Idaho voters will not get to choose this year if they want to make medical cannabis legal across the state.

The Secretary of State’s Office said Tuesday that an initiative that would have put the question before voters did not garner enough signatures to make it on the November ballot. To make the ballot, initiatives must get signatures from ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — A crowd of 60 people peacefully demanded change in the Tarrant County Jail in downtown Fort Worth on Tuesday morning. Rally leaders argued that voting Democrats into office is needed to fix the system.

A speaker from the group read the names of 80 people who have died either in custody or shortly after being released since...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Gov. Mike Kehoe signed the “Born Alive Abortion Survivor Protection Act,” an anti-abortion bill that critics say is meant to intimidate health care providers.

The bill is the most consequential piece of legislation passed in Missouri this year and was fiercely debated in the final days of the legislative session. The ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA – Pennsylvania Secretary of State Al Schmidt stressed that the state was not in violation of any voting regulations in a response letter to a Department of Justice inquiry that threatened criminal charges over suspicions of noncitizen voting.

The letter, sent Monday, pushed back against the Trump administration’s insistence ...Read more

DENVER — The weather this weekend could be a recipe for rapid wildfire spread in Eastern Washington, according to state officials.

With a potential for record-high temperatures across the state Sunday, a warm and dry trend in Eastern Washington and projected winds, The state Department of Natural Resources is urging residents to use caution ...Read more

As state and federal officials work to identify the source of the recent outbreak of the intestinal illness cyclosporiasis, Michigan health officials have identified lettuces or salad greens as one potential culprit.

“Early information has shown lettuce as a common product that regularly comes up during the investigation,” said Dr. Natasha ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani is expanding New York City’s most popular special education programs to preschool for the first time.

The $67.5-million plan will bring the programs — including Nest, Horizons, AIMS, Path and ACES for preschoolers with autism and other disabilities — to 14 school districts across all boroughs this fall. ...Read more

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson faced another round of grief from the City Council Tuesday over his appointments to key public boards.

A special meeting in the council Housing Committee was quickly upended when Ald. Pat Dowell protested the direct introduction of three commissioners to the Chicago Housing Authority board. Dowell, Johnson’s ...Read more

DETROIT — Michigan health officials are urging consumers to take precautions to help ward off cyclosporiasis and limit its spread as thousands of state residents have been sickened by the parasitic illness.

Through Monday, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has received more than 2,600 reports of the illness since June 22.

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DETROIT — The number of cyclosporiasis cases in Michigan now tops 3,300, according to an update Tuesday morning by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.

Tuesday's case total of 3,309 is up from 2,640 as of Monday. A total of 44 people had been hospitalized as of July 9.

The illness, which causes diarrhea and cramping, is ...Read more

DENVER — Denver will no longer issue local childcare business licenses after the City Council eliminated the requirement — which officials say didn’t provide any additional safeguards — in an attempt to begin making the service cheaper in the city.

While the ordinance eliminated the local license, the state has a separate process that ...Read more

DENVER — More evacuations were lifted for the Aspen Acres fire burning in southern Colorado on Tuesday, allowing residents to return home after weeks of uncertainty.

The Aspen Acres fire is one of six active wildfires burning across Colorado that have together consumed nearly 208,000 acres, or 325 square miles, according to fire officials. ...Read more

NASA astronaut Anil Menon launched with a pair of cosmonauts on a Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station on Tuesday.

Menon, a member of the 2021 class of astronauts, is making his first spaceflight. He’s flying with Roscosmos’ Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina. Kikina flew once before on the Crew-5 mission that launched from Florida...Read more

The interim peace between the U.S. and Iran effectively collapsed after American forces reimposed a naval blockade and launched another wave of airstrikes, while Tehran attacked more oil tankers sailing through the Strait of Hormuz.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to restart a blockade of Iranian ports overnight came after hostilities ...Read more

MIAMI — Two former students at a K-8 school in Homestead are suing Miami-Dade County Public Schools, a teacher, an administrator and a school counselor over the school’s handling of sexual abuse they allegedly experienced when they were 12 and 13 years old.

The students, sisters filing suit in the Southern District of Florida under “Jane ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Todd Blanche faces his biggest public test Wednesday in his bid to serve as President Donald Trump’s fourth confirmed attorney general: a Senate Judiciary Committee with a pair of undecided Republicans.

The panel’s two-day hearing, which will feature Blanche on the first day and outside witnesses on the second, will likely ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A proposal to make daylight saving time the year-round default nationwide is once again coming before Congress.

And, as in the past in both California and nationally, proponents and opponents of the switch cite the potential effects (good or bad) on health, business and agriculture as reasons to support or oppose the plan.

The ...Read more

Ask people what they want at the end of their lives, and overwhelmingly the answers will revolve around comfort, dignity and time at home with loved ones.

Yet the U.S. healthcare system often thwarts these wishes.

Most Americans say they want to die at home, but only one-third do. What could be an intentional last chapter may ...Read more