A new California law will bar hospitals and doctors’ offices from using artificial intelligence to independently perform medical tasks that require a professional license, such as prescribing medications or ordering tests.

Assembly Bill 1979, signed last week by Gov. Gavin Newsom and taking effect Jan. 1, requires healthcare facilities to ...Read more

The state of Michigan is pumping $3.4 million into 18 agencies across the state in an effort to give more Michiganians a safe place to live as they recover from substance use disorders.

The money comes from the massive opioid settlements that stem from lawsuits against drug manufacturers, distributors and retailers over their roles in fueling ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — With just a few weeks to go before Election Day, opponents of expanding Idahoans’ access to abortion are turning up the heat.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints on Thursday donated $1 million to the campaign against Proposition 1, a citizens initiative on the November ballot that would expand abortion access. The...Read more

A Kansas City Star analysis found that as a rural Kansas doctor before voters sent him to Washington, U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall charged an unusually high interest rate on patients’ unpaid bills, compared to other Kansas physicians and medical practices.

Marshall, a Republican incumbent seeking reelection, has faced sharp criticism in the month...Read more

France is calling for a credible electoral process in Haiti after the country’s transitional authorities eliminated requirements that made it more difficult for individuals under sanctions from the European Union, Canada and the United States, as well as people who owe money to the government, to seek office.

Under the previous rules, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A record-breaking season of tropical storms and hurricanes in the Pacific Ocean is battering the Southern California coastline.

Researchers at Colorado State University confirmed Monday that storms this summer have generated a higher accumulated cyclone energy, which measures the total wind energy, intensity and duration of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said his administration was scrutinizing U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle following allegations of unethical conduct and reports that he was considering removing her from the post.

“Well, we’re looking at it. Yeah, we’re not happy,” Trump told reporters on Monday when asked if he would ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho has a state flower. A state amphibian. Even a state fossil.

But — perhaps surprisingly for a state where so many people own guns — it doesn’t yet have a state gun.

That could soon change. In November, Idaho residents will vote on a nonbinding “advisory question”: What should the state gun be?

There are six ...Read more

A federal grand jury indicted three Dominican men who crewed an overloaded migrant boat that capsized late last month, killing at least three people and leaving 10 missing and presumed dead, according to court records.

The boat capsized late Sunday night, Sept. 27, after one of the defendants, Danny De La Rosa, who was a crewman, attacked ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Mamdani on Monday announced a sweeping review of the NYPD’s use-of-force policies while also announcing changes he says will improve police accountability.

The changes include the implementation of a new system that would make sure officers complete any ongoing disciplinary processes before they retire — a change that ...Read more

RJ Mitte, the actor who played the son of drug lord Walter White in "Breaking Bad," has died at 34.

Mitte, who, like his character Walter "Flynn" White Jr., had cerebral palsy, played an integral supporting role on the AMC series, which premiered in 2008 and lasted five seasons. The character was considered by many fans to be the heart and ...Read more

NEW YORK — The 5-year-old boy who witnessed his father get shot in their car by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on a New York City street was left traumatized by the experience and has stopped talking, his mother told officials.

An ICE agent fired seven rounds into the silver Honda Civic, while the boy sat in the backseat, striking...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A 39-year-old woman in Franklin County died after contracting measles, the county’s coroner reported Monday, the sixth report of a death linked to Pennsylvania’s worst measles outbreak in decades.

The woman had “several underlying conditions, including a past diagnosis of measles with treatment,” Coroner Jordan Conner ...Read more

DETROIT — A woman who said she was recorded by Michigan Department of Corrections officers while giving birth has filed a lawsuit against the department, alleging the recordings of her in labor and undressed violated state law.

Seventeen days before Natalie Forrest, who was an inmate at the Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility, gave ...Read more

LONDON — UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham said Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was “almost certainly” responsible for an alleged terror plot at a British airbase used by the U.S.

Burnham leveled the formal accusation against Iran on Monday during his first appearance in Parliament since the incident late last month at RAF ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s deal with Moscow on its diesel exports and his praise for Vladimir Putin are just the latest in a string of Russia-related news that has sparked public criticisms from Republicans weeks ahead of a midterm election that increasingly favors Democrats.

Trump has said he is working with the Russian ...Read more

European officials warned that President Donald Trump’s deal to increase Russia’s diesel sales will boost Moscow’s war effort in Ukraine, pressing for more U.S. sanctions instead.

“We would call on U.S. to put the sanctions in place so that actually we could finish this war, so that all the effects of these attacks on refineries would ...Read more