Anna Goldman, a primary care physician at Boston Medical Center, got tired of hearing that her patients couldn’t afford the electricity needed to run breathing assistance machines, recharge wheelchairs, turn on air conditioning, or keep their refrigerators plugged in. So she worked with her hospital on a solution.

The result is a pilot effort...Read more

NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ 2021 campaign provided records last month to address more than $2 million in financial discrepancies flagged in an audit of its operations, but his team also left a number of suspected violations unresolved, including a question about payments to two top aides, the Daily News has learned.

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WASHINGTON — Rep. Brian Babin, likely the next chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, is an outspoken advocate for greater commercial access to space, a stance the incoming Trump administration appears poised to support.

Babin, R-Texas, a dentist before he was elected to Congress in 2014, also looks to retain a strong ...Read more

Juana Valle never imagined she’d be scared to drink water from her tap or eat fresh eggs and walnuts when she bought her 5-acre farm in San Juan Bautista, California, three years ago. Escaping city life and growing her own food was a dream come true for the 52-year-old.

Then Valle began to suspect water from her well was making her sick.

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The mass deportations of immigrants that President-elect Donald Trump has promised aren’t likely to make a dent in the nation’s housing crisis, many experts say, despite what he and his supporters claimed during his campaign.

Experts say the reasons for that are many. Immigrants in the U.S. without documentation are more likely to live in ...Read more

MIAMI — More than seven months after Manatee County launched a pilot program for a drone that can quickly respond to medical emergencies, 911 dispatchers have yet to use it.

The program, which is a partnership between Manatee County government, Tampa General Hospital and Archer First Response Systems, aims to deploy a drone in situations ...Read more

NEW YORK — Long Island serial killer suspect Rex Heuermann issued his most defiant denial in court on Tuesday after prosecutors charged him with a seventh murder in the long, emotional saga of the Gilgo Beach killings.

The hulking suspect, cuffed from behind and wearing a dark-colored suit during a hearing at Suffolk County Criminal Court, ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — A new trash boom system is intercepting trash, plastics, tires and other debris flowing from Mexico into San Diego’s Tijuana River Valley, part of a state-funded pilot project to address longstanding pollution along the border.

The 450-foot-long boom was installed in mid-November. And on Tuesday, federal, state and local ...Read more

The Biden administration notched another victory in the war against unnecessary consumer fees Tuesday when the Federal Trade Commission announced its final “junk fees rule” had been approved and would take effect in 120 days.

According to FTC Chair Lina Khan, the rule finalized this week will prohibit bait-and-switch pricing for live-event ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Wide swaths of Los Angeles and Ventura counties are under a red flag warning until 6 p.m. Pacific time Wednesday as Santa Ana winds whip back up, posing a challenge to crews trying to extinguish the Franklin fire in Malibu.

The blaze had scorched more than 4,000 acres and was 78% contained as of Tuesday afternoon, according to ...Read more

With one month before he leaves office, President Joe Biden is facing pressure from his own party to acknowledge the Equal Rights Amendment as ratified. But is it?

On Dec. 15, over 120 House Democrats sent a letter to Biden beseeching him “to take immediate action to recognize the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) as the 28th ...Read more

LONDON — Nigel Farage, leader of the populist Reform UK party, said he is in “ongoing negotiations” with Elon Musk about a political donation, the latest sign of a potential collaboration between the pair that could threaten the traditional two-party duopoly of British politics.

Farage, who met with Musk at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago ...Read more

It’s probably safe to say that Charlie Baker won’t be inviting Josh Hawley to Christmas next week.

The former Massachusetts GOP governor, now NCAA president, was grilled by the Republican U.S. senator from Missouri during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday.

Hawley took aim at Baker over transgender athletes being allowed to ...Read more

Some may think of the fates of the Menendez brothers as inextricably entwined, but Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman says he will not consider the pair a package deal when it comes to making a decision on their possible resentencing.

"While they're called the 'Menendez brothers case,' there's an Erik Menendez case and Lyle Menendez ...Read more

NEW YORK — Brendan Paul, the former Syracuse basketball player accused of acting as a drug and gun “mule” for Sean “Diddy” Combs, is no longer facing felony charges in Florida.

Paul, 25, was arrested on March 25 at Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport— the same day Homeland Security agents raided Diddy’s mansions in Miami and Los ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s administration is set to initiate a trade investigation into Chinese semiconductors in the coming days, as part of a push to reduce reliance on a technology that U.S. officials believe pose national security risks.

The probe could result in tariffs or other measures to restrict imports on older-model ...Read more

As mysterious drone sightings have raised security concerns across the country, U.S. Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan said the Senate could vote as early as Wednesday on legislation aimed at enhancing law enforcement's ability to counter threats posed by the unmanned aircrafts.

The Bloomfield Township Democrat introduced a bill last year co-...Read more

SEATTLE — Seeking to cover a looming budget shortfall and stave off cuts to state services, Gov. Jay Inslee is throwing his support behind a proposed "wealth tax" on the state's richest residents.

The proposal would levy a 1% annual tax on worldwide wealth of more than $100 million. It would affect roughly 3,400 of the state's wealthiest ...Read more

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued an urgent safety alert after an electric malfunction in some older Boston Scientific pacemakers was linked to two reported deaths and early device replacements.

Boston Scientific said about 13% of devices from its Accolade family of pacemakers built before September 2018 face an increased ...Read more

A U.S. Department of Justice investigation found that the Ellensburg School District in Central Washington failed to protect Black, Latino and LGBTQ+ students from pervasive harassment, including taunts, intimidation, death threats, humiliation and the use of racial and ethnic slurs.

Investigators determined that LGBTQ+ students also endured ...Read more