House Republican leaders plan votes this week on their plan to reduce health care costs, but consumers shouldn’t expect much help with soaring premiums anytime soon.

The 111-page GOP blueprint, likely to get a House vote Wednesday, does not include an extension of the expiring health care premium subsidies.

Those credits for qualified ...Read more

Shock over a shooting rampage at Brown University over the weekend is giving way to frustration over the lack of video footage and suspects.

Authorities in Providence, Rhode Island, said Monday they hadn’t identified any new persons of interest in the shooting that killed two people and injured nine on the Ivy League campus Saturday ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In the world that Rob Reiner built, amplifiers went “up to 11.” People readily ordered “what she’s having.” Courtrooms couldn’t “handle the truth,” comedy and drama traded places seamlessly and liberal ideals born in the 1960s and '70s formed the gold standard of politics.

A writer, director, producer, actor and ...Read more

Rain showers hit Western Washington Monday morning as another atmospheric river drenches the state.

The National Weather Service said Monday that the storm will continue through Wednesday, with about 2 to 4 inches of rain expected in foothill areas and 4 to 6 inches on higher ground. That will likely shift to snow in the mountains, including in...Read more

President Trump signed an executive order Monday that classifies fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction.

The order comes after several months of controversial strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats and “narco-terrorists” from Venezuela in the Caribbean, which some critics have said could be illegal.

“No bomb does what this is doing,”...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate Commerce Committee leaders vowed Monday to secure enactment of legislation to improve flight safety at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, and they said an appropriations measure next month could be a vehicle.

Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and ranking member Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., want Congress to delete a provision...Read more

President Donald Trump sued the BBC for $5 billion over a misleading edit in a documentary last year that gave the impression he’d made a direct call for violence in a speech leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters.

The defamation lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corp. was filed Monday in federal ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A plan to attack several Los Angeles-area businesses on New Year's Eve was detailed, dangerous and already in motion, authorities said.

But as four people allegedly tied to a left-wing, antigovernment group gathered last week in the Mojave Desert to make and test several test bombs, FBI officials say, agents were able to foil ...Read more

Charles Booker is going for it again.

The former state representative and staffer under Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear launched his third run for the U.S. Senate in Kentucky Wednesday morning, joining a crowded field of Democrats and Republicans seeking to replace Sen. Mitch McConnell in 2026.

His early campaign strategy leans in on economic ...Read more

CHICAGO — Vandals decapitated and smashed the statue of Mary in an Evanston church’s outdoor Nativity scene Friday, and the church responded, according to an associate minister, by replacing it with a sign saying Mary was beaten and dragged away in front of her son and is being held in immigration detention.

Lake Street Church of Evanston ...Read more

DEDHAM, Mass. — Brian Walshe was found guilty of murder in the first degree in Norfolk Superior Court late Monday morning in the killing and dismembering of his wife, Ana Walshe, in the early hours of New Years 2023.

Over a 10-day trial in Norfolk Superior Court, prosecutors gave evidence that Walshe, 50, killed his wife before dismembering ...Read more

DENVER — A proposal that would make possession of any amount of fentanyl a felony and stiffen penalties for distribution will go before the state’s voters next November, the Colorado Secretary of State’s office said Monday.

Initiative 85, which is backed by the conservative advocacy group Advance Colorado, is the first statewide ...Read more

SYDNEY — Following the deadliest domestic terror attack in Australia’s history, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese faced criticism he didn’t do enough to combat rising assaults on the Jewish community nor swiftly enact recommendations from the nation’s antisemitism envoy released five months ago.

Albanese — who shrugged off criticism of ...Read more

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin will present his final budget proposal to the General Assembly on Wednesday. Part of that proposal will include $50 million for child welfare, he announced at an event in Richmond Monday.

The funding is part of a three-year child welfare strategy that includes centralizing the Child Protective Services intake ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Rob Reiner’s son Nick was arrested on suspicion of murdering his parents after the Hollywood legend and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead at their Brentwood home Sunday.

Los Angeles police Chief Jim McDonnell said that officers responded to the Reiner home about 3:40 p.m. Detectives from the elite Robbery-...Read more

Two of the victims who were shot and killed at Brown University have been identified while the suspect remains at large.

Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov and Ella Cook were separately identified as the two students killed in a Brown classroom Saturday night at the tail end of a study session for an introductory economics class.

The U.S. Ambassador to ...Read more

Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox reported homicides are up nearly 30% this year, as Mayor Michelle Wu continued to tout Boston as the safest major city in the country at a year-end public safety briefing.

Cox said there have been 31 homicides in the city thus far this year, compared to 24 for all of last year, but said that number still ...Read more

Norovirus, also known as the “stomach flu” or “winter vomiting sickness,” is active in California and across the nation. But cleaning and disinfecting can help check its spread, experts say.

Precautions are crucial because the virus is highly infectious and there’s no real treatment for it, the Centers for Disease Control and ...Read more

U.S. negotiators offered more significant security guarantees to Kyiv as part of President Donald Trump’s renewed push to end the Russia-Ukraine war, but the effort still appeared part of a bid to pressure President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on territory.

The Trump administration offered to provide Ukraine with strong “Article 5-like” security...Read more