WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has taken control of D.C.’s law enforcement and ordered National Guard troops to deploy onto the streets of the nation’s capital, arguing the extraordinary moves are necessary to curb an urgent public safety crisis. Even as district officials ...
(The Center Square) — After the signing of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act in July, a bipartisan group of 19 Ohio lawmakers plans to put more of a focus on rural health care in the state. The Ohio House Rural Hospital Caucus, led by Reps. Kellie Deeter, R-Norwalk, and Meredith Craig, R-Smithville, want to take advantage of $50 billion in federal funds to protect and strengthen rural health care across the state. “Keeping health care in our communities is vital,” Deeter said. “With new developments at the federal level and the creation of The Rural Health ...
(The Center Square) — U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visited Atlanta’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention days after a police officer died in a shooting there. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation identified 30-year-old Patrick Joseph White of Kennesaw as the person who opened fire on Clifton Road near Emory University and the CDC on Friday. White died during the incident. DeKalb County Police Officer David Rose was killed. He was a Marine veteran who joined the force in May 2024, according to the department. “Officer Rose, a proud ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he’s proud to be part of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, an archconservative network of Christian congregations. Hegseth recently made headlines when he shared a CNN video on social media about CREC, showing its pastors arguing women should not have the right to vote. Pastor Doug Wilson, a CREC co-founder, leads Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho, the network’s flagship location. Jovial and media-friendly, Wilson is no stranger to stirring controversy with his church’s hard-line theology and its embrace of ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Look what you made her do — Taylor Swift has announced her 12th studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl.” Swift announced the album on her website shortly after a countdown timer expired at 12:12 a.m. Tuesday. No release date was announced, but her site said vinyl ...
(AP) — Residents in some parts of Juneau prepared to evacuate ahead of what could be a record surge of flooding as rainwater and snowmelt in a huge basin dammed by Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier started to flow downstream toward the capital. Officials in recent days have been warning people in the flood zone to be ready to evacuate. On Tuesday morning they confirmed water had started escaping the ice dam, with flooding expected late Tuesday and on Wednesday. They advised people in the city’s flood zone to leave. The Mendenhall Glacier is about 12 miles (19 kilometers) from Juneau ...
