Matt Sedensky, Associated Press

Hundreds of thousands of nursing home residents are locked in a wretched Medicaid bind: Driven into poverty, forced to hand over all income and left to live on a stipend as low as $30 a month.

Jair Bolsonaro was hospitalized with abdominal pain Monday near Orlando, keeping him away from devotees that made their way to a gated community that has become his temporary home.

In rare cases of serious illness from the shots, the injured are blocked from suing and steered instead to an obscure federal bureaucracy with a record of seldom paying claims.

With the fate of the White House undecided Wednesday, a jittery and bitterly divided America braced for rocky days to come and the possibility a man they despise would be leading the nation.

They were four people charged with protecting the safety of others, gunned down in a place where the nation's defense is the paramount mission. They are being deemed heroes by some, and the cruel irony of protectors becoming targets was not lost, with President Obama calling it "a heartbreaking circumstance."

Medicare said Wednesday it plans to pay doctors to counsel patients about end-of-life care, the same idea that six years ago sparked accusations of "death panels" by Sarah Palin and fanned a political furor around President Obama's health care law.

Diana Nyad ended her fourth attempt in nearly 35 years to swim across the Straits of Florida today, her dream of setting a record thwarted by storms, jellyfish stings, shark threats, hypothermia and swollen lips.

Davy Jones, the lead singer of the 1960s group The Monkees, died of a massive heart attack Wednesday in Florida, his spokeswoman said. He was 66.