FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Big Medicare changes will go into effect in 2025, giving Floridians more reason to sift through plans and make smart choices.

The 5.1 million Floridians who qualify for Medicare will have from Oct. 15 through Dec. 7 to choose original Medicare or one of the Medicare Advantage plans offered in their county.

Changes to ...Read more

When Pam McClure learned she’d save nearly $4,000 on her prescription drugs next year, she said, “it sounded too good to be true.” She and her husband are both retired and live on a “very strict” budget in central North Dakota.

By the end of this year, she will have spent almost $6,000 for her medications, including a drug to control ...Read more

STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. — As principal of Dunaire Elementary School, Sean Deas has seen firsthand the struggles faced by children living in extended-stay hotels. About 10% of students at his school, just east of Atlanta, live in one.

The children, Deas said, often have been exposed to violence on hotel properties, exhibit aggression or anxiety ...Read more

OMAHA, Neb. – Republican Rep. Don Bacon stood in his campaign office tucked behind a busy commercial stretch on the city’s outskirts and pondered his place on the political spectrum.

Democrats say he’s a committed member of former President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement, while some of his fellow Republicans dismiss him as “a commie ...Read more

TAMPA BAY, Fla. — Florida’s largest open water estuary and the millions of people who have built their lives around it barely had enough time to detox from the last hurricane-fueled wave of pollution before the next one hit.

Just as the Tampa Bay area was cleaning the mess from Hurricane Helene, along came Milton. The hurricane double-...Read more

NEW YORK — New York State leads the nation in rat-infested cities with five, including third-ranked New York City.

Orkin released its annual rundown of 50 cities where it treated the most places for rodents in the year ending Sept. 1. They included Albany, which was 31st nationally, followed by Buffalo at number 41, Rochester at 43 and ...Read more

Experts say it was bound to happen: The H5N1 bird flu that ravaged dairy herds in 13 states was inevitably going to arrive in California.

But exactly how it happened is still being investigated by the state.

However, Anja Raudabaugh — the chief executive of Western State Dairies, a trade organization for California dairy farmers — was able...Read more

Philadelphia's leading health systems will no longer consider race in four common screening tools for lung, kidney, and obstetrics care, in an effort to make treatment more equitable for all patients.

Race has long been included in the algorithms that doctors use to evaluate patients and determine the best care plan. But mounting research has ...Read more

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected strategic missile bases and ordered the military to stay ready to deal a counterblow to enemies “at any time,” just two weeks ahead of the U.S. presidential election in an apparent move to raise its profile.

A photo released by the official Korean Central News Agency on Wednesday showed Kim ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For more than a week straight, photographers, scientists and adventure seekers alike have captured dazzling images of an electric blue light emitting from Southern California's waves at night.

The display of bioluminescence, created when a type of algae is agitated, is difficult to forecast, but over the last nine days, ...Read more

NEW YORK — Rudy Giuliani must fork over control of his snazzy Upper East Side co-op apartment and other pricey assets to the Georgia mother and daughter election workers he defamed with baseless accusations of ballot fraud, a Manhattan judge ruled Tuesday.

The former New York City mayor and Donald Trump lawyer has seven days to give up assets...Read more

LOS ANGELES — L.A. County Dist. Atty. George Gascón announced that he would make a decision on the possible resentencing of the Menendez brothers by the end of the week.

Erik and Lyle Menendez have spent 34 years behind bars after being convicted of the 1989 slaying of their parents, but evidence recently surfaced supporting the brothers’ ...Read more

The winter could be warm. Rains that might otherwise fall across South Mississippi may instead veer away. And dry breezes that would normally relieve the region of its thick summer heat could bring a new risk: wildfires.

A winter forecast released this month by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says warm temperatures and ...Read more

WARREN, Mich. — Warren City Clerk Sonja Buffa said she isn't planning to start counting absentee ballots for Michigan's third-largest city until Election Day, a decision the Macomb County clerk and other city officials worry could potentially delay the results for the entire state and could determine who wins some close races.

Under a new ...Read more

For decades, China has sought to maintain influence among armed ethnic groups in Myanmar in lawless border areas while also providing support to military leaders in charge of the Southeast Asian nation. An attack on its consulate last week shows that balancing act is becoming untenable.

China has demanded an investigation and lodged “serious ...Read more

After a Republican lawmaker filed a confidential ethics complaint against North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs, a Democrat running to keep her seat on the state’s high court, her Republican opponent began running ads saying she was “under investigation” for her own ads attacking him on abortion.

Now, both sides are ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Domestic terrorism — the use of violence for political ends — has risen dramatically in recent years and is driven largely by partisan falsehoods and lies, a new study says.

U.S. military veterans are overrepresented among the perpetrators of such attacks, experts have long found.

The report comes nearly four years after the...Read more

Seven years after the last United Nations peacekeepers departed amid warnings they would soon be back, Haiti is now officially asking for their return.

Leslie Voltaire, the current president of the Transitional Presidential Council, wrote a letter to U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres asking that the current Multinational Security Support...Read more

SAN DIEGO — The San Diego County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday agreed to explore taking legal action against those responsible for worsening the cross-border sewage crisis.

The unanimous decision means the county may sue or join lawsuits against “any potentially responsible party” for damages caused to the Tijuana River Valley and ...Read more