From the outset, the Trump administration has presented its latest healthcare policy initiative as a decisive effort to shield minors from medical treatments it argues carry profound and irreversible consequences. At the center of the proposal is a move to block federal programs — specifically Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) — from […]

In a wide-ranging interview with the BBC, former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered pointed criticism of the Trump administration’s handling of government records connected to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Her remarks have added a fresh layer of political tension to an issue that has already fueled years of public suspicion, partisan debate, […]

The suspect in Canada’s Tumbler Ridge mass shooting posted about guns and hunting on her YouTube channel and appeared to have written about her struggles with mental health online, according to social media posts. Canadian police named 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar as the shooter who killed her mother and 11-year-old stepbrother before opening fire at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, […]

President Donald Trump’s administration is stepping into high-profile appeals at the Supreme Court without invitation at an unprecedented pace, supporting conservative groups in cases dealing with guns, religion and climate change. The court regularly invites the Justice Department to offer its view on whether to hear appeals, and recommendations from the solicitor general, the administration’s top appellate attorney, […]

Donald Trump, who once claimed, “I have the right to do whatever I want as president,” isn’t always getting it all his own way anymore. The president hasn’t repudiated his quest for total power. But he’s beginning to hit small but significant pockets of rebellion. Every week, more people show they are less frightened of the […]

Newly released government evidence from last year’s Border Patrol shooting of a Chicago woman revealed body camera footage from the shooting, previously unseen text messages from the agent who shot her and praise from the then-top Border Patrol official just hours after the incident. The documents were released by federal prosecutors Wednesday. A judge ordered the release […]

Carolyn Bender remembers her niece’s smile: broad and vibrant and heartbreakingly innocent, as though the whole world was in on her joke. She remembers Emily drawing in the back seat of the car, and teasing her younger brother, and the sound of her soft-spoken voice. She recalls with a smile her love of being active […]

The search for missing 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie, has stretched into nearly a third, anguished week, with mounting pressure on investigators and a family grappling with uncertainty. Guthrie was last seen on January 31, before she was apparently kidnapped, disappearing from her secluded home in Arizona’s Catalina Foothills without her phone […]

The au pair who crafted an elaborate double murder plot with former IRS agent Brendan Banfield and later testified against him in court was sentenced to 10 years in prison Friday, the maximum sentence and well above the joint sentencing recommendation. Juliana Peres Magalhães, 25, pleaded guilty in October 2024 to involuntary manslaughter of Joseph Ryan. Prosecutors […]