Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. “is never going to default” as the deadline for increasing the federal debt ceiling gets closer.

“That is never going to happen,” Bessent said Sunday in an interview with CBS’s "Face the Nation." “We are on the warning track and we will never hit the wall.”

Republican congressional ...Read more

Dr. Marty Makary, the Johns Hopkins surgeon and professor whom President Donald Trump tapped to lead the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, says it’s up to patients and their doctors whether they should get the COVID-19 vaccine — not the federal government.

Makary stood alongside Robert F. Kennedy Jr. earlier in the week as the ...Read more

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. “is never going to default” as the deadline for increasing the federal debt ceiling gets closer.

“That is never going to happen,” Bessent said in an interview for CBS’s "Face the Nation" scheduled to air Sunday. “We are on the warning track and we will never hit the wall.”

Republican...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A Florida appeals court took an unusual legal step when it last month struck down as unconstitutional a law allowing minors to get abortions without parental consent.

Florida youth have for decades been able to petition a judge for permission to have an abortion without their parents’ knowledge.

This May, a pregnant 17-...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A new survey of victims of the Palisades and Eaton fires shows most would like to return to their old neighborhoods, but they're worried that government officials can't make it happen soon enough.

The vast majority of burned-out homeowners surveyed said they intend to rebuild the homes destroyed in the devastating January fires ...Read more

Colton George felt sick. The 9-year-old Indiana boy told his parents his stomach hurt. He kept running to the bathroom and felt too ill to finish a basketball game.

Days later, he lay in a hospital bed, fighting for his life. He had eaten tainted salad, according to a lawsuit against the lettuce grower filed by his parents on April 17 in ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — The Trump administration is offering $1,000 to people who choose to leave the country.

As part of Project Homecoming, federal officials took CBP One, an app used during President Joe Biden’s administration to manage the arrival of more than a million immigrants, and turned it into a tool called CBP Home. Now, it helps people ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — It’s as if she’s squinting through a smoke-filled room. But it’s Charisse Brown’s eye condition, glaucoma, that diminishes her vision.

Brown, 38, has worked all her adult life, with a personal policy of keeping two jobs at once. But when she started losing sight in her left eye last year, she was forced to quit her ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — One Baldwin Park police officer was killed and another wounded after a shooting Saturday evening, three sources told the Los Angeles Times.

Multiple law enforcement agencies were responding to the shooting in Baldwin Park located near 4200 Filhurst Ave., said California Highway Patrol spokesperson Megan Curtiss.

One suspect had...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Law enforcement are responding to reports of at least two Baldwin Park police officers shot Saturday evening.

Multiple law enforcement agencies were responding to the shooting in Baldwin Park located near 4200 Filhurst Ave., said California Highway Patrol spokesperson Megan Curtiss.

Curtiss said it was unclear at this point how...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — After a marathon 11-hour debate, the state Senate passed a gun safety bill Friday that would make it easier to file civil lawsuits against gun manufacturers and make it harder for some residents to obtain a pistol permit.

On a mostly party-line vote, the Senate granted final legislative approval for a controversial measure ...Read more

The U.K. will create an “always-on” munitions production capacity to allow it to scale-up its defense industry when needed, as it increasingly shifts to a war footing with Russia’s assault on Ukraine showing little sign of ending.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government will invest £1.5 billion ($2 billion) to build six munitions ...Read more

NEW YORK — A pair of Port Authority cops jumped onto a luggage conveyor belt at Newark Airport to rescue a 2-year-old child who took an impromptu ride into the bowels of the terminal, officials said Saturday.

The tot was with their mother trying to rebook a flight at the JetBlue ticket counter at Newark’s Terminal A at about 6:30 p.m. on ...Read more

MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. — Four-time spaceflight veteran Peggy Whitson had a good excuse for not showing up Saturday for her own induction ceremony to the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame.

She’s in quarantine to go to space again.

Whitson is slated to command the private Axiom Space Ax-4 mission flying in a new SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft set to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California lawmakers are taking aim at proposed rules to implement a state law aimed at curbing plastic waste, saying the draft regulations proposed by CalRecycle undermine the letter and intent of the legislation.

In a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom and two of his top administrators, the lawmakers said CalRecycle exceeded its ...Read more

NEW YORK — A woman who accused Sean “Diddy” Combs of drugging and sexually assaulting her in 2003 has also filed a lawsuit against disgraced Hollywood movie producer Harvey Weinstein.

Crystal McKinney, a former fashion model and winner of MTV’s “Model Mission,” alleges the Miramax co-founder raped her and a friend in a Manhattan ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — It was bright and early and Axel Hunnicutt was howling.

He was looking for wolves. Sometimes they howl back, providing a sense of their location.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife this week reported there were three new wolf packs in the state’s far north. Hunnicutt, gray wolf coordinator for the agency, was ...Read more

NEW YORK — United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew won his reelection bid Saturday, edging out two rival candidates who challenged the longtime incumbent over his handling of retiree health care and dissatisfaction with the status quo.

Mulgrew’s caucus, known as Unity, secured 54% of the vote this election cycle, compared to...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Pressure from the Trump administration to escalate immigration arrests has led to huge spike in the number of people detained by ICE in Central Florida and raised fears that the Orange County jail could eventually hit its capacity.

The number of detainees held in the local jail for immigration violations so far this year is ...Read more