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FILE - A sign sits erected at the pro-Palestinian demonstration encampment at Columbia University in New York, Monday, April 22, 2024.

Arrests roil campuses nationwide ahead of graduation as protesters demand Israel ties be cut

FILE - A sign sits erected at the pro-Palestinian demonstration encampment at Columbia University in New York, Monday, April 22, 2024.

April 28, 2024, 12:13pm Latest News

Protests are roiling college campuses nationwide as administrators with graduation ceremonies next month face demands that schools cut financial ties to Israel against the backdrop of the Israel-Hamas war. Read story

An adult steelhead trout in San Luis Rey River in northern San Diego County.

Steelhead trout, once thriving in Southern California, are declared endangered

An adult steelhead trout in San Luis Rey River in northern San Diego County.

April 28, 2024, 6:07am Nation & World

Southern California’s rivers and creeks once teemed with large, silvery fish that arrived from the ocean and swam upstream to spawn. But today, these fish are seldom seen. Read story

FILE - Tina Sandri, CEO of Forest Hills of DC senior living facility, left, helps resident Courty Andrews back to her room, Dec. 8, 2022, in Washington. The federal government will, for the first time, dictate staffing levels at nursing homes, the Biden administration said Friday, Sept. 1, 2023, responding to systemic problems bared by mass COVID deaths.

Biden administration sets higher staffing mandates. Most nursing homes don’t meet them

FILE - Tina Sandri, CEO of Forest Hills of DC senior living facility, left, helps resident Courty Andrews back to her room, Dec. 8, 2022, in Washington. The federal government will, for the first time, dictate staffing levels at nursing homes, the Biden administration said Friday, Sept. 1, 2023, responding to systemic problems bared by mass COVID deaths.

April 28, 2024, 6:03am Health

The Biden administration finalized nursing home staffing rules Monday that will require thousands of them to hire more nurses and aides — while giving them years to do so. Read story

Michael Regan testifies before a Senate Committee in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 3, 2021.

Superfund designation for PFAS raises concern over liability

Michael Regan testifies before a Senate Committee in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 3, 2021.

April 28, 2024, 6:00am Nation & World

The EPA has issued a final rule that will list the two most widely used forms of PFAS chemicals under the law governing Superfund sites, spurring worries in Congress over the liability for industries that merely received products that contained them. Read story

Native Americans have shorter life spans. Better health care isn’t the only answer

April 28, 2024, 6:00am Health

Katherine Goodlow is only 20, but she has experienced enough to know that people around her are dying too young. Read story

Amanda Zurawski, center, speaks during a press conference outside the Travis County Courthouse on Wednesday, July 19, 2023, in Austin, Texas. A Texas state court will hear arguments from both sides in Zurawski v. State of Texas, a lawsuit filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights on behalf of 13 Texas women denied abortions despite serious pregnancy complications.

How treatment of miscarriages is upending the abortion debate

Amanda Zurawski, center, speaks during a press conference outside the Travis County Courthouse on Wednesday, July 19, 2023, in Austin, Texas. A Texas state court will hear arguments from both sides in Zurawski v. State of Texas, a lawsuit filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights on behalf of 13 Texas women denied abortions despite serious pregnancy complications.

April 28, 2024, 6:00am Health

For decades, the abortion wars have centered on whether a woman should be able to decide when and if she has a child. But with increasingly strict restrictions on reproductive rights being enacted across the United States, these debates are charting new, unfamiliar territory — medical care for women who… Read story

Claudia Alleman works on her computer, against a backdrop of photos of her family, in the living room of her family home in South Gate, California, on April 18, 2024. The Alleman family will be impacted when the federal internet subsidy program Affordable Connectivity Program will run out of funds next week. Thousands will be impacted in Los Angeles County when the program runs out of funds.

Millions could lose internet access if this federal program expires

Claudia Alleman works on her computer, against a backdrop of photos of her family, in the living room of her family home in South Gate, California, on April 18, 2024. The Alleman family will be impacted when the federal internet subsidy program Affordable Connectivity Program will run out of funds next week. Thousands will be impacted in Los Angeles County when the program runs out of funds.

April 28, 2024, 6:00am Business

Four years ago, Claudia Aleman and her family had only one way to get online — through their cellphones. Without internet service on a computer, her youngest daughter couldn’t get homework assignments in on time, her parents couldn’t keep up with online doctor visits, and the English classes she wanted… Read story

Open farm fields make up part of what will become the 5,000 acre Steward Creek Solar farm in Lee County on March 27, 2024, Illinois. The county has numerous green energy projects that are on hold.

Wind and solar in limbo: Long waitlists to get on the grid are a ‘leading barrier’

Open farm fields make up part of what will become the 5,000 acre Steward Creek Solar farm in Lee County on March 27, 2024, Illinois. The county has numerous green energy projects that are on hold.

April 28, 2024, 6:00am Nation & World

Ninety miles west of Chicago, the corn and soybean fields stretch to the sky, and dreams of the clean energy future dangle — just out of reach. Read story

FILE - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton makes a statement at his office, May 26, 2023, in Austin, Texas. The Supreme Court of Texas on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, ordered Harris County, which includes Houston, to put on hold for now a guaranteed income program that would provide $500 monthly cash payments to roughly 2,000 residents in one of the largest counties in the U.S. The program has become a target of Paxton.

Red states fight growing efforts to give ‘basic income’ cash to residents

FILE - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton makes a statement at his office, May 26, 2023, in Austin, Texas. The Supreme Court of Texas on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, ordered Harris County, which includes Houston, to put on hold for now a guaranteed income program that would provide $500 monthly cash payments to roughly 2,000 residents in one of the largest counties in the U.S. The program has become a target of Paxton.

April 28, 2024, 6:00am Nation & World

South Dakota state Sen. John Wiik likes to think of himself as a lookout of sorts — keeping an eye on new laws, programs and ideas brewing across the states. Read story

Medicare’s push to improve chronic care attracts businesses, but not many doctors

April 28, 2024, 5:11am Health

Carrie Lester looks forward to the phone call every Thursday from her doctors’ medical assistant, who asks how she’s doing and if she needs prescription refills. The assistant counsels her on dealing with anxiety and her other health issues. Read story