The Environmental Protection Agency is announcing a new exemption that the Trump administration says will loosen environmental regulations on diesel engines for U.S. commercial lobstermen.

The EPA is exempting a new lobster boat model from Tier 4 engine requirements, which were adopted in 2008. It’s something the federal agency says will, for...Read more

LAS VEGAS — As Lake Mead begins its nosedive toward historic lows, a bipartisan group of 12 Western representatives in Congress is calling for emergency funding to help fund solutions.

One of the officials who sent a letter to House leadership on Wednesday is Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., who said in a phone interview that the measure is in direct...Read more

A French model scout who arranged for models to meet Jeffrey Epstein has been found dead in his suburban Paris home.

An autopsy is expected to determine how Daniel Siad died, according to French publication Le Monde, who said the discovery occurred Monday night. He was 69.

His attorney said that if her client died from a heart attack, it will ...Read more

A Feeding Our Future fraudster already serving a nearly three-decade prison term was given an additional 10-year sentence Wednesday for his role in a $120,000 cash bribe to a juror during his 2024 trial.

Abdiaziz Shafii Farah, 37, of Savage, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in St. Paul after pleading guilty to one count of bribery of a ...Read more

College students pursuing majors, advanced degrees or certifications in fields that consistently earn low incomes will no longer be able to take out federal loans to pay for their schooling under new Trump administration rules.

Many of the degree programs that educate social workers, artists, teacher aides and especially certification programs ...Read more

As the Friday expiration date for temporary protected status looms, members of Sacramento’s Haitian community have expressed fear and uncertainty.

The U.S. government grants TPS to immigrants who cannot safely return to their home countries for reasons such as political unrest or natural disaster. The Supreme Court’s June 25 ruling in ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Gov. Andy Beshear announced Wednesday the state will use $255 million generated from savings and surpluses to reverse a proposed cut to Medicaid, the state-federal healthcare program for the poor and disabled.

In addition, Beshear said the state will use $4 million to restore some funding to a senior meals program, which ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In early May, a man walking his dog through his north Charlotte neighborhood spotted what appeared to be someone standing still by a tree in a shady churchyard.

His dog tugged him closer. As he approached, he realized to his horror the figure was a lifeless Black girl, held up by a ratchet strap around her neck. Her feet, in...Read more

NEW YORK — A group of landlords is suing the city’s Rent Guidelines Board, claiming the board, which is designed to operate independently, made a “sham” decision to implement a rent freeze.

The lawsuit, filed in Staten Island State Court, seeks to stop the freeze and force the board to reevaluate and vote for a rent increase.

The nine-...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Major corporations that do business in California would be required to disclose any past connections to slavery under a measure that could pass the Legislature next month.

Assembly Bill 2599 would force companies that have more than $100 million in sales annually across the world to search through their records for ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani hit back against City Council Speaker Menin’s attacks over his administration’s handling of the Legionnaires’ outbreak — saying he was putting public health over politics.

Menin has criticized the mayor for not ordering more proactive cleaning of cooling towers on the Upper East Side, where the outbreak...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani said that New Yorkers outraged by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s upcoming visit to New York City can take to the streets and protest.

The mayor announced Tuesday that the city would not legally be able to arrest Netanyahu on an International Criminal Court warrant as he’d hoped. He urged the ...Read more

NEW YORK — Deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro is tentatively set to go on trial before a jury of New Yorkers in about a year from now, a Manhattan judge ruled Wednesday.

Federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein put the court date — June 1, 2027 — on the calendar at a brief hearing attended by the ousted Latin American president and Cilia ...Read more

Tropical Storm Bertha weakened Wednesday as it moved west along the Gulf Coast and made landfall in southeastern Louisiana, according to the National Hurricane Center.

The system moved ashore in St. Bernard Parish near the Biloxi Wildlife Management Area, according to a special 3 p.m. EDT update, still with 45 mph sustained winds and higher ...Read more

The Trump administration is forging ahead with a controversial plan to collect the medical records of millions of federal workers and retirees, as well as their family members.

The Office of Personnel Management said in a notice posted last month that it will begin routinely collecting identifiable, personal health information on more than 8 ...Read more

Canadian leaders are planning their own event Friday without any American officials to celebrate the construction of the $4.7 billion Gordie Howe International Bridge over the Detroit River amid trade tensions with the United States.

On Tuesday, Canadian leaders told Michigan officials they planned to cancel a joint U.S.-Canada event planned ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Richard Graydon spent years cultivating an enviable life.

He worked for a biotech pharma company in Los Angeles. He owned a 56-foot yacht he named Silver Lining, and authorities said he was known as a master yachtsman and a world traveler.

But the U.S. Marshals Service and federal prosecutors say it was all built on a false ...Read more

HAMILTON, Mont. — The Trump administration has stepped up arrests and public condemnation of federal scientists studying viruses as the world faces one of its worst Ebola epidemics.

In June, Vincent Munster, an infectious disease researcher at the National Institutes of Health, was charged with bringing biological specimens into the U.S. ...Read more

MIAMI — Miami-Dade County may go to court over Florida’s new anti-DEI law, which bars local funding of groups or services tied to gender, race or sexual orientation.

County leaders say the legislation is sweeping enough to make Miami-Dade rethink countless spending decisions, from staffing the current Hispanic Affairs Advisory Board to ...Read more