LEXINGTON, Ky. — A student who claims they were sexually assaulted at a football camp this summer is suing the McCreary County School District, superintendent and high school football coach.

The suit, filed Nov. 19 in federal court, accuses Superintendent Clint Taylor, football coach Sam Marple and the district of negligence, negligent ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Amid protests from employee unions, California State University trustees on Wednesday approved the elimination of salary caps for top executives, allowing for higher pay packages as they recruit for president posts at five universities.

The new pay structure, approved 16-1, scraps a previous policy that limited the salary of a ...Read more

The Trump administration is once again targeting immigrants who apply for key benefits to live in the United States, such as permanent residence or green cards.

The president has decided to reinstate a controversial policy that broadens the criteria used by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to reject applications for adjustments of ...Read more

DENVER — A Durango father and his two children arrested by federal immigration agents who thought they were someone else have agreed to leave the United States because of the trauma they have experienced in detention, advocates said Wednesday night.

Fernando Jaramillo-Solano and his 12- and 15-year-old children were on their way to school the...Read more

ATLANTA — The number of unauthorized immigrants living in Georgia reached 479,000 as of mid-2023, according to a report released last month by the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank focused on immigration.

Georgia’s population of unauthorized immigrants increased by more than 45% since 2018, according to MPI. The growth ...Read more

Volodymyr Zelenskyy is scrambling to resist a potentially humiliating peace deal put forward by U.S. officials just as the Ukrainian president faces growing domestic pressure to ditch his most trusted aide in the war against Russia.

Zelenskyy has received signals from the U.S. that he should accept the deal drawn up in consultation with Moscow,...Read more

Colombia said it would favor a path for Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to hand over power to a transition government tasked with organizing new elections — preferring the idea over the alternative of a more forceful U.S. intervention in its neighbor’s affairs.

The transition proposal has been making the rounds in diplomatic circles in...Read more

As misinformation about women’s health spreads faster than ever, doctors say new research on the risks of hormonal birth control underscores the challenge of communicating nuance in the social media age.

The massive study, which was conducted in Sweden and tracked more than 2 million teenage girls and women under age 50 for more than a decade...Read more

The Trump administration has made deep cuts to the main federal agency focused on fighting opioid addiction, potentially jeopardizing the nation’s recent progress on reducing overdose deaths, some public health officials and providers say.

Created in 1992, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, known as SAMHSA, hands ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s boycott of this weekend’s Group of 20 summit in South Africa leaves the forum fumbling to divine his latest intentions on the global stage without a U.S. representative for the first time since its inception.

Fortunately, world leaders can find insight in the foreign policy machinations of the U.S. ...Read more

When local activist Frank Arcoleo found out over the summer that a data center was coming to his neighborhood in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, he said he was furious. There’d been no votes or public hearings.

The first phase of the data center project under development there only required administrative approval from a few city officials, based on...Read more

While the FDA is streamlining regulation of copycat versions of the expensive drugs that millions take for arthritis, cancer, and other diseases, the U.S. patent office is making it harder for the cheaper medicines to get on the market, industry officials say.

These officials were thrilled Oct. 29 when FDA Commissioner Marty Makary announced ...Read more

MIAMI – Preparing for surgery can be scary.

In addition to the medical issues, having surgery involves a lot of prep. You may need to coordinate childcare, transportation, finances and time off work. Designate a caregiver. Stop taking certain medications and fast a certain set of hours ahead of surgery.

While most scheduled surgeries do ...Read more

The Health and Human Services Department is proposing new initiatives for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including a program to increase hepatitis B screening for pregnant women, as part of a broader push to restructure the agency, according to an internal document viewed by Bloomberg News.

Leading five of the 16 initiatives is...Read more