Dolly Parton’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is being repaired after vandals reportedly defaced it.

The “Here I Come Again” singer’s name was scratched off of a sidewalk marker dedicated to Parton in 1984, according to TMZ. The alleged vandal is also believed to have stolen flowers from that memorial. Photos posted on social media ...Read more

Legislation that would have helped California wildfire victims receive compensation more quickly, but that utilities said didn’t do enough to reduce their financial risks, died in Sacramento on Tuesday after the Assembly declined to vote on it.

The failure of Senate Bill 492 disappointed wildfire victims and lawmakers who had negotiated the ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A wildfire broke out Tuesday afternoon roughly 10 miles west of Yosemite National Park, prompting authorities to order evacuations and close Highway 140, one of the main routes into the park.

The fire, along Highway 140 and Colorado Road, was 171 acres by 3:05 p.m., according to Cal Fire, with 0% containment.

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DENVER — Voters will decide whether to raise income taxes on the highest-earning Coloradans this November, the secretary of state’s office said Tuesday, all but setting the ballot for the general election.

Initiative 195 would create a graduated income tax for the state under which higher earners pay a greater percentage of their income ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Defense-minded lawmakers are growing concerned about leadership vacuums in the military following the resignation of Army Secretary Dan Driscoll.

“I’m tired of all the churn. I want to see some stability,” House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike D. Rogers, R-Ala., told reporters Tuesday.

Pressed on if he’s concerned...Read more

A federal judge this week threw out the U.S. Justice Department's lawsuit challenging California policies that allow transgender athletes to compete on school sports teams that match their gender identity.

The Justice Department alleged that the California Department of Education and the California Interscholastic Federation were in violation ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The United States launched a fresh wave of strikes against targets in Iran and the Islamic Republic said it retaliated, as the back-and-forth of fighting between the two escalated sharply.

President Donald Trump said the U.S. strikes were in retaliation for Iran trying to put mines in the Strait of Hormuz and for an earlier ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Mamdani administration on Tuesday released the city’s first Racial Equity Plan — a citywide blueprint to reduce racial inequities — after years of delay.

The release comes just days after a Manhattan state court judge ruled that both the Mamdani and Adams administrations had broken the law by failing to release the ...Read more

PLYMOUTH, Mass. — Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial asked to be sent home early Tuesday afternoon, after telling the judge they were deadlocked earlier in the day.

“After many hours of deliberations, we are unable to come to a unanimous decision,” jurors wrote in a note around 10:15 a.m.

There was a quiet gasp from people in the ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney for the District of Kansas have formally filed suit against Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools over the school district’s guidelines pertaining to its transgender students, the department announced in a Tuesday news release.

The lawsuit comes after several months of back and forth between ...Read more

DENVER — Voters will decide in November whether to dedicate state sales taxes collected on outdoor gear to conservation and wildfire prevention grant programs.

If approved, Proposition 137 would also exempt that sales tax revenue from falling under the state’s spending cap set by the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, the mechanism that ...Read more

SANTA ANA, Calif. — A Newport Beach surgeon once accused of drugging and sexually assaulting a series of women recently had his medical license revoked, state records show, years after his headline-grabbing criminal proceedings concluded with him admitting to drastically pared-back charges.

Grant Robicheaux’s long-running criminal case ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump was nonchalant last week when asked about a contested administration rule that would use the U.S. Postal Service to weed out allegedly illegal midterm election ballots. His foes say that’s all part of a broader plan, even as they offered few surefire ways to stop it.

Trump was asked last Thursday ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York City’s public school system is set to release a policy on artificial intelligence — which will include a ban on the use of generative AI for all students in 2-K through eighth grade, the Daily News has learned.

The new rules mean that no children in preschool, elementary school, and middle school should have access to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For decades, two of the music world’s most notorious killings remained unsolved.

First, Tupac Shakur was gunned down on the Las Vegas Strip in 1996. Six months later, Christopher Wallace, known as Biggie Smalls, was fatally shot on Wilshire Boulevard after a music event at the Petersen Auto Museum.

Both killings captivated ...Read more

The U.S. Army is ensuring its military bases will not lose power if the local electric grid goes down through small nuclear reactor technology.

The Army’s Janus Program, in partnership with the Department of War Innovation Unit, selected five nuclear energy vendors and five initial locations in a $2.2 billion award to own, construct and ...Read more

CHICAGO — On Aug. 3, state investigators inspecting the notorious South Chicago Chapel were confronted with an overwhelming smell and a nightmarish scene.

In a ramshackle building, the temperature in one storage area rose to 88 degrees, as dozens of bodies decomposed, rats scurried around the area, and maggots covered some of the remains.

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