The owner of seven Louisiana nursing homes whose residents suffered in squalid conditions after being evacuated to a warehouse as Hurricane Ida approached last year was arrested on Wednesday, Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry announced. Bob Glynn Dean Jr., 68, faces multiple counts of cruelty to persons with infirmities, Medicaid fraud …

President Biden said Monday he hopes to make a decision on whether he’ll support a federal gas tax holiday by the end of this week, as soaring prices at the pump cramp American budgets heading into the summer months.  Biden calls for three-month federal gas tax “holiday” Mr. Biden speaking …

Airlines in the U.S. canceled numerous flights for a second straight day on Friday as they try to recover from severe storms while accommodating growing crowds of summer vacationers. By midmorning in the eastern U.S., airlines had scrubbed more than 1,000 flights after canceling more than 1,700 on Thursday, according …

President Joe Biden on Wednesday called on U.S. oil refiners to produce more gasoline and diesel, saying their profits have tripled during a time of war between Russia and Ukraine as Americans struggle with record high prices at the pump. “The crunch that families are facing deserves immediate action,” Biden …

Learning that Trader Joe’s scaled back retirement benefits for its U.S. workforce of 50,000 was the last straw for a group of employees at one of the chain’s stores in Hadley, Massachusetts. Those workers have now filed for a union election that, if successful, would make the store the first …

Three people were killed and two injured, including a state trooper, in a shooting at a machine plant in Smithsburg, Maryland, the Washington County Sheriff’s Office said. The suspect, an employee, was also wounded and is in custody.  Authorities responded to a reported shooting at Columbia Machine Inc. at around …

Baby formula maker Abbott Nutrition said Saturday that it is restarting production at its Michigan plant after meeting requirements from the FDA. The plant shut down in February after FDA inspectors began investigating four bacterial infections in infants who had consumed formula from the plant. As baby formula supplies dried …

A woman wounded in last month’s mass shooting on a New York City subway filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the maker of the handgun allegedly used in the attack and its parent company, accusing the firearm manufacturer of “reckless disregard for human life.” Authorities say a 9mm Glock semiautomatic handgun …

A Memorial Day weekend shooting on a Las Vegas-area freeway was an apparent ambush by Hells Angels members on rival Vagos biker gang members returning from a veterans cemetery ride, according to a police report made public Tuesday. Richard John Devries, who police identified as the Las Vegas Hells Angels …

Washington — Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki, who stepped down earlier this month, will join MSNBC this fall, the network and Psaki formally announced Tuesday. Psaki is first coming on board as a political analyst, weighing in on midterms and 2024 campaign coverage, before she hosts a new …