Stigma is fading and new laws are passing that will help increase access to menopause treatment.

When Jacqueline Perez started experiencing symptoms of menopause in her early 50s, the brain fog was so severe, she thought she had early onset dementia.

Perez, who founded a website dedicated to normalizing aging for women, said she gained more ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sen. Bill Cassidy’s loss in the Louisiana Republican primary over the weekend puts the future of the powerful Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in flux.

During his tenure as HELP chair, Cassidy has pushed legislative priorities such as a proposal to establish pre-funded health savings accounts for people on the ...Read more

Thousands of Americans prayed on the National Mall on May 17, 2026, during “Rededicate 250”: a day-long rally to “come together in prayer and worship ahead of the nation’s 250th birthday,” as organizers described it. U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, one of many Republican politicians and conservative Christian leaders to speak, led ...Read more

Memorial Day is an apt time to reflect on the long-term consequences of war. Among them are substance use, mental health problems, homelessness and jail time for those who served in the military.

About 8% of all Americans in prisons or jails are veterans, according to the Council on Criminal Justice, a nonpartisan think tank. Veterans...Read more

Two Boston city councilors are calling for the city to rescind Mayor Michelle Wu’s $43,000 raise and the Council’s tiered $21,500 raise and redirect that money to restore budget cuts amid a $70 million shortfall.

Councilors Erin Murphy and Ed Flynn plan to ask their colleagues to vote on a resolution Wednesday that aims to claw back the ...Read more

President Donald Trump threatened to resume strikes on Iran in the coming days as part of the push for a deal to end the war, after he said he had just called off a U.S. attack.

“I hope we don’t have to do the war, but we may have to give them another big hit,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday. When asked how long he would wait, he said: ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — To San Diego and the world, Amin Abdullah, 51, is the heroic San Diego Islamic Center security guard who stood between children, teachers and death. He alerted the school of the threat just before he was fatally shot by two San Diego teenagers in what is being investigated as a hate crime.

But to Hawaa Abdullah, Amin Abdullah was ...Read more

NEW YORK — A 56-year-old woman from Westchester died after she stepped out of an SUV and abruptly fell into an open manhole on a Midtown Manhattan street, police said Tuesday.

Donike Gocaj, from Briarcliff Manor, had just parked her Mercedes-Benz SUV on East 52nd Street near the corner of Fifth Avenue before stepping out of her vehicle at ...Read more

NEW YORK — Fewer New York City families applied for free preschool at the outset of this year’s admissions cycle, despite a full-court press by Mayor Mamdani to encourage more parents to sign up their children.

At the same time, more families received offers from 3-K and pre-K programs that they ranked on their applications, increasing the ...Read more

SEATTLE — The U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division has opened an investigation into Washington state’s practice of housing transgender women at the Washington Corrections Center for Women near Gig Harbor.

The DOJ states it will investigate allegations that women at the prison were deprived of Eighth Amendment protections ...Read more

California is entering summer with fire danger already running higher than usual, fueled by dry grass, early snowmelt, persistent wind and a hot March that left parts of Northern California especially vulnerable, state fire officials said Tuesday.

“We know we will have an increased level of activity this year,” Cal Fire Chief Joe Tyler said...Read more

DENVER — Vice President JD Vance will speak to hundreds of graduating cadets at this year’s U.S. Air Force Academy commencement ceremony in Colorado Springs, academy officials announced Tuesday.

More than 900 cadets will graduate on May 28 at Falcon Stadium, stepping into roles with the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force, according to a ...Read more

DENVER — Gov. Jared Polis could face a possible censure and loss of privileges from the Colorado Democratic Party on Wednesday night after a formal complaint about his reduction of Tina Peters’ prison sentence caught fire early this week.

Hundreds of Democratic elected officials, volunteers and voters have asked the state party to formally ...Read more

Gov. Tim Walz appointed Theodora Gaitas as chief justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court on Tuesday and named Reynaldo Aligada Jr. as the court’s newest associate justice.

Gaitas, a graduate of the University of Minnesota Law School, is in her first term as an associate justice of the court after Walz appointed her in 2024. She previously ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — The two gunmen who opened fire at a San Diego mosque on Monday, killing three people, had met online, where they were radicalized and left behind a hate-filled manifesto, authorities revealed Tuesday.

According to a witness, the pair were “fully armored” and rushed toward the entrance with handguns and rifles before a ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner has formally — and harshly — answered the House Judiciary Committee, telling the GOP leadership that its inquiries into the city’s handling of immigration issues lack any legal or factual basis.

The Republican-led committee had set a Monday deadline for a reply to letters that ...Read more

NEW YORK — The NYPD is bulking up patrols around city mosques in the wake of the fatal shooting outside an Islamic center in San Diego, police said Tuesday.

More cops will be found around city mosques, and local precincts will be increasing patrols going past these houses of worship, even though there are no specific threats to the city’s ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The former president of a now-shuttered, anti-LGBTQ organization was arrested Tuesday for seeking sex from an undercover deputy posing as a 14-year-old boy, according the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.

Alan Chambers, 54, of Winter Park, was booked in the Orange County Jail without bond on charges of soliciting a minor, ...Read more