Poverty increased in 2023 as prices rose and pandemic aid programs expired
The nation’s poverty rate rose last year even as incomes improved, the government reported on Tuesday, reflecting higher prices and the expiration of the last pandemic relief programs.
Harris put Trump on defensive, and kept him there
Vice President Kamala Harris took the debate stage Tuesday night, shook the hand of former President Donald Trump and then spent the next 90 minutes making every effort to burrow under his skin, hammering him over his criminal convictions, his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, the size of his rally crowds and the foreign and military leaders who she said have called him a “disgrace.”
Almost 50 million Americans have had an Obamacare plan since 2014
WASHINGTON — Nearly 50 million Americans have been covered by health insurance plans through the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces since they opened a decade ago, according to tax data analyzed by the Treasury Department and published Tuesday.
The sudden death of the Gaudreau brothers
On the narrow shoulder of County Route 551, a two-lane road in the heart of rural Salem County, New Jersey, a memorial appears suddenly among the fields of corn and soybeans. Bunched together are bouquets of flowers, miniature flags and dozens of hockey sticks: an incongruous signpost to a tragedy that shattered two extended families and left a community bereft.
Venezuela’s presidential contender flees, and hopes for democracy dim
BOGOTA, Colombia — The news that Edmundo González, Venezuela’s opposition candidate, had fled the country on a Spanish air force plane this weekend took the country, and the world, by surprise.
Wildfire erupts in Orange County, forcing evacuations
A brush fire that erupted Monday afternoon in the hills of Orange County in Southern California exploded to nearly 2,000 acres within a few hours, prompting evacuation orders for nearby communities as the blaze burned uncontrolled.
Video shows police confrontation with Tyreek Hill escalating quickly
MIAMI — A traffic stop that led to Tyreek Hill, a wide receiver for the Miami Dolphins, being handcuffed outside the team’s stadium on Sunday escalated quickly after a police officer knocked on the player’s car window and he objected, body camera footage of the incident shows.
Behind the big changes at ‘Wheel of Fortune’
The heavy, multicolored wheel is still there. The vowels still cost money. And, yes, Vanna White still controls the puzzle board.
Search continues for gunman in Kentucky highway shooting that wounded 5
Authorities on Sunday pressed their search in a remote wooded area of Kentucky for a man wanted in what they said was a planned shooting on an interstate that left five people seriously wounded and nine vehicles riddled with gunfire.
Congress returns for another big spending fight
WASHINGTON — Congress reconvenes Monday after a lengthy summer break for what is shaping up as a pitched three-week battle over spending with significant consequences for both the November election and the next occupant of the White House.
Fast-spreading wildfire in Southern California forces evacuations
An uncontrolled wildfire in Southern California threatened thousands of homes and businesses Sunday, after quadrupling in size Saturday to more than 17,000 acres and forcing mandatory evacuation orders for over 11,000 people.
How Elon Musk is influencing Donald Trump
In a livestreamed conversation on his social platform X with former President Donald Trump last month, Elon Musk raised the idea of a “government efficiency commission.” Such a council could ensure that taxpayers’ money was “spent in a good way,” Musk said during their more-than-two-hour talk.
Dozens fall ill on Kauai hiking trail in ‘concerning’ outbreak of norovirus
A popular hiking trail on Kauai was closed this week after more than three dozen people fell ill in what officials said was a “rare occurrence” of the highly contagious norovirus.
Trump lays out vision for bending the federal government to his will
MOSINEE, Wis. — Former President Donald Trump vowed to vastly reshape the federal bureaucracy Saturday in a wide-ranging, often unfocused speech at a rally in Wisconsin.
What does a couple do when one partner is deported?
Hector Reyes parked his truck in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juárez, his phone lighting up with photos and videos of his son, Daniel, receiving his high school diploma.
In the paralympic workshop, plenty of fractures but no broken bones
PARIS — Spend some time watching the Paralympics and it will soon become obvious from seeing wheelchair athletes bash into each other while playing rugby and basketball that their flattened tires and dented frames might need multiple repairs over their tournaments. But at the Games’ fix-it shop in the Paralympic Village, repair requests can and do come from every sport.
China stops foreign adoptions, ending a complicated chapter
HONG KONG — For three decades, China sent tens of thousands of young children overseas for adoption as it enforced a strict one-child policy that forced many families to abandon their babies. Now the government will no longer allow most foreign adoptions, a move that it said was in line with global trends.
Vance declines to denounce Carlson after interview with Holocaust revisionist
Sen. JD Vance, the running mate of former President Donald Trump, has declined to denounce right-wing talk-show host Tucker Carlson for praising and airing the views of a Holocaust revisionist who falsely claimed that the Nazis’ destruction of European Jewry was not an intentional act of premeditated genocide.
Fire at school dormitory in Kenya kills at least 18 children
At least 18 children died when a fire ripped through the dormitory of their boarding school north of the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, police said Friday, and there were concerns that the death toll could rise.
Meeting with allies, Zelenskyy presses for more weapons
KYIV, Ukraine — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine appealed directly Friday to Western military leaders for faster weapons deliveries on the heels of a flurry of major Russian missile strikes.
