With the tax-free money in a health savings account, a person can pay for eyeglasses or medical exams, as well as a $1,700 baby bassinet or a $300 online parenting workshop.

Those same dollars can’t be used, though, to pay for most baby formulas, toothbrushes — or insurance premiums.

President Donald Trump and some Republicans are pitching...Read more

CHICAGO — Carey Carlock never imagined she’d have so much trouble finding a therapist for her teenage child.

She was a hospital CEO, on the board of a prominent local mental health organization and well connected. Yet the Oak Park mother couldn’t locate a therapist in her community who took her health insurance.

“I found that to just ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- High above Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, Kraig Hill stood on a concrete slab and gave a tour of a home that is no longer there. Destroyed in the January wildfires, the home Hill grew up in now exists only as a blueprint in his mind.

A concrete Buddha used to gaze toward the horizon from its perch beneath a coral tree. Behind ...Read more

A federal lawsuit filed on behalf of a man scheduled to be put to death next week alleges that Florida prison officials used expired drugs in at least four recent executions.

Prison drug supply logs indicate that executioners in two other recent cases may have used lower doses than is required by the state’s lethal injection protocol, the ...Read more

For decades, the Dominican Republic carried a reputation it never wanted but struggled to shed.

Wedged between South America’s drug-producing basin and the consumer markets of the United States and Europe, the country sat squarely in a global narcotics corridor. Geography, for years, was destiny — and destiny was unforgiving. Drug flights ...Read more

The Trump administration is touting its $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program as the largest-ever U.S. investment in rural health care. But the government made minimal mention of Native American tribes in sparsely populated areas and in need of significant improvements to health care access.

Federally recognized tribes can’t ...Read more

The Trump administration has temporarily paused a plan to divert billions of dollars in homelessness spending away from permanent housing, a move that critics of the plan, including a Silicon Valley congressman, said is a win for local efforts to fight homelessness and prevent formerly unhoused Californians from being forced back to the street. ...Read more

President Donald Trump suggested he could seek to oust Federal Reserve governors appointed by President Joe Biden if their commissions were signed by autopen, in his latest bid to exert control over the central bank.

The gambit is unlikely to come to fruition.

Previous Trump declarations that he was voiding Biden actions where the former ...Read more

A 39-year-old Mexican man was sentenced to 10 years in prison Tuesday after he was convicted of shooting five people at a Las Vegas birthday party in 2022 and was found to have entered the United States illegally five times during a period of over 10 years, according to a news release from the Department of Justice.

Jose Alberto Santacruz-...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Five months after the Trump administration shuttered a suicide and crisis hotline for LGBTQ+ youth, Los Angeles County has launched an effort to try to create its own hotline to fill the void.

In July the Trump administration eliminated the national 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline's "press 3" option, which previously connected ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration is investigating whether COVID-19 vaccines caused deaths in adults, as part of a safety review that earlier appeared to just be focused on children.

The investigation, being conducted across different divisions of the FDA, comes at a time when U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The Rocky statue sitting atop of Philadelphia Art Museum’s famed steps could soon be there permanently — and the one at the bottom may be going back to the Italian Stallion himself, Sylvester Stallone.

That’s according to a recent proposal from Creative Philadelphia, the city’s office for the creative sector, which is ...Read more

MOUNT POCONO, Pa. — President Donald Trump’s raucous rally Tuesday night in Pennsylvania was billed as the launch of a national tour focused easing voters’ economic anxieties that threaten Republicans’ hold in Washington with the 2026 midterms looming.

But the economy couldn’t maintain the president’s interest for the duration of ...Read more

Federal fisheries officials on Monday rejected a bid to designate West Coast Chinook salmon as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act.

In response, one of the conservation groups that petitioned for the listing, the Center for Biological Diversity, says it is considering a legal challenge.

“The major species protections ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday announced the last-minute appointment of a police-union-backed candidate to head the agency responsible for providing independent oversight of the NYPD.

The decision to name former journalist Pat Smith as the Civilian Complaint Review Board’s interim chair drew outrage from anti-police-violence ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York state prosecutors on Tuesday released a video excerpt of the first police encounter in December 2024 with Luigi Mangione, then the main suspect in the New York shooting of a health care executive five days earlier.

The video shows Joseph Detwiler, an officer in Altoona, Pennsylvania, questioning Mangione. A McDonald’s ...Read more

An armed conflict within Haiti’s powerful coalition of gangs has reportedly led to multiple fatalities and has at least one major gang leader on the run.

The confrontation began around 4 a.m. Tuesday in the Bel-Air neighborhood of Port-au-Prince. Reports say dozens of gunmen were killed in the conflict, including a high-ranking gang leader ...Read more

NEW YORK — For many New Yorkers, the 9/11 attack feels like it happened just yesterday, but nearly 25 years have passed since the terrorist strike, and the FDNY wants to commemorate next year’s anniversary with a little something extra.

Along with the traditional somber reading of the victims’ names at Ground Zero, ceremony organizers on ...Read more