By LEA SKENE and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A federal judge is considering whether to temporarily block Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from accessing Social Security Administration systems that hold sensitive data on millions of Americans. A ...
By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A man who shot and killed an off-duty police officer in South Carolina is scheduled to become the fifth person executed in the state since the death penalty resumed last fall following a 13-year pause. Mikal Mahdi's execution ...
By AMANDA SEITZ and TOM MURPHY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Mehmet Oz promised senators on Friday to fight health care fraud and push to make Americans healthier if he becomes the next leader of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. But the former heart surgeon and ...
By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Friday passed a bill that would result in more prison sentences for fentanyl traffickers as both Republicans and Democrats seek to show they can act to rein in distribution of the deadly drug. The bill passed the Senate ...
By JOHN SEEWER and TARA COPP Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Helicopters will be permanently restricted from flying near Washington, D.C.'s airport on the same route where a passenger jet and an Army helicopter collided in midair, killing 67 people, the Federal Aviation Administration ...
By PETER SMITH Associated Press When the Episcopal Church recently announced cuts to its national staff, it was the latest in a long-running cycle among historic U.S. Protestant denominations — declines in members leading to declines in funding and thus in staff. And it wasn't ...
