WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of House lawmakers released text of legislation Friday aimed at avoiding the health care subsidy cliff by extending Affordable Care Act tax credits for two years while installing income caps and anti-fraud measures.

Reps. Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y., Don Bacon, R-Neb., Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., and Jeff Hurd, R-Colo., ...Read more

NEW YORK — An FBI memo that claims “anarchist violent extremist actors” are targeting law enforcement cites a private text message chat that included immigration court observers, raising questions about whether the department is monitoring political activity, a copy of the document indicates.

The “joint situational information report,�...Read more

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine risks losing its key partner after the U.S. threatened to cut off support unless Kyiv agrees to a peace deal that would force it to cede territory to Russia, cap the size of its military and pledge never to join NATO.

“Now it’s one of the most difficult moments in our history,” Zelenskyy said in ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida’s DOGE team has asked state universities to turn over data on every undergraduate course offered at the 12 schools, including the syllabus and names of faculty members who are instructing it in the next two academic years.

The DeSantis administration sent its request Monday to the Board of Governors, which oversees ...Read more

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is reportedly personally taking credit for scrubbing a statement that “vaccines don’t cause autism” from the Centers for Disease Control web site.

The controversial vaccine skeptic said he ordered the change because he believes there could be a link between childhood vaccinations and rising autism ...Read more

NEW YORK — A man held in a city jail on a burglary charge died under as yet undisclosed circumstances early Friday, the 13th jail-related death in 2025, officials said.

Edwin Ramos, 50, was found in medical distress in a bathroom at the Otis Bantum Correctional Center on Rikers Island at 12:04 a.m. and taken to that jail’s medical clinic 20...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein asked in a letter on Friday that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security give more information about “Charlotte’s Web,” the Border Patrol operation in the city.

“State and local officials have been left guessing about what may happen next despite the critical role our law enforcement ...Read more

A grizzly bear attack on a Canadian school group left 11 people injured in British Columbia on Thursday afternoon.

Two of the victims were critically wounded, including a male teacher who “got the whole brunt of it,” one parent told the Canadian Press. Veronica Schooner said her traumatized 10-year-old son felt the bear’s fur during the ...Read more

NEW YORK — The U.S. Justice Department has opened an investigation into an interfaith event at City College where the director of a Jewish campus organization said another speaker, an imam, berated him with “inflammatory and openly antisemitic rhetoric,” before directing students to walk out.

The Hillel director Ilya Bratman’s written ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — After federal immigration officers in Charlotte saw a man taking photos of them, they chased him nearly two miles down a main road and made plans to “smash” into him, video played in court Thursday showed.

Then they broke his window, charged him with a federal felony and accused him of assaulting them.

Miguel Angel ...Read more

MIAMI — Donning an all white suit and her signature silk press, former Vice President Kamala Harris walked on stage to Victoria Monet’s “On My Mama” and waved to the crowd that filled the Adrienne Arsht Center to see her on the final stop of her book tour promoting “107 Days,” detailing her historic campaign for presidency.

For an ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County prosecutors moved to drop manslaughter charges Friday against two Torrance police officers who shot and killed a Black man in 2018, attempting to end a seven-year saga that saw the case rejected and then reexamined by three different district attorneys.

Matthew Concannon and Anthony Chavez were indicted in ...Read more

Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar met with Pope Leo XIV on Friday at the Vatican as part of a delegation visit from Ukraine that’s asking the church to help return more than 19,000 children who have been abducted during the ongoing war with Russia.

Klobuchar said she spoke with the first American pope for 20 minutes. They talked about the missing ...Read more

The rewriting of a page on the CDC’s website to assert the false claim that vaccines may cause autism sparked a torrent of anger and anguish from doctors, scientists, and parents who say Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is wrecking the credibility of an agency they’ve long relied on for unbiased scientific evidence. ...Read more

CHICAGO — A man facing a federal terrorism charge for allegedly dousing a 26-year-old woman with gasoline and lighting her on fire on a Blue Line train car was ordered detained while awaiting trial Friday.

The unusual charge of terrorism against a mass transportation system filed against 50-year-old Lawrence Reed comes as President Donald ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Marjorie Taylor Greene made her support for releasing the Jeffrey Epstein sex abuse files known long before she became a member of Congress.

“Despite what the Fake News Media says, this isn’t a conspiracy theory,” she wrote in July 2020 Facebook post about the case. “I will do everything under my power to bring down any ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — All Kentucky state and local law enforcement could get broad authority to help Immigration and Customs Enforcement in deporting undocumented immigrants under a bill proposed by Rep. TJ Roberts, R-Burlington, Thursday.

Roberts discussed his bill request to force all local law enforcement agencies and the Kentucky State Police ...Read more

After a panel of federal judges in Texas this week struck down that state’s recently redrawn congressional maps, voters in California might be wondering if that means the Golden State will halt its own mid-decade redistricting plan.

After all, when Gov. Gavin Newsom and other California Democrats began talking about redistricting early on, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A former Los Angeles County sheriff's custodian who was facing a possible DUI charge took his blood sample from the arrest and microwaved it to destroy the evidence against him, prosecutors say.

Tommy Ray Trimble, 60, is charged with one felony count each of second-degree commercial burglary, preparing false evidence, destroying...Read more