Emergency crews are scrambling to shuttle food and medicine to residents of California mountain communities stranded by back-to-back winter storms.
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Eli Lilly will cut prices for some older insulins later this year and immediately expand a cap on costs insured patients pay to fill prescriptions.
The latest interest rate increase, though smaller than previous hikes, will likely further raise the costs of many consumer and business loans.
Powerball’s jackpot has grown to $700 million ahead of Saturday night’s drawing.
Benjamin Obadiah Foster, 36, died at a hospital Tuesday night, hours after he shot himself while hiding in a crawlspace underneath a house in Grants Pass, Oregon.
Near Lake Tahoe, dozens of drivers were rescued on New Year’s Eve along Interstate 80 after cars spun out in the snow during the blizzard.
A windy, winter storm packing heavy snow is moving into the Sierra, closing schools at Lake Tahoe, prompting a backcountry avalanche warning and snarling traffic on I-80 west of Reno.
A bill to bind rail companies and workers to a proposed settlement will now go to President Joe Biden’s desk for his signature.
Stewart Rhodes intends to take the stand to argue he believed Trump was going to invoke the Insurrection Act to call up a militia to support him, his lawyers have said.
“There’s a hole in the hull. It took water in the motors. It took water in everything,” boat captain Ryan Kane said. “You know boats are supposed to be in the water, not in parking lots.”
As part of a plea agreement, prosecutors will not seek more than 63 months for Ronald Sandlin, 35, who is from Memphis and was arrested in Las Vegas. Local businessman Nathaniel DeGrave, 32, is awaiting sentencing on conspiracy and assault charges.
President Joe Biden warned Thursday night that “equality and democracy are under assault” in the U.S. as he sounded an alarm about Donald Trump and “MAGA Republican” adherents.
The Centers for Disease Control recommended the shots that target the newest omicron strains of COVID-19, including one for people 12 and older.
Thomas Webster’s prison sentence is the longest so far among roughly 250 people who have been punished for their conduct during the riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
Twitter said Thursday it will roll out an editing feature to subscribers of its premium Twitter Blue service later this month.