Despite bipartisan agreement on the need for testing and treatment for the life-threatening liver disease hepatitis C, potentially hundreds of thousands of Americans remain untreated or even unaware they’re infected as efforts to expand access to cures have stalled in Congress.

Legislation introduced last year has struggled to gain traction ...Read more

​It was hailed as a “triumph of 21st century medicine” — a daily pill that cures a life-threatening liver disease in a matter of weeks with minimal side effects and a success rate of more than 95 percent.

But more than a decade after direct-acting antivirals to cure hepatitis C hit the market, potentially hundreds of thousands of ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Mary Alice Glen was 37 years old when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1996. Years earlier, her mother died from ovarian cancer. One of her sisters had breast cancer. A brother had colorectal cancer.

In the early 2000s, when Glen was in remission, people in her community in Boise were having recurrences of breast cancer ...Read more

Sugar tycoons Jose “Pepe” Fanjul and Alfonso “Alfy” Fanjul Jr. have a plan to dig up thousands of acres of the Florida Everglades for rock that the state needs to build roads. One of the brothers’ billionaire neighbors in Palm Beach leads a group that wants to stop them.

The Fanjuls fled Cuba after Fidel Castro’s takeover and built ...Read more

New Jersey ratepayers will foot the bill for unfinished construction as the state abandons massive offshore wind energy plans as a result of President Donald Trump’s attacks on the industry.

The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, or BPU, last week officially ended an agreement with grid operator PJM to create infrastructure for offshore ...Read more

A New York City mom and domestic violence survivor felt a flashback of fear when she received a notice in March that the emergency housing voucher she and her son have relied on since 2023 will run out soon.

“It felt like the rug was pulled out from under me,” said Nyla B., who did not want her last name used to protect her safety. “I ...Read more

Montana officials said they are moving forward with plans to allow Medicaid to pay doulas, reversing a previous statement that budget problems had prompted them to pause the effort to reimburse the birth workers.

But officials warned that all optional Medicaid services are still under review as the state health department looks for cuts to ...Read more

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s climate action plan floats the potential for a congestion pricing system to discourage people from driving their personal cars into the city as one strategy to meet her net-zero emissions goal.

Buried in the 110-page five-year climate action plan released by the city on Monday is a commitment from the mayor to study...Read more

More than 20 years after Jam Master Jay of Run-DMC was shot to death in a New York recording studio, a man admitted to his role in the killing.

Jay Bryant, 52, pleaded guilty to a federal murder charge, telling U.S. Magistrate Judge Peggy Cross-Goldenberg that he helped others gain access to the building where the hip-hop icon, born Jason ...Read more

Tiago Alexandre Sousa-Martins, a Baltimore man who was left with critical injuries after being shot by ICE agents in Glen Burnie in December, pleaded guilty on Thursday to damaging two government-owned vehicles before he was shot.

Judges in the U.S. District Court for Maryland sentenced Sousa-Martins, 30, to about three months in federal prison...Read more

The suspected kingpin of an alleged Guatemalan drug-trafficking organization, who was the subject of a $10 million reward and described by prosecutors as “one of the world’s most notorious and prolific cocaine traffickers,” made his first appearance last week in San Diego federal court, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Monday.

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NEW YORK — A woman who long steadfastly maintained that she was raped and groomed by Harvey Weinstein — and convinced a jury to convict him of the crime more than six years ago — took the witness stand in Manhattan on Monday to tell her story once again.

Jessica Mann’s first day of testimony at Weinstein’s rape retrial marked her ...Read more

The Trump administration on Monday said it will pay two more energy companies, including one developing a wind project off California's Morro Bay, to abandon their projects in federal waters.

The U.S. Department of the Interior said it will pay a total of $885 million to Bluepoint Wind and Golden State Wind to voluntarily end their offshore ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As the Capitol Police force is strained to its limits, lawmakers are looking to a key group of officers — those who are nearing retirement.

The House passed a bill Monday evening that could potentially allow Capitol Police officers to work until the age of 65.

“No officer should be forced to retire when they can still do the...Read more

Prosecutors charging Cole Tomas Allen with attempting to shoot Trump administration officials at Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner included a manifesto the alleged gunman sent to acquaintances prior to the attack in a criminal complaint against the suspect.

The missive published by TMZ begins with Allen apologizing to family ...Read more

Raja Rajan doesn’t remember if he used Claude, ChatGPT, or Grok to write the memo that got him in hot water with a federal judge, again.

The Cherry Hill, New Jersey, attorney was pressed for time so he says he took a “shortcut” when he wrote a brief that was filed in federal court on Feb. 20.

He wrote it using an AI chatbot, Rajan said, ...Read more

RICHMOND, Va. — The Supreme Court of Virginia heard arguments Monday in a case that challenges the legality of the process used for the April 21 redistricting referendum, with key arguments centered on the timing of the election and the scope of legislative authority used to get the measure on the ballot.

Republicans filed the lawsuit ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The California man who authorities say rushed toward the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner armed with guns and knives faces three criminal charges, as federal prosecutors on Monday accused him of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump and target other administration officials.

The defendant, Cole Allen, who ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The White House is reviewing security protocols for presidential events following Saturday’s shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, as officials weigh whether changes are needed to protect President Donald Trump.

Senior Homeland Security, Secret Service and White House operations officials will meet ...Read more