SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Major corporations that do business in California would be required to disclose any past connections to slavery under a measure that could pass the Legislature next month.

Assembly Bill 2599 would force companies that have more than $100 million in sales annually across the world to search through their records for ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani hit back against City Council Speaker Menin’s attacks over his administration’s handling of the Legionnaires’ outbreak — saying he was putting public health over politics.

Menin has criticized the mayor for not ordering more proactive cleaning of cooling towers on the Upper East Side, where the outbreak...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani said that New Yorkers outraged by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s upcoming visit to New York City can take to the streets and protest.

The mayor announced Tuesday that the city would not legally be able to arrest Netanyahu on an International Criminal Court warrant as he’d hoped. He urged the ...Read more

NEW YORK — Deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro is tentatively set to go on trial before a jury of New Yorkers in about a year from now, a Manhattan judge ruled Wednesday.

Federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein put the court date — June 1, 2027 — on the calendar at a brief hearing attended by the ousted Latin American president and Cilia ...Read more

Tropical Storm Bertha weakened Wednesday as it moved west along the Gulf Coast and made landfall in southeastern Louisiana, according to the National Hurricane Center.

The system moved ashore in St. Bernard Parish near the Biloxi Wildlife Management Area, according to a special 3 p.m. EDT update, still with 45 mph sustained winds and higher ...Read more

The Trump administration is forging ahead with a controversial plan to collect the medical records of millions of federal workers and retirees, as well as their family members.

The Office of Personnel Management said in a notice posted last month that it will begin routinely collecting identifiable, personal health information on more than 8 ...Read more

Canadian leaders are planning their own event Friday without any American officials to celebrate the construction of the $4.7 billion Gordie Howe International Bridge over the Detroit River amid trade tensions with the United States.

On Tuesday, Canadian leaders told Michigan officials they planned to cancel a joint U.S.-Canada event planned ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Richard Graydon spent years cultivating an enviable life.

He worked for a biotech pharma company in Los Angeles. He owned a 56-foot yacht he named Silver Lining, and authorities said he was known as a master yachtsman and a world traveler.

But the U.S. Marshals Service and federal prosecutors say it was all built on a false ...Read more

HAMILTON, Mont. — The Trump administration has stepped up arrests and public condemnation of federal scientists studying viruses as the world faces one of its worst Ebola epidemics.

In June, Vincent Munster, an infectious disease researcher at the National Institutes of Health, was charged with bringing biological specimens into the U.S. ...Read more

MIAMI — Miami-Dade County may go to court over Florida’s new anti-DEI law, which bars local funding of groups or services tied to gender, race or sexual orientation.

County leaders say the legislation is sweeping enough to make Miami-Dade rethink countless spending decisions, from staffing the current Hispanic Affairs Advisory Board to ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s ban on certain Native American names in public schools has reached one of the state’s smallest school districts.

Indian Diggings Elementary School District will now be known as the Omo Ranch Elementary School District to comply with California’s Racial Mascots Act.

The district’s only school, Indian ...Read more

At least 53 bodies have been recovered from a ferry that capsized off the coast of Guyana on Saturday, as officials on Wednesday continued a search for additional victims and any possible survivors and the country began three days of national mourning.

The search entered its fourth day after the vessel, the MV Barima, issued a distress signal ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Bird multitudes are slipping away on a global scale, but a new study offers hope for how we can be better neighbors to feathered friends.

Researchers at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo knew, like everyone else in the bird world, that 3 billion birds have been lost in the last half century, but they ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Tropical Storm Bertha weakened Wednesday as it moved west along the Gulf Coast, but still with portions of Florida under tropical storm warnings, according to the National Hurricane Center.

As of the NHC’s 11 a.m. EDT advisory, the center of Bertha was located about 40 miles south of Pascagoula, Mississippi and 55 miles ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — A 77-year-old Florida woman and U.S. Postal Service employee has been arrested after officials found nearly 100 cats and dogs being hoarded in her home.

Gail Giustino is facing misdemeanor charges for animal cruelty and confinement of animals without sufficient exercise, according to a Facebook post Tuesday from the Martin ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu deserves to face justice for his alleged crimes against humanity — but New York City and the NYPD can’t make the arrest.

Speculation over whether Mamdani would enforce an International Criminal Court warrant when Netanyahu visited Manhattan for the United ...Read more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi in a major military shakeup, yielding to nationwide anger sparked by his ouster of a popular defense minister.

Zelenskyy said late Tuesday that Joint Forces Commander Mykhailo Drapatyi would replace Syrskyi in an effort to end a power struggle ...Read more

The Trump administration has taken the extraordinary step of asking a federal court in Miami to dismiss a lawsuit against Venezuelan interim President Delcy Rodríguez, underscoring how fully Washington has embraced her government as the legitimate authority in Caracas.

The request, filed this week by the Justice Department in the U.S. District...Read more

Canadian leaders are planning their own event on Friday without any American officials to celebrate the construction of the $4.7 billion Gordie Howe International Bridge over the Detroit River amid trade tensions with the U.S.

On Tuesday, Canadian leaders told Michigan officials they plan to cancel a joint U.S.-Canada event planned for Friday ...Read more

DETROIT — Michigan health officials reported 600 more cyclosporiasis cases on Wednesday, bringing the state's total to 7,171.

That represents a 9% increase over Tuesday's total of 6,571, according to Michigan Department of Health and Human Services data.

Cyclosporiasis is a parasitic illness that usually causes frequent, watery and explosive...Read more