The FBI was looking into at least 10 of Jeffrey Epstein’s “co-conspirators” in 2019, new documents released Tuesday revealed for the first time, but the Department of Justice blacked out many of their names without explanation or justification.

The continued withholding of information — particularly about those who witnessed, ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Nansi Armstrong is living in America's painful health insurance purgatory: earning too much to qualify for Medicaid but not enough to cover premiums set to double next year.

The 48-year-old mother works multiple jobs, including a full-time gig as an office manager for a Harrisburg law firm that comes without benefits.

At $650 ...Read more

A letter released this week that appeared to be penned by Jeffrey Epstein to disgraced USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar has since been confirmed as “fake” by the FBI.

The short, handwritten note was among the latest batch of files, made up of nearly 30,000 documents related to the Epstein investigation, released by the Justice Department ...Read more

A letter that appears to have been written by Jeffrey Epstein to serial sex abuser Larry Nassar, a former Michigan State University doctor, is among a batch of documents released this week by the U.S. Department of Justice.

The short message references President Donald Trump and, according to another released file, was submitted by the FBI for ...Read more

Betty Reid Soskin, who rose to national prominence as the National Park Service’s oldest ranger and shared her experiences of racial segregation working on the World War II home front, has died. She was 104.

Soskin passed away Sunday morning at her home in Richmond, Calif. surrounded by family.

“She led a fully packed life and was ready to...Read more

At the Target store on Riverside Boulevard on Friday, stacks of plastic bags sat prominently at checkout counters — the only visible option available for shoppers at both self-checkout kiosks and traditional lanes.

Under Senate Bill 1053 that passed in 2024, those plastic bags are set to disappear from checkout counters by the end of 2025.

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WASHINGTON — California Democratic and Republican members of Congress have come together to strongly urge the Trump administration to stop cutting jobs at national parks, saying the reductions have hurt emergency response efforts and park upkeep.

The 28 lawmakers wrote in a letter to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum that at Yosemite National ...Read more

FRESNO, Calif. — A scabies outbreak at a Kern County ICE detention facility is prompting renewed calls for more oversight of health and sanitary conditions at the county’s three detention facilities.

Officials for The GEO Group, the private-prison operator that runs two detention centers of behalf of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Multiple injuries were reported after an explosion rocked a nursing home Tuesday afternoon in Bristol Township in Bucks County, authorities said.

Shortly after 2 p.m., firefighters and police responded to an explosion and subsequent fire at the Bristol Health & Rehab Center — formerly known as Silver Lake Healthcare Center �...Read more

The U.S. Justice Department released another tranche of files related to Jeffrey Epstein, including some that add fresh pressure on President Donald Trump over his past relationship with the late, disgraced financier.

The trove includes thousands of additional pages of material related to investigations of Epstein, including a 2020 email from a...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is sending about 350 Louisiana National Guard troops to New Orleans, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, deploying military forces to another American city that has been the target of an immigration crackdown.

The troops will “will support federal law enforcement partners, including the Department of ...Read more

Nearly a decade before he was charged in the grisly murders of Rob and Michele Reiner, the couple’s son Nick Reiner told a podcast he’d concocted a plan in which he faked being “crazy” to get access to medication.

In a resurfaced 2016 clip from the “Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction” podcast, the now-32-year-old recalled ...Read more

Donald Trump’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein were back in focus Tuesday following the latest document dump by the Justice Department, which included a host of references to the president and communications between prosecutors remarking he’d traveled on the serial sex offender’s plane “many more times” than believed.

The remark was made in ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani appointed Lillian Bonsignore, the FDNY’s former EMS chief, as the department’s next commissioner Tuesday, a historic move that puts a longtime emergency response expert in charge of the agency.

Bonsignore, the first openly gay person picked to lead the department in its 160-year history, retired from ...Read more

CHICAGO — The conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday denied a request from President Donald Trump’s administration to allow the Republican president to deploy National Guard troops to Illinois while a lower court’s restraining order is appealed.

The high court’s order represents a victory so far for Gov. JB Pritzker and ...Read more

BOSTON — Boston is seeing a early surge in flu cases this year, city and health officials warned, with sharp upticks in cases and hospitalizations and even higher increases for children and teens as winter sets in.

“Flu cases are on the rise in Boston, and we are urging residents to protect themselves and their loved ones from respiratory ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Two former employees of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement contractor are alleging a toxic environment at the Sacramento ICE facility where the former employees say, some case specialists routinely abused and sexually harassed fellow employees and undocumented immigrants.

In sworn declarations filed in Sacramento ...Read more

SEATTLE — Gov. Bob Ferguson has thrown his support behind an income tax on millionaires, backing what would be a seismic shift in Washington’s tax code.

At a budget news conference Tuesday, Ferguson said he’ll back a proposal brewing among legislative Democrats that would impose a 9.9% tax on people who earn more than $1 million annually...Read more

MIAMI — A man who was caught on video destroying a menorah in downtown Miami Monday night has been detained, according to Miami police.

In a video shared by county officials, a man with a backpack can be seen charging at a lit menorah, wrestling with it and then slamming it to the ground, causing the light bulbs to break and scatter on the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Tips provided to federal investigators about President Donald Trump’s alleged involvement in Jeffrey Epstein’s schemes with young women and girls are “sensationalist” and “untrue,” the Justice Department said on Tuesday, after a new tranche of files released from the probe featured multiple references to the president...Read more