For more than a decade, Kaiser Permanente has been under the microscope for shortcomings in mental health care, even as it is held in high esteem on the medical side.

In 2013, California regulators fined the insurer $4 million for failing to reduce wait times, giving patients inaccurate information, and improperly tracking appointment data. And...Read more

CHICAGO -- The late-January collision between a passenger jet and an Army helicopter brought renewed attention to an issue that has plagued the nation’s air system for years: a shortage of air traffic controllers. And the busy Chicago air corridor has not been immune.

Air traffic control facilities at the city’s two airports, plus two other...Read more

One August afternoon in 2023, Angela Martin’s cousin called with alarming news. Martin’s 74-year-old aunt had been mauled by four dogs while out for a walk near her home in rural Purlear, North Carolina. She was bleeding heavily from bites on both legs and her right arm, where she’d tried to protect her face and neck. An ambulance was on ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Miles Loudermilk's family home survived the Eaton fire. But the neighborhood he grew up in was destroyed. The smell of toxic smoke has lingered in Altadena and homes still standing on West Terrace Street have been boarded up as residents stay away.

His parents are in their 70s; they never considered moving. But a month after a ...Read more

BODEGA BAY, Calif. — It was a calm January morning, the waters off Bodega Bay unusually smooth, but crab fisherman Dick Ogg couldn't shake a grim feeling that the day wouldn't go his way.

The Dungeness crab season had opened just a few weeks earlier — two months behind schedule — and was off to a slow start. "We're working very hard to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Mike and DNA Moore moved to Malibu in the late 1990s when DNA was pregnant with their first child. They raised three kids in the community, and their youngest now coaches volleyball at Malibu High School, his alma mater. Over the years, DNA has worked with dozens of local families as a physical therapist treating children with ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Even when she was incarcerated, Gwendolyn Levi was an advocate.

Levi, who spent 16 years in prison, remembered years of gathering with other incarcerated women to talk about pending legislation that impacted all aspects of their lives, both inside and out of the correctional facility.

“We contacted our family, we wrote ...Read more

MIAMI — A giant plume of super salty water has been lurking underneath the Turkey Point power plant for years, tainting the surrounding groundwater along the coast of south Miami-Dade County.

Florida Power & Light, which has operated the plant’s twin nuclear reactors for more than a half-century, has been on a 10-year timeline to clean up ...Read more

For nearly 350,000 Venezuelans benefiting from Temporary Protected Status, a federal program the Trump administration has officially ended, the clock is running out. The federal government’s decision to terminate deportation protections under the 2023 TPS designation has set a high-stakes deadline: April 2. After that date, anyone who doesn’...Read more

Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Nick Ut has spoken out against claims that his famous 1972 photo of a terrified child running from a napalm bomb attack on her village during the Vietnam War was actually taken by someone else.

"I took the photo of (Phan Thi) Kim Phuc," Ut wrote in a statement Wednesday posted to Facebook. "I took the other ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s administration is suing New York over a 2019 law that allows undocumented immigrants to obtain state identification while shielding their data from federal authorities.

The suit, announced Wednesday by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, is part of Trump’s broader crackdown, including a suit filed last week against ...Read more

CHICAGO — The foreman of the jury that rendered a split decision in the landmark trial of former House Speaker Michael Madigan said Wednesday that the panel was deadlocked 11-1 in favor of acquittal on the main racketeering charge and that he felt much of the prosecution was “government overreach.”

“This was a guy they wanted to go ...Read more

Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes shed her signature black turtleneck and low-octave voice as she broke her silence in her first interview since her January 2022 fraud conviction.

The one-time Silicon Valley wunderkind, 41, appears on the cover of People Magazine this week in a camel-colored sweater and jeans, having spoken to the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — About 75,000 federal employees signed up for a voluntary resignation program inspired by President Donald Trump’s billionaire efficiency czar — falling short of the numbers the White House hoped for and increasing the likelihood of deeper mass firings.

That total, confirmed by a source familiar with the data, makes up about 3...Read more

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and its offices, including the National Hurricane Center and National Weather Service, will be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

All maps, nautical charts, websites and weather products will reflect the name change that is part of an executive order President ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — A bill to temporarily suspend Nevada’s cage-free egg sale rule is heading to the governor’s desk after passing through the Legislature unanimously this week.

Assembly Bill 171 is intended to address egg shortages and the rising cost of eggs during a long-running avian flu outbreak that has significantly affected the national ...Read more

Denver Public Schools sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Wednesday in an effort to block federal immigration agents from making arrests at schools as the Trump administration ramps up mass deportations nationwide.

DPS’s lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Denver, comes a week after multiple federal agencies conducted...Read more

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent presented an economic partnership agreement to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during his visit to Kyiv, which he said would be necessary for continued support from President Donald Trump’s administration.

“President Trump has a plan to end this war and we would like an economic cooperation agreement,” ...Read more

The Trump administration appears to be considering a plan to send immigrants facing deportation to a recently shuttered federal prison so plagued by sexual abuse that it was known as the “rape club,” according to an email sent by federal prison union officials.

Roughly 20 miles east of Oakland, California, the Federal Correctional ...Read more