You check your credit score before applying for an apartment. Your fitness watch tells you whether you slept well enough. A workplace dashboard measures your productivity. Parents can buy devices that track their baby’s breathing and heart rate while they sleep.

Increasingly, numbers tell us how we are doing.

These systems ...Read more

Since the Affordable Care Act subsidies expired at the end of 2025, Americans have undoubtedly been encountering a great deal of confusing information surrounding health care costs and insurance plans.

From five-figure deductibles to premiums higher than people’s mortgages, costs are rising across the board.

With this comes ...Read more

In October 1948, a thick haze rolled into Donora, Pennsylvania, a steel town in the Monongahela Valley, south of Pittsburgh. For five days, toxic fumes from a zinc smelter – a plant that turns zinc ore into pure zinc metal – poured out of the factory’s stacks, became trapped in the valley and thus blanketed Donora. The air was filled ...Read more

Demand for copper is surging because of demand from new technologies, but suppliers are struggling to keep up, and they are likely to fall further behind in the coming years, resulting in shortfalls globally. Even though copper prices are at historically high levels, the financial risk involved in mining means that prices will need to go much...Read more

Historically, when the U.S. has undertaken military action against foreign governments, journalists have relied heavily on government sources and rallied “’round the flag,” often uncritically sharing official narratives about U.S involvement. This has been evident during periods of U.S. military engagements in Vietnam, Iraq and ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani is set to announce a new Office of Community Safety on Thursday, a step toward fulfilling his campaign pledge to install a new city department to handle responses to mental health crises rather than leave that largely to the NYPD.

The mayor is slated to announce Renita Francois, a former city official under ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Legislature will move to change the name of state holiday Cesar Chavez Day following allegations of rape against the legendary labor leader, including from two women who said the assaults occurred when they were minors.

Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, a Hollister Democrat, took to the floor of his chamber ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — An immigration judge has denied the asylum claims of a Columbia Heights family whose 5-year-old son became a national symbol of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota, the attorney representing the family confirmed Thursday.

Liam Conejo Ramos — the preschooler photographed in a blue bunny hat and ...Read more

U.S. Sen. John Fetterman on Thursday cast the deciding vote to advance President Donald Trump’s nominee to helm the Department of Homeland Security — joining Republicans while other Democrats raised doubts that U.S. Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R- Okla., would reform the administration’s aggressive and increasingly unpopular immigration ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday spoke against a proposed cruise port in Manatee County that a leading cruise terminal operator has been floating to the Tampa Bay community since mid-January.

SSA Marine has said it’s eyeing a roughly 328-acre coastal property just south of the Bob Graham Sunshine Skyway Bridge as a ...Read more

FRESNO, Calif. — Explosive allegations that Cesar Chavez abused girls and sexually assaulted his fellow labor activist Dolores Huerta decades ago are roiling the farmworker community, leaving many stunned at the revelations.

Teresa Romero, president of United Farm Workers, condemned the acts that Chavez was accused of committing in the 1960s...Read more

Joseph Duggar, who starred on the TLC reality show, “19 Kids and Counting,” has been arrested over allegations that he molested a 9-year-old girl six years ago during a vacation in Florida, according to authorities.

Duggar was charged with lewd and lascivious molestation of a victim less than 12 years old and lewd and lascivious behavior ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A 19-year-old from Mexico died Monday at a South Florida immigration detention center, according to a release from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.

Royer Perez-Jimenez was found unresponsive by a detention officer at the Glades County Detention Facility in Moore Haven a little after 2:30 a.m., the release said, ...Read more

MIAMI — Roughly seven years after Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to two prostitution charges in Palm Beach County in 2008, he secretly invested $1 million in an Israeli security technology startup that had signed deals with multiple law enforcement agencies in Florida, including the Miami-Dade Police Department.

The Florida Highway Patrol, ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — For weeks, Mehmet Oz has been waging a public feud with California leaders over health care fraud, accusing the blue state of failing to adequately combat such abuse.

Oz, who heads the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, alleged that there was approximately $3.5 billion of fraud in the hospice and home health ...Read more

BOSTON — The Public Employee Committee, which bargains health insurance benefits on behalf of City of Boston unions, is firing back at the Wu administration after its “ultimatum” over dropping GLP-1 weight loss coverage to cut costs.

Elissa Cadillic, PEC co-chair, said a “majority” of city unions considered the city’s offer to ...Read more

Most people who get their health coverage through the Affordable Care Act say they face sharply higher costs, with many worried they will have to pare back other expenses to cover them, according to a poll released Thursday. Some are uncertain whether they will be able to continue paying their premiums all year.

Still, 69% of those enrolled ...Read more

MIAMI — Two moms who agonized for years about the unsolved 2009 murder of their teenage sons in Liberty City are suing the Miami Police Department for not telling them that the killer had secretly confessed and been granted immunity from prosecution.

Adding insult to injury, they say, the department won’t release the case file to them ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House Democratic leaders of the Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition have introduced a lengthy bill aimed at navigating rising energy costs for American consumers.

Reps. Sean Casten of Illinois and Mike Levin of California are leading the charge on the 419-page legislative effort unveiled Wednesday that they’ve dubbed ...Read more