JUNEAU, Alaska — Suicide Basin, the source of Juneau’s annual glacial outburst floods, was full as of 9 a.m. Tuesday, putting the Mendenhall Valley on standby.

With the basin full, the 2026 flood is expected to occur within one to six days. The flood begins when water from Suicide Basin, which is dammed by the side of the Mendenhall Glacier...Read more

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump on Tuesday vowed to seek a way to block Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s planned pied-à-terre tax, calling it a “dangerous political experiment” that would backfire by spurring wealthy property owners to abandon NYC.

“I am looking to see if the Federal Government has any legal right to avert this disaster, ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — The University of California, San Diego is now at the center of a global contest that hopes to unlock quality-of-life gains in the same way that a previous competition revolutionized commercial spaceflight.

The university announced Tuesday that its Stein Institute for Research on Aging will serve as the central laboratory and ...Read more

The Florida Chamber of Commerce has become the latest business booster from the Sunshine State with a message for New York City denizens who have tired of the city’s high cost of living and doing business.

In the center of Times Square, at Broadway and West 43rd Street, a newly erected digital billboard proclaims the leftist Mayor Zohran ...Read more

CHICAGO — Extreme weather usually doesn’t scare Mary Beth Uretz, but she spent Tuesday morning crying in her Homewood basement, clutching her pets as the storm pounded.

“Psychologically, it’s a lot to deal with,” said Uretz. “I’ve never gone to bed at night and worried about my house falling over, until this summer.”

Indeed, ...Read more

NEW YORK — Rama Duwaji, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s wife, will be heading to Syria and Lebanon without an NYPD detail next month as she visits family, city officials said.

“There was a miscommunication,” Mamdani said on PIX11 when asked about reports his wife would be bringing a detail with her. “She has not taken that trip. When she takes...Read more

NEW YORK — A Manhattan judge on Tuesday said there would be an overflow room open to members of the press and the public at alleged CEO killer Luigi Mangione’s upcoming murder trial and that it was “reckless” of his lawyers to suggest prosecutors were secretly involved in determining who would get a seat.

Taking the bench a few minutes ...Read more

Flesh-eating bacteria sounds like the premise of a bad horror movie, but it’s a growing – and potentially fatal – threat to people in the U.S. and beyond.

Vibrio vulnificus, a type of flesh-eating bacteria that thrives in warm seawater, is once again threatening the safety of beachgoers and raw shellfish enthusiasts. To date, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Local and federal authorities said they are investigating after two federal officers were assaulted and one of them was captured on video brandishing a gun at protesters in downtown Los Angeles over the weekend.

The incident unfolded late Saturday night at the corner of Alameda and Commercial, near the Metropolitan Detention ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani is acting on a campaign pledge to expand New York City’s whole-of-government response to the urgent crisis of student homelessness — though at fewer schools than he promised.

The initiative, called Every Child and Family is Known, will grow from 125 to nearly 190 schools during the 2026-27 school year, ...Read more

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order Tuesday directing city departments to intensify scrutiny of new data centers in Chicago — a politically potent move that doesn’t unilaterally impose new limits on the fast-growing industry, but could slow its growth.

The order directs his administration to toughen air pollution ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — Gabri Johnson and her family had spent 15 days trying to stop the U.S. from deporting her father after ICE agents had taken him into custody outside his house on July 15. They needed a break.

So Johnson and her siblings went to see “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” in Cary on July 30. While watching the movie, she got a call. It...Read more

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — In a striking demonstration of support, hundreds of fired-up Californians rallied in Santa Monica to speak out against the Trump administration’s attempt to wrest local control over the state’s beloved coastline.

The Golden State’s top environmental leaders, along with prominent elected officials, environmentalist...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — Democratic North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein signed two bills on Tuesday that make changes to the state budget that only became law last month.

The General Assembly sent Stein six bills before adjourning last week, with no voting sessions planned until after the November election.

House Bill 268, which is now law, takes more ...Read more

DENVER — Five 17-year-old boys died late Saturday night after driving off a cliff in Grand Junction, according to the Mesa County Coroner’s Office.

Grand Junction police officers and firefighters responded to the crash near 2694 Lookout Lane at about 7:45 a.m. Sunday, according to an initial news release from the police department. When ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday directed county officials to study the prospect of creating an Office of Gender Equity to pursue the goals of eliminating gender-based discrimination and advancing gender equity across county government.

The board approved the motion, which was introduced by Supervisor ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The DeSantis administration is nearly a month late on a state-mandated report detailing how it’s been using disaster dollars, missing a deadline that lawmakers set after the agency spent more than half a billion dollars in emergency funds on immigration enforcement.

The report was due to the Senate president and House ...Read more

DETROIT — Several Lebanese Americans living in Michigan and the Detroit-based Arab-American Civil Rights League are suing the federal government and three military suppliers over the U.S.'s continued support for Israel.

The class action lawsuit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Michigan's eastern district, names U.S. Secretary of State...Read more