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BALTIMORE — Maryland’s Office of Overdose Response will hold five virtual town halls in early August to gather public input on how to spend prescription opioid settlement funds.

The state expects nearly $690 million ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A series of FBI raids this week involving San Bernardino County elected officials and a Chinese-language media company are part of a growing probe into public corruption and foreign influence in Southern ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott raised the curtain on the third part of his plan to lower insurance costs for Texans. This section focuses on health insurance costs for small businesses and their employees.

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The American Red Cross declared its second ever national blood supply crisis Monday, urging immediate donations as blood supplies fall to their lowest levels in four summers.

“It is dire,” said Nuriddin Ziyadinov, a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Plans for the Senate Judiciary Committee to advance Todd Blanche’s bid to permanently head the Justice Department were still up in the air Wednesday afternoon, after key GOP holdouts said they weren’t ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Eugene “Big U” Henley, a Los Angeles Crips leader turned gang interventionist, allegedly solicited inmates to kill or harm a victim to prevent them from testifying at trial against him and his ...Read more

A Massachusetts school district under federal investigation for a “graphic” and “inappropriate” survey given to students as young as 11 broke federal privacy laws, according to the feds.

The U.S. Department of ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — That bump in the night that might be heard in Central Florida in the wee hours of Thursday morning might be for national security.

That’s because a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the NROL-95 mission ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — The University of Connecticut has lost $100 million in federal research funding with more delayed, threatening both the university’s footprint in sciences and research and the state’s economy, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said the U.S. would strike back at Iran after a recent attack that targeted a military base in Jordan, as the war in the Middle East flared up again following a pause in hostilities.

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Oprah Winfrey is handing over operations of the South African school for girls she opened in 2002 to local officials.

The multibillionaire media mogul calls the move part of a plan that will “expand” the mission of ...Read more

Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh insisted policymakers’ decision to leave interest rates unchanged wasn’t a sign of inertia at the central bank, which he reiterated is committed to tackling inflation.

The Federal...Read more

CHICAGO — Lollapalooza will see a weekend of mild temperatures, with showers and possible thunderstorms rolling in by Friday, forecasters said.

Jake Petr, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Chicago, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The K-pop megastars BTS will not submit music for next year's Grammys. The news comes despite — or perhaps because of — a new category specifically designed to honor Asian pop.

The seven members of BTS...Read more

NEW YORK — “Love Is Blind” is finally casting in New York City, allowing Tri-state area singles to try their hand at happily ever after… sight unseen.

Kinetic Content announced on Instagram this week that it’s ...Read more

NEW YORK — Michael J. Fox will receive the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award during this year’s 78th Emmy Awards for his work in advancing research into Parkinson’s disease, with which he was diagnosed in 1991.

The five-...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The same-sex couple former Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis refused to issue a marriage license to in 2015 want her held in contempt for allegedly lying about her assets to avoid paying a half-a-million-...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Kavinsky, the French electronic musician and DJ whose moody single "Nightcall" scored the hit film "Drive," has died. He was 50.

French newspaper Le Figaro and TV station BFM reported that Kavinsky, born ...Read more

SiriusXM is leaning into its sporty side.

The satellite radio company is launching a new subscription plan built specifically for sports fans, called the Sports Pass. For $5 a month, listeners will be able to follow live ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Jared Leto faces allegations of criminal sexual conduct by several women who allege the sexual incidents with the musician and Oscar-winning actor occurred when he was in his 30s and 40s and they were ...Read more