January 14, 2025, 11:32am Nation & World
Before plowing a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers in New Orleans, killing 14 people, the man who carried out the Islamic State group-inspired attack had researched how to access a balcony on the city’s famed Bourbon Street and looked up information about a similar recent attack… Read story
January 14, 2025, 11:31am Nation & World
As President-elect Donald Trump plans bold moves for his first days in office, so too are conservative lawmakers in Wyoming, the first state where Trump-friendly Freedom Caucus members have won control of a statehouse chamber. Read story
January 14, 2025, 11:25am Nation & World
President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday announced plans to create a new agency called the External Revenue Service to collect tariffs and other revenues from foreign nations. Read story
January 14, 2025, 11:24am Nation & World
Months after South African authorities initially cut off supplies to miners working illegally in an abandoned gold mine, rescuers brought dozens of bodies and emaciated survivors to the surface Tuesday with hundreds more still believed to be underground, many of them dead and others too weak to come out on… Read story
January 14, 2025, 11:23am Nation & World
House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday ordered that flags at the U.S. Capitol be raised to their full height on Inauguration Day, pausing a 30-day flag-lowering order following the death of former President Jimmy Carter. Read story
January 14, 2025, 11:21am Nation & World
County jails may be able to improve access to medical care and lower death rates behind bars through health care accreditation, according to new research by Harvard University economists — but the process still leaves inmates frustrated by low standards of care. Read story
January 14, 2025, 11:21am Nation & World
Secretary of State Antony Blinken made a last-minute case Tuesday for a plan for the post-war reconstruction and governance of Gaza as a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas appears tantalizingly close to completion. Read story
January 14, 2025, 11:19am Nation & World
President-elect Donald Trump has promised to promote a “drill, baby, drill” agenda, but a recent no-show for bidders in Alaska and political resistance from within his own party show how expanded drilling is easier said than done. Read story
January 14, 2025, 11:16am Nation & World Updated 1 day ago
Some governments are hesitant to boost funding for urgent humanitarian needs in Syria under the country's new interim rulers after the fall of former President Bashar Assad, the director of the U.N. World Food Program said Tuesday. Read story
January 14, 2025, 11:15am Health
Under President Joe Biden, enrollment in Medicaid hit a record high and the uninsured rate reached a record low. Read story
