In the wooded highlands of northern Arkansas, where small towns have few dentists, water officials who serve more than 20,000 people have for more than a decade openly defied state law by refusing to add fluoride to the drinking water.

For its refusal, the Ozark Mountain Regional Public Water Authority has received hundreds of state fines ...Read more

Karen Read will face a second trial beginning Tuesday after all her attempts to throw the charges out have failed.

Here’s what you need to know before it all begins. The Herald also has a guide to who’s who in the retrial.

Read, 45, is accused of striking John O’Keefe, her boyfriend of two years and a 16-year Boston Police officer, with ...Read more

For a year and a half, the migrant shelter run by Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in Logan Heights was regularly at capacity, a bridge for recently arrived asylum seekers looking to settle in San Diego.

But that number plummeted when President Donald Trump ended the CBP One appointment system, which had allowed undocumented immigrants to schedule ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — President Donald Trump is vowing a new approach to getting homeless people off the streets by forcibly moving those living outside into large camps while mandating mental health and addiction treatment — an aggressive departure from the nation’s leading homelessness policy, which for decades has prioritized housing as ...Read more

When Stephanie Russo Carroll, a citizen of the Native Village of Kluti-Kaah in Alaska, set out to earn her doctorate in tribal health 15 years ago, she focused her research on tribal cultural and health programs within six tribes.

She needed vital statistics data, such as birth and death rates, for each of them. But getting that data from the ...Read more

PUEBLO, Colorado — When paramedics showed up at Bernie Esquibel-Tennant’s door the day after Thanksgiving in 2020, it was the second time in roughly 12 hours that an ambulance had visited her stretch of the neighborhood.

The night before, Esquibel-Tennant had watched as paramedics came for Adolph Gallardo, a man her children called Grandpa ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he plans to start his reciprocal tariff push with “all countries,” tamping down speculation that he could limit the initial scope of tariffs set to be unveiled April 2.

“You’d start with all countries, so let’s see what happens,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One. “I haven’t heard a rumor ...Read more

Christy Cox, 58, says she has been fighting for the rights of transgender people like herself for decades.

“I’m here to really show that queer elders do exist, so that 8-year-old kid over there can see that you can grow up and be a 58-year-old trans person,” Cox said.

The Naperville resident, who joined close to 1,000 people Sunday at a ...Read more

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer held “productive” discussions about “an economic prosperity deal” on a call with U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday evening ahead of a crunch week in which the government hopes to carve out exemptions from looming U.S. tariffs.

A statement from Downing Street said the two leaders agreed that ...Read more

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth should do the “honorable” thing and resign his position for the sake of the troops he’s tasked with leading, according to one Bay State congressman.

U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton, a Marine Corps veteran representing Massachusetts’ Sixth Congressional District, has joined a growing chorus of voices calling out ...Read more

Police in Meridian, Idaho, arrested an anti-Tesla protester for allegedly hitting a counterprotester with a vehicle on Saturday.

A preliminary law enforcement investigation found that 70-year-old Christopher Talbot, of Meridian, “made an obscene gesture toward a 49-year-old victim before hitting him with his car” at about 1 p.m., the ...Read more

One person was on the plane that crashed into the roof of a Brooklyn Park home Saturday, engulfing the structure in flames and displacing two residents, authorities said at a Sunday news conference.

Authorities said the pilot perished in the crash, and no other injuries were reported. While authorities did not not confirm the identify of the ...Read more

Two years after California’s Democratic leaders declared victory over big oil with a law aiming to crack down on industry profits, the state has been unable to prove companies engage in price gouging when the cost of gasoline spikes in California.

Since late 2022, Gov. Gavin Newsom has accused the oil industry of ripping off California ...Read more

A crippling ice storm has left parts of northern Michigan with up to an inch of ice, at least 90,000 residential and business customers without power and high wind and travel restrictions on the Mackinac Bridge.

"Crippling impacts from significant freezing rain continue, even if some places breach 32°F due to the sheer amount of ice that has ...Read more

It's been weeks of whiplash at Carnegie Mellon University.

Federal research funding cuts loom. A bipartisan group of lawmakers is pressing the institution over its high enrollment of Chinese international students. An investigation of what the White House sees as race-exclusionary practices could mean a further loss of federal funding.

A year ...Read more

Dueling protests filled both sides of Granite Drive in front of the Tesla dealership in Rocklin, California, for the first time Saturday, as supporters of President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk mounted a counteroffensive to the weekly protests against the electric car brand that started in February.

The MAGA crowd, numbering around a ...Read more

A week after a former University of Pittsburgh professor and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center anesthesiologist allegedly attacked his wife along a scenic overlook during a trip to Oahu, interviews and court records paint a harrowing picture of an apparently rocky marriage that became violent during a weekend getaway.

Gerhardt Konig's ...Read more

When the humanitarian aid workers decided to dismantle their elaborate tented setup — erected right up against the border wall — they hadn't seen migrants for a month.

A year earlier, when historic numbers of migrants were arriving at the border, the American Friends Service Committee, a national Quaker-founded human rights organization, ...Read more

Supporters and members of the LGBTQ community plan to rally Monday at the State Capitol in St. Paul, Minn., to celebrate the International Transgender Day of Visibility, beginning at 10:30 a.m. in the Capitol rotunda.

Here’s a brief overview of the day and why it’s considered important in today’s political landscape.

Since its inception ...Read more

Colorado’s law that made possession of small amounts of fentanyl a felony had almost no effect on overdose deaths, but may have discouraged people from sticking with treatment for opioid addiction, an initial study of the legislation’s impact found.

House Bill 1326, which passed in 2022, lowered the threshold for felony charges to one gram ...Read more