Nathan Sharp is trying to figure out how he’ll pay for health care now that the federal pandemic-era help that made his coverage more affordable is set to end.

The 49-year-old Crystal River resident learned this week the monthly cost of his Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, plan will more than double, jumping from $202 to $450. He said his ...Read more

Plumes of smoke drifted up from a fire steadily taking over a 30-acre prairie at Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve, north of the Twin Cities. Amid the haze, five black drones zipped around.

More than 150 feet below the flying robots, research student Nikil Krishnakumar raised the controller in the air.

“It’s all autonomous now,” he ...Read more

Cameras rolling, Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino sailed down the Chicago River in a convoy of government boats. His men held rifles as videographers filmed the stunt later posted to their social media.

The Trump administration had just launched an operation in the city to pursue “the worst of the worst” criminal undocumented immigrants. ...Read more

The paletero knew that, after 30 years of selling ice pops from a pushcart in South San Diego, it would be his last weekend in the United States.

But before Francisco Duarte, 59, and his wife prepared to turn themselves over to immigration agents to be deported across the border, he still had coolers with frozen treats known as paletas in ...Read more

A man detained inside California’s largest ICE detention center said staff confiscated his glasses and denied him immediate medical care after he fell from his bunk bed and sustained a head injury.

“It took them about a month to return my glasses to me. I had an accident because they took away my glasses. I couldn’t see, so I fell off my ...Read more

President Donald Trump threatened possible U.S. military action against Islamist militants in Nigeria if the country’s government doesn’t halt the groups’ “killing of Christians.”

In a post Saturday on Truth Social, Trump said he’s instructing the Pentagon “to prepare for possible action” and threatened an immediate cutoff in ...Read more

Many cancer types — breast, prostate, skin cancer — have 5-year survival rates and ample treatment options if caught early.

Colorectal cancer is not one of them.

With a 5-year survival rate of 15% once it's spread, colorectal cancer kills around 2,600 Pennsylvania each year. In Allegheny County, around 160 people died from the disease ...Read more

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said he expects U.S. nuclear-weapons testing sought by President Donald Trump to stop short of actual atomic bomb explosions for now.

“I think the tests we’re talking about right now are system tests,” Duffy said on Fox News’ "The Sunday Briefing." “These are not nuclear explosions. These are what we...Read more

Murilo Sampaio stood on a camouflage-painted boat on the Amazon, scanning for smugglers, when three oil barges appeared on the horizon.

The military police chief had been told to check for drugs on every vessel coming down the Solimões, the name given to the upper stretches of the Amazon in Brazil. As Sampaio and his crew reviewed the convoy�...Read more

Medical educators and health professionals warn that new federal student loan caps in President Donald Trump’s tax cut law could make it more expensive for many people to become doctors and could exacerbate physician shortages nationwide.

And, they warn, the economic burden will steer many medical students to lucrative specialties in more ...Read more

BALTIMORE — More than a decade of research from multiple sources shows Baltimore’s wealthy homeowners paid less than they owed in property taxes, while poorer homeowners paid more than they owed.

A 2023 study conducted by a member of Strong Towns Baltimore — the group is now known as Baltimoreans for People-Oriented Places, or BaltPOP —...Read more

Racial health disparities may widen as states, universities and nonprofits grapple with federal funding cuts to programs that were aimed at filling gaps in care, public health experts say.

As part of its federal restructuring and crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, the Trump administration has been shuttering federal ...Read more

As a child during the Cold War, Sari Tukiainen would climb a hill in her hometown of Imatra and look over the border to the smokestacks of Svetogorsk, wondering about the Soviet Union that lay beyond.

Later, she was among the Finns who earned well from their neighbors, as Russian tourists poured over the frontier and filled Imatra’s streets, ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia is directing $7 million in city funds to food pantries, federal workers, and vulnerable families as the federal government shutdown passes the one-month mark, disrupting the country’s largest food assistance program.

Mayor Cherelle L. Parker signed an executive order Saturday allocating the funds as part of a ...Read more

CHICAGO — Candles, candy and colorful flowers adorned the ofrenda, or altar, that a couple of dozen people helped build Saturday to honor Silverio Villegas González, the man shot and killed by an ICE agent in northwest suburban Franklin Park nearly two months ago.

At the intersection of Grand Avenue and Emerson Street, near where the ...Read more