Contrary to Republican assertions, undocumented immigrants are ineligible for Medicaid, Children's Health Insurance Program or Medicare, or coverage through the Affordable Care Act, though California state law requires they receive emergency services.

From Silicon Valley to Michigan, the biblical figure is in the headlines. The shift from pulpits to politics is familiar – and dangerous

The U.S. Supreme Court seems almost certain to side with President Donald Trump in an upcoming challenge to his authority to fire government officials for any reason, but a leading conservative legal scholar sent a warning that could give the justices pause.University of Virginia law professor Cale...

An animal rescue charity is celebrating after a rescue dog desperate for a loving forever home was adopted - after waiting for four-and-a-half years!

Scientists Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the development of metal–organic frameworks."

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of public schools as we know them.

Federal workers may not be entitled to back pay after the government shutdown ends, the Trump administration’s budget office wrote in a new draft memo obtained by The Washington Post, ratcheting up te...

A White House insider issued a warning Wednesday to journalist and author Michael Wolff following several claims of his connecting President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump with the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein."Michael Wolff should be looking over his shoulder," said a “source clos...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — At the Vatican’s Jubilees of the Missions and of Migrants, Latino Catholics ask for dignity, visibility and hope.

A draft memo from the White House Office of Management and Budget indicates that furloughed federal workers might not get back pay after the government shutdown, prompting criticism from Maryland lawmakers and union leaders who contend this could break a 2019 law that guarantees such pay.

The family members of President Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick are poised to benefit from efforts to remake the pharmaceutical industry.

Soaring tech valuations could drop amid potentially ‘disappointing’ progress on AI, central bank says; gold has doubled in two years and extends 50% rally so far this year Peter Hargreaves, the billionaire co-founder of Hargreaves Lansdown, is retiring from the UK’s largest personal investment site, seven months after its £5.4bn acquisition by private equity firms. Hargreaves, 79, who set up the business in 1981 in the back bedroom of his house in Clifton with Stephen Lansdown, is handing his board position to his son Robert and said this “marks a proud new chapter in the family legacy”. His firm pioneered “DIY” investments, allowing people to invest directly in shares via its website without costly financial advisers. The Bristol-based company said he had rejoined the board earlier this year to “provide continuity and support through a period of change” following its takeover by a private equity consortium of Jersey-based buyout giant CVC Capital Partners, Sweden’s Nordic Capital and the Abu Dhabi wealth fund, which completed in March. Hargreaves Lansdown is a company I have loved ever since its formation in 1981 and after the takeover, I felt it was important that I had close contact with the business. I have been greatly impressed by the strength and direction of the team now leading the business and I am confident it is now well-placed for future success. Continue reading...

An artist who spoke with The New York Times about her experience with Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein revealed where the president might appear in the Epstein files. Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein between 1995 and 1996, told the outlet that she made numerous reports to the New York Police Dep...

Far-right MEPs heckled EU Commission president while she called them names, in a failed bid to oust her from her post.

US President Donald Trump said Ukraine has "to be able to defend" itself, as his comments contradict a last week’s decision to pause key weapons deliveries to Ukraine.

Americans are realizing that the country’s two-tiered system of market-rate housing and government-operated, low-income housing isn’t doing the trick.

US President Donald Trump has confirmed that 30% tariffs will be imposed on all South African goods starting 1 August 2025.

Children’s commissioner says any Labour strategy to tackle deprivation must scrap the two-child benefit cap Children in England are living in “almost Dickensian levels of poverty” where deprivation has become normalised, the children’s commissioner has said, as she insisted the two-child benefit limit must be scrapped. Young people said they had experienced not having enough water to shower, rats biting through their walls, and mouldy bedrooms, among a number of examples in a report on the “crisis of hardship” gripping the country. Continue reading...

"This (war) cannot continue; it must stop. To achieve this, in coordination with American senators, Europe is preparing to introduce, based on French proposals, the toughest sanctions we have imposed ...

From New York’s mayoral race to Jeff Bezos’ wedding party, critics of the economic system abound. But few can agree on solutions. In this episode of The Big View podcast, author and investor Ruchir Sharma argues the problem is big government, entrenched companies, and cheap debt.

Fireworks are as American as apple pie. The colorful displays are synonymous with celebrating the country's independence.

A woman gave birth to her son on the sidewalk just feet outside of a birthing center.