1 out of every 4 Americans struggling to pay medical debt, new survey shows
Some lawmakers are determined to make healthcare more affordable after a recent survey found one in four Americans are struggling to pay off medical debt.
Some lawmakers are determined to make healthcare more affordable after a recent survey found one in four Americans are struggling to pay off medical debt.
Thousands of protesters in Bangladesh took out their anger at exiled former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday by destroying a family home that came to symbolize the country's independence — and now, they say, the authoritarianism they believe she led. The attack was sparked by a speech Hasina planned to give to supporters from exile in neighboring India, where she fled last year during a deadly student-led uprising against her 15-year rule. The house in the capital, Dhaka, had been home to Hasina's late father and Bangladesh’s independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who declared the country's formal break from Pakistan there in 1971.
60 Minutes is today posting these transcripts of our interview with Vice President Kamala Harris and have provided them to the FCC.
A sixth person has died as a result of a massive explosion of illegal fireworks over New Year's in Honolulu, police said Wednesday. A 30-year-old woman died at a local hospital at about 5:59 a.m., the Honolulu Police Department said in a statement. The blast set off fresh calls for a crackdown on illegal fireworks that have become increasingly more common in Hawaii.
Several unions are suing to block DOGE from accessing the agency's sensitive government systems and firing career personnel.
Mayor Cherelle Parker said five people are still hospitalized following a fatal medical jet crash in Northeast Philadelphia, three of whom are in critical condition.
The FAA said the incident was a plane crash. Evidence such as photos of debris captured after the incident corroborate the report.
U.S. Arab American and Muslim leaders, including some who supported Donald Trump in the 2024 election, criticized the president's proposal for the U.S. to take over Gaza and resettle Palestinians as unacceptable and antithetical to the push for lasting peace. The leaders largely dismissed Trump's comments as unrealistic bluster, however, and said he was unlikely to pay a big political price in the community. "We believe that his ideas, as well intentioned as they might be, rubbed a lot of people the wrong way," Bishara Bahbah, who founded Arab Americans for Trump and helped rally support for him in Michigan and other battleground states, told Reuters.
Winter storms can bring all sorts of precipitation, from snow and sleet to freezing rain and plain old rain. Here's when each type falls.
For the federal government's largest group of employees — nurses caring for military veterans through the Department of Veterans Affairs — the Trump administration's deferred resignation offer and its looming Thursday deadline come amid longstanding staffing shortages, deemed severe at more than half of all facilities. “We’re already facing a staffing crisis in our hospitals,” said Irma Westmoreland, a registered nurse who heads the Veterans Affairs unit for National Nurses United. Nurses for the VA — the federal government's largest employer — comprise the biggest single group of federal workers, numbering more than 100,000 and accounting for 5% of all full-time permanent employees, according to an Associated Press analysis of personnel data.
U.S. President Donald Trump's proposal that the U.S. take over the war-torn Gaza Strip prompted confusion and skepticism from some of his fellow Republicans on Wednesday, while others backed his "bold, decisive" idea. Meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Tuesday, Trump proposed the U.S. "take over Gaza" and create a "Riviera of the Middle East" after resettling Palestinians elsewhere. The idea prompted international condemnation and some dissent from Republicans in Congress, who have largely fallen in line behind Trump's initiatives such as pausing foreign aid and eliminating thousands of federal workers.
Footage, released by the Maitland police, shows Jordan's Lamborghini resting sideways on railroad tracks. He told police he had left a strip club.
The U.S. Military Academy at West Point has disbanded cultural clubs in response to President Donald Trump's executive order last week to abolish programs and initiatives that focus on diversity, equity and inclusion across the Defense Department and the Coast Guard.
If you’re feeling disconnected from others, or just disenchanted with the day, you might consider trying loving-kindness meditation, writes a scholar of mindfulness.
A guest at a beachside hotel found a surprise visitor in her hotel room when she came back from an evening walk.
Fed officials appear to have a unified message this week on the question of how they should react to President Donald Trump’s new tariffs: We’re taking our time.
Dozens of Head Start programs, which provide childcare and preschool education to low-income children, have been unable to access previously approved federal funding, putting some programs at risk of having to close their doors in the coming days, according to a survey by the National Head Start Association.
President Javier Milei's decision echoes that of his ally, U.S. President Donald Trump.
Mexico's president shifted military troops to her country's northern border in a deal with Trump to target drugs, migrants.
Little infrastructure in Gaza is still standing. Here's how the territory has evolved under Israeli control.
The M23 armed group and allied Rwandan forces launched a new offensive on Wednesday in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, days before the Rwandan and Congolese presidents are due to attend a crisis summit.We want peace," one attendee, Jacqueline Ngengele, told AFP. DRC President Felix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame are due to attend a joint summit of the eight-country East African Community and 16-member Southern African Development Community in the Tanzanian city of D