LANSING, Mich. — The Michigan Legislature’s Republican-led House and Democratic-led Senate are going down to the wire in a standoff over legislation that would allow more than 3,600 out-of-state physicians to continue practicing in the state.

On March 28, Michigan will withdraw from the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact unless the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California is suing the Trump administration over its decision to roll back the endangerment finding, the U.S. government’s longstanding scientific conclusion that planet-heating pollution seriously threatens Americans, state officials announced Thursday.

Attorney General Rob Bonta, Gov. Gavin Newsom and the California Air ...Read more

WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. — Pictures taken shortly after a gunman attacked a West Bloomfield synagogue last week with guns, fireworks and gasoline show black walls with debris on the floor and child-size tables with plates of food quickly left behind.

The pictures were released Thursday by Temple Israel on the synagogue's Facebook page, one week...Read more

PONTIAC, Mich. — Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard on Thursday decried antisemitism in the aftermath of the March 12 attack on the Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield and called on community members to speak out against it when it's witnessed.

Bouchard's came as Temple Israel Rabbi Josh Bennett said security guard Danny Phillips, ...Read more

Kevin Spacey has settled with three more sexual assault accusers, avoiding another London trial set for the High Court later this year, nearly three years after he was acquitted of criminal charges in the United Kingdom.

The 66-year-old Oscar winner, who maintains his innocence, has settled with the men identified as LNP, GHI, and Ruari Cannon,...Read more

California is moving quickly to rename Cesar Chavez Day in the wake of sex abuse allegations against the famed labor leader.

The push to redesignate the March 31 holiday as “Farmworkers Day” was announced Thursday by Democratic leaders in the state Legislature.

“California’s farmworker rights movement never has been about one ...Read more

A top intelligence official who quit his post in protest told right-wing pundit Tucker Carlson that Israel successfully pressured President Donald Trump into launching the war against Iran.

Expanding on his explosive claims about Israel’s behind-the-scenes power, Joe Kent even claimed the Jewish state had more access to Trump than American ...Read more

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