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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — In many school shootings, the person who pulled the trigger — often a current or former student — is the only one blamed for the crime. The arrest last week of a mother, whose 6-year-old son shot his teacher, and a related investigation of school employees, however, shows that parents [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Long before ballots are tallied and reliable polls are conducted, one of the earliest ways to gauge the popularity of presidential candidates is with dollars. Getting donors to part with their money is a key measure of viability, especially in the early stages of a White House campaign. Those who raise ample [...]
CHICAGO (AP) — For many progressives, the past decade has been littered with disappointments, but recent down-ballot victories are providing hope of reshaping the Democratic Party from the bottom up, rather than from Washington. In Chicago earlier this month, a former teacher's union organizer unexpectedly won the mayor's race. In St. Louis, progressives secured a [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden last week announced that hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children will be able to apply for Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act's health insurance exchanges. The action will allow participants in the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, to [...]
DENVER (AP) — Cindy Powers was driven into bankruptcy by 19 life-saving abdominal operations. Medical debt started stacking up for Lindsey Vance after she crashed her skateboard and had to get nine stitches in her chin. For Misty Castaneda, open heart surgery for a disease she'd had since birth saddled her with $200,000 in bills. [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumer inflation eased in March, with less expensive gas and food providing some relief to households that have struggled under the weight of surging prices. Prices, however, are still rising fast enough to keep the Federal Reserve on track to raise interest rates at least once more, beginning in May. The government [...]
When word surfaced that soils and liquids laced with chemicals from the East Palestine train derailment were being sent to southeastern Michigan for storage, local residents and politicians were livid. "People were seeing pictures of what happened in Ohio — the smoke plumes, wildlife dying," said Jordyn Sellek, director of a local government coalition. "They [...]
People working from home became younger, more diverse, better educated and more likely to move during the worst part of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to survey data from the U.S. Census Bureau. In many respects, the demographic makeup of people working from home from 2019 to 2021 became more like workers who were commuting, while [...]
SAN FRANCISCO — Two trailblazing ride-hailing services are heading toward uncharted territory as they seek regulatory approval to transport passengers around the clock throughout one of the most densely populated American cities in vehicles that will have no one sitting in the driver's seat. If Cruise, a subsidiary of General Motors, and Waymo, a spinoff [...]
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Republicans removed the state's only nonbinary legislator from House committees after the lawmaker provided refuge to a transgender rights activist. In Florida, two Democratic leaders were arrested for participating in a protest over abortion restrictions. In Tennessee, three Democratic House members are facing expulsion for using a bullhorn in the [...]