SAN DIEGO — Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle said this week he wants to explore whether San Diego shipyards can expand their ability to repair and maintain warships to help the fleet remain battle-ready in the sometimes volatile Indo-Pacific and Middle East.

Caudle also said he’s trying to figure out ways to reduce the need to ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The call Kathy Messerli received from a home care agency last week was wrenching: a woman with dementia sat alone at home without the supervision of aides, garbage and unpaid bills piling up.

The vulnerable Minnesotan is one of dozens languishing as their Medicaid-funded services succumb to financial pressures — a product, ...Read more

A person was detained for questioning in the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping case Tuesday during a traffic stop south of Tucson, Arizona, according to the Pima County Sheriff’s Department. The detention came hours after FBI officials released surveillance footage showing a masked individual approaching the 84-year-old’s front door the morning she ...Read more

Congressman Ro Khanna stood on the House floor Tuesday and revealed the names of six powerful men — most of them not widely known — he implied were implicated but improperly blacked out from newly released case files on late financier and alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Khanna, a Silicon Valley Democrat, and Republican Rep. Thomas ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The Black activists and community members who brought the President’s House Site into being are not letting its history be removed quietly.

A couple hundred supporters and local leaders organized by the Avenging the Ancestors Coalition rallied at the President’s House Site on Tuesday afternoon to demand the restoration of ...Read more

A group of billionaires, including Sergey Brin, is backing San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan’s campaign for California governor, as Silicon Valley flocks to support the former tech entrepreneur and his centrist platform countering the state’s liberal establishment.

Besides the Google co-founder, Mahan’s campaign received donations from David ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s threat to block a new bridge from Detroit to Canada followed a meeting between his Commerce Secretary and a billionaire who owns an existing border-crossing bridge just miles from the new span, according to two people familiar with the matter.

On Monday evening the president said on Truth Social he’d prevent the ...Read more

In a decision that banks and credit unions have already said they will appeal, a federal judge on Tuesday ruled key provisions of Illinois’ first-in-the-nation law banning certain credit card fees can go into effect.

Passed in 2024 and set to take effect this July, the law bans certain so-called swipe fees on the tax and tip portions of ...Read more

Overall funding for key climate and resource programs would drop sharply under Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed 2026‑27 budget, the Legislative Analyst’s Office’s new analysis found.

The LAO’s analysis shows that total proposed spending for California Natural Resources Agency, California Environmental Protection Agency and California ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — L.A. County voters will be asked this June to hike the sales tax rate by a half-cent to soften the blow of federal funding cuts on the region's public health system.

The county Board of Supervisors voted 4 to 1 Tuesday to put the sales tax on the ballot. County officials estimate it would generate $1 billion per year to ...Read more

The stunning Sierra Nevada red fox is one of the nation's rarest and most critically threatened mammals with fewer than 50 believed to remain in the Sierra. And now, for the first time, a specimen has been successfully GPS-collared and released back into the region — marking a major victory for conservation efforts to protect the elusive ...Read more

ST. CLOUD, Minn. — The husband of 22-year-old Hallie Tobler was charged Tuesday with stabbing her to death in their St. Cloud residence.

Tobler is the daughter of Republican gubernatorial candidate Jeff Johnson, who suspended his campaign Monday in the wake of Tobler’s death.

Dylan M. Tobler, 23, was charged with one felony count of second...Read more

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said Tuesday he is asking fellow Democratic governors to convene and discuss ways to hold President Donald Trump and his administration accountable in the courts for their aggressive immigration enforcement actions — even if that accountability comes after the president is scheduled to leave office in 2029.

While ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will unveil plans to use government funding and Pentagon contracts to sustain U.S. coal-fired power plants as he seeks to drive domestic reliance on the fossil fuel.

The marquee initiative, set to be announced Wednesday, will come through an executive order, as Trump directs Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ...Read more

​WASHINGTON — The EPA said Tuesday it would rescind the agency’s 2009 endangerment finding and all regulations based on its determination that greenhouse gas emissions are a threat to public health requiring regulation under the Clean Air Act.

The final rule is still under interagency review and hasn’t been made public or signed by ...Read more

Ex-CNN anchor Don Lemon will be represented by Minnesota’s former acting U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson in a federal criminal case tied to a demonstration at a St. Paul church last month.

Thompson notified the court on Tuesday about joining Lemon’s defense team alongside his initial lawyer, Abbe Lowell. The announcement comes weeks after the ...Read more

Authorities investigating the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie believe the person responsible for her apparent abduction lives in her hometown of Tucson, Arizona.

Soon after Guthrie went missing from her home on Feb. 1, a ransom note from the possible kidnapper was received by two local TV stations as well as TMZ. A second letter was sent only to...Read more

California reported its first confirmed measles outbreak since 2020 on Tuesday.

The highly contagious disease infected 2,276 people nationwide in 2025, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. So far in 2026, the U.S. has confirmed 733 cases, and 93% of those infected were unvaccinated.

The heightened spread of the disease ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The FBI claims it seized voting records from a Georgia county due to alleged “improprieties” with the 2020 election, part of a probe that originated with a lawyer who helped President Donald Trump unsuccessfully challenge results of that race.

Information about the investigation was included in a U.S. Justice Department ...Read more

Maryland Republican lawmakers are urging Democratic leaders to slow down emergency legislation that would end local cooperation agreements with federal immigration authorities, arguing the General Assembly is moving too quickly amid shifting national conditions and legal uncertainty.

The identical bills — House Bill 488 and Senate Bill 245 �...Read more