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Since the Covid-19 pandemic shuttered offices nationwide, New York City has bet heavily on converting empty office buildings into apartments to address its chronic housing shortage.

When Halle Cooley returned home after nearly a month surviving in the Panamanian jungle without proper nutrition and sleep for Netflix’s reality competition series “Outlast: The Jungle,” she quickly realized the challenge was far from over.

In the first state to implement the Trump administration mandate, Medicaid participants are anxious for information — and are struggling to get it.

Utah prosecutors this week laid out the most detailed public reconstruction yet of the alleged events surrounding the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the influential conservative activist whose killing last fall rocked American politics.

The agency’s recommendation comes as the Trump administration has sought to ramp up the construction of the facilities.

A Southern California trainer who had 11 dogs die in a hot van, tried to have them cremated and lied to owners was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison Friday, officials said.

LOS ANGELES — Actor Randolph Mantooth, best known for his role as firefighter and medic John Gage in NBC’s “Emergency!” television series during the 1970s, has died at age 80 after a long illness, his family said Friday.

Rescue efforts continued Friday amid roiling floodwaters in parts of southeast Missouri, where nearly a foot of rain fell in some areas earlier in the day and more was expected.

One thing was clear when Nolan Wells’ family and friends spoke about him on Friday: He had an exceedingly bright future.

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