In a handful of holdout states, Democrats appear ready to use their newly won statehouse dominance to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.

In at least four states — Georgia, Kansas, Texas and Wisconsin — the midterm election results have tilted the political calculus toward expansion, though lawmakers have yet to lay out details. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday announced his appointment of Stephen Miller as his chief of staff, to replace Susie Wiles, following his party’s historic drubbing in Tuesday’s midterm elections.

Miller, the current deputy chief of staff, has helped design Trump’s immigration policies and spearhead his mass deportation ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — As Democrats took control of Congress on Tuesday night, a group of survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse gathered in a Fort Lauderdale food hall with friends and family, watching the results and singing karaoke.

Surrounding them – bound into 3,437 volumes weighing 17,000 pounds – were 3.5 million pages of the ...Read more

Meghan Markle's father, Thomas Markle, was arrested Friday on a child pornography charge after federal authorities raided two storage units he allegedly rents in California.

Markle, 82, was arrested in Florida and is charged in the Central District of California with possession of child pornography. According to a criminal complaint against him...Read more

U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy has been discharged from John Hopkins Hospital following treatment after having a stroke, according to information from Murphy’s office.

“Thank you for the outpouring of support my family and I have received over the last few days,” Murphy said in a statement.

Murphy said further in his statement that he wanted to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has enacted a new policy aimed at rooting out prohibited deputy cliques and gangs in its ranks, in an action announced two days after Sheriff Robert Luna was reelected to a second term this week.

“There is no place in our Department for cliques that undermine our guidelines, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Public transit is expected to be a top priority for Los Angeles Mayor-elect Nithya Raman, an advocate for expanding bus lanes and making the city friendlier for bicycles — and who campaigned on getting the Los Angeles International Airport people mover back on track after years of squabbles, delays and cost overruns.

As mayor,...Read more

There are elections that change the political map. And then there are elections that make you wonder whether the land itself remembers.

Georgia remembers.

The auction blocks. The cotton fields. The lynching trees. The Black women who cleaned governors’ homes but could not dream of becoming governor themselves.

And ...Read more

Pope Leo XIV travels to Latin America on Nov. 6, 2026, with a packed itinerary that will bring him through Uruguay, Argentina and Peru. It is Leo’s first trip to the region since his elevation to the papacy – and a homecoming for a pope who spent two decades in Peru and holds Peruvian citizenship.

As a historian of Catholicism in ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Friday announced his appointment of Stephen Miller as his chief of staff, replacing Susie Wiles.

Miller, the current deputy chief of staff, has helped design Trump’s immigration policies and spearhead his mass deportation campaign.

His appointment as chief of staff, a powerful position for driving the president’s ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A Sacramento man who is a green card holder but not a U.S. citizen will appear in federal court Friday to face a misdemeanor charge of voting illegally in the 2024 presidential election.

Kamlesh Shah is one of more than three dozen lawful permanent residents in California swept up in the Trump administration’s campaign ...Read more

Days before the Nov. 3 midterm elections, when American voters rebuked Donald Trump’s leadership and newly empowered congressional Democrats vowed to investigate “the Trump crime family” for allegedly profiting off his presidency, his beloved daughter Ivanka Trump went on a luxury vacation to Morocco that cost U.S. taxpayers at least $100,...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday announced that Stephen Miller, the architect of the hard-line immigration and deportation program voters rejected this week, will become White House chief of staff.

Susie Wiles will depart that post and move to the Trump political organization, which appears to be in full operation, even after the...Read more

Meghan Markle's father, Thomas Markle, was arrested Friday on a child pornography charge after federal authorities raided two storage units he allegedly rents in California.

Markle, 82, was arrested in Florida and is charged in the Central District of California with possession of child pornography. According to a criminal complaint against him...Read more

Thomas Markle, the estranged father of Meghan Markle, has been arrested by the FBI in Florida, following the discovery last month of alleged stashes of child pornography he is reported to have kept in storage near his former homes in the Philippines and Mexico.

The Daily Mail reported Friday morning that federal agents had “swooped in” on ...Read more

More than 5,000 people have been infected with measles in the United States this year, as the country faces the loss of its long-held elimination status later this month.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed 5,182 measles infections on Friday, the highest since 1991. The public health agency has recognized just four ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Maryland landowners are taking their fight against the Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project to the U.S. Supreme Court, challenging a ruling that allows utility company PSEG to enter private properties for survey work without landowners’ consent.

A petition filed Wednesday challenges a preliminary injunction a federal district ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A former Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy has been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison for smuggling heroin inside a pair of Pringles' potato chips cans into a jail complex in the Santa Clarita Valley, according to federal prosecutors.

U.S. District Judge Fernando M. Olgui sentenced 40-year-old Michael Meiser ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Former Sen. John D. "Jay" Rockefeller, a five-term West Virginia Democrat and champion for the rural poor, has died at the age of 89.

Rockefeller, who retired after the 2014 elections, played key roles on the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, where he helped write landmark children’s health insurance legislation, as well as...Read more

Meghan Markle's father, Thomas Markle, was arrested Friday on a child pornography charge after federal authorities raided two storage units he allegedly rents in California.

Markle, 82, was arrested in Florida and is charged in the Central District of California with possession of child pornography. According to a criminal complaint against him...Read more