WASHINGTON — President Trump on Monday forcefully rejected calls to slow the development of artificial intelligence, dismissing concerns about its risks as a "hoax" and warning the United States remains locked in a fierce technological race with China.

The president's position has put him at odds with a growing chorus of industry leaders and ...Read more

A federal judge has temporarily blocked enforcement of Illinois’ new medical aid-in-dying law against Catholic healthcare providers, siding with a lawsuit from Cardinal Blase Cupich a day after a different judge refused to block the law entirely in a separate case.

The Friday ruling from U.S. District Judge Franklin U. Valderrama temporarily ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Santa Barbara County man on Monday admitted to detonating a bomb at a courthouse in 2024 in retaliation for law enforcement seizing his firearms earlier that year.

Nathaniel James McGuire, 22, pleaded guilty to the use of a weapon of mass destruction and malicious destruction of a building using an explosive, according to the ...Read more

NEW YORK — A man wearing a black-and-red bandana was seen climbing out of a sewer in Queens, with him and four other men taking off after putting the manhole back in place — the latest mysterious underground incident, police said Monday.

Officers were sent to Juniper Boulevard South and 74th Street in Middle Village after someone called 911...Read more

Sen. Mitch McConnell confirmed he's returning to the U.S. Senate Monday, returning to the Capitol for the first time since he was hospitalized in June.

The veteran GOP lawmaker was seen in a wheelchair at the Capitol shortly after announcing he would return, photos show.

“Today, I’ll cast my first Senate vote since I took a bad fall back ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The families of four children are suing the organizations that run the Feather River Adventist School in Oroville, where a man used a ghost gun to shoot and seriously wound two kindergartners at the small faith-based campus in Northern California.

The lawsuit was filed Aug. 19 in Butte Superior Court by Mary E. Alexander,...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Republican gubernatorial nominee Lisa Demuth called for the firing of two Walz administration officials on Monday following a Minnesota Star Tribune report about the state’s handling of fraud, while DFL nominee Amy Klobuchar said she would fire officials who failed to stop fraud and would overhaul state government more broadly....Read more

Just two days after Prince Harry and Meghan Markle enrolled their young children in a brand new school — after suddenly uprooting them from California and moving them to a temporary new home on the other side of the world — the couple have removed the children from the school, citing “operational” concerns from their security team about ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Former CIA Director John Brennan’s lawyers told a judge that he faces a “real” threat of prosecution under the Trump administration, saying he’s received a subpoena to testify before a grand jury in Florida.

Brennan and his attorneys appeared in Washington federal court on Monday to argue for a judicial order requiring ...Read more

CHICAGO — A mid-level supervisor for a ring of Chinese prostitutes told a federal jury Monday she was initially fond of U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent Luis Uribe when he started paying her for sex and that their relationship was comfortable enough that she asked him for help with immigration issues.

But after Uribe was suspected in ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California legislators passed a bill last month that pushed back against changes to a state law Gov. Gavin Newsom had previously jammed through the Legislature, as part of an array of environmental measures that headlined this year’s legislative session.

That measure joined bills regulating data centers, home energy use...Read more

Maryland mayors and county executives are seeking more authority to raise taxes and fees without state approval, while business groups warn that higher costs could reduce consumer spending and economic growth.

A state task force studying how counties and municipalities can raise more revenue met Monday, with local officials arguing that their ...Read more

After a lull in activity, the National Hurricane Center on Monday continued to track a system now with an increased chance to develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. EDT tropical outlook, a trough of low pressure in the central subtropical Atlantic about 1,000 miles east-southeast of Bermuda had ...Read more

The 9/11 widow who denounced Saudi Arabia at the 25th anniversary ceremony Monday hailed President Donald Trump’s promise to consider releasing more secret documents that could implicate Saudi leaders in the terror attacks.

A day after Trump vowed to look into the issue, Terry Strada said she has faith that the president will do whatever is ...Read more

Sen. Chuck Schumer on Monday called for an immediate White House briefing and fast-track action to rein in artificial intelligence even as President Donald Trump pushed back against any new regulation of the fast-changing technology.

After tech leaders warned that unchecked AI poses a potential threat to humanity, Schumer, D-N.Y., demanded ...Read more

DALLAS — The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks happened 25 years ago, but how Texas students learn about that day is still evolving.

Just days before this year’s anniversary, the State Board of Education approved new social studies standards that will change what high school students learn about 9/11, religion and other parts of history.

Some of ...Read more

California and other Democratic-led states and localities filed a pair of lawsuits Monday challenging new Trump administration rules giving immigration officials more power to deny green cards to applicants whose families have relied on public assistance programs in the past.

The challenge mirrors another by a similar coalition that ...Read more

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Monday it will no longer regulate dangerous planet-warming pollution from power plants that burn coal or natural gas.

The nation’s top environmental authority is rolling back the majority of Biden-era limits on greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to remove “red tape” that drives up energy ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and Ukraine offered differing accounts of a supposed agreement with Russia to stop attacks on energy infrastructure, as strikes on oil refineries help drive diesel prices to record levels.

Trump on Monday blamed the strikes, rather than the war in Iran, for the surge in diesel prices and posted on social ...Read more