British actor Patrick Stewart died Wednesday at 86. His spokesperson said Thursday that he died from Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body dementia.

The two conditions often occur together, said University of California, Los Angeles neurology professor Dr. Keith Vossel, and when that happens, the individual’s decline may be faster.

Lewy body ...Read more

ST. CLOUD, Minn. — Vice President JD Vance will not be traveling to Minnesota on Friday morning after all, according to the spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota. The cancellation comes hours after the vice president’s office said Vance would be in St. Cloud with a fraud-related announcement.

White House officials did ...Read more

California’s proposed billionaires tax is losing support days before Election Day, according to the second major independent poll released this week.

Thursday’s poll by the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley found 42% of likely voters in favor of Proposition 40 and 50% opposed, with 8% undecided. In a mid-September Berkeley ...Read more

Former ESPN reporter Britt McHenry says she threw a drink at a man after he said “something truly vile to me” during an incident at a Washington Wizards game last week that reportedly led to McHenry resigning from her job with the U.S. Department of State the following day.

Video footage, posted by TMZ, from the Wizards’ game against the ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Justice sent subpoenas to at least two California election officials earlier this month, ordering them to appear before a grand jury on Nov. 4, the morning after voting ends in the midterm elections, according to copies of the documents reviewed by The Sacramento Bee.

The subpoenas were served last week, according to the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security for the first time has used one of its recently acquired planes to send deportees to Mexico, potentially ending months of uncertainty about jets bought under former Secretary Kristi Noem.

A DHS-owned 737-700 plane made by Boeing Co. made two trips from Texas to Mexico on Wednesday and Thursday...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Forecasters warn of coastal flooding and high tides in Southern California, but officials at Southern California Edison say dozens of stored canisters containing nuclear waste at the now-shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station pose no public safety threats — even if rainfall in the coming months is heavier than expected. ...Read more

Public health officials have confirmed 80 cases of measles in Minnesota so far this year — the highest total in 36 years for the highly infectious but vaccine-preventable disease.

The surge is largely because of an outbreak in Todd County in central Minnesota, which so far has reported 57 cases. The county accounted for all 37 of the measles ...Read more

Minnesota voters on Tuesday will decide whether to give Democratic Attorney General Keith Ellison a third term or elect private attorney Ron Schutz as the first Republican to hold the office in more than 50 years.

What’s at stake? The attorney general is responsible for representing the state of Minnesota in legal matters like disputes with ...Read more

Within a few short hours, a helpful postpartum visit from her California bestie took a tragic turn: The Pittsburgh mom's new twin boys were both hospitalized — one would not survive — and her friend was the main suspect in the abuse.

That friend, Nicole Virzi, of San Diego, pleaded guilty this week in the 2024 death of 6-week-old Leon Katz ...Read more

NEW YORK — Six people were injured, including three children, when a driver jumped a curb and slammed into a parked ambulance at an NYPD Halloween trick or treat event in Brooklyn Thursday, cops and police sources said.

Driving a black sedan, the out-of-control motorist, 56, careened onto the sidewalk on Bleecker St. near Knickerbocker Avenue...Read more

A week after launching an unprecedented deployment of military prowess onto Haitian soil, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele is asking the Haitian people to trust him, telling them Thursday that he’s not invading their Caribbean nation and all he wants is his men back — and to teach Haiti’s gangs a lesson.

Four aviation technicians ...Read more

On Thursday morning, a former taco truck cruised into the parking lot of a Tampa Heights shuffleboard bar. One side read “The Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Bookmobile,” alongside a red-lettered call to “Release all the files.”

The other side of the truck featured a timeline of an alleged relationship between the president...Read more

BOSTON — A group seeking to overturn a recent Massachusetts abortion law expanding physicians’ ability to perform abortions after 24 weeks reported that they have gathered nearly 100,000 signatures.

That tally is overshooting the bar to put a ballot initiative before voters in 2028 and potentially suspend the law in the interim.

“The ...Read more

A federal judge in Miami signaled Thursday that she is strongly inclined to rule in favor of Florida International University in a First Amendment lawsuit brought by four students suspended or expelled over racist, antisemitic and violent messages exchanged in private group chats.

Chief U.S. District Judge Cecilia Altonaga, speaking after two ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Federal and state authorities searched the autism service providers Iska Inc. and Bright Horizon Therapy Center, along with other sites in Minnesota on Thursday.

An FBI spokesman said they are working with a handful of agencies on “court-authorized investigative activity at several sites.”

The FBI declined to provide ...Read more

Three days after four Salvadoran soldiers went missing in a gang ambush in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s government took to social media trying to project the image that it was in charge and dealing with the crisis.

“The government coordinates the State’s response to the kidnapping of Salvadoran soldiers,” read the caption accompanying a ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — Federal prosecutors on Thursday announced indictments against 18 North Carolina residents on charges of illegally voting as noncitizens in the 2024 election.

The news comes just five days before Election Day and two weeks after the U.S. Department of Justice indicted 10 other individuals on illegal voting charges.

“If you ...Read more