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Higgs had been sentenced to death for the 1996 killings of three women. His lawyers had tried to argue that his diagnosis of COVID-19 would make death by lethal injection "cruel."

With possible furloughs weeks away, the House and Senate passed a funding bill for the Capitol Police. It also has money for Afghan refugees who face danger with the U.S. military leaving the country.

Gov. Gavin Newsom is still warning of a potential surge in cases this winter.

Absent federal funding, volunteer aid groups are providing much of the humanitarian relief along the U.S.-Mexico border.

AQMD board adopted rule changes Friday requiring emissions limits on oxides of nitrogen. Those are the gases produced by combustion that contribute to ozone smog.

The Texas weather calamity is an "absolutely awful nightmare," says City Council member Natasha Harper-Madison. "We're desperately waiting for state and federal cavalry to come a runnin'."

Now that the San Diego Convention Center is no longer housing the homeless, it's expected to begin welcoming unaccompanied migrant children — up to 1,400 of them — this weekend.

In one of the hardest hit countries in the world, the main strategy is a so-called early treatment combo of unproven medications — endorsed by President Jair Bolsonaro.

A comprehensive dataset gives the American public the same view of the status of the pandemic that federal officials have but previously held back. The outlook is bleak.

The storm brought the first measurable rain to the county since October, when the region experienced some mild showers.