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Overall funding for key climate and resource programs would drop sharply under Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed 2026‑27 budget, the Legislative Analyst’s Office’s new analysis found.

The LAO’s analysis shows that ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — L.A. County voters will be asked this June to hike the sales tax rate by a half-cent to soften the blow of federal funding cuts on the region's public health system.

The county Board of Supervisors voted 4...Read more

The stunning Sierra Nevada red fox is one of the nation's rarest and most critically threatened mammals with fewer than 50 believed to remain in the Sierra. And now, for the first time, a specimen has been successfully GPS...Read more

WASHINGTON — The battle over immigration enforcement has become a fight over whether to temporarily extend funding for the last outstanding fiscal 2026 spending bill.

With no immigration deal in sight, Senate Democrats ...Read more

ST. CLOUD, Minn. — The husband of 22-year-old Hallie Tobler was charged Tuesday with stabbing her to death in their St. Cloud residence.

Tobler is the daughter of Republican gubernatorial candidate Jeff Johnson, who ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The leaders of the agencies enforcing President Trump's immigration crackdown faced tough questioning on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, with one Democratic lawmaker asking the head of ICE if he would apologize to ...Read more

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said Tuesday he is asking fellow Democratic governors to convene and discuss ways to hold President Donald Trump and his administration accountable in the courts for their aggressive immigration ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will unveil plans to use government funding and Pentagon contracts to sustain U.S. coal-fired power plants as he seeks to drive domestic reliance on the fossil fuel.

The marquee ...Read more

​WASHINGTON — The EPA said Tuesday it would rescind the agency’s 2009 endangerment finding and all regulations based on its determination that greenhouse gas emissions are a threat to public health requiring ...Read more

Ex-CNN anchor Don Lemon will be represented by Minnesota’s former acting U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson in a federal criminal case tied to a demonstration at a St. Paul church last month.

Thompson notified the court on ...Read more

Authorities investigating the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie believe the person responsible for her apparent abduction lives in her hometown of Tucson, Arizona.

Soon after Guthrie went missing from her home on Feb. 1, a ...Read more

California reported its first confirmed measles outbreak since 2020 on Tuesday.

The highly contagious disease infected 2,276 people nationwide in 2025, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. So far ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The FBI claims it seized voting records from a Georgia county due to alleged “improprieties” with the 2020 election, part of a probe that originated with a lawyer who helped President Donald Trump ...Read more

Ansel Elgort finds fatherhood "exhilarating".

The 31-year-old actor was revealed to have quietly become a dad for the first time last month when he was pictured with his child in a baby carrier alongside a mystery woman, ...Read more

Bad Bunny paid tribute to his late uncle during his Super Bowl half time show.

The 31-year-old Puerto Rican singer headlined the special concert during Sunday's (08.02.26) NFL showpiece game wearing a cream Zara set ...Read more

Britney Spears has sold her music catalogue.

The Toxic hitmaker has agreed what has been described as a "landmark deal" with publishers Primary Wave for "her ownership share" of her songs including the likes of ... Baby ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Former Rep. Tom Malinowski on Tuesday conceded his comeback bid in New Jersey’s open 11th District, clearing the path to the Democratic nomination for progressive organizer Analilia Mejia.

Mejia led ...Read more

Maryland Republican lawmakers are urging Democratic leaders to slow down emergency legislation that would end local cooperation agreements with federal immigration authorities, arguing the General Assembly is moving too ...Read more

The United States and Iran each struck a positive tone about the start of diplomatic talks, though analysts remain skeptical that the engagement will be enough to head off U.S. airstrikes.

The timeline and terms of the ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Chancellor Kamar Samuels spent Tuesday defending mayoral control of New York City’s public schools‚ a system the mayor campaigned against but now largely supports.

During a ...Read more