Three cruise ship passengers died and several others fell ill because of a suspected hantavirus outbreak. The disease is typically caused by inhaling infected mouse droppings on land and isn’t usually ...

After law enforcement prevented a shooter from entering the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner — the third attempt on President Donald Trump’s life in less than two years — commentators ...

The federal government’s reclassification of medical marijuana products as Schedule III drugs doesn’t federally legalize marijuana, but it might extend tax breaks to some cannabis businesses. ...

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The Congressional Budget Office said in 2025 that the One Big Beautiful Bill — signed into law by President Donald Trump in July 2025 — would increase the number of people without health insurance by ...

In Rucho v. Common Cause, Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for a 5-4 majority, said that although extreme partisan gerrymandering may seem reasonably "unjust," the Constitution provides no ...

Some social media users seized on footage from the April 25 White House Correspondents' Association dinner to investigate the shooting that disrupted the event, but using artifici ...

In 2024, Maine’s legislature passed a bill requiring the state to inventory untested rape kits and establish a rape kit tracking system. Gov. Janet Mills did not sign that or 34 other late-arriving ...

The day before state lawmakers met for a special session on redistricting, Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis revealed his proposed state congressional map, which could set up Republicans to flip as ...

Graham Platner’s comments about rape more than a decade ago are the subject of a new ad attacking the Democrat trying to oust U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, in a nationally watched ...

The United States produces almost as much oil as Russia and Saudi Arabia combined when measuring the combination of crude oil and natural gas liquids such as butane, ethane and propane — a common way ...

These statements mislead about Secret Service agents’ pay. Although agents might not get paid typically under a government shutdown, the Trump administration reallocated money authorized under ...