LOS ANGELES — The city-imposed deadline for Lineage to clean up millions of pounds of rotting food from a burned warehouse in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of L.A. is Friday, and it does not appear that the company will finish the work on time, a city official said.

“I am deeply disappointed and angry,” said Councilmember Ysabel Jurado ...Read more

Pennsylvania will not change its immunization guidelines in response to President Donald Trump’s executive order this week calling for states to reduce the number of recommended childhood vaccinations and separate a combination shot protecting against measles, mumps, and rubella.

Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, said his administration will “...Read more

NEW YORK — Luigi Mangione is set to appear in a Manhattan courtroom Friday, where he is expected to plead guilty to unspecified federal charges in relation to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, according to multiple reports.

The Associated Press and The New York Times both reported Thursday that Mangione would enter the plea ...Read more

CNN pundit Scott Jennings is reportedly being considered to replace Karoline Leavitt’s as White House press secretary.

Leavitt announced Wednesday that she will leave her post in the Trump administration at the end of the month. The 28-year-old mother of two has held that position since Trump began his second term as president in January 2025...Read more

DENVER — Colorado health officials formally ordered an Aurora detention center to turn over records to state inspectors Thursday, escalating a weeks-long standoff that may now end in a courtroom.

The state Department of Public Health and Environment gave Geo Group until Monday, Aug. 17 to provide information to state inspectors so they could ...Read more

NEW YORK — Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia is slated to meet with political donors in the Hamptons later this month for his November reelection bid, a fundraising swing that will also allow the Wall Street set a chance to vet him as a potential 2028 presidential candidate.

Ossoff is facing Republican Mike Collins as he runs for ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California put on hold a proposal to study reintroducing grizzly bears on Thursday, amid growing public concern over the state’s ability to manage wildlife predators including wolves, mountain lions, coyotes and other species of bear.

A bill to study the feasibility of bringing back grizzlies, a threatened species that ...Read more

FRESNO, Calif. — The California High-Speed Rail Authority added another year to its overall Central Valley timeline but obscured the schedule change in its latest planning document, according to a recent report by the agency’s own independent review office.

Inspector General Benjamin Belnap, whose position is state-funded, found the rail ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — A video circulating on social media appeared to show a uniformed Metropolitan Police Department officer kicking a police dog.

The video was posted Tuesday night on the Facebook page for LVEI, short for Las Vegas Emergency Incidents, and shows what was described as a police response in the area of Tropicana Avenue and Boulder ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A federal judge issued a scathing order Thursday blocking a gambit by the Trump administration to take control of federal funding for homelessness programs in Los Angeles County.

In issuing a preliminary injunction, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter found that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development acted ...Read more

U.S. investors appear poised to gain a significant stake in Cuba’s largest nickel and cobalt mining operation — in land that Cuba’s government confiscated from U.S. and Cuban owners more than 60 years ago — in what would be the first American-backed mining venture on the island in six decades.

Two rival U.S. bids are now competing for ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A California federal judge on Thursday signaled that she is likely to order immigration agents to stop arresting people without warrants unless they determine they are likely to escape.

In a tentative ruling, U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong appeared inclined to grant a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit ...Read more

MIAMI — The same week a Florida Keys racing boat team owner was sent to prison for selling cocaine, most of it lost smuggling shipments he found at sea, a grand jury indicted a charter fishing captain accused of acquiring and selling drugs the same way.

Bradford Todd Picariello, 66, who owns Outlaw Fishing Charters in the Middle Keys city of...Read more

NEW YORK — Thousands of New York City families who rely on vouchers to help cover the soaring cost of childcare will soon get a reprieve on all out-of-pocket costs, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Thursday.

While many parents receiving the subsidy are already off the hook for childcare expenses, about 22,000 families in the Child Care ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Attorneys selected a jury Thursday for the murder trial of the man accused of orchestrating the killing of Tupac Shakur.

Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 63, is now on trial in connection with the death of Shakur, who was shot near the Strip in September 1996.

The panel was finalized after three days of questioning from prosecutors and...Read more

On June 11, ICE agents trailed a car into the parking lot of Commodore John Rodgers Elementary/Middle School in Baltimore. For the family riding in that car, an everyday school drop off quickly devolved into chaos.

ICE agents pulled Jesus Acevedo Sanchez from the vehicle, pinned him to the ground and arrested him for being in the country ...Read more

NEW YORK — The NYPD will make public for the first time information about incidents in which a gun is fired but no one is struck under terms of a local law passed by the City Council Thursday.

“I believe this legislation will strengthen transparency around gun violence in our communities and provide the Council and the public with ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Homeland Security investigators conducted a wide-ranging surveillance campaign against Minnesota labor unions, trying to find evidence that they were part of an antifa conspiracy to finance domestic terrorism, according to federal records provided to the Minnesota 15, a group of protesters federally charged with impeding ...Read more

DENVER — The Colorado woman accused of throwing Molotov cocktails at a Tesla dealership in Loveland alleged in a court filing this month that federal prosecutors unfairly targeted her as part of a politically motivated effort to punish enemies of President Donald Trump.

Lucy Nelson, 43, asked U.S. District Court Judge Nina Wang to dismiss the...Read more