SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is pressuring Oakland to expand its police department’s ability to chase suspects, referencing the public’s desire for a crackdown on crime. He said that voters had recently taken more tough-on-crime positions and “expressed in pretty clear terms they want change.”

Weeks later, a ...Read more

More than three years ago, health insurance giant Centene Corp. settled allegations that it overcharged Medicaid programs in Ohio and Mississippi related to prescription drug billing.

Now at least 20 states have settled with Centene over its pharmacy benefit manager operation that coordinated the medications for Medicaid patients. Arizona was ...Read more

President Donald Trump has long needled news outlets that got under his skin.

He branded CNN and others “fake news.” He repeatedly railed against journalists as the “enemy of the people” during his first term — rhetoric that news groups tried to shrug off or wore as a badge of honor.

But six weeks into Trump’s second administration...Read more

To hear Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tell it, making America healthy again means making American food healthy again.

The nation's top health official says hundreds of additives should be removed from the U.S. food supply out of concern that they're contributing to a rash of chronic health problems.

Plenty of Americans share his wariness. In a Gallup ...Read more

Nevada Assembly leaders want Joe Lombardo to consider recruiting state employee candidates from the pool of federal employees who have been laid off since the start of the Trump administration, according to a Wednesday letter to the Republican governor.

Democrats leading the 42-member body said they were concerned about the impact of federal ...Read more

As the Trump administration continues to slash the federal workforce, the National Park Service — which has lost nearly 10% of its staff to the sweeping cuts — just reported that 2024 set a record high for visits to its parks.

Nearly 332 million people showed up to hike, camp or simply get a breath of fresh air in America’s national parks...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is considering exempting certain agricultural products from tariffs imposed on Canada and Mexico, the latest move by the administration on Wednesday to offer relief to certain sectors from the sweeping new import taxes.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told Bloomberg News that “everything is on the ...Read more

Immigration enforcement supporters clashed with sanctuary city advocates outside City Hall Wednesday as a congressional committee heard from Mayor Michelle Wu in Washington.

Some protesters from both sides met face-to-face in showdowns, triggering Boston Police officers to intervene and break up multiple verbal confrontations. No arrests were ...Read more

New York Attorney General Letitia James told schools on Wednesday that President Trump’s attempts so far to ban diversity, equity and inclusion programs were on shaky legal ground — paving the way for a showdown with the White House.

In joint guidance led by James, a coalition of 14 attorneys general said neither an executive order nor a ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday waded into the decadeslong debate over nuclear waste, hearing debate over whether a private company can build a repository designed to store tons of spent fuel that has stacked up over the years at commercial power plants across the country.

The case examines whether the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has the ...Read more

U.S. prosecutors charged 10 Chinese citizens and two government agents for computer hacks that targeted dissidents, religious groups, news outlets and American government agencies.

The Chinese government paid Anxun Information Technology Co., a cybersecurity firm also known as i-Soon, to hack and steal information in a manner that obscured its ...Read more

President Donald Trump gave his new administration high marks in a bullish speech to Congress on Tuesday, arguing he is making fast work of his promised agenda on immigration, the economy, international trade and global conflicts, and that the U.S. is stronger for it.

"We have accomplished more in 43 days than most administrations accomplish in...Read more

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A hearing on legislation that would allow terminally ill people to end their lives with the help of a physician was postponed Wednesday as lawmakers sought more time to refine the proposal, which advocates are again pushing after failing to get a version through the General Assembly last year.

The measure would legalize ...Read more

President Donald Trump warned Hamas there will be “hell to pay” if the militant group doesn’t immediately release its hostages in Gaza.

Trump issued the caution in a social media post Wednesday that followed a rare direct meeting between a U.S. official and Hamas, designated a terrorist organization by the United States and other nations....Read more

President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order designating English as the official language of the United States, marking the first time in the country’s 248-year history that the government has established a formal tongue.

“From the founding of our Republic, English has been used as our national language,” the order, which was...Read more

The Haitian government has hired as a lobbyist an influential member of President Donald Trump’s recent campaign to regain the White House.

Carlos Trujillo, a former Republican congressman from Florida who served as Trump’s ambassador to the Organization of American States, has filed paperwork with the Department of Justice showing that his...Read more

Many Americans who tuned in to watch President Donald Trump’s speech in Congress had a positive reaction, according to a new poll, which surveyed around 400 people and included an outsized number of Republicans.

It was the president’s first speech to Congress since returning to the White House.

But compared with past speeches, his positive...Read more

WASHINGTON — Texas Democratic freshman Rep. Sylvester Turner, who spent nearly three decades as a state lawmaker and eight years as Houston mayor, died on Wednesday just two months into his first term in Congress.

Turner’s family said in a statement that he had been taken to a hospital Tuesday after attending President Donald Trump’s ...Read more

DENVER — A Florida man was sentenced Tuesday for threatening public figures, including Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold.

Richard Kantwill was sentenced to two years in prison and three years of supervised release, and has been ordered to pay a fine of $10,000, according to a news release from the Colorado Secretary of State.

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The marquee Republican-backed bill limiting college practices of diversity, equity and inclusion passed the Kentucky House of Representatives Wednesday with the unanimous backing of GOP members.

House Bill 4, sponsored by Rep. Jennifer Decker, passed 81-18 following a long debate, featuring hard pushback from the majority of the chamber’s 20 ...Read more