The search for victims continues after the fiery crash of a UPS wide-body cargo plane at the Louisville, Kentucky, airport on Tuesday afternoon, with nine confirmed dead so far.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear posted on social media Wednesday morning that “the number of those lost has now risen to at least 9, with the possibility of more.”

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Typhoon Kalmaegi killed at least 116 people in the Philippines, becoming the deadliest storm to hit the Southeast Asian nation in a year, with dozens more missing.

The typhoon, locally known as Tino, also displaced more than half a million people as widespread floods submerged homes and trapped residents on rooftops. The central province of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — L.A. County supervisors want to bar "predatory" salespeople who they say prey on vulnerable residents seeking benefits from the region's social services offices.

The supervisors unanimously voted Tuesday to explore creating a "buffer zone" outside county offices, prohibiting certain types of "aggressive" solicitation toward ...Read more

When there’s an outbreak of a vaccine-preventable disease, state health officials typically take certain steps to alert residents and issue public updates about the growing threat. That’s standard practice, public health and infectious disease experts told KFF Health News and NPR. The goal is to keep as many other vulnerable people as ...Read more

This year’s Obamacare open enrollment period, which started Nov. 1 in most states, is full of uncertainty and confusion for the more than 24 million people who buy health insurance through the federal and state Affordable Care Act marketplaces.

Even with sign-up season underway, the fate of the enhanced premium tax credits that make coverage ...Read more

The Trump administration has ordered states to investigate certain individuals enrolled in Medicaid to determine whether they are ineligible because of their immigration status, with five states reporting they’ve together received more than 170,000 names — an “unprecedented” step by the federal government that ensnares the state-federal ...Read more

VENICE, Fla. — MAGA and MAHA are happily married in Florida, and nowhere more at home than in Sarasota County, where on a humid October night a crowd of several hundred gathered to honor state Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, his wife, and an unlicensed Canadian radiologist who treats cancer with horse paste.

The event, titled “The 3 Big C’...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota schools are confronting a student mental health crisis with a fragile patchwork system — and without much of the federal money that was supposed to help fix it.

The state received just two of the grants Congress approved after the 2022 Uvalde, Texas, elementary school shooting to expand school-based mental health ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Raised in Northeast Philadelphia, sisters Perla and Aydee Trinidad do everything together, from speaking with a similar cadence to enrolling in the same college program. But these days, only one of them feels like she can move through the city without the worry of being taken away.

Even as a legal resident, “with all this ...Read more

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea is preparing for a potential summit meeting between leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump as the idea was broached during Trump’s recent visit to Asia, based on an assessment by South Korea’s National Intelligence Service.

Pyongyang gathered intelligence on American officials involved in North ...Read more

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — At least seven fatalities and 11 injuries were reported following an early evening plane crash in Louisville on Nov. 4, officials said Tuesday evening.

Some of the injuries were “very significant,” Gov. Andy Beshear said in a 7:30 p.m. update.

Beshear said he expects the number of dead and injured to grow, and updated ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — At the end of a tight race, former Del. Jay Jones emerged victorious in the race for attorney general. The Associated Press called the race at 10:05 p.m. Tuesday.

Jones, a Democrat, unseated Republican incumbent Jason Miyares for the position. With 82% of votes counted, Jones led the race 51.6% to 48%, according to unofficial ...Read more

Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee repeatedly voiced frustration with a lack of information coming from the Pentagon at a confirmation hearing Tuesday for several assistant secretary nominees.

Austin Dahmer, who is currently serving as the acting deputy undersecretary of Defense for policy and has been nominated to be the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Police Department has released a report that identifies several shortcomings in its response to the devastating Palisades fire, including communication breakdowns, inconsistent record-keeping and poor coordination at times with other agencies — most notably the city's Fire Department.

The after-action report ...Read more

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — At least four fatalities and 11 injuries were reported following an early evening plane crash in Louisville on Nov. 4, officials said Tuesday evening.

Some of the injuries were “very significant,” Gov. Andy Beshear said in an update at 7:30 p.m.

Beshear said he expects the number of dead and injured to grow. The ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — When Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner announced he was running for a third term in office, he said he was motivated in part by the people who have tried to stop him: the lawmakers who impeached him, the Democratic establishment who opposed him, and the president who has vilified him.

Krasner predicted Philly voters ...Read more

SEATTLE — The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community said Tuesday it had reached an agreement with BNSF Railway, putting an end to a lawsuit over the railway's trespass over tribal land.

The terms of the agreement are confidential.

In June 2024 a Seattle judge ordered BNSF Railway to pay the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community nearly $400 million ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — At least three fatalities and 11 injuries were reported following an early evening plane crash in Louisville on Tuesday, officials said.

Some of the injuries were “very significant,” Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said in an update at 7:30 p.m.

Beshear said he expects the number of dead and injured to grow. The governor ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — With the government shutdown poised to become the longest in U.S. history, tens of thousands of residents in the Kansas City area continue to wait for food assistance as the government hashes out what resources will be doled out and when.

After two judges on Friday ordered the Trump administration to use emergency funds to ...Read more