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10/29/2024

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an emergency appeal to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from the presidential ballot in two battleground states.
Kennedy wanted to get off the ballot in Wisconsin and Michigan …

10/29/2024

Amy Maxmen | (TNS) KFF Health News
Bird flu cases have more than doubled in the country within a few weeks, but researchers can’t determine why the spike is happening because surveillance for human infections has been patchy for seven …

10/29/2024

Anna Claire Vollers | (TNS) Stateline.org
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Libby and Andrew Potter usually ignore the avalanche of Medicare Advantage ads that land in the mailbox at their home in Huntsville, Alabama, each fall as Medicare’s open enrollment period begins. …

10/29/2024

Yes, older Americans should get yet another COVID shot — but if you have already gotten the latest version, there’s no rush.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week said that people 65 and older or who are …

10/29/2024

WATSONVILLE — As California continues to work to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, one way it is doing so is through expediting the construction of new homes with appliances that run off electricity, not gas.
California’s Senate Bill 100, approved …

10/29/2024

Even as companies continue to reveal plans to trim hundreds of jobs in the region, tech layoffs in the Bay Area are actually on a downward trend compared to the first six months of this year, according to this news …

10/29/2024

By Noam N. Levey, KFF Health News (TNS)
Tom Zawierucha, 58, a building services worker in New Jersey, wishes candidates would talk more about protecting older Americans from big medical bills.
Teresa Morton, 43, a freight dispatcher in Memphis, Tennessee, …

10/29/2024

Robbie Sequeira | (TNS) Stateline.org
Civil rights groups say new Georgia voting rules have made it too easy to challenge the eligibility of people living in nursing homes, college dormitories and military facilities, and will make it more difficult for …

10/29/2024

I read statisticians are predicting Americans will spend “about” $3.5 billion this year on Halloween candy. Believe it or not, this is down slightly from last year. Still, that’s a lot of candy. And from my experience, children are not …

10/29/2024

By MARK THIESSEN, BECKY BOHRER and GENE JOHNSON
KAKTOVIK, Alaska (AP) — Early last summer, George Kaleak, a whaling captain in the tiny Alaska Native village of Kaktovik, on an island in the Arctic Ocean just off the state’s northern …

10/29/2024

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Bowls of labneh and platters of za’atar bread covered the tables in a Lebanese restaurant near Detroit, yet no one seemed to have much of an appetite.
On one side were Kamala Harris …

10/29/2024

Daniela Altimari and Mary Ellen McIntire | (TNS) CQ-Roll Call
WASHINGTON — The Senate map has long favored Republicans — and one week out from Election Day, that hasn’t changed.
With the GOP almost certain to win West Virginia after …

10/29/2024

Greg Stohr | (TNS) Bloomberg News
The sheer closeness of the U.S. presidential race makes an election-determining Supreme Court showdown a possibility. It just isn’t likely.
A generation after the high court resolved the 2000 election deadlock, the dynamic of …

10/29/2024

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and MICHELLE L. PRICE
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Donald Trump on Tuesday called his rally at New York's Madison Square Garden, an event marked by crude and racist insults by several speakers, a “lovefest.”
That's …

10/29/2024

Stephanie Armour | (TNS) KFF Health News
Health care is suddenly front and center in the final sprint to the presidential election, and the outcome will shape the Affordable Care Act and the coverage it gives to more than 40 …

10/29/2024

By JONATHAN J. COOPER
PHOENIX (AP) — Democrats are spending about $500,000 for a last-minute push to persuade voters in battleground states to reject third-party candidates Jill Stein and Cornel West, warning a vote for them will help Republican Donald …

10/29/2024

By COLLEEN LONG
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Kamala Harris will deliver her campaign’s “closing argument” Tuesday from the same spot in Washington where Republican Donald Trump helped incite a mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
She …

10/29/2024

By THOMAS BEAUMONT, Associated Press
WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. (AP) — Rachel Weinberg calls herself a religious Jew first, then a proud American. She said she has only one choice for president: Donald Trump.
“I don’t like everything he says,” the …

10/29/2024

By MARGERY A. BECK, Associated Press
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Americans are encouraged to do their duty and vote on Election Day. But in Nebraska, some residents must go a step further: They are required to help run the elections. …

10/29/2024

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — After the 2020 presidential election, thousands of Donald Trump’s most fervent supporters heeded his call to join a “wild” protest of his defeat. Following Trump’s lies about a stolen election, hundreds of …

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