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RFK Jr. and other Trump officials embrace psychedelics after FDA setback

WASHINGTON (AP) — For decades, proponents of psychedelic drugs have come to Washington with a provocative message: Illegal, mind-altering substances like LSD and ecstasy should be approved f...

Authorities take custody of 21 kids in California while surrogate moms claim couple misled them

Twenty-one children are in the custody of a California child-welfare agency while authorities investigate a Los Angeles-area couple and whether they misled surrogate mothers around the count...

Trial opens against Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other leaders over Facebook privacy violations

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — An $8 billion class action investors’ lawsuit against Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and company leaders — current and former — began Wednesday, with claims stemming from t...

Gulf Coast braces for flooding as storm system builds into possible tropical depression

The weather system moving across the Florida Panhandle on Wednesday was showing a greater chance of becoming a tropical depression as it moves toward the northern Gulf Coast, according to th...

Vance touts tax breaks in Pennsylvania as he makes White House's first big pitch on Trump's new law

WEST PITTSTON, Pa. (AP) — Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday made the Trump administration's first big pitch to sell the public on President Donald Trump’s sweeping budget-and-policy packa...

First the shoes went back on. Now, at US airport security, more liquid in carry-ons may be at hand

WASHINGTON (AP) — Travelers giddy about being able to keep their shoes on while walking through TSA checkpoints at the airport again may have something else to look forward to: changes to ho...

Researchers try new ways of preserving more hearts for transplants

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two university hospitals are pioneering new ways to expand lifesaving heart transplants for adults and babies — advances that could help recover would-be heart donations th...

Feds charge 3 current or former Louisiana police chiefs in an alleged visa fraud scheme

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Federal authorities have charged three small-town Louisiana police chiefs with taking hundreds of $5,000 bribes over nearly a decade in exchange for filing false poli...

Nebraska sues neighboring Colorado over how much water it's drawing from the South Platte River

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska is suing Colorado over the amount of water it draws from the South Platte River, the latest in a long history of water rights disputes between the states that hav...

Astronomers capture the birth of planets around a baby sun outside our solar system

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own...

US deports immigrants from Jamaica, Cuba and other countries to the African kingdom of Eswatini

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The United States sent five immigrants it says were convicted of serious crimes to the African nation of Eswatini, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security sai...

Relatives say Massachusetts assisted-living blaze gutted a tough community

Gabriel House had seen better days, but for residents and their families it was the center of a caring community. The 100-unit assisted-living facility that burned Sunday night, killing ...
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