ELKO, Nev. — Anger, devastation, and concern for her patients washed over Bridget Martinez as she learned that her residency training program in rural northeastern Nevada would be shuttered. The doctor in training remembered telling one of her patients that, come July of this year, she would no longer be …

Washington — Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut, fractured his femur Saturday during a parade celebrating the UConn Huskies’ NCAA men’s basketball title, he said. Blumenthal said on Twitter that he suffered the injury after a fellow parade attendee tripped and fell on him. “Routine surgery tomorrow just to …

A suspect in Michigan is facing an assault charge after allegedly hitting a grocery market clerk over the head with a frozen fish on Sunday, authorities said this week. “Warren Police hooked and netted a suspect in connection with an altercation at a local fish counter,” the Macomb County prosecutor’s …

Tennessee Republican lawmakers took the first steps Monday to expel three Democratic members from the GOP-dominant House for their role in a recent gun control protest at the state Capitol. Resolutions have been filed against Reps. Gloria Johnson, Justin Jones and Justin Pearson after they led chants from the House floor …

Meghan Markle has beaten a defamation lawsuit filed against her by half-sister Samantha Markle after a judge on Friday dismissed the case. The lawsuit, filed in Tampa, Florida, in March 2022, alleged the Duchess of Sussex made “demonstrably false and malicious statements” about her sister in a 2021 CBS interview …

The assailant in the Nashville school shooting legally bought seven firearms from five local stores and used three of those weapons in Monday’s attack, officials said Tuesday. Police said the gun purchases were made over the past few years and hidden from the assailant’s parents, with whom the shooter lived. …

Hindenburg Research is taking aim at Jack Dorsey’s Block, formerly known as Square, alleging that what the influential short seller called the payments company’s “magical” financial technology relied on something less enchanting: fraud. Shares of Block, co-founded by Dorsey in 2009, plunged $11.33, or 15.6%, to $61.32 in afternoon trading.  Hindenburg …

Produced by Chris Young Ritzen, George Osterkamp, Mead Stone and Gary Winter In August 2022, after 46 years, the last of three men convicted of kidnapping 26 children and their bus driver was paroled from a prison in California.  It was one of the largest kidnappings in U.S. history. A …

An Indiana man was taken into custody last week in connection with a gruesome cold case murder i Georgia that had been unsolved for more than three decades, authorities said. The man, identified as Larry Padgett, 59, of Loogootee, Indiana, was arrested on March 1 in the 1989 killing of …

JPMorgan Chase is suing its former executive Jes Staley, alleging that he aided in hiding Jeffrey Epstein’s yearslong sex abuse and trafficking in order to keep the financier as a client. The lawsuit also accuses Staley of sexually assaulting a woman under Epstein’s auspices.  The New York bank seeks to …