Vice President Kamala Harris outlined a proposal to allow Medicare to expand its coverage of home health care for older Americans. The Democratic presidential nominee announced this plan on the television talk show “The View.”

Harris explained that she aimed to take the burden off members of the “sandwich generation,” who are ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — Rejecting a renewed "war" against drug-traffickers, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Tuesday unveiled her strategy to battle organized crime in a nation where each day brings word of new assassinations, gang wars, massacres and other carnage.

"The war against el narco will not return," Sheinbaum, who took office last week,...Read more

South Florida may not be getting a direct hit from Hurricane Milton, but nerves here are on edge nonetheless.

Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis blames it on PTSD from all the storms that have come before.

“We are not going to get the brunt of this hurricane — we’re going to get the outer edges,” he told the South Florida Sun ...Read more

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration is threatening to criminally prosecute Florida television stations if they do not stop running a political advertisement featuring a brain cancer patient who supports a November ballot measure that would broaden access to abortion in Florida.

But nearly a week after the state warned TV stations to pull the ad...Read more

NEW YORK — The testimony of social worker Justyna Rzewinski about the extended lock-ins – or “deadlocking” – of severely mentally ill people in a Rikers Island jail Tuesday drew the full attention of a city jail oversight board and pledges from a top Correction Department official to investigate.

Rzewinski appeared before the Board ...Read more

With the Gulf of Mexico on simmer, for the people on Florida’s West Coast the reality horror show that is an approaching hurricane is forecast to reach a climax Wednesday night somewhere near the heavily developed Tampa Bay region, with potentially catastrophic results.

This, less than two weeks after much of the Sunshine State was soaked by ...Read more

The Dominican Republic is carrying out “a discriminatory campaign” against Haitians based on their nationality and the color of their skin, Haiti’s acting representative to the Organization of American States charged Tuesday.

That campaign, which the Dominican government said focuses on expelling up to 10,000 Haitians a week, risks ...Read more

WASHINGTON — If the questions posed by the Supreme Court Justices reviewing a controversial gun case serve as any indication, it seems the judges are following along with the Biden administration’s reasoning for unilaterally curtailing the creation and carrying of so-called “ghost guns.”

The high court, on Tuesday, heard argument in the...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is postponing a planned trip to Germany and Angola to focus on the response to Hurricane Milton, the second major storm in two weeks to impact the U.S. Southeast.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced the change to the president’s plans in a statement on Tuesday, citing the “projected ...Read more

DENVER — The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to rule on whether Christian baker Jack Phillips can refuse to make a celebratory gender-transition case for a transgender customer, and instead dismissed the case on a technicality.

In a 4-3 decision, the justices found they could not consider whether Phillips, owner of Masterpiece ...Read more

NEW YORK — A man and woman charged with attacking former Gov. David Paterson and his stepson— son of Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa — during a bizarre late-night quarrel on the Upper East Side are claiming they are the true victims.

Travor Nurse and Diamond Minter were arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court Tuesday, where their ...Read more

CHICAGO — In a decision that is raising free speech questions while wading into the political sensitivities surrounding the Israel-Hamas war, Democratic Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias has revoked a handful of license plates that display some iteration of the date “October 7” after his office fielded complaints that one plate...Read more

NEW YORK — NEW YORK — Mohamed Bahi, a staffer in Mayor Eric Adams’ office who resigned Monday, has been hit with criminal charges alleging he destroyed evidence and tampered with witnesses in the ongoing federal corruption investigation that resulted in the mayor’s indictment last month.

Bahi was arrested early Tuesday and was presented...Read more

Thirteen states and the District of Columbia and filed a coordinated blitz of lawsuits Tuesday against TikTok, alleging the popular social media app is exploiting young users, violating state consumer protection laws and misleading the public.

A coalition of 14 attorneys general, led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta and New York ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia judge — and former Democratic state representative — was barred from the bench on Monday for refusing to stop posting political statements on Facebook.

Pennsylvania’s Court of Judicial Discipline found in May that Common Pleas Court Judge Mark B. Cohen had violated the Code of Judicial Conduct by posting ...Read more

WASHINGTON — After the Justice Department unsealed charges last month in an Iran-linked hacking operation against Donald Trump’s campaign, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland offered a window into one department motivation: calling out the threat publicly.

Federal authorities populated the 37-page indictment with granular details on the ...Read more

Will Hurricane Milton knock the lights out in Central Florida so ferociously that much of the region stews in the dark for a week — or longer — as with Hurricane Charley 20 years ago?

That’s the scenario residents should prepare for, according to the nation’s hurricane center and weather service, and it’s one that Duke Energy, Florida...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — It’s been more than a week since Hurricane Helene swept over the Carolinas, but the effects are still being felt by some of the region’s most-vulnerable residents in the area's hospitals.

The Baxter International facility in Marion, North Carolina — a major manufacturer of IV fluids and other medical supplies — was ...Read more