SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sean Tran, a first-year UC Davis student, began to blossom as he threw himself into campus culture. He experienced college life with a core group of friends and loved his environmental sciences degree program.

To further his career opportunities, Tran pledged Alpha Kappa Psi, a co-ed professional business fraternity, one ...Read more

BALTIMORE — After delivering a load of sugar to the Domino refinery in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor two winters ago, a 567-foot bulk carrier departed for Georgia but didn’t get very far before experiencing engine trouble.

Not long after the Nazenin sailed underneath the Francis Scott Key Bridge, a mechanical malfunction cut the flow of ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. – Esther JeanBart leaned over her son’s wheelchair, caressing his face and trying to make him giggle. Gianni JeanBart was under the weather, but still his eyes rolled toward her and his mouth widened, cracking a smile.

Esther JeanBart said she has missed the sound of Gianni’s voice the most. In 2017, the U.S. Marine was in a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is poised to hear its most important case ever on the homelessness crisis, and to decide whether cities in California and the West may enforce laws against camping on sidewalks or other public property.

Homelessness has often been cited as the most intractable problem for cities in the West, and it has grown ...Read more

Israel launched a retaliatory strike on Iran less than a week after Tehran’s rocket and drone barrage, according to two U.S. officials, but Iranian media appeared to downplay the incident in the hours that followed the initial reports.

An explosion was heard early Friday in Iran’s central city of Isfahan, the country’s semi-official Fars ...Read more

Israel launched a retaliatory strike on Iran less than a week after Tehran’s rocket and drone barrage, according to two U.S. officials, raising fears of a widening conflict across the Middle East.

An explosion was heard early Friday in Iran’s central city of Isfahan, the country’s semi-official Fars news agency reported. Nuclear ...Read more

Israel launched a missile strike on Iran less than a week after Tehran’s rocket and drone barrage, according to two U.S. officials.

An explosion was heard Friday in Iran’s central city of Isfahan, the country’s semi-official Fars news agency reported, as concerns mounted about Israeli retaliation.

Flights were suspended in Isfahan and ...Read more

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A top House Democratic leader took a first step Thursday toward expelling State Rep. Kevin Boyle from the state House, as the lawmaker faces criminal charges and his family says he’s suffering from a serious mental health condition.

Democratic House Majority Leader Matt Bradford, in response to Boyle’s situation, ...Read more

Airborne viruses will be called “pathogens that transmit through the air” under new terminology the World Health Organization hopes will end a scientific rift that hampered the early response to COVID-19.

After two years of consultations involving over 100 scientists, a WHO-led working group agreed to the term to describe diseases caused ...Read more

An explosion was heard early Friday in Iran’s central city of Isfahan, the semi-official Fars news agency reported, citing local sources.

The cause of the blast is unknown, according to the report. An Iranian army air base and Isfahan’s airport are reportedly close to the explosion site, Fars said. Global oil and gold prices rose.

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NEW YORK — The 12 New Yorkers who will decide whether or not Donald Trump is a felon before this year’s presidential election were seated during a dramatic day of proceedings Thursday, leaving the court to find five alternates before his historic hush money trial begins in earnest.

“We have our jury,” Manhattan Supreme Court Justice ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado will distribute $24 million in one-time funding to public school districts and charter schools impacted by the unprecedented influx of immigrant students who arrived after the annual October headcount that determines districts’ state funding.

Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday signed the bipartisan bill, HB24-1389, authorizing ...Read more

BOSTON — Attorneys on Thursday selected two more in the third batch of potential jurors in the white-hot Karen Read murder case at Norfolk Superior Court, but didn’t get enough for trial and will have to interview at least one more batch.

Jury selection began Tuesday in Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham with more than 90 candidates. ...Read more

CHICAGO — Anticipating Chicago will see a surge of buses bearing migrants from the southern border ahead of the Democratic National Convention in August, organizers say they’re relying on Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker to come up with a plan to stave off any ensuing potential chaos.

So far, Johnson and Pritzker have ...Read more

A petition to protect reproductive freedoms in the Nevada Constitution can advance to the November ballot, the State Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

Justices determined the District Court made errors in an earlier ruling saying, “the initiative petition has a single subject: the establishment of a fundamental right to reproductive freedom. All ...Read more

NEW YORK — NYPD officers arrested more than 100 Columbia University students Thursday after groups protesting the war in Gaza refused to take down a two-day encampment zone.

Hundreds of cops flooded the campus at the request of the university president, with buses on standby to transport demonstrators downtown for trespassing. Other students,...Read more

An Orange County, California, fertility clinic accidentally destroyed embryos after they came in contact with hydrogen peroxide while an employee was cleaning an incubator, according to a pair of lawsuits filed by two couples on Thursday.

The couples, who failed to become pregnant after the embryos were implanted in late January, accuse FPG ...Read more

OAKLAND, Calif. — Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price on Thursday announced criminal charges against three police officers involved in the 2021 death of Mario Gonzalez, who stopped breathing while being pinned to the ground by multiple officers.

Price is charging three Alameda Police Department officers — Eric McKinley, James ...Read more

A petition to protect reproductive freedoms in the Nevada Constitution can advance to the November ballot, the State Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

Justices determined the District Court made errors in an earlier ruling saying, “the initiative petition has a single subject: the establishment of a fundamental right to reproductive freedom. All ...Read more