ATLANTA — On a recent summer evening, Raymia Taylor wandered into a recreation center in a historical downtown neighborhood, the only enrollee to attend a nearly two-hour event for people who have signed up for Georgia’s experimental Medicaid expansion.

The state launched the program in July 2023, requiring participants to document that ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Alongside pothole repair requests and complaints about flooded streets, Fort Lauderdale residents can now report homelessness in their communities through the city app FixIt FTL, which is typically used for non-emergency events.

The city is using the new app function in response to a state law that will soon prohibit ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As California approaches the start of the fall season, people are wondering about the end of daylight saving time.

When is daylight saving time officially over? And how much time do you need to reset your clock?

California still has about a month and a half to go before daylight saving time ends.

Here’s what you need ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- On a glorious summer day, a preschooler named Roger teetered on rocks dotting a creek in eastern Orange County, unsure if he could make it back to where his classmates and caregivers were waiting.

A volunteer youth mentor with Earthroots Field School stuck out her hand, reassuring the 3-year-old, who grasped it and took one ...Read more

HAINES, Alaska — In the middle of the fast-flowing Chilkoot River, an Alaska state employee sits on a small perch over a narrow, fence-like structure and stares down into the rush of water.

Eagles look on from the trees overhead as the river thunders around boulders nearby. The worker’s back is turned to a female grizzly bear creeping up ...Read more

DENVER — A new study involving Colorado researchers found that sleep problems among preteens increase their risk of suicidal thoughts two years later, though the researchers urged parents not to panic.

Suicide prevention resources

Colorado Crisis Line: 1-844-493-8255, coloradocrisisservices.org. Chat online or text TALK to 38255.

988 ...Read more

BOSTON — If not for the quick thinking of local law enforcement and the victim’s willingness to speak out, more people may have fallen for a scam that cost a Vietnam veteran and cancer patient from Everett tens of thousands of dollars.

According to Charles “Chuck” Fagone, it all started — as these scams so often do — with an ...Read more

Donald Trump headlined an event billed as the unveiling of a crypto platform promoted by the Republican nominee and his sons, putting the spotlight on a niche digital-asset sector with a history of controversy.

The project, World Liberty Financial, will be part of the decentralized finance segment of digital assets and is supposed to help with ...Read more

U.S. Rep. Madeleine Dean said Monday she wants the congressional task force already investigating the Butler County assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump to look into Sunday's assassination attempt at his Florida golf club.

"Certainly we are looking at the same very related sets of issues, so to me it makes sense to ...Read more

Sean “Diddy” Combs was arrested Monday in New York amid a federal sex-trafficking probe, sources told the Los Angeles Times.

No details were immediately available about the charges against him. A grand jury had been impaneled to investigate allegations. He has strongly denied any wrongdoing.

Sources said Combs was arrested without incident...Read more

North Korea sent its foreign minister to Russia for her second trip in less than a year to the major backer of Kim Jong Un’s regime. The move comes as Pyongyang readies for a parliamentary meeting that will likely approve measures that raise tensions with South Korea.

Choe Son Hui led a delegation taking part in women’s conferences, the ...Read more

California lawmakers have bucked one of the nation's most powerful federal courts by enacting a new state law designed to reunite a Jewish family with an exquisite Impressionist painting that was looted by the Nazis at the dawn of World War II.

The law, which Gov. Gavin Newsom put into immediate effect with his signature Monday, was crafted in ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania counties can begin printing and distributing mail ballots after the Pennsylvania Department of State finalized the list of candidates who will appear on the ballot Monday.

Under state law, Monday was the first day counties could send ballots to voters but that work couldn’t start Monday morning as Cornel West’s...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Over a two-month period last year, a Marine lance corporal stationed at Camp Pendleton sold 22 unregistered “ghost” rifles, most of them featuring unlawfully short barrels, to an undercover federal agent in exchange for $23,300.

At Christian Ferrari’s sentencing Monday morning in federal court in San Diego, U.S. District ...Read more

A sharp-eyed Secret Service agent spotted a rifle barrel poking through the fence, likely foiling a second assassination attempt on Donald Trump on Sunday as he played a round of golf at his course near West Palm Beach.

Ryan Routh, Trump’s would-be assassin, fled before firing a shot and was quickly found and placed under arrest.

Sunday’s ...Read more

An orca has been born to the southern residents: L128, calf of a first-time, 31-year-old mom, L90.

The baby is tiny, with clear fetal folds, making it probably about 3 days old. It was seen for the first time on Sunday, said Michael Weiss, research director for the Center for Whale Research, which confirmed the birth on Monday.

Mom and baby ...Read more