When Josh Fleig, Louisiana’s chief innovation officer, learned his state had set aside $20 million a year, for five years, to invest in startup rural health companies, his reaction was not surprising: “Wow!”

In rural America, where people are often reported to be sicker with poor access to healthcare, the cash influx is a relief. In the ...Read more

Carnegie Mellon University leadership has promised “swift action” against a professor whose controversial posts invoking death, race and her CMU colleagues sparked a social media storm and calls for her termination.

The announcement earlier this week came a few days after CMU started an interim policy that would prohibit some speech on The ...Read more

When the FDA was deciding whether to approve the drug Tavneos several years ago to treat a set of rare autoimmune diseases, agency experts argued that would be a mistake, according to FDA records.

One problem cited: The manufacturer had provided only “limited safety data.”

As it often does, the FDA in 2021 approved the drug with a proviso:...Read more

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent lauded “very successful” talks with his Chinese counterparts that spanned artificial intelligence, trade and investment ahead of this week’s summit between leaders Donald Trump and Xi Jinping.

Bessent, speaking to reporters after hours of talks in New York with China’s Vice Premier He Lifeng and ...Read more

The “Yes on 9” campaign rallied with Gov. Maura Healey and teachers Sunday, supporting the 2024 gun law in question they say “keeps Massachusetts safe.”

“The mission here today is is clear: to prevent gun violence and to protect our families,” said Healey, in a crowd of gun safety advocates at the Boston Teachers Union hall Sunday. ...Read more

A fundraiser in support of the single holdout juror who caused the Lindsay Clancy trial to conclude in a mistrial topped $350,000 as of Sunday, over two weeks after being set up by supporters and days after being attached to the newly named juror.

“If they come for him, and they will, this is to cover security, lawyers, and lost work,” the ...Read more

The Trump administration will be overhauling the SNAP program in two major steps, forcing Pennsylvania to pay more for the federal food program and jeopardizing those in need, according to Gov. Josh Shapiro's office.

The first phase begins Oct. 1, when states will have to pay for 75% of the expense of administering the Supplemental Nutrition ...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday vetoed a bill that would have opened paid campus jobs to undocumented students at California's public colleges and universities.

Assembly Bill 713 would have barred the University of California, California State University and state community colleges from disqualifying students from campus employment because they ...Read more

Patrick Clancy spoke out in a 60 Minutes segment aired Sunday for the first time since the a mistrial was declared in the case of his ex-wife Lindsay Clancy, remembering the tragic death of his children and speaking on the barrage of online attention and hate.

“It’s deeply harmful to the legacy of my children,” Clancy told the 60 Minutes ...Read more

A man shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Sunday in Austin, Texas, is in “stable, but serious condition,” in the latest incident tied to the Trump administration’s aggressive push to deport undocumented people.

Austin Mayor Kirk Preston said in a news conference Sunday that the city was short on details about what led ...Read more

Tue Vuong had secured four cargoes of wheat harvested from fertile lands around the Black Sea, roughly a fifth of what his milling company 5,000 miles away in Vietnam uses annually. Then he was told it wouldn’t get shipped following a summer escalation in Russia’s war with Ukraine.

“I was very panicked,” said Vuong, chief executive ...Read more

The Trump administration will be overhauling the SNAP program in two major steps, forcing Pennsylvania to pay more for the federal food program and jeopardizing those in need, according to Gov. Josh Shapiro’s office.

The first phase begins Oct. 1, when states will have to pay for 75% of the expense of administering the Supplemental Nutrition ...Read more

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and President Donald Trump plan to meet in Gracie Mansion Monday, as world leaders gather in New York for the United Nations General Assembly — marking the latest episode in the unusually friendly odd-couple relationship between the two polar-opposite pols.

City Hall confirmed the meeting Sunday, saying in a statement, �...Read more

The Puget Sound region is heating up; there’s no doubt about it.

The years 2025 and 2026 saw warmer-than-usual temperatures across Western Washington, from Olympia to Bellingham. It’s not just here. NOAA recently reported that 2026 was the warmest summer on record for the contiguous United States.

And not just in the air. Puget Sound’s ...Read more

The Missouri Attorney General’s office is cracking down on prediction markets that compete with the state’s licensed sports betting operators — and don't pay state taxes on the bets.

Attorney General Catherine Hanaway’s office announced Friday that it has sent cease-and-desist letters to companies like Polymarket, Kalshi and Robinhood, ...Read more

Friedrich Merz said he would stay put as German chancellor even after his party suffered its worst-ever result in a state election, with a projection showing the conservatives poised to be expelled from a regional assembly for the first time in the country’s post-World War II history.

The Christian Democratic Union won 4.9% of the vote in the...Read more

President Donald Trump suggested he would modify plans for a large triumphal arch in the capital by including staging areas for U.S. military snipers and to launch drones.

The idea appears to be Trump’s latest attempt to sell the idea of building a towering arch, which has spurred questions about whether it would dwarf Washington, U.S.’s ...Read more

Friedrich Merz said he would stay put as German chancellor and conservative leader even after his party suffered its worst-ever result in a state election, as he moved to counter pressure mounting in his ranks for him to step aside.

The Christian Democratic Union won 5% of the vote in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on Sunday, ...Read more