A woman with multiple sclerosis wanted to be able to walk up the stairs at home without losing her balance. Her doctor prescribed medicine that helped, but then approval from her insurance plan for the drug expired.

“Why do I need a prior authorization for something that I am already prior-authorized to take? If my doctor says that they want...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Kate Movius moved among a roomful of Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies, passing out a pop trivia quiz and paper prism glasses.

She told them to put on the vision-distorting glasses, and to write with their nondominant hand. As they filled out the tests, Movius moved about the City of Industry classroom pounding abruptly on ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — When Minnesota brought in experts to review billions of dollars in social services spending to combat fraud, the assignment had a gaping hole.

The analysis leaves out billions more that flow through health plans like Medica, Health Partners and Hennepin Health. The so-called managed care organizations handle benefits for about ...Read more

With desert cities like Phoenix and Tucson bracing for their allotments of Colorado River water to be slashed dramatically, San Diego County’s water agency could for the first time sell some of its water to other states by drawing on its ample supplies from the nation’s largest desalination plant.

The San Diego County Water Authority’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A year into the Trump administration's ratcheted-up mass deportation effort, approval rates for asylum seekers have plummeted as immigrants are too afraid to show up for court hearings.

Fewer than 3% of asylum cases decided in January were approved — a record low, according to Mobile Pathways, a San Francisco nonprofit that ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Upper East Side home where Ivana Trump fell to her death in 2022 has sold for $14 million.

The East 64th Street mansion hit the real estate market at $26.5 million shortly after President Donald Trump’s first of three wives fell down a staircase and suffered accidental blunt impact injuries at the age of 73.

According to ...Read more

NEW YORK — Nearly a year after federal immigration agents whisked Mahmoud Khalil away for protesting Israel’s occupation of Gaza and the West Bank — heralding the Trump administration’s harsh crackdown on student activism — the Columbia graduate’s paths to fighting deportation are narrowing.

Lawyers for Khalil filed an opening brief...Read more

Haitian Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé unveiled a major reshufflng of his cabinet on Tuesday, retaining just five ministers in a new government largely consisting of untested figures endorsed by political parties and groups that recently signed a sweeping national accord.

In welcoming the group during a swearing-in ceremony, Fils-Aimé ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers from both parties aired worries Tuesday about Americans unable to leave the war-torn Middle East, with Democrats more pointedly outraged that the Trump administration provided tardy warnings to U.S. citizens in the region.

Sen. Andy Kim, D-N.J., a former diplomat, told reporters the number of Americans who need to get ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For years, Dr. Brian Acacio's name had considerable cachet among California couples who were trying to start a family.

Acacio boasts having some of the highest IVF success rates in Southern California. His reviews were stellar. Other doctors recommended him. And testimonials from former patients told stories of dreams come true ...Read more

More than a ton of methamphetamine was uncovered during recent law enforcement raids of drug labs in Northern California, representing one of the largest domestic drug seizures in U.S. history, authorities said.

"Operation Trash Panda" was executed last Friday by the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office's Intelligence Narcotics Team and the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Attorneys argued Tuesday over whether a federal judge should block the Trump administration from potentially shrinking the number of disaster relief workers at the Federal Emergency Management Agency by the thousands.

A group of unions and local governments is asking the court to stop the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA,...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed Caroline Thomas Jacobs, a former senior manager at the technology company Apple, as the new director of the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services on Tuesday.

Thomas Jacobs most recently served as the director of California’s Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety, a role she ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is unlikely to be constrained by the Republican-led Congress on the war in Iran anytime soon.

Votes expected this week on legislation to halt U.S. military action against Iran are shaping up largely along party lines.

“The idea that we would take the ability of our commander in chief, the president, take...Read more

WASHINGTON — The congressional committee investigating disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein is seeking transcribed interviews with Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates and Apollo Global Management co-founder Leon Black.

The two billionaires were among seven people House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer sent letters to on Tuesday ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Police Commission on Tuesday said it wants to know more about how data captured by the controversial license plate reader company Flock Safety is stored and shared.

Commissioner Jeff Skobin requested a report from the department about its relationship with Flock, citing his conversations with city officials and ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — By lunchtime Monday, the Persia House of Kebabs was packed, everyone sipping steaming tea, eating dates and sesame cookies, talking about the war.

Who will step up to lead Iran?

How long will the bombing last?

When can we go back?

Most of the regulars at the restaurant had been born in Iran but left after the 1979 ...Read more

Disagreement over how to develop a Florida still booming with newcomers is dividing Republicans in Tallahassee and in Miami-Dade, where lawmakers are at odds over proposals that could lead to development in protected areas.

Two bills that would incentivize sweeping development changes in rural areas and outside urban boundaries that protect ...Read more

Disability advocates and residents urged the Maryland Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday to advance legislation designed to prevent people with developmental disabilities from losing Medicaid coverage due to administrative errors and delays.

Senate Bill 742, the Maryland Protecting People With Disabilities Act, would codify in state law ...Read more