Proposals to ban or regulate kratom, a plant-based substance sold in gas stations, convenience stores and vape shops, are making headlines in local newspapers across the United States. But as lawmakers debate whether to regulate or ban kratom, public health problems associated with the drug continue to rise.

In late March 2026, the ...Read more

Pam Bondi is out as U.S. attorney general, President Donald Trump announced Thursday, after a tumultuous 14 months punctuated by the Justice Department’s scattershot release of millions documents it was forced to produce related to the sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Bondi is the latest cabinet official to be removed from her post. But unlike...Read more

This week, the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention posted online its first large tranche of advanced genetic data from measles viruses spreading last year. Scientists with knowledge of the operation expect the agency to post heaps more in weeks to come, revealing whether the U.S. has lost its hard-won measles elimination status.

The CDC...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The number of misconduct complaints filed against Minneapolis police Chief Brian O’Hara has doubled since September, bringing to 30 the total number filed during his three-year tenure.

That’s more than the total filed against the previous four chiefs combined. Not one of the prior chiefs — Amelia Huffman, Medaria Arrando, ...Read more

DENVER — The Colorado Court of Appeals threw out the nine-year sentence for discredited elections clerk Tina Peters on Thursday and ordered that she be re-sentenced by a district court judge.

The panel of three judges found that Mesa County District Court Judge Matthew Barrett wrongly based part of the original sentence on Peters’ exercise ...Read more

Six months after a West Virginia man died following a protracted battle with his health insurer over doctor-recommended cancer care, the state’s Republican governor signed a bill intended to curb the harm of insurance denials.

West Virginia’s Public Employees Insurance Agency enrolls nearly 215,000 people — state workers, as well as their...Read more

President Donald Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi Thursday after a rocky tenure marked by her fumbling of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal and her perceived failure to effectively carry out his campaign of legal retribution against political rivals.

Bondi will be replaced at least temporarily with her top deputy, Todd Blanche, who was ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s meandering speech on the Iran war late Wednesday — in which he paired promises of a swift exit with new threats of escalated bombing and denied responsibility for the Strait of Hormuz — did little to assuage U.S. allies and world markets concerned about the conflict’s ongoing disruptions to the global oil supply....Read more

President Donald Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi Thursday after a rocky tenure marked by her fumbling of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal and her perceived failure to effectively carry out his campaign of legal retribution against political rivals.

Bondi will be replaced at least temporarily with her top deputy, Todd Blanche, who was ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A group of Democratic senators led by Elizabeth Warren is pushing the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to rein in abuses from Medicare Advantage insurers as the Trump administration considers a policy that would enroll more seniors in the program.

The senators allege that Medicare Advantage is rife with waste, fraud and...Read more

DENVER — The Colorado Court of Appeals threw out the nine-year sentence for discredited elections clerk Tina Peters on Thursday and ordered that she be re-sentenced by a district court judge.

The panel of three judges found that Mesa County District Court Judge Matthew Barrett wrongly based part of the original sentence on Peters’ exercise ...Read more

President Donald Trump Thursday posted “Kangaroo Court!!!” in an apparent jab at the Supreme Court after it heard oral arguments in a case over birthright citizenship.

Although he didn’t elaborate, Trump’s two-word early morning outburst on his social media site seemed a reference to the conservative justices who sounded very skeptical ...Read more

The four astronauts on the Artemis II mission around the moon got some relief overnight after troubleshooting a malfunctioning toilet on the Orion spacecraft.

It’s not as if there was a plumbing backup on the toilet that will make history as the first ever in deep space. Instead, the crew reported a blinking fault light.

“We had a ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s repeated threat to destroy Iranian civilian infrastructure is the latest sign of the U.S. leader’s increasing detachment from international norms and the bounds of modern warfare, a trend that’s alienating traditional allies.

Trump has pushed into legally contested territory both abroad and at home in his second ...Read more

President Donald Trump vowed Thursday to pay all federal Department of Homeland Security workers as congressional Republicans struggled to end the record-setting partial goverment shutdown that is set to extend through Easter weekend.

“I will soon sign an order to pay ALL of the incredible employees at the Department of Homeland Security,” ...Read more

WASHINGTON — One year ago, Donald Trump stood in a sun-kissed, unpaved Rose Garden and defiantly announced a new era of global trade, raising tariffs on countries worldwide and sending shock waves through the global economy.

The president promised short-term pain rippling through American households would make way for a U.S. economy that ...Read more

Coral Springs Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Bowen was found dead at her home on Wednesday morning, and her husband, Stephen Bowen, has been charged with premeditated murder.

Officers found the vice mayor dead at her home in the 800 block of Northwest 127th Avenue at about 10 a.m. Wednesday while conducting an investigation into her “well-being,”...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump is coming under increasing international pressure after he pledged in a primetime speech to continue the war on Iran, sparking further turmoil in energy markets, with little sign the Strait of Hormuz will be open soon.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday said Trump’s demands for help reopening the vital ...Read more