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The Mi'kmaq Nation in Maine spent about $50,000 of its opioid settlement funds to build a healing lodge it will use for traditional sweat ceremonies to help people recover from addiction.

A tribe in Maine is using opioid settlement funds on a sweat lodge to treat addiction

Hundreds of Native American tribes are getting money from lawsuit settlements with opioid companies. Some are investing the new funds in traditional healing practices to treat addiction.

The Edward J. Schwartz Courthouse, which houses the U.S. Southern District Court of California, is pictured in downtown San Diego on April 9, 2024.

Federal judge bans 'excited delirium' from upcoming Chula Vista police misconduct trial

The decision comes just months after California lawmakers outlawed the use of the disproven medical theory as a cause of death.

Local assistance center aids storm victims as wet, blustery winter weather heads toward San Diego area

Another significant spell of rainy and blustery conditions is bearing down this week on the San Diego area.

Rady Children's Hospital is seen on Oct. 31, 2023. San Diego, Calif.

Rady Children’s Hospital secretly surveilled teen and her parents in failed attempt to prove abuse

The family’s federal lawsuit alleges the hospital, working alongside San Diego County investigators, used covert video surveillance to monitor the family.

FILE - President Donald Trump speaks during a rally protesting the electoral college certification of Joe Biden as President in Washington, on Jan. 6, 2021.

Takeaways from the Trump indictment that alleges a campaign of 'fraud and deceit'

The indictment of Trump marks the first time that the former president has been formally held accountable for his efforts to overturn his 2020 defeat.

From left to right: Brayan Vazquez, Karen Perez and Adam Modzelewski recently became U.S. citizens at a naturalization ceremony in Phoenix.

In their own words, new U.S. citizens look to voting in 2024

For some newly naturalized U.S. citizens in Arizona, they see voting in next year's elections as an important responsibility.

A woman and her child stand in front of a landscape denuded by gold mining in the southern Peruvian jungle in the Madre de Dios region. This picture is from 2015. Today, there's an effort to plant saplings to revive the forest.

Gold mining reduced this Amazon rainforest to a moonscape. Now miners are restoring it

Illegal gold mining has ravaged the Peruvian Amazon, leaving behind pollution and denuded landscapes. A group of miners are working with a U.S. charity to restore the forest.

Cochise County Supervisors Tom Crosby and Peggy Judd face felony charges for refusing to meet Arizona's deadline for certifying 2022 election results.

Arizona GOP county officials face charges after refusing to certify election on time

Republican officials of Arizona's Cochise County face criminal charges after they risked more than 47,000 people's votes for the 2022 midterm elections by refusing to certify them by the deadline.

Nadine Seiler protest as she holds a banner outside the Washington, D.C., federal court on Tuesday in Washington.

The latest Trump indictment lists 6 unnamed co-conspirators. Here's what we know

Despite prosecutors listing six of his alleged co-conspirators, Donald Trump will be standing alone in Washington, D.C.'s federal courthouse in his first court appearance since being indicted Tuesday.

An undated illustration with a photo of the California State Capitol, coins and the text "reparations."

California debates who should be eligible for reparations for slavery

Recommendations start "with those folks who are clearly descendants of 250 years of wage theft in this country," says Sen. Steven Bradford.

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