John Galvin knows he needs a colonoscopy. But he’s waiting to schedule the procedure until December, when he turns 65 and qualifies for Medicare.

He was already thinking about delaying it — then his monthly Obamacare insurance premium payment tripled this year to $2,460, about a third of his income, he said. And with a $2,700 deductible, he...Read more

Russell Anthony made eight trips to the dentist last year. The 65-year-old retiree in Nashville, Tennessee, hopes to go less often in 2026, but he’s already made a few visits.

“I had a root canal just last week that was like $500,” he said. “The week before that, I had a crown that cost me several hundred dollars. And as we speak, I ...Read more

Since their peak less than three years ago, opioid overdose deaths dropped nearly by half as of October, according to a Stateline analysis. The drop comes as a shrinking fentanyl supply has made the drug weaker and less deadly and volunteer efforts get more people into treatment.

The weaker fentanyl tracks to a crackdown on materials used to ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — State Rep. Brad Tabke had been following what he believed to be immigration agents driving through his southwest suburban district in early January when the SUV suddenly pulled into his neighborhood.

The third-term DFL lawmaker, who had been leading a training for Minnesotans on observing immigration officers during Operation ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Melvin Dunlap says he doesn't know how he became a plaintiff in the nation's largest sex abuse settlement.

He grew up in Missouri, thousands of miles away from L.A. County's juvenile halls — the subject of a deluge of lawsuits from people who say they were sexually assaulted while detained as children.

Dunlap says he has ...Read more

VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico — It was 2 a.m. when a bus carrying dozens of U.S. deportees heaved into this sweltering city in southern Mexico.

The Mexican immigration agents who had guarded the group on their three-day trip from the border said their charges, still dressed in the prison garb of detainees, were now free to go.

Alberto Rodríguez, 73...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Six years ago this month, Florida schools and beaches closed, cruise ships reported their first COVID outbreaks, and shoppers scrambled to get whatever toilet paper remained on the shelves.

Almost overnight, the COVID lockdown went into effect, triggering isolation of the elderly, drive-through testing sites and social...Read more

REDDING, Calif. — At a Board of Supervisors meeting in rural Shasta County last month, Clint Curtis dropped a bombshell: A sheriff way down in Riverside was going to confiscate all the ballots from a recent election.

Curtis, the county registrar of voters, was the first to announce the planned ballot seizure. Even the sheriff himself, Chad ...Read more

Delays and cancellations continued to plague LaGuardia Airport Wednesday, nearly three days after the fatal crash between an Air Canada jet and a rescue truck.

More than 300 flights into and out of the airport were canceled on Wednesday and more than 250 flights were delayed, according to information compiled by website FlightAware.

Meanwhile,...Read more

Mayor Zohran Mamdani defended his about-face on New York City’s costly rental voucher program on Wednesday, arguing the city’s dire financial situation makes it impossible to expand the program as he’d planned.

The mayor’s administration late Tuesday moved to prolong a legal fight over the taxpayer-funded program, CityFHEPS, appealing a...Read more

The number of noncitizens who were transferred from San Diego County jails into the custody of federal immigration agents last year nearly tripled, largely because federal authorities ramped up their use of judicial warrants in the face of the state’s stringent laws limiting cooperation on immigration enforcement.

Last year, 83 people were ...Read more

The U.S. Postal Service plans to raise prices to offset rising transportation expenses including the cost of fuel, a sign that the beleaguered mail carrier is feeling the strain of higher oil prices as the war in Iran continues.

The USPS will increase prices by 8% on some packages until mid-January of next year, the USPS said in a statement ...Read more

A Venezuelan man who vanished into the U.S. immigration system last year only to reemerge in one of Central America’s most notorious prisons has turned to the courts, accusing the U.S. government of deliberately abusing its power and violating his rights.

On Tuesday, Neiyerver Adrián León Rengel, a 28‑year‑old Venezuelan who spent four ...Read more

Citing a rash of wildfires in recent years, New Jersey officials on Wednesday opened the state's first fire tower in 78 years.

The increase in fires, they say, is attributed at least in part to climate change.

The new structure in Ocean County, known as Veterans Tower, becomes part of a statewide network of 21 fire towers.

Located off East ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has offered Iran a 15-point ceasefire plan aimed at temporarily halting the war in the Middle East, as the Pentagon simultaneously orders thousands of Marines, paratroopers and a warship to the region.

The plan presented to Iranian leadership Tuesday broadly included a 30-day ceasefire and sanctions ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Trump administration officials are examining what a potential spike in oil prices as high as $200 a barrel would mean for the economy, according to people familiar with the matter, a sign senior officials are studying the possible fallout from extreme scenarios for the Iran war.

Modeling of how damaging a bigger jump in oil ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The White House insisted that peace talks with Iran are ongoing, even as Tehran publicly rejected U.S. overtures and issued fresh conditions of its own to end the conflict that’s wreaked havoc across the Middle East and global markets.

President Donald Trump insisted Iran was desperate to make a deal to end the nearly month-...Read more

NEW YORK — A lawyer for ICE provided false information to federal prosecutors to justify seizing thousands of people seeking asylum and lawful immigration status in the United States at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan and other immigration courts, according to court documents filed Wednesday.

The extraordinary revelation was included in filings...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The AI data center rush already has reached the nation’s driest state in a major way, but lawmakers are just now catching up on considering statewide regulations.

Nevada’s interim committees on natural resources and growth and infrastructure held a wide-reaching meeting Wednesday, when industry representatives, utility heads, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is expected to miss a deadline to name a new director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, leaving the public health agency without a leader and adding to its leadership turmoil.

The administration will not nominate a director Wednesday, according to people familiar with the matter. The ...Read more