As thousands of professors at in the University of California system say the students entering their classrooms are increasingly underprepared for university-level math, the university’s timely graduation rates just hit all-time highs. In the 2024-2025 school year, the university’s freshman four-year graduation rate reached 74% while the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Grisly photos of the dismembered corpse of a teenage girl were made public Tuesday morning at a preliminary hearing in the murder case against the singer D4vd, who prosecutors say used a chainsaw to mutilate the body of Celeste Rivas Hernandez after he killed her to cover up years of alleged sexual abuse.

Hernandez’s body was ...Read more

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston announced a plan to deliver universal childcare in the city if voters give him a second term during his annual State of the City address Tuesday evening.

Johnston said he planned to have a pilot for the program available to test the city’s design by fall 2027. If it’s successful, he will then figure out “what ...Read more

Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch, seeking to contain political fallout over his handling of sexual harassment complaints against former state Rep. Harry Benton, held outreach meetings with Democratic caucuses Tuesday, telling members that delays in taking action against Benton stemmed from the wishes of a now-former Benton ...Read more

California Attorney General Rob Bonta has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency challenging its attempt to weaken restrictions on the climate “super pollutant,” hydrofluorocarbons.

President Donald Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced in May the agency would ease requirements for ...Read more

In the latest salvo in the war between the Trump administration and California, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy jr. said Tuesday that his agency withheld $867.5 million in Medicaid payments to the state over concerns about fraud.

Kennedy also said his agency deferred $199 million in Medicaid payments to Minnesota over ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Legionnaires’ disease outbreak on Manhattan’s Upper East Side claimed its fifth life Tuesday, city Health Commissioner Alister Martin said.

“We are saddened to share that a fifth individual has passed away due to the Legionnaires’ disease cluster on the Upper East Side,” Martin said on X. “Our hearts are with their ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump minimized the prospect of immediate talks with Iran as the two sides exchanged strikes and Houthi militants in Yemen threatened shipping in the Red Sea.

Trump vowed on Tuesday to respond if the Iran-backed group had disrupted that waterway, but didn’t specify how.

His comments came after a wave of U.S. ...Read more

Steve Hilton, the Republican candidate for governor, visited Community Regional Medical Center in Fresno on Monday to highlight what he says are unnecessary unfunded government mandates that are “crippling” hospitals.

Specifically, he called for reform on seismic retrofit rules that require hospitals to meet earthquake safety standards by ...Read more

WOODLAND, Calif. — Yolo County jurors found Carlos Reales Dominguez guilty of manslaughter Tuesday but rejected second-degree murder charges in the stabbing deaths of two Davis men during a 2023 series of attacks that shocked the city.

Jurors found Dominguez not guilty of second-degree murder in the deaths of David Breaux, 50, and Karim Abou ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Generic drug manufacturers will have two years to move production to the U.S. or face a 100% import duty from August 2028, President Donald Trump said in a social media post Tuesday.

That levy would then double a year later, to 200%, in August 2029.

“This is done in order to RESHORE Generic Pharmaceutical Production into ...Read more

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration had apologized, Taylor Farms said in a post on X. An agency lab test linking its produce to the country’s worst cyclosporiasis outbreak in decades was a false positive. Not only that, but the government still hadn’t produced a laboratory result connecting the company’s lettuce to the outbreak.

The ...Read more

Federal prosecutors urged the court to sentence Vance Boelter to two life prison terms ahead of his sentencing for carrying out one of the most shocking acts of political violence in state history, as newly filed documents detail more about how he plotted the attacks and his movements in the immediate aftermath.

Boelter pleaded guilty last ...Read more

Tropical Storm Bertha strengthened Tuesday as it moved closer to the Gulf Coast, and the National Hurricane Center extended tropical storm warnings into Florida.

As of the NHC’s 8 p.m. EDT advisory, the center of Bertha was located about 120 miles west-southwest of Panama City and 105 miles south-southeast of Mobile, Alabama, moving west at 6...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Yolo County’s Board of Supervisors declared a local emergency Tuesday in response to the threat of invasive golden mussels spreading through the county’s waterways, officials announced.

Yolo County authorities confirmed June 25 that the invasive freshwater mollusk, native to Asia, had been found in county waterways ...Read more

A newly released study of children has connected the extra stress of an “unpredictable” environment early on to depression, obesity and mental health issues, factors that previously weren’t always included in traditional childhood risk screenings, its authors said.

Researchers from UC Irvine and Chapman University and two doctors from ...Read more

A federal judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit by the Justice Department targeting Minnesota’s laws prohibiting law enforcement from assisting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, saying state and local laws do not intrude on federal authority.

In a 56-page order, Chief U.S. District Judge Eric Tostrud rejected the Justice ...Read more

After U.S. strikes on Iran’s largest nuclear facilities last year, both President Donald Trump and the White House were adamant that the Middle East nation’s nuclear program had been destroyed.

“Monumental Damage was done to all Nuclear sites in Iran, as shown by satellite images. Obliteration is an accurate term!” Trump wrote on social...Read more