When the FDA announced in January, before President Joe Biden’s term ended, that it would ban a dye called red dye No. 3 in food and ingested drugs, the federal agency cited just one 1987 study on rats to support its action.

The industry-funded study, based on data from two prior studies, was led by a Virginia toxicologist who said then — ...Read more

Americans are facing the highest death toll from influenza since 2018, just as more people become vulnerable because of growing vaccine skepticism taking hold in statehouses and the Trump administration.

Flu-related deaths hit a seven-year high in January and February, the two months that usually account for the height of flu season, according ...Read more

Spending cuts, immigration, and Medicaid are at the top of the Washington agenda. That climate provides fertile ground for misinformation and myths to multiply on social networks. Some of the most common are those surrounding immigrants, Latinos, and Medicaid.

These claims include assertions that Latinos who use Medicaid, the federal-state ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — After the fire destroyed their home of nearly 60 years, Toni Raines' parents weren't sure they could ever rebuild. Their neighborhood in Altadena was gone; one friend didn't survive. Amid so much anguish, uncertainty and an overwhelming deluge of information, where would they even begin?

This was the town Raines was raised in �...Read more

Cash would flow directly into the hands of Ohio parents under a proposal from Republican Gov. Mike DeWine.

As part of multibillion-dollar budget negotiations this session, Ohio lawmakers will consider the new refundable tax credit worth up to $1,000 per young child, to be paid for by an increase in tobacco taxes.

In neighboring Indiana, the ...Read more

“Breaking news: The Trump administration just announced that Medicare will stop covering telehealth starting April 1. … We need to stand up to these Medicare cuts.”

Rep. Ro. Khanna (D-Calif.), in a TikTok video posted Feb. 20, 2025

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Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., posted a Tiktok video on Feb. 20 saying he had “breaking news” about ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The risk of damaging flooding from a major tsunami may be greater than many realized along stretches of California’s renowned coastline, state officials say, further reinforcing the need for residents to take note if they live in or visit hazard areas.

The most recent risk assessment, outlined in maps that were published by ...Read more

CHICAGO — Switching to stricter California-style limits on truck emissions would prevent 500 deaths per year in the greater Chicago region by 2050, according to a new study from Northwestern University.

The study also found that 600 new childhood asthma cases would be prevented each year by 2050, and that neighborhoods with higher percentages...Read more

Similar to portable breath tests to detect if a driver has been drinking, Minnesota law enforcement has tried roadside tests to preliminarily screen for recent drug use and the chemicals that can impair drivers.

It was part of a pilot program and the Minnesota Department of Public Safety recently gave its report to state legislators, ...Read more

The Trump administration has admitted in federal court documents that “many” Venezuelans it accused of being dangerous gang members and deported through presidential wartime powers have no criminal records in the United States, but argued it was only because they had only been in the U.S. briefly.

President Donald Trump used a centuries-old...Read more

President Vladimir Putin refused to give Donald Trump the 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine he and his team had demanded on the path toward ending the three-year conflict. It was still good enough for the U.S. president.

At first glance, the agreement that came out of the two leaders’ phone call on Tuesday was a disappointment for U.S. officials ...Read more

For more than seven months, UCLA has battled in federal court against allegations by Jewish students and a faculty member that the university enabled antisemitic actions during a pro-Palestinian campus encampment last spring.

In court filings, lawyers on both sides argued about whether actions in the encampment — which included Jewish student...Read more

Maryland U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen is troubled by what the Trump administration’s cuts to the federal workforce mean for veterans in those positions.

“I do think this is a great betrayal of so many in our country, but especially a betrayal of our veterans,” Van Hollen said Tuesday at Towson University.

Van Hollen referred to “clearly ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Laguna Niguel couple who has lived in the U.S. for 35 years is being detained in a Louisiana immigration facility and faces deportation to Colombia, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Gladys Gonzalez, 55, and Nelson Gonzalez, 59, originally entered the U.S. without authorization near San Ysidro in November ...Read more

A prominent son of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is taking a leave of absence from Congress to live in the U.S., where he has sought to build Republican support for his father’s legal battles with the country’s Supreme Court.

Eduardo Bolsonaro, who represents Sao Paulo in Brazil’s lower house, said in a video posted to social ...Read more

CHICAGO — A federal judge has ordered Chicago to install audible crossing signals at intersections with traffic lights to help people who are blind or have problems seeing to cross public streets.

The order would require the city to install at least 75 accessible pedestrian signals this year and more than 100 every year until at least 71% of ...Read more

The leader of Feeding Our Future sold vulnerable immigrants on a “perversion of the American dream,” persuading dozens of Somali business owners to join her $250 million pay-for-play scheme that made them millions of dollars before federal investigators caught up to the fraud, prosecutors said in their closing statements Tuesday in the more ...Read more