A toddler got a nasal swab test but left before seeing a doctor. The bill was $445.
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Ryan Wettstein Nauman was inconsolable one evening last December. After being put down for bed, the 3-year-old from Peoria, Illinois, just kept crying and crying and crying, and nothing would calm her down.
Her mother, Maggi Wettstein, remembered fearing it could be a yeast or urinary tract infection, something they had been dealing with during potty training. The urgent care centers around them were closed for the night, so around 10:30 p.m. she decided to take Ryan to the emergency room at Carle Health.
Child care in the U.S. today can cost more than families pay for rent, a mortgage or college tuition
The soaring cost of child care in the U.S. can now exceed what families pay for housing or college.
Americans say they're most grateful for friends and family this year.
Mexico suggests it could retaliate with tariffs after Trump threat: "There is no subordination here"
President Claudia Sheinbaum suggested Tuesday that Mexico could retaliate ———with tariffs of its own, after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump threatened to impose 25% import duties on Mexican goods if the country doesn't stop the flow of drugs and migrants across the border.
Walmart's decision to roll back some of its diversity, equity and inclusion policies nationwide are designed to "ensure every customer, every associate" feels welcome and like they belong, according to John Furner, president and CEO of Walmart U.S.
Captain Ed Evans began his day well before dawn, preparing Southwest flight 8921 for a nearly 19-hour journey. The year-old Boeing 737 MAX8 flew over 4,000 miles, traveling from Baltimore to Denver, Long Beach, Reno, Las Vegas, Sacramento and back to Las Vegas.
Tom Homan, selected by President-elect Donald Trump to be the "border czar" in the new administration, is traveling Tuesday to the U.S.-Mexico border with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Abbott's office said.
A special agent at the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been charged with sexually assaulting two women, according to police and court records. The agent, Eduardo Valdivia, was previously acquitted of attempted murder for shooting a man on a Metro subway train near Washington, D.C., four years ago. He was arrested in Maryland on Monday.
Married couples across the U.S. have had access to no-fault divorce for more than 50 years, an option many call crucial to supporting domestic abuse victims and key to preventing already crowded family courts from drowning in complicated divorce proceedings.
NEW YORK -- An Osprey being used to ferry White House staff and government officials from an event in New York on Monday was grounded due to a safety concern, with one witness reporting flames under the right engine.
A sonar image suspected of showing the remains of the plane of Amelia Earhart, the famed American aviator who disappeared over the Pacific in 1937, has turned out to be a rock formation.
A pilot and a rescue dog he was transporting to an animal shelter were killed when a small plane crashed in the snowy woods of the Catskill Mountains, though two other dogs were later found to have survived, authorities said.