Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo says he does not want mRNA COVID-19 vaccines to be available in Florida.

In a podcast interview published Sunday, Ladapo was asked about the state’s announcement this month that officials intended to end all vaccine mandates. He said the controversy over the announcement was overblown because vaccines ...Read more

A federal judge has declined to temporarily block a Kentucky law that bans gender-affirming health care access for transgender people who are incarcerated in the commonwealth.

Maddilyn Marcum, a trans woman currently imprisoned at Northpoint Training Center in Boyle County, filed a lawsuit in federal court in July arguing that the Department of...Read more

President Donald Trump said he would speak with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Friday as U.S. and Chinese officials reached a framework deal on keeping the TikTok app running in the U.S.

It would be the first direct engagement between Trump and Xi since June.

“I will be speaking to President Xi on Friday. The relationship remains a very strong...Read more

A San Francisco chef was arrested after allegedly robbing three banks in one day, according to authorities.

Valentino Luchin, 62, was arrested after allegedly robbing a bank on Sept. 10 around 12:02 p.m. on Grant Avenue, according to a San Francisco Police Department news release. Officers discovered that Luchin allegedly went into the bank and...Read more

DETROIT — More than 1,000 pounds of cocaine and 972 pounds of methamphetamine were seized last week by authorities at the Ambassador and Blue Water bridges, officials said.

A commercial vehicle bound for Canada was selected for examination on Thursday at the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection ...Read more

CHICAGO — Federal immigration enforcement agents made arrests in Chicago and the suburb of West Chicago on Monday, while others were spotted in west suburban Aurora, officials and two state lawmakers said.

The actions come one week after President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security announced it was embarking on its latest ...Read more

Three dead babies were discovered in a woman’s home weeks after she was evicted from her residence, according to Pennsylvania authorities and news reports.

Pennsylvania State Police announced the arrest Sept. 15 of Jessica Mauthe, who troopers say is charged with criminal homicide and abuse of a corpse.

Attorney information for Mauthe, 39, ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump’s top diplomat refrained from criticizing Israel over its missile strike on Qatar last week, and said the priority is to make sure Hamas surrenders and disarms to end the war in Gaza.

“We are focused on what happens now, what happens next,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters in Jerusalem on Monday, a...Read more

NEW YORK — Barron Trump transferred to New York University’s campus in the nation’s capital ahead of the fall semester of his second year at the school, according to a report.

“People” magazine reports the youngest Trump spent his first year commuting between Trump Tower and the NYU’s Manhattan campus, but was not seen when classes ...Read more

President Donald Trump again called for an end to quarterly earnings reports, tapping into a long-running fault line in American capitalism over how much information should be disclosed by public companies.

In a social media post on Monday, Trump echoed comments he made during his first term to end the quarterly reports that companies issue to ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he would speak with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Friday, in what would be the two leaders’ first direct engagement since June, and one where a settlement over the Chinese-owned TikTok app may be at stake.

“I will be speaking to President Xi on Friday. The relationship remains a very strong one!!!,” Trump said ...Read more

BOSTON — A coalition of downtown Boston residents is ramping up the pressure on the Wu administration to reverse course on a “destructive” zoning plan that would clear the way for new buildings to tower up to 700 feet over the historic downtown.

The Downtown Boston Neighborhood Association blasted out an open letter it and other members ...Read more

Iran’s top nuclear official warned of chaos if diplomats convened by the United Nations atomic watchdog block a motion to censure Israeli and U.S. military attacks on the Islamic Republic in June.

The Persian Gulf nation is circulating a resolution at the International Atomic Energy Agency annual general conference, which would declare that ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he would speak with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Friday, following talks between the countries to keep ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok app running in the U.S.

“I will be speaking to President Xi on Friday. The relationship remains a very strong one!!!,” Trump said in a post on social media Monday.

U.S. Treasury ...Read more

In a Monday press conference, Gov. Josh Stein requested an additional $13.5 billion from the federal government to help aid in recovery as Western North Carolina approaches the one-year anniversary of Helene.

This new request would go toward housing, small businesses, loans for local governments and building roads to last. Big-ticket items ...Read more

Two men have been arrested and accused of planting a bomb under a media vehicle in Salt Lake City, the FBI said Sunday.

Investigators believe Adeeb Nasir, 58, and Adil Justice Ahmed Nasir, 31, planted the “incendiary device” under a vehicle belonging to local Fox affiliate KSTU. The station confirmed its vehicle had been targeted.

Cops ...Read more