitat loss, boat strikes and other human activities.

Now advocates worry about the potential peril that manatees may encounter from the Trump administration’s proposed changes to federal implementation of the Endangered Species Act. Environmentalists ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Joe Badame and his wife try to reserve laundry for sunny days.

They stagger their appliance use in the mornings, checking that a fan isn't running at the same time as the coffeemaker. At night, Badame obsessively turns off lights. They both keep a constant eye on the app tracking their solar power capacity: Badame's 91-year-old ...Read more

Some states are rethinking their coverage of GLP-1 drugs for weight loss as budgets tighten and Medicaid programs brace for the cuts included in President Donald Trump’s broad tax and spending law.

As of Oct. 1, 16 state Medicaid programs covered GLP-1s for obesity treatment, up from 13 last year, according to a survey of Medicaid directors ...Read more

SEATTLE - It was a Thursday morning like any other: a mother was driving her 4-year-old son to his preschool in Issaquah.

But their routine ended very differently after she was pulled over by law enforcement officers in unmarked cars. They did not identify the agency they worked with, and told her she was being stopped for speeding.

The ...Read more

BOILING SPRINGS, S.C. — Near the back corner of the local library’s parking lot, largely out of view from the main road, the South Carolina Department of Public Health opened a pop-up clinic in early November, offering free measles vaccines to adults and children.

Spartanburg County, in South Carolina’s Upstate region, has been fighting a...Read more

The Trump administration wants access to state driver’s license data on millions of U.S. residents as it builds a powerful citizenship verification program amid its clampdown on voter fraud and illegal immigration.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security seeks access to an obscure computer network used by law enforcement agencies, according ...Read more

President Vladimir Putin is set to visit India this week for the first time since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a rare trip that underscores the countries’ defense and energy ties as New Delhi seeks to finalize a trade deal with Washington.

The Russian leader is eager to show that Moscow still has strong relationships that matter beyond ...Read more

China has upgraded surveillance and electronic warfare systems across several occupied reefs in the disputed South China Sea as it seeks to strengthen its defenses and expand intelligence capabilities, a new report shows.

Satellite images reviewed by the Washington-based Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative reveal new radar sites, antenna ...Read more

The Trump administration on Tuesday issued one of its most sweeping immigration crackdowns to date, ordering a pause of all immigration applications, including pending asylum claims, from nationals of Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela and 16 other so-called “high risk” countries.

The Department of Homeland Security directive affects everything from ...Read more

Two men grazed by bullets during a birthday party shooting in Stockton that killed four people, including three children, later walked into a nearby hospital for treatment, authorities said. The total number of victims has now risen to 17.

As the days pass and the manhunt continues for the shooters responsible for Saturday’s massacre, ...Read more

An unlikely bipartisan Senate duo is spearheading a push for employers to donate to the new “Trump accounts” created under the GOP’s “big, beautiful” reconciliation package last summer.

Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Cory Booker, D-N.J., teamed up on a letter sent to Fortune 1000 CEOs on Monday encouraging their companies to contribute ...Read more

An Ohio missionary who frequently traveled to Haiti where he once oversaw a schools program, was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury on four counts of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with minors in the Caribbean country.

Jeriah Mast, 44, of Millersburg, Ohio, traveled from the United States to Haiti on multiple occasions between 2002 ...Read more

Donald Trump’s favored candidate, Nasry Asfura, lost his lead in Honduras’ ongoing presidential vote count, falling behind a rival the U.S. leader attacked as a “borderline communist.”

Salvador Nasralla, the focus of Trump’s ire, had 40.1% in an update published Tuesday afternoon, while Asfura had 39.7%. With about 67% of the ballots ...Read more

To visitors, the Caribbean is a post card of white sand, sun-soaked beaches and tranquility. But millions who call the region home are confronting a much harsher and grimmer reality: the rise of lethal violence.

A new report released on Tuesday finds that firearm-related violence make up 86% of killings in countries that are part of the ...Read more

Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday signed legislation that formally establishes a process for state-level vaccine guidelines and expands pharmacy access to COVID-19 and other shots for young children across Illinois.

“While RFK Jr. and his QAnon-inspired colleagues, spreading conspiracy theories and dangerous misinformation about vaccines, are ...Read more

More than a dozen new cases of measles in the Upstate have been reported to the South Carolina Department of Public Health since the day after Thanksgiving.

Fourteen new cases have been reported to the department, bringing the total number of cases the state has seen this year up to 79, with 76 from the Upstate, according to a news release. One...Read more

President Donald Trump said he plans to announce his selection to lead the Federal Reserve in early 2026 and teased National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett as his possible choice on Tuesday, fueling further speculation about the next leader of the U.S. central bank.

“We’ll be announcing somebody, probably early next year, for the ...Read more

Netflix released its long-awaited 50 Cent-produced documentary “Sean Combs: The Reckoning” on Tuesday, featuring unseen footage, major revelations and exclusive insider interviews.

The four-part docuseries covers everything from the rap mogul’s troubled childhood to the tragedies that shaped his career.

Here’s a rundown of the doc’s ...Read more

Elizabeth Holmes, serving a lengthy prison sentence for fraud, claimed Tuesday on social media that one of the most-damaging pieces of evidence against her — that she appropriated drug-companies’ logos and affixed them to internal Theranos reports to deceive investors — was a “false claim” and “(expletive) thrown against the wall” ...Read more