As Congress debates whether to extend the temporary federal subsidies that have helped millions of Americans buy health coverage, a crucial underlying reality is sometimes overlooked: Those subsidies are merely a band-aid covering the often unaffordable cost of health care.

California, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and five other states have set ...Read more

A yearlong campaign by the far-right Alternative for Germany party to court Donald Trump’s MAGA movement is beginning to bear fruit.

Though the country’s largest opposition group is a virtual pariah among the German political elite due to its xenophobic bent, it is gaining traction among ideological allies who hold power in Washington.

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NEW YORK — On a frigid December morning along busy Broadway in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens, New York, pedestrians walk rapidly toward the subway. Cars and e-bikes speed along a busy two-lane road and blast through sharp turns during the early rush to get to the office.

In recent years on this stretch of Broadway, cars have struck and ...Read more

It’s really the end for disgraced former Massachusetts State Police Trooper Michael Proctor, who served as the case officer for both the Karen Read and Brian Walshe murder investigations.

The Massachusetts Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Commission formally suspended Proctor’s law enforcement certification, according to a ...Read more

The U.S. Coast Guard stopped and boarded an oil tanker in the Caribbean early Saturday that was last docked in Venezuela, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said, after President Donald Trump ordered a blockade.

The Centuries supertanker laden with up to 2 million barrels of Venezuelan crude was flying a Panamanian flag, according to ...Read more

For almost two decades, oil giant Chevron Corp.’s stubborn persistence in Venezuela looked like folly: with billion-dollar investments constantly under threat from the tug-of-war between Caracas and Washington, D.C.

Now, however, that strategy has placed the world’s biggest petroleum prize within Chevron’s reach.

As tensions mount ...Read more

A judge has cleared the way for the Georgia State Election Board to obtain Fulton County ballots and other documents from the 2020 election.

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney on Friday ruled that the election board is well within its authority to request the information it has sought for more than a year. He ordered the county ...Read more

Massachusetts political leaders are ramping up messaging against federal agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as the Trump Administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration continues.

The federal agency is under attack from Bay State Democrats, including the likes of U.S. Senate candidate and Congressman Seth Moulton (MA-06),...Read more

As the state prepares for its annual General Assembly session beginning Jan. 14, 2026, several laws passed last session are set to take effect Jan. 1.

Below is a sample of changes coming to Maryland law on New Year’s Day.

No time limits on anesthesia coverage

House Bill 1086 states that if medical insurers in Maryland, including the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — At least two people were killed and two police officers injured in a series of traffic incidents across Los Angeles late Friday and early Saturday morning.

The events — which occurred on a night of foggy weather — included police chasing a suspected ambulance thief, a collision between a Porsche and an LAPD patrol car and a ...Read more

Pontiac is not Detroit, City Councilman Mikal Goodman noted. It's not Los Angeles or Chicago. But it is a place, he said, where national immigration politics are hitting home.

The city has seen rapidly increasing deportations, Goodman said at an immigrant rights rally in his city on Saturday.

"It's very easy for everyone to feel these things ...Read more

Jean Wilson Brutus, a 41-year-old Haitian national in ICE custody, suffered a medical emergency and died just one day after he arrived at Delaney Hall in Newark, according to federal officials.

Brutus is believed to be the first detainee to die at Delaney Hall since the troubled, privately run detention center opened in May. It’s since been ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A 400-mile blanket of fog has socked in California’s Central Valley for weeks. Scientists and meteorologists say the conditions for such persistent cloud cover are ripe: an early wet season, cold temperatures and a stable, unmoving high pressure system.

But take a stroll through X, Instagram or TikTok, and you’ll see not ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A federal jury has acquitted a South L.A. man who was charged with stealing government property by towing an immigration agent’s vehicle during the arrest of a TikTok influencer in downtown Los Angeles earlier this year.

Bobby Nunez was arrested Sept. 2 after he was accused of interfering with the detainment of Tatiana Mafla-...Read more

NEW YORK — The Bx6 bus that barreled through the Bronx, terrorizing passengers as it slammed into multiple cars along a five-block stretch of Longwood Monday, had a history of brake problems, a Daily News investigation has found.

Maintenance records obtained by the Daily News show the bus had just been cleared for service just seven hours ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — The $1,776 bonus checks the Trump administration is giving to active-duty service members will go to an estimated 115,000 sailors, Marines and Coast Guard personnel in San Diego County, where many are struggling to pay for food and housing.

The one-time gifts, which are expected to be delivered by Christmas, collectively add up to...Read more

CHICAGO — Aldermen passed the final part of a counterproposal to Mayor Brandon Johnson’s 2026 budget on Saturday, in a historic meeting that redraws the political lines at City Hall and further imperils his progressive agenda.

The consequential day was punctuated by hours of floor speeches with the usual finger-pointing and grandstanding ...Read more

A bipartisan House duo is drawing up a cryptocurrency tax framework that would provide a safe harbor for some stablecoin transactions and delay taxation of rewards earned by verifying blockchain transactions.

The cryptocurrency sector has clamored for legislation that would clarify the tax treatment of digital assets, even as a broader measure ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Delaware Gov. Matt Meyer has stepped into the case of a 52-year-old disabled Ecuadoran immigrant, telling the judge it would be “cruel” and “egregious” to deport the Seaford resident to face gang violence in his homeland.

The man, Victor Acurio Suarez, is unable to live on his own, always cared for by his younger ...Read more