France’s new premier Francois Bayrou vowed to sharply narrow the nation’s deficit to close to 5% of GDP, a plan that threatens a repeat of the stand-off which toppled the last government.

Bayrou, who presented his new cabinet on Monday, will lay out his new policy agenda to parliament on Jan. 14 and has pledged to have a 2025 budget by mid-...Read more

ATLANTA — An all-out battle for one of Georgia’s most lucrative public contracts is underway as a group of insurers competes for the multibillion-dollar award from Gov. Brian Kemp’s administration to manage health care for roughly 2 million state Medicaid patients.

The Department of Community Health earlier this month granted new ...Read more

NEW YORK — A witness recently testified before the federal grand jury that indicted Mayor Eric Adams on corruption charges this fall, his attorney revealed in a court filing Tuesday — indicating the Turkey-related investigation into the mayor is still very active.

The filing from Alex Spiro, Adams’ lead defense attorney, identified the ...Read more

Iran said it will start easing some of the world’s tightest internet restrictions by lifting its ban on WhatsApp and Google Play — a sign that authorities want to placate domestic opponents as the Islamic Republic faces major economic and foreign-policy challenges.

Earlier on Tuesday, Iran’s Supreme Council of Cyberspace approved the ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump slammed President Joe Biden on Tuesday for commuting the death sentences of 37 federal prisoners in an act of holiday clemency.

Trump said relatives of victims are angry that Biden spared the lives of some of the “worst killers in our country,” including inmates convicted in the slayings of police and military ...Read more

BOSTON — Boston Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley praised President Joe Biden’s move to take killers off death row but added he hasn’t gone far enough.

In a statement that has gone viral, Pressley said Biden has made a “groundbreaking act” that was long overdue.

“The death penalty is a racist, flawed, and fundamentally unjust ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump slammed President Joe Biden on Tuesday for commuting the death sentences of 37 federal prisoners in an act of holiday clemency.

Trump said relatives of victims are angry that Biden spared the lives of some of the “worst killers in our country,” including inmates convicted in the slayings of police and military ...Read more

The Clark County School District settled a two-year-old lawsuit with parents who complained of an inappropriate assignment for their high school daughter.

CCSD paid $25,000 and agreed to conduct an review with administrators and staff at Las Vegas Academy of the Arts, where the incident occurred.

At a Clark County School Board meeting in May ...Read more

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson declined to resign his position with Chicago Public Schools after a high-ranking CPS official raised ethics concerns about a potential conflict of interest, according to a memo obtained by the Tribune.

CPS Chief Talent Officer Ben Felton wrote a memo less than two months after the mayor’s May 2023 ...Read more

LOS ANGELES – If you were planning to retire next year, double check your math because a law passed in the '80s is annually raising the age when Americans can collect their full Social Security benefits. And next year is no exception.

In 1983, Congress passed a law that gradually increases the age at which people may receive 100% of ...Read more

South Korea’s main opposition party is seeking to impeach Acting President Han Duck-soo in a potentially risky move to put maximum pressure on the ruling party.

The Democratic Party intends to wait till Thursday to submit an impeachment motion, according to Yonhap News, delaying its earlier plan to submit on Tuesday. Officials were ...Read more

ERWIN, Tenn. — April Boyd texted her husband before she boarded the helicopter.

“So, I don’t want to be dramatic,” she wrote on Sept. 27, “but we are gonna fly and rescue patients from the rooftop of Unicoi hospital.”

Earlier that day, Hurricane Helene roared into the Southern Appalachian Mountains after moving north through ...Read more

Numerous East Coast states are counting on offshore wind projects to power tens of millions of homes and to help them transition to cleaner energy.

But putting wind turbines at sea requires the cooperation of a powerful landlord: the federal government. Soon, that government will be led by President-elect Donald Trump, who has frequently ...Read more

AURORA, Colo. — Seven children gathered around Amaya Mills as the soon-to-be teacher asked them what activity they wanted to do next. Did they want to read to themselves? Or read with one of their classmates?

One after another, the first-graders scattered across the classroom at Ponderosa Elementary School in Aurora, settling down with books,...Read more

WASHINGTON — Rep. Ann McLane Kuster wasn’t going to become one of those lawmakers accused of lingering too long in the halls of Congress.

“I think people get into a comfortable pattern,” Kuster said this month, as she wrapped up 12 years representing New Hampshire’s 2nd District.

She led the New Democrat Coalition, a powerful center-...Read more

ATLANTA — A Honduran teenager was having contractions when she waded across the Rio Grande. She gave birth to her child — conceived during rape — at a Texas hospital, with border patrol agents waiting outside the delivery room.

Two days later, and before she had a chance to receive her baby’s U.S. birth certificate, she and her newborn ...Read more

Bill Clinton is undergoing testing at Georgetown University Hospital where he was hospitalized Monday for a fever, according to the 42nd president’s deputy chief of staff.

“President Clinton was admitted to Georgetown University Hospital this afternoon for testing and observation after developing a fever,” longtime Clinton associate Angel...Read more

Two Florida men sentenced to death after gunning down a family of four in 2006 are among 37 people on federal death row to have their sentences commuted by President Joe Biden.

Daniel Troya and Ricardo Sanchez Jr. were found guilty in 2009 for the execution-style killings of 28-year-old Jose Luis Escobedo, his 25-year-old wife Yessica, and ...Read more

South Korea’s main opposition party said it will start impeachment proceedings against Prime Minister and Acting President Han Duck-soo.

Park Chan-dae, the floor leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, made the comments at a meeting that was broadcast live on Tuesday. The opposition party said Han has indicated at the cabinet meeting that ...Read more