The Latest: Mass layoffs begin at the US Department of Health and Human Services
Employees across the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services began receiving notices of dismissal Tuesday, as part of a ...
Judge in long-running lawsuit declines to block the use of Georgia’s voting system
A federal judge has declined to block the use of Georgia’s electronic voting system in a long-running lawsuit that alleged ...
More Republicans want the US to focus on ceasefires in Ukraine and Gaza, a new AP-NORC poll finds
While most Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump’s handling of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the conflict is not ...
Miami’s Haitian community gathers in prayer as crises escalate in homeland and US
Packed pews, rollicking singing and emotional devotions have marked Lent worship services at Notre Dame d’Haiti, the Catholic ...
Middle East latest: Israel hits southern Beirut with airstrike, killing at least 3 people
The Israeli military struck a building in Beirut’s southern suburbs early Tuesday, killing at least three people, in an ...
Last-minute effort to save West Hollywood French eatery didn’t work after all
One day after announcing a last-minute effort by patrons to keep a popular West Hollywood French restaurant open, the eatery posted that it would in fact have to close. “It is with a heavy ...
Pope’s work during convalescence includes clearing path for saints from Venezuela, Papua New Guinea
Pope Francis spends part of his days at his desk working and concelebrates Mass daily in his private chapel, the Vatican said Tuesday, in signs of continued improvements during ...
Why does the US restrict its presidents to 2 terms? A look at the tradition Trump is questioning
Only one person in U.S. history has defied the two-term example set by the first president, George Washington. And voters responded by forbidding future presidents from being ...
Wisconsin voters to choose top education official and consider voter ID amendment
Wisconsin’s top education official, who will guide policies affecting K-12 schools during President Donald Trump’s second ...
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker launches talking filibuster to protest Trump’s agenda
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker carried an all-night speaking filibuster in protest of President Donald Trump’s agenda into Tuesday morning. Booker took to the ...
Supreme Court weighs whether states can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood
There are just two Planned Parenthood clinics in South Carolina, but every year they take hundreds of low-income patients who need things like contraception, cancer screenings ...
A fireball from a burst gas pipeline in Malaysia injures 145 people
A fireball that erupted from a burst gas pipeline soared into the sky outside Malaysia’s largest city and injured 145 people as it burned for several hours ...