If you are pregnant or a new mother who is struggling with depression or anxiety, you can call or text the National Maternal Mental Health Hotline, 24/7: 833-TLC-MAMA (833-852-6262). Postpartum Support International can help connect you with a local mental health provider at 800-944-4773 or psidirectory.com.

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The 20th century was horrible for the Everglades. The broad shallow river, one of the most unique ecosystems on the planet, was labeled wasteland and ruthlessly dammed, carved into parcels, dried out and diverted into near oblivion.

But at the end of the century, 25 years ago this month, Democrats and Republicans from Florida and Washington, D....Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia blasted several line items in Orlando’s budget as “wasteful” spending, but by far the largest was $450,000 to count its trees.

“Maybe they’re trying to find the money tree? Oh, they already found it – it’s you the taxpayers,” Ingoglia said in October, a criticism ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — For more than a year, San Diego County officials have been pushing a controversial plan for Lemon Grove — a collection of tiny “sleeping cabins” intended to offer shelter to homeless people.

But unbeknownst to county officials, a land deal underpinning the effort skirted federal regulations — a rub in the county’s plans ...Read more

California joined 20 other states and the District of Columbia on Monday in a lawsuit that seeks to prevent the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from being defunded and closed by the Trump administration.

The legal action filed in U.S. District Court in Eugene, Ore. by the Democratic attorneys general accuses Acting Director Russell...Read more

A judge ruled that President Donald Trump’s administration must arrange for the return of a group of alleged Venezuelan gang members deported to a prison in El Salvador.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruled that about 137 men sent in March to the notorious CECOT prison deserve to return to the U.S. to contest in court how they were ...Read more

On Monday morning, a group of Democratic Illinois lawmakers made it inside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center in Broadview after months of being denied access.

U.S. Reps. Jesús “Chuy” García, Danny Davis, Delia Ramirez and Jonathan Jackson arrived carrying a federal court order confirming that members of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced he’ll meet next week with executives from major U.S. defense contractors in a bid to force them to spend more money on weapons development, not stock buybacks, executive pay and dividends.

“We make the best equipment in the world but they don’t make them fast enough,” Trump said. “We don...Read more

TACOMA, Wash. — A federal judge on Monday morning ordered the immediate release of a disabled U.S. Army veteran who has been held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma since August.

Muhammad Zahid Chaudhry, who is originally from Pakistan and has been living in the United States since 2000, was detained by U.S. Immigration and ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Federal prosecutors have asked a judge to order the ringleader of the $250 million Feeding Our Future scandal, the largest known pandemic-era fraud scheme in Minnesota, to pay millions of dollars in restitution.

Aimee Bock, 45, should pay $5.2 million for her involvement in the scheme, prosecutors said in a Dec. 19 court ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is naming a new class of ships after himself as part of his so-called Golden Fleet vision for revamping the Navy.

In a speech at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Monday, Trump said the Navy will build two ships in a new class of what he described as “battleships” that he is calling the “Trump class...Read more

The top Democrat in the Senate threatened legal action against the Trump administration Monday over its slow and incomplete rollout of the so-called Epstein files. The Department of Justice has so far failed to release any additional new documents from its investigation into the deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Senate Minority Leader ...Read more

More than a dozen tankers have loaded oil off Venezuela’s coast since the Trump administration intensified efforts to curb Caracas’ crude revenue by targeting vessels.

Since Dec. 11, roughly 14 vessels have loaded, and at least six of them were under sanctions, according to data from maritime intelligence firm Kpler. The majority of the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced the Navy will build a new “Trump-class” battleship as part of the White House push to modernize a fleet that’s been hobbled by years of cost overruns and delays.

A poster displayed at the event at Trump’s gilded Mar-a-Lago estate featured an artist’s rendering of a sleek-looking warship ...Read more

NEW YORK — The last protester charged in connection with the 2020 Black Lives Matter George Floyd demonstrations in New York City was sentenced to 50 hours of community service on Monday for his role in a violent clash during which an NYPD lieutenant was seriously hurt, sparking an angry response from the injured officer.

The term was handed ...Read more

WASHINGTON — More than a dozen staffers departed the Heritage Foundation over the weekend to join a rival organization, the latest sign of ideological tumult at the think tank once considered the central node in Washington’s conservative ecosystem and an intellectual bastion for President Donald Trump.

The departures included the entire ...Read more

A federal judge has halted the Trump administration’s plan to divert billions of dollars in homelessness spending away from permanent housing, a decision that California officials and homeless advocates welcomed as a win for preventing thousands of formerly unhoused people from being forced back to the street.

The judge’s order temporarily ...Read more