Nick Reiner was placed under a mental health conservatorship for a year beginning in 2020, according to a report published Thursday.

Reiner, now 32, was released from the conservatorship in 2021, and it’s unclear why it wasn’t extended, the New York Times reported. He had been placed under what’s known as an LPS conservatorship — based ...Read more

Nationwide, the number of people buying health plans on Obamacare insurance marketplaces is down by about 833,000 compared with a year ago, according to federal data released this week.

Many states are reporting fewer new enrollees, more people dropping their coverage, and more people choosing cheaper and less generous health insurance plans ...Read more

DENVER — Gov. Jared Polis unilaterally stalled a specialized prison program aimed at rehabilitating and releasing people who have served decades behind bars for crimes they committed as juveniles and young adults, The Denver Post found.

Polis has not approved any of the program’s graduates for early release since 2023 — an about-face from...Read more

DENVER — Across Colorado, in bustling municipal courtrooms and council chambers, in city attorneys’ offices and public defender headquarters, legal professionals and elected officials are scrambling to make sense of a new normal.

The world of city courts was upended in late December, when the Colorado Supreme Court unanimously ruled that ...Read more

Denmark and Greenland are stepping up lobbying of U.S. lawmakers in an effort to head off President Donald Trump’s push to take control of Greenland.

A group of U.S. senators is set to meet members of the Danish parliament in Copenhagen on Friday. The trip follows a week of meetings in Washington by Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke ...Read more

South Korea’s former President Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced to five years in jail for charges including resisting arrest, marking the disgraced ex-leader’s first sentence in a slew of pending cases connected to his declaration of martial law.

The Seoul Central District Court on Friday found Yoon guilty of unlawfully obstructing authorities�...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Renee Good was found with gunshot wounds to the chest, arm and head after a federal immigration officer shot her the morning of Jan. 7, according to the Minneapolis Fire Department’s incident report.

Paramedics found Good unresponsive in her car with blood on her face and torso at 9:42 a.m. She was not breathing, and her pulse...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Federal officials have launched an investigation into the California Community Colleges Athletic Assn. and four other state colleges and school districts, alleging that their policies allowing sports participation based on gender identity violate the civil rights of female athletes, U.S. Education Department officials announced ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The scene that played out this week in Minneapolis illustrated a growing tension among those protesting federal immigration sweeps: Demonstrate at a distance or become more disruptive, even violent?

A federal agent on the night of Wednesday, Jan. 15, shot a man during a struggle to apprehend him, prompting residents to pour from...Read more

In the largest Medicare Advantage fraud settlement to date, Kaiser Permanente has agreed to pay $556 million to settle Justice Department allegations that it billed the government for medical conditions patients didn’t have.

The settlement, announced Jan. 14, resolves whistleblower lawsuits that accused the giant health insurer of mounting a ...Read more

For the second time in the past two weeks, the U.S. Drought Monitor, a prominent national report, has classified 100% of California as being drought-free. That’s a rating that hasn’t occurred in 25 years.

Great news, right?

It’s not quite that simple. To be exact, the last time the report had California at 100% drought-free was the week ...Read more

President Donald Trump has just done one of the most audacious acts of his presidency: sending a military squad to Venezuela and kidnapping President Nicolas Maduro and his wife. Without question, this is a clear violation of international law regarding the sovereignty of nations.

The U.S. was not at war with Venezuela, nor has Trump/Congress ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — About 106,000 — or one in six North Carolina children — attend elementary schools where the risk for measles outbreaks run high, according to the best available state analysis.

Their schools are designated high risk because fewer than 90% of kids there are vaccinated. Nearly 18,000 of kids at the schools are not ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles school district is falling short of meeting school board-approved academic goals set four years ago, but students continue to improve faster on key academic measurements than the state as a whole, based on data released Tuesday.

The presentation to the Board of Education during a five-hour meeting kicks off a ...Read more

The White House is expressing anger while the FBI is putting up a reward in hopes of tracking down whoever damaged agents’ vehicles and stole government documents during unrest that followed a federal officer shooting and wounding a man on Jan. 14 in north Minneapolis.

FBI Director Kash Patel announced on Jan. 15 that his agency is offering a...Read more

Gov. Josh Shapiro's administration has sued a former vendor for failing to deliver 3.4 million pieces of state agency mail to residents, resulting in a statewide debacle with some residents losing access to their public benefits.

Shapiro called the situation "absolutely unacceptable" in his first public remarks on the matter during a Wednesday ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom said he does not support abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a week after a federal agent fatally shot a woman in Minnesota, sparking mass protests and reigniting a national debate about how to rein in the agency.

“I disagree,” Newsom told conservative pundit Ben Shapiro on a Thursday ...Read more

Before a home near Hayward exploded last month and sent three people to the hospital with serious injuries, Pacific Gas & Electric crews knocked on doors to alert anyone inside the home of a gas leak in the area, but no one responded, according to a preliminary report released Thursday by federal investigators.

The National Transportation ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday released a health care plan that calls on Congress to end negotiations over Affordable Care Act subsidies and instead enact bipartisan legislation on drug and health insurance costs.

Trump’s proposal, which he calls “The Great Healthcare Plan,” touts the potential to lower drug prices and ...Read more