WASHINGTON — The Biden administration wants more health care providers to talk to parents about keeping their kids safe around firearms, as data shows kids are increasingly dying by suicide, accidents and homicides involving guns.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has given states the green light to allow Medicaid providers to ...Read more

A Midlands man and his sister are guilty of buying more than 100 guns and reselling them for a profit in other parts of the east coast, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

A federal jury in Columbia convicted 27-year-old Sumter resident Kelsey Antonio McCallum of illegally trafficking firearms, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a news...Read more

BOSTON — A trade association for Massachusetts landlords is in a legal battle with the City of Boston over public records it says the city withheld to hide unlawful lobbying from housing advocates that influenced the mayor’s stalled rent control plan.

Douglas Quattrochi, executive director of MassLandlords, Inc., which filed a lawsuit ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — When Joe Lombardo gave $5,000 from his campaign account to a political action committee, the future governor thought he was helping pay for the statue of a fallen Las Vegas police officer.

The money was instead used by former Las Vegas councilwoman Michele Fiore to pay her rent. Fiore was recently convicted of wire fraud for ...Read more

Two-thirds of the world’s food comes today from just nine plants: sugar cane, maize (corn), rice, wheat, potatoes, soybeans, oil-palm fruit, sugar beet and cassava. In the past, farmers grew tens of thousands of crop varieties around the world. This biodiversity protected agriculture from crop losses caused by plant diseases and climate ...Read more

Because there are typically no symptoms until the first fracture occurs, osteoporosis is considered a silent disease. Some call it a silent killer.

Osteoporosis is a bone disease characterized by decreased bone density and strength, leading to fragile, brittle bones that increase the risk of fractures, especially in the spine, hips ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — A growing system in the Caribbean could develop into Tropical Storm Rafael on Monday and intensify into a hurricane as it heads north toward the Gulf of Mexico, according to the National Hurricane Center.

As of the NHC’s 7 a.m. advisory, what is now called Potential Tropical Cyclone Eighteen was located about 220 miles south...Read more

A Supreme Court review of the controversial effort to overhaul Mexico’s judiciary is set to intensify a battle between justices and the ruling Morena party, threatening to push the nation to the brink of an institutional crisis.

On Tuesday, the top court is scheduled to weigh a draft ruling from Justice Juan Luis Gonzalez Alcantara that ...Read more

LAKE PARK, Ga. — For the past month, farmworker Albertin Melo, his wife, Angelica Garcia, and their three children have taken refuge under debris.

When ferocious Hurricane Helene left their south Georgia mobile home in shambles, the family improvised new shelter by patching together remnants they found sprawled across their Lake Park ...Read more

Young Thug walked out of jail on probation. The 2020 election interference case has stalled. Developments in Fulton County’s marquee racketeering cases have some legal observers questioning District Attorney Fani Willis’ reliance on Georgia’s sprawling RICO statute.

“You don’t use a sledgehammer to kill an ant,” said former DeKalb ...Read more

There's a small line forming outside a plain white box truck in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood. A half-dozen folks are waiting on a gusty October morning for their turn to go inside and receive red liquid in a cup, medication that will help them get through the next 24 hours without opioids.

Or if they do use, to keep them alive.

It's life-...Read more

CITRUS COUNTY, Fla. — It was hard enough for Stephanie to get methadone treatment when she moved to Florida from Indiana last year. The nearest clinic was almost an hour’s drive away and she couldn’t drive herself. But at least she didn’t have to worry about the cost of care.

As a parent with young children who was unable to find a job ...Read more

Iran is planning a counterattack on Israel involving more powerful warheads and other weapons, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing Iranian and Arab officials briefed on the plans.

Iran isn’t planning to limit its response to missiles and drones, the Journal said Sunday, citing the officials. The newspaper noted it remains to be seen ...Read more

Legendary music producer and composer Quincy Jones, who worked with superstars like Frank Sinatra and Michael Jackson, has died at the age of 91.

"Tonight, with full but broken hearts, we must share the news of our father and brother Quincy Jones' passing. And although this is an incredible loss for our family, we celebrate the great life that ...Read more

Rock music legend Jon Bon Jovi will perform at a campaign rally Monday night in Detroit in support of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz.

Walz, the governor of Minnesota, will attend the event and deliver remarks encouraging Michiganians to get out and vote in Tuesday's presidential election.

The ...Read more

California Congressman Eric Swalwell has filed a government tort claim against Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price, who is facing a recall effort, in the wake of alleged “defamatory statements.”

Joseph Goethals, of Burlingame’s Goethals & Stone, PC, said on Sunday that he filed the tort claim in Alameda County. The claim is a ...Read more