This summer, the state of Louisiana texted just over 13,000 people enrolled in its Medicaid program with a link to a website where they could confirm their incomes.

The texts were part of a pilot run to test technology the Trump administration says will make it easier for some Medicaid enrollees to prove they meet new requirements — working, ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Earlier this month, Palm Beach County prosecutors announced that they would be seeking the death penalty against two men accused of repeatedly sexually abusing a 6-year-old girl, crimes they described as “the most horrific imaginable” and worthy of the most severe punishment.

But the road to that punishment — ...Read more

Two weeks ago, the leadership of the Libertarian Party of Colorado sued 15 people ahead of the party’s convention and accused them of setting up their own parallel leadership.

By the convention’s end, seven of those defendants had been elected to the party’s board, including as its chair and vice chair, with promises to “clean up” the...Read more

President Javier Milei’s party won Argentina’s midterm vote Sunday, a result that will give the libertarian leader a stronger foothold in Congress as he seeks to pass major reforms to boost the nation’s beleaguered economy.

Milei’s party, La Libertad Avanza, received 41% of votes nationwide with 92% of ballots counted, according to data...Read more

Federal immigration agents detained two Aurora protesters who confronted them outside an elementary school Saturday, sparking allegations of unnecessary force.

Aurora Mayor John Laesch condemned the detentions as part of an “unprecedented period of American history where people’s constitutional rights are being violated” as President ...Read more

An empty migrant raft the U.S. Coast Guard spotted off the Florida Keys earlier this month washed ashore on Jupiter Island this weekend.

On Saturday, the makeshift vessel of wooden planks on pontoons with a wooden rudder, beached in the choppy surf off the Martin County island, prompting the sheriff’s office to issue a statement on social ...Read more

With the U.S. government shutdown stumbling toward the one-month mark, the effects of the standoff between Republicans and Democrats were being felt further away from the Capitol, as flights began to back up and food aid was drying up.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned that travelers will face more flight delays and cancellations ...Read more

As an island country in the Caribbean Sea, hurricanes aren’t new in Jamaica. Hurricanes hovering over the island while continuously dumping rain and blasting Category 4 or 5 winds, however, are a different brand.

Category 4 Hurricane Melissa, at 145 mph maximum sustained winds as of Sunday 5 p.m. and forecast by the U.S.’s National ...Read more

Argentina voted Sunday in a midterm election that will serve as a crucial referendum on President Javier Milei’s ambitious austerity policies and, potentially, a $40 billion rescue package from the Trump administration.

Voting stations closed at 6 p.m. local time. Argentines are electing representatives for half the seats — 127 — in the ...Read more

The government shutdown has not had much effect on the human visitors at the Cosumnes River Preserve, but it may have a lasting impact on sandhill cranes and other birds that pass through this fall: Federal water bird counts in October were canceled.

“That is a critically important piece of data that gets entered usually twice a month,” ...Read more

Nearly four weeks into the federal government shutdown, a staffing shortage at Los Angeles International Airport prompted a temporary ground stop Sunday morning affecting flights at the West Coast's largest and busiest airport.

The restriction began around 8:45 a.m., affecting departing flights for Oakland ,and was lifted at 10:30 a.m. with a ...Read more

The blue and green ribbons adorning trees and lampposts across the Twin Cities in support of those affected by the shooting at Annunciation Church and School soon will be made into an art project.

Bows of Love, the volunteer project that distributed and tied the bows, is beginning to remove them across Minneapolis. The organization is asking ...Read more

A slasher who cut a stranger’s face on a Brooklyn subway train went on to carry out two more random blade attacks over the next 24 hours, police sources said Sunday.

Police released a surveillance image of the suspect, who is still being sought, after he cut a 37-year-old man on the left side of the face on a Manhattan-bound Q train in ...Read more

With the city’s mayoral election racing into the home stretch, Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani and Independent candidate Andrew Cuomo both held rallies in Queens to make their final pitches to voters on a picture-perfect fall Sunday.

Cuomo, a former New York governor, held a “rally to support the Jewish state of Israel” in Kew Gardens, ...Read more

Top trade negotiators for the U.S. and China said they came to terms on a range of contentious points, setting the table for leaders Donald Trump and Xi Jinping to finalize a deal and ease trade tensions that have rattled global markets.

After two days of talks in Malaysia wrapped up Sunday, a Chinese official said the two sides reached a ...Read more

Argentina is voting Sunday in a midterm election that will serve as a crucial referendum on President Javier Milei’s ambitious austerity policies and, potentially, a $40 billion rescue package from the Trump administration.

Voting stations close at 6 p.m. local time and results are expected later Sunday evening. Argentines are electing ...Read more

Hurricane Melissa strengthened into a 140 mph Category 4 storm early Sunday morning and continues on its path toward Jamaica, Cuba and the Bahamas.

“Tropical storm conditions are likely occurring in Jamaica, with hurricane conditions expected to begin by Monday,” the National Hurricane Center said in its 2 p.m. Sunday advisory.

As for the ...Read more

A team co-led by a Pitt professor was able to restore sight to blind patients with advanced macular degeneration, according to a report published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The study was conducted in Europe by a team of researchers including senior author José-Alain Sahel, who moved from his native France to join ...Read more

Argentina is voting Sunday in a midterm election that will serve as a crucial referendum on President Javier Milei’s ambitious austerity policies and, potentially, a $40 billion rescue package from the Trump administration.

Voting stations close at 6 p.m. local time and results are expected later Sunday evening. Argentines are electing ...Read more

In the crucial final days before voting ends on California’s redistricting ballot measure, the Republican-backed campaigns opposing Proposition 50 are just about out of cash to spend.

Together, the two main ‘No’ campaigns have about $2.3 million in the bank — not nearly enough to fund the kind of statewide ad blitz typically seen to ...Read more