SAN FRANCISCO — At a Walgreens in this city’s bustling Japantown neighborhood, pharmacist Margaret On stocks two boxes of long-acting insulin pens from California’s new prescription drug label, CalRx, emblazoned with the state’s iconic grizzly bear.

Although she hasn’t dispensed any, On plans to keep them on hand. “It’s good to ...Read more

California is weighing stiff penalties for hospitals and other healthcare entities that don’t stay under state spending limits, potentially levying hundreds of millions of dollars in fines if these providers don’t take steps to rein in rising healthcare costs.

If the state Office of Health Care Affordability adopts the fines next week, ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The first significant test of a new Minnesota law making it illegal to charge children under 13 with a crime came this month when an 11-year-old stabbed an 18-year-old multiple times in the entrance to a St. Cloud grocery store.

The victim and store patrons held the 11-year-old down until police arrived and took the boy to St. ...Read more

Northwestern University economist Chuck Manski studies decision-making amid uncertainty. That prepared him better than many other cancer patients to decide whether to stay on an immunotherapy treatment that was making him very ill.

For six months in 2022, Manski received monthly infusions of nivolumab to fight advanced melanoma. The drug ruined...Read more

Dolly Parton had reportedly been battling cancer before her death.

A spokesperson for Parton's estate confirmed the cause of death to the New York Times.

In a statement, also shared with People, a representative for the country music icon said: "After bravely facing a brief battle with cancer, Dolly departed her Earthly life today at the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said Tuesday that her office will not file felony riot charges against far-right activist Jake Lang and others over Lang’s latest confrontation in Minneapolis, citing “prior communication” between police and Lang’s security detail.

Moriarty’s office did not detail the nature of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The White House said it is set to take away as many as 200,000 visas from foreigners, in what it called the largest mass revocation in U.S. history.

The move, which the White House previewed on social media Tuesday, is expected to target asylum-seekers who hold U.S. visas. It would escalate President Donald Trump’s second-term...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a jolt to the impending midterm elections by reviving President Donald Trump’s push to restrict mail-in voting while creating a tangle of new legal and logistical questions as states prepare to make ballots available.

The court’s conservative majority on Monday agreed with the Justice ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — A 73-year-old man suspected in the vandalism of political campaign signs across the Las Vegas Valley has been arrested.

David Smith was arrested and booked Monday into the Clark County Detention Center for placing graffiti or defacing property, $5,000 or greater, according to a Metropolitan Police Department release.

Campaign ...Read more

Remember when the toilet on NASA’s manned, moon-bound rocket ship malfunctioned this spring?

Well, the astronauts who were there do. NC State students got the full, behind-the-scenes story on Tuesday from mission specialist Christina Koch, who dealt with the toilet malfunction firsthand.

Koch, who flew to the dark side of the moon on the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles is looking to regulate another "gas station drug" on commercial shelves.

In a unanimous vote Tuesday, the L.A. City Council instructed the City Attorney to draft new regulations for phenibut, a Cold War-era drug that is said to have been used by Soviet cosmonauts, but abused now as a central nervous system depressant...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. —A bill to ban marriage under the age of 18 awaits a vote on the California Assembly floor after passing the Assembly Judiciary Committee on Tuesday.

Currently, California, Mississippi and New Mexico are the only U.S. states that have no minimum age requirement for marriage. In California, a minor may get married if they ...Read more

The state of Utah is looking for places to site 1-megawatt nuclear reactors small enough to fit inside standard 20-foot shipping containers.

The state’s Office of Energy Development signed an agreement with Houston-based Deployable Energy Limited last week to explore the feasibility of deploying Unity Nuclear Batteries around the state.

“...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — The Michigan House on Tuesday attempted to intercept an initiative petition that would bar state-regulated corporations from making political contributions before the proposal made it to the November ballot.

The Republican-led state House adopted the Michiganders for Money out of Politics proposal in a 77-26 vote on Aug. 25. ...Read more

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson announced a spate of short-term fixes Tuesday, including debt restructuring, to close this year’s budget gap.

Speaking to reporters at City Hall, Johnson said he would fill most of a projected $85.1 million shortfall in the 2026 budget by refinancing between $500 million and $525 million in bonds. He said ...Read more

The Justice Department's latest salvo in the battle over the future of the Kennedy Center claims President Trump's "efforts and prestige provide the sole hope for the Center's financial survival, and structural renewal," according to a Monday court filing, which also threatens a possible demolition of the historic building.

Without the ...Read more

Jurors heard from two of the prosecution’s expert witnesses Tuesday as Lindsay Clancy’s triple murder trial nears its end.

Clancy killed her three children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, eight months, then tried to kill herself in January 2023.

She isn’t disputing the killings — instead, her attorney Kevin Reddington is arguing she ...Read more