The number of reported measles cases in Kansas grew slightly over the past week, and while the outbreak has not spread to the Kansas City metro, it is getting closer.

The state saw two new cases, bringing the total number to 48 cases as of Wednesday morning, up from 46 cases a week ago, according to the Kansas Department of Health and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Thomas Girardi, the disbarred lawyer convicted of defrauding his own clients, has been hospitalized and cannot attend a hearing scheduled for Thursday where a federal judge was set to hear evidence that could determine whether he is sent to prison or a suitable medical facility.

The disclosure of Girardi's hospitalization came ...Read more

President Donald Trump said the U.S. has secured what he described as a comprehensive trade agreement with the U.K., the culmination of weeks of talks between the two allies and marking the first of his promised deals with countries around the world.

The U.S. president said in a post on his social media platform that Thursday would be an “...Read more

ATLANTA — Fulton County on Wednesday approved additional funding to pay overtime for jailers who work for the Sheriff’s Office — and to support efforts to hire and retain them — in hopes of addressing staffing shortages in the county’s notorious jail.

Commissioner Bob Ellis, vice chair of the Board of Commissioners and sponsor of the ...Read more

The Trump administration wants to sharply reduce funding for federal rental assistance that helps hundreds of thousands of California households afford a home.

The plan, part of the president's 2026 budget proposal, calls for a 43% reduction in funding available for a variety of programs it labels "dysfunctional," including public housing and ...Read more

ATLANTA — Atlanta City Council members are looking to extend the city’s popular e-bike voucher program.

Council member Marci Collier Overstreet introduced legislation this week that would set aside additional funding to continue the program that helped more than 500 Atlantans buy e-bikes last year.

The first round was funded with $1 ...Read more

Pakistan said Chinese fighter jets were used to respond to military strikes by India and that it has kept Beijing fully informed of its action as tensions in the disputed Kashmir region escalate.

Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar told parliament late Wednesday that Chinese J-10C jets were used to shoot down five Indian fighter jets along the border, ...Read more

Beijing reiterated its call for the U.S. to cancel unilateral tariffs on China, underscoring a standoff between the world’s largest economies as they prepare for initial trade talks.

The U.S. should be prepared to revoke punitive tariffs placed on China, Commerce Ministry spokesman He Yadong said at a regular press briefing Thursday. The U.S....Read more

Rennie Glasgow, who has served 15 years at the Social Security Administration, is seeing something new on the job: dead people.

They’re not really dead, of course. In four instances over the past few weeks, he told KFF Health News, his Schenectady, New York, office has seen people come in for whom “there is no information on the record, ...Read more

Camp Lejeune’s victims are turning into ghosts haunting the federal judges and attorneys struggling with a flood of claims and lawsuits over harm from contaminated drinking water at the Marine Corps base in North Carolina from the 1950s to the 1980s.

One of them is Dan Mason, a Marine from September 1975 to September 1979 who spent more than ...Read more

When the news broke on Jan. 31 that a New York physician had been indicted for shipping abortion medications to a woman in Louisiana, it stoked fear across the network of doctors and medical clinics who engage in similar work.

“It’s scary. It’s frustrating,” said Angel Foster, co-founder of the Massachusetts Medication Abortion Access ...Read more

WASHINGTON — When immigration agents recently began conducting welfare checks on youths who had arrived at the border unaccompanied by their parents, advocates grew alarmed, fearing the tactic was a cover to target the minors, their adult sponsors and possibly others for deportations.

Stories of these unannounced visits popped up around the ...Read more

CHICAGO — At a once-vacant brownfield on the South Side of Chicago, a semitruck backed into an unassuming warehouse and unloaded a colorful batch of food scraps and spoiled products. The discards soon ended up in a massive tank that mimics a cow’s digestion — minus the release of gassy byproducts — where they were turned into compost and...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A battle is underway against an invasive mosquito behind a recent surge in the local spread of dengue fever in Southern California — and officials may have unlocked a powerful tool to help win the day.

Two vector control districts — local agencies tasked with controlling disease-spreading organisms — released thousands of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump spent much of the last four years decrying Justice Department prosecutions against him and his supporters, and one of his first executive orders in January said it sought to end the “weaponization of prosecutorial power to upend the democratic process.”

But since then, Trump has used the power of his ...Read more