By DEVNA BOSE AP Health Writer
Andrea Meneses stumbled on a direct primary care clinic because of a crisis.
Her grandmother, visiting Wisconsin from Bolivia, did not have insurance but needed to see a doctor fast. One of the grandchildren accidentally put her insulin in the freezer ...
By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press
WEST ORANGE, N.J. (AP) — Along the long road from American icon to endangered species and back again, the bald eagle — the national bird of the United States, often seen against a clear blue sky — is having a moment.
The eagles find themselves in an ...
By MARIA CHENG and JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press
GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization chief asked global leaders to lean on Washington to reverse President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the U.N. health agency, insisting in a closed-door meeting with diplomats last week ...
By TASSANEE VEJPONGSA and MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press
PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) — Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow Sunday and predicted six more weeks of wintry weather, his top-hatted handlers announced to a raucus, record-sized crowd at Gobbler's Knob in Pennsylvania.
Phil was ...
By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — From an ice cream parlor in California to a medical supply business in North Carolina to a T-shirt vendor outside Detroit, U.S. businesses are bracing to take a hit from the taxes President Donald Trump imposed Saturday on imports ...
By MICHELLE L. PRICE, CHRIS MEGERIAN and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's second week in office seemed to deliver a daily dose of shock therapy for the country.
There were chaotic reminders of his first term. The White House found itself ...
By DORANY PINEDA Associated Press
DUARTE, Calif. (AP) — Not far from where Ceci Carroll lives, a rock-mining company has polluted the air with dust across the San Gabriel Valley, she said.
Now, as crews clean charred remains from the Los Angeles wildfires, she worries about a new ...
By STEVE PEOPLES AP National Political Writer
OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Democrats on Saturday elected Ken Martin, the party leader in Minnesota, as the national chair, turning to a low-profile Midwestern political operative to coordinate their resistance to Donald Trump's presidency.
Martin ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The city of Minneapolis has agreed to pay $600,000 to settle a lawsuit by a woman who alleged that ex-Officer Derek Chauvin hauled her from her minivan and pinned her to the ground with his knee in January 2020, just as he did four months later when he killed George ...
By CLAUDIA LAUER Associated Press
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Preliminary data from the deadliest U.S. aviation accident in nearly 25 years showed conflicting readings about the altitudes of an airliner and Army helicopter when they collided near Reagan National Airport in Washington, killing ...
By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Government Efficiency, run by President Donald Trump's billionaire adviser and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, has gained access to sensitive Treasury data including Social Security and Medicare customer payment systems, ...
Groundhog Day predictions about the coming of spring put the spotlight on Punxsutawney Phil every Feb. 2, but celebrating the midpoint between the shortest and darkest day of the year and the spring equinox has ancient roots in European agricultural life.
Punxsutawney Phil is far from the only ...
A medical transport jet carrying a child patient, her mother and four others slammed into a Philadelphia neighborhood and exploded in flames.
The child had been treated in Philadelphia for a life-threatening condition and was being transported home to Mexico, according to Jet Rescue Air ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In Boston, Northeastern University renamed a program for underrepresented students, emphasizing "belonging" for all. In New Jersey, a session at Rutgers University catering to students from historically Black colleges had to be abruptly canceled. And around the U.S., ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A person in a car was the seventh fatal victim of the fiery crash of an air ambulance onto a busy Philadelphia street, authorities said Saturday, as investigators sifted through burned cars, damaged homes and charred debris for clues to determine why the aircraft plummeted ...
HONOLULU (AP) — Former Hawaii lawmaker Suzanne Chun Oakland remembers arriving at school one morning in 1977 to an eerie buzz.
She had met up with girlfriends as usual before class at Honolulu's McKinley High School when she learned a student named Dawn Momohara had been found dead on the ...
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and MATT ROURKE Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A medical transport jet with a child patient, her mother and four others aboard crashed into a Philadelphia neighborhood shortly after takeoff Friday evening, exploding in a fireball that engulfed several ...
By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In Boston, Northeastern University renamed a program for underrepresented students, emphasizing "belonging" for all. In New Jersey, a session at Rutgers University catering to students from historically Black colleges had to be ...
By JOHN SEEWER and ADAM GELLER Associated Press
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — The moments Grace Maxwell shared with her grandfather over the years were "his greatest joy." And a trip home to Wichita, Kansas, allowed the 20-year-old to be by his side one final time.
Maxwell, a mechanical ...
By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina put a third inmate to death in four months Friday as it goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted their appeals while the state couldn't find lethal injection drugs.
Marion Bowman Jr. was executed at 6:27 ...