The Supreme Court will hear a case determining the fate of free preventive services under the Affordable Care Act. In a brief order issued Friday, the justices said they will consider whether members of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force were constitutionally appointed. The Affordable Care Act requires insurers and group health plans to...

The Supreme Court decided Friday to take up the Biden administration’s appeal defending its proposal to ease applications for the Borrower Defense student debt relief program.   In a brief order, the justices agreed to review an appeals court ruling that favored a challenge brought by an association of schools in Texas that argue the...

The New Orleans Police Department released a body camera video of officers fatally shooting a man who earlier had driven a rented vehicle into a crowd of people on Bourbon Street, killing 14 and injuring dozens more.  The video, which was released Friday, shows the aftermath of Army veteran Shamsud-Din Jabbar crashing a white Ford...

{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story Earth sees scorching temps in hottest year on record: NOAA Earth saw its hottest year ever recorded last year, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released Friday. © AP In 2024, Earth overall saw its highest global temperature dating...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) invited President-elect Trump to California on Friday amid a war of words between the two leaders over the Los Angeles area wildfires.  “In this spirit of this great country, we must not politicize human tragedy or spread disinformation from the sidelines,” Newsom wrote in a letter to Trump. “Hundreds of...

President-elect Trump’s two co-defendants in the Mar-a-Lago case are asking U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to further stay any release of special counsel Jack Smith’s final report. If successful, the move would likely run out the clock, tying the matter up in court with little time to spare before Trump’s inauguration. Trump and his co-defendants have turned...

President-elect Trump named Bill Briggs as Deputy Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration and Ed Russo as his pick for the Environmental Advisory Task Force.

A wife desperate to bring her husband home after two-plus years of wrongful detainment in Afghanistan has flown to Mar-a-Lago to implore President-elect Trump to take up her case.