CHICAGO — After more than a decade of negotiations and failed efforts to reduce the use of plastics, Illinois lawmakers are considering legislation that would prohibit large retailers from offering single-use plastic bags and ban the use of most polystyrene containers in the state over the next four to five years.

Advocates, citing the threat...Read more

President Xi Jinping’s diplomats are fanning out across the world with a clear message for countries cutting deals with Donald Trump: The U.S. is a bully that can’t be trusted.

Chinese officials are racing to turn foreign governments against the U.S. inside a 90-day window Trump has granted all nations — except China — to strike trade ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. -- When federal authorities deported 238 immigrants from a Texas prison to El Salvador in March, Neri Alvarado was among them.

The Venezuelan asylum seeker had no criminal record, but immigration officials flagged him as a suspected member of the Tren de Aragua gang based on a tattoo, according to his family. It showed a ribbon with...Read more

The Trump administration this month scrapped a Biden-era proposal that would have required state Medicaid programs and allowed federal Medicare to pay for some GLP-1s for obesity treatment. Instead, state Medicaid programs will retain the choice of whether to cover the high-priced medications for their residents.

The drugs, which have ...Read more

For several years, Fred Neary had been seeing five doctors at the Baylor Scott & White Health system, whose 52 hospitals serve central and northern Texas, including Neary’s home in Dallas. But in October, his Humana Medicare Advantage plan — an alternative to government-run Medicare — warned that Baylor and the insurer were fighting over a...Read more

ISSAQUAH, Wash. — In the wake of recent natural disasters, state leaders across the country are finding that emergency support from the federal government is no longer a given.

Under President Donald Trump, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has denied federal assistance for tornadoes in Arkansas, flooding in West Virginia and a ...Read more

A GOP bill that seeks to bolster the state law requiring sheriffs to cooperate more closely with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement moved forward on Tuesday with the support of a Charlotte Democrat.

The N.C. House voted 70-45 to approve House Bill 318, a measure spearheaded by Republican Speaker Destin Hall. It builds on the law enacted ...Read more

In an interview Tuesday marking the first 100 days of his second term, President Donald Trump zeroed in on a topic that has been among the most controversial actions his administration has taken so far: the mistaken deportation of Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a prison in El Salvador.

But in the eyes of the president, the mistake is...Read more

WARREN, Mich. — President Donald Trump described his first 100 days in the White House as a "revolution of common sense" and defended tariffs, imposed by his administration, that have unsettled the country's economy during a speech Tuesday night in Macomb County.

Trump also announced that he planned to offer "partial tariff rebates" for about...Read more

Comcast and Aramark in recent weeks have removed content from their websites related to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, as companies in Philadelphia and across the country continue to grapple with the Trump administration's crackdown on what it has called potentially illegal discrimination.

The two publicly traded companies also ...Read more

As CBS-owner Paramount Global enters mediation this week to resolve President Trump's $20-billion "60 Minutes" lawsuit, one question looms: How much should the company pay to settle a dispute that 1st Amendment experts have deemed frivolous?

Paramount's board during an April 18 meeting agreed on parameters for a possible settlement with Trump, ...Read more

The six federal immigration detention centers in California, including the facility in Otay Mesa, are not providing sufficient mental health services to people in custody, according to the California Department of Justice, which looked at confinement conditions at the sites.

The report released Tuesday also found disproportionate use of force ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A community activist who was infamously shot in the groin with a foam round by a San Jose police officer during the 2020 George Floyd demonstrations is settling a federal civil rights lawsuit he filed against the city, nearly five years to the day after he was severely injured.

Derrick Sanderlin is the headlining plaintiff ...Read more

Nevada and the Bureau of Land Management have agreed to share data on public lands that could be released for future development as part of Gov. Joe Lombardo’s larger effort to fix the state’s housing crisis.

The governor’s office and BLM entered a memorandum of understanding Tuesday that lets the state and federal government share data ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the largest sex abuse settlement in U.S. history on Tuesday, agreeing to pay $4 billion to victims abused as children in county-run juvenile facilities and foster homes.

The vote is the culmination of years of fighting by victims, who argued that no one had paid ...Read more

After calling a special legislative session to “defend California values” in the wake of Donald Trump’s election, Gov. Gavin Newsom backed away from his initial antagonistic stance towards the president and focused on wildfires raging in Los Angeles.

But on Tuesday, he upped the ante, taking aim at Elon Musk and the unofficial Department ...Read more

President Donald Trump said China deserved the steep tariffs he imposed on their exports and predicted Beijing could find a way to reduce their impact on American consumers.

“You don’t know whether or not China’s going to eat it. China probably will eat those tariffs,” Trump said Tuesday in an interview with ABC News. “China was ...Read more