Bayer AG is counting on the U.S. Supreme Court to pare down lawsuits over its top-selling Roundup weedkiller and help corral the decade-long litigation that has cost the company more than $10 billion and cast a pall over its stock price.

Bayer’s attorneys during arguments Monday will urge the high court to overturn a $1.25 million Missouri ...Read more

The man accused of storming the White House Correspondents’ Dinner spent years quietly acquiring his arsenal, purchasing a shotgun from a Torrance, California, firearms dealer eight months before the attack and a semi-automatic pistol two years earlier, according to a law enforcement intelligence profile reviewed by Bloomberg.

Cole Tomas ...Read more

Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid, two former prime ministers of Israel, announced the merging of their parties, creating a new political entity that could outpoll that of Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud in the upcoming election.

The party, named Together, will be led by Bennett, a hawk and one-time settler advocate who has edged closer to the ...Read more

Central Florida could be in store for pair of double sonic booms Monday morning with the planned returned landing of both of the side boosters for the first SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch since 2024.

The company is targeting an 85-minute launch window that opens at 10:21 a.m. for the heavy-lift rocket flying on the ViaSat-3 F3 mission from Kennedy ...Read more

Efforts to resume peace talks over the Iran war stalled after U.S. President Donald Trump canceled a planned trip by his top envoys and the Islamic Republic said it won’t negotiate so long as it’s being threatened.

Trump on Saturday told Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff to skip the trip to Pakistan, which is mediating talks, and later told ...Read more

The armed suspect who tried to enter a Washington ballroom where President Donald Trump was speaking was likely targeting administration officials, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said.

Blanche said Sunday on NBC’s "Meet the Press" that the man is believed to have acted alone after traveling by train from California and had been staying ...Read more

Senator Thom Tillis said he’s dropping his blockade of Kevin Warsh’s nomination to head the Federal Reserve, saying the Justice Department’s decision to end a criminal probe targeting Fed Chair Jerome Powell removed a threat to the central bank’s independence.

The North Carolina Republican’s decision sets the stage for Warsh’s swift...Read more

Wegovy, Ozempic and Mounjaro are weight loss and diabetes drugs that have made quite a splash in health news. They target regulatory pathways involved in both obesity and diabetes and are widely considered breakthroughs for weight loss and blood sugar control.

But do these drugs point toward a root cause of metabolic disease? What ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Nurses raced around Chloe, prepping the Oakland mother-to-be for a caesarean. One minute, she'd been in the bathroom, laboring through a contraction. The next, she was being rushed into emergency surgery, her daughter's heart rate dropping precipitously on the fetal monitor.

The new mom, who asked that she and her family be ...Read more

California lawmakers alarmed by the treatment of people brought to hospitals by federal immigration agents want to strengthen protections for detained patients receiving care at medical facilities, including by making it easier for their families and attorneys to find them.

Two bills moving through the state Senate seek to prevent immigration ...Read more

A controversial rule enacted last year that denies federal Medicaid funding to abortion providers is likely to expire this summer, despite anti-abortion pressure on Republicans to renew it.

Leaders in Congress in recent days have insisted that a new federal spending bill needs to be as stripped down as possible and focused on funding related to...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The stress blocks Rosa Maria from sleeping, and she has lost some of her hair.

She and her family came to Minnesota three years ago from Mexico on her husband’s work visa. But after he was detained in January by ICE and released 15 days later, the couple stopped working and went into hiding with their three kids.

With no ...Read more

CHICAGO — Eight years ago, before the U.S. Supreme Court reversed course on federal protections granted in Roe v. Wade and returned questions of abortion legality to individual states, the Chicago Abortion Fund supported less than 1% of the patients it served in 2025.

Now the largest fund of its kind in the country, the organization works to ...Read more

Citing federal law enforcement sources, the Associated Press identified the alleged White House Correspondents’ Association dinner gunman as Cole Tomas Allen, 31, who has ties to the L.A. County city of Torrance.

A law enforcement official who was not authorized to speak publicly about the active investigation also identified Allen as the ...Read more

During a news conference shortly after President Donald Trump was abruptly escorted out of the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, he described the moment authorities arrested the alleged gunman.

“The First Lady on my right, and I heard a noise, and sort of thought it was a tray,” Trump said. “I thought it was a tray going ...Read more

A shooting at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner led to the evacuation of the president and one person in police custody. According to Secret Service, the incident happened near a security check point.

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump were escorted from the event, according to USA TODAY. As attendees ducked for ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump was evacuated from the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday evening after gunshots were fired, and a person was taken into custody.

A lLos Angeles Times reporter attending the dinner sheltered in a restroom after the incident. He said he heard about four or five gunshots around 8:30...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance were evacuated from the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington Saturday after shots were fired at the hotel where the event was taking place.

Trump, who left the hotel in northwest Washington to return to the White House, said he will hold a news ...Read more

CHICAGO — As Sharon Brown, 60, walked along the Jackson Park pathways, she paused to pick up an old chip bag from the ground. After dropping it into her trash bag, she looked up. In the distance, she could see the new Obama Presidential Center museum, towering above the trees.

“I’m so proud that the Obama Foundation is here,” Brown said...Read more