MINNEAPOLIS — The 24-year-old daughter of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said that troubling messages with “real-life consequences” have led her to temporarily unplug from social media out of concern for her family’s safety.

Hope Walz on Wednesday posted a video on TikTok in which she said she is taking a break from social media for the next ...Read more

NEW YORK — Gunfire erupted at a recording studio in Newark on Wednesday night, leaving two people dead and another two injured, the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office said.

The deadly violence occurred at Platinum Sound, a studio located on the bottom floor of an apartment building tucked between a hair salon and a supermarket on Clinton ...Read more

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte warned Russia will come for the rest of Europe if its warmongering is not checked now, just moments before Ukraine’s allies were slated to discuss U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest peace push.

“We need to be crystal clear about the threat,” the military alliance leader said in a speech Thursday in ...Read more

BOSTON — Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) says the illegal immigrant with a history of reckless driving who caused a horrific hit-and-run crash Sunday, which sent a woman flying nearly 80-feet and has left her in serious condition, was let into the country under a Biden Administration border policy.

The agency tells the Herald that ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX and United Launch Alliance are combining for a busy week or rocket launches on the Space Coast.

First up Thursday afternoon is SpaceX’s planned Starlink 6-90 mission with 29 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40. Liftoff is targeting 3:26 p.m. during launch window that...Read more

Florida resident Keith Jones says his Affordable Care Act insurance plan was changed multiple times this year without his permission. Now the 52-year-old is struggling with his health problems while facing large premium bills he says he shouldn’t owe.

The third time, he sought help from an insurance agent, who got Jones on the phone with the ...Read more

A Medicare pilot program will allow private companies to use artificial intelligence to review older Americans’ requests for certain medical care — and will reward the companies when they deny it.

In January, the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will launch the Wasteful and Inappropriate Services Reduction (WISeR) Model to ...Read more

As health and human services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wields one of the louder megaphones the federal government has. Yet he insists he doesn’t want to impose his opinions on Americans.

“I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me,” Kennedy told a Democratic congressman in May.

Kennedy once expressed different ...Read more

As the housing shortage pushes more Americans into homelessness for the first time, the Trump administration wants to focus federal housing aid on mental health treatment and enforcement against street homelessness, rather than on finding people permanent homes as quickly as possible.

The administration’s new plan to tie federal housing aid ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Kelly Wyatt winced as a nurse unwrapped layers of gauze from her left leg, exposing the massive wound beneath.

Yellow and red and gray, weeping plasma and agonizingly painful at the slightest touch, it covered almost the entirety of the end of her leg — the site of the amputation she had undergone four years before.

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LOS ANGELES — The winter season has brought cold and wet conditions that are perfect for fungi like death cap mushrooms, or Amanita phalloides, to grow in California, experts say, but with that has come a rash of people mistakenly eating them thinking they're safe.

So far this year, at least 23 people have been sickened by eating death cap ...Read more

Madison County, tucked in the mountains of western North Carolina, has no hospital and just three ambulances serving its roughly 22,000 people.

The ambulances frequently travel back and forth to Mission Hospital in Asheville, the largest and most central hospital in the region. Trips can take more than two hours, according to Mark Snelson, ...Read more