Arctic air gripping the Plains has broken cold-weather records in North Dakota.

Kentucky's largest city has been praised for managing to raise childhood vaccination rates at a time when may places are trying to prevent further declines.

The first general election ballots for the presidential race are going out as Alabama officials begin mailing them to absentee voters with the Nov. 5 contest less than two months away.

Election legal challenges were playing out Tuesday as voters cast ballots across the country in the midterm elections.

State and local election officials are hoping for a smooth election on Tuesday to demonstrate that voting is secure and tallies are accurate.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – BREAKING UPDATE: On Wednesday the Jefferson County grand jury announced criminal charges against an officer months after Breonna Taylor was fatally shot by police in Kentucky. Read more: Grand jury indicts 1 officer on criminal charges in fatal shooting of Breonna TaylorTaylor, a Black emergency medical worker, was shot by officers who burst into her home using a no-knock warrant during a narcotics investigation. Watch live below:Written by the Associated PressLOUISVILLE, Ky. – A grand jury in Kentucky was scheduled to present its findings to a judge Wednesday in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor at the hands of police officers who burst into her home at night. Afterward, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron planned to hold a news conference to discuss the grand jury report. Taylor, a Black emergency medical worker, was shot multiple times by officers who entered her home using a no-knock warrant during a narcotics investigation on March 13.

Yet state statistics also show hospitalizations are up since early April, which has some health officials worried. Some people are trying to stay 6 feet (2 meters) apart, as required under state orders, but others aren't. Leaders in Republican-controlled, deeply conservative Alabama, like many states, are stuck between trying to revive a lagging economy and prevent the spread of disease. As of Friday, more than 13,400 people had tested positive for the coronavirus in Alabama, and 533 had died. Alabamas jobless rate jumped to 12.9% in April during the economic shutdown linked to the coronavirus pandemic, the worst in nearly 38 years, the state said.

2013: The city government of Detroit, Michigan, with up to $20 billion in debt, files for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history, exceeding the $4 billion filing by Jefferson County, Alabama, in 2011. Detroit is also the largest city by population in the U.S. history to file for Chapter 9 bankruptcy, more than twice as large as Stockton, California, which filed in 2012. Hide Caption