The National Weather Service has issued a freeze warning for the Sacramento Valley and northern San Joaquin Valley. Fresno has been issued a freeze watch.

This warning comes after the intense winter storm that fell upon the Sierra Nevada. The winter storm resulted in a deadly avalanche and the deaths of about eight people, according to previous...Read more

NEW YORK — After vowing on the campaign trail to give libraries up to 0.5% of the city’s budget, Mayor Zohran Mamdani in his preliminary spending plan included a $30 million cut.

The proposal takes a page from the playbook of his predecessor, former Mayor Eric Adams, who did a budget dance with the City Council before eventually restoring ...Read more

Karen Read is continuing to seek a return of her cell phones eight months after she was acquitted of the murder of Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe.

Read, of Mansfield, was tried twice for the murder of O’Keefe, who she was dating at the time of his death in January 2022. Her first trial in 2024 ended in mistrial when the jurors could not...Read more

BALTIMORE — Maryland has reported six times as many mumps cases in early 2026 as it did all of last year, with most infections concentrated in the Baltimore metropolitan area, state health officials said Thursday.

The Maryland Department of Health, or MDH, reported 26 cases — 19 confirmed and seven probable, compared with four cases for all...Read more

A Virginia judge on Thursday sided with national and local Republicans who challenged the commonwealth’s effort to have a referendum on mid-decade redistricting, temporarily pausing the effort.

The ruling, which temporarily stops election officials from carrying out a redistricting referendum in April, came after a hearing Thursday in a ...Read more

House Speaker Matt Hall unveiled details Thursday of a property tax cut proposal that would slash taxes across four different categories for an estimated total of nearly $5 billion.

The Kalamazoo County Republican told reporters he planned to hold schools and local governments harmless with the tax cuts, but acknowledged it would result, ...Read more

Sarah Ferguson’s whereabouts remain unknown following the arrest of her ex-husband, former Prince Andrew, on his 66th birthday Thursday morning.

Now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor after being stripped of his royal titles, the ex-prince was arrested at his home on the Sandringham Estate on suspicion of misconduct in public office in ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Three years after massive crowds during the July 4 weekend caused three-hour traffic jams and gridlock stretching for miles at Yosemite National Park, the Trump administration has eliminated rules designed to limit crowds by requiring visitors to obtain reservations to enter the park during busy summer days.

The rules, ...Read more

On the 30th floor of the Chartered Square building in downtown Bangkok, the low-key office of Skyhub Technologies Ltd. serves as a nexus for a burgeoning and contentious trade.

The space, rented out by a serviced office provider, is visited only rarely by the company’s sole director and occasionally by Chinese nationals, according to building...Read more

Mayor Mamdani is planning to appoint a deputy mayor for community safety as he readies to issue an executive order to launch the new department that the role would oversee, City Hall confirmed Thursday.

Creating a Department of Community Safety was one of Mamdani’s signature campaign promises. The mayor has said the prospective city agency ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — On Tuesday morning, Alexander Sanchez-Ramos went outside to smoke a cigarette on the porch of his Soldotna home when he noticed a cluster of unmarked SUVs with tinted windows gathering on his street.

At first, he wasn't sure why.

Then federal agents started pouring out of the vehicles as his new wife, Sonia Espinoza ...Read more

Unprecedented videos coming out of a high-security prison in Cuba have shown, possibly for the first time, inmates staging a protest against their living conditions and shouting anti-government slogans, providing both a previously unseen view inside of Cuba’s secretive penal system and another example of the population’s growing discontent ...Read more

Massachusetts Congressmen Seth Moulton and Jim McGovern blasted President Trump on federal cuts to the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) during a press conference Thursday as Massachusetts has seen a flurry of recent fraud schemes uncovered and just days after the Herald published a whistleblower’s account of “rampant” ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump declared victory in the fight over cost-of-living concerns, signaling a new approach that sought to deny problems with his economic agenda and touting successes in job growth and other metrics.

“Affordability. You notice what word have you not heard over the last two weeks: Affordability. Because I’ve ...Read more

Florida lawmakers have approved renaming the Palm Beach International Airport to President Donald J. Trump International Airport — a move expected to cost as much as $5.5 million.

The Florida Senate on Thursday approved legislation that would honor the president by renaming his hometown airport, which is just a few miles west of his Mar-a-...Read more

The Federal Communications Commission has confirmed an “enforcement action” is underway against ABC’s “The View” after the talk show featured James Talarico, a Democratic Texas representative running for U.S. Senate.

“We’re taking a look at it,” FCC Chairman Brendan Carr told reporters on Wednesday, without providing specifics. ...Read more

Maryland has reported six times as many mumps cases in early 2026 as it did all of last year, with most infections concentrated in the Baltimore metropolitan area, state health officials said Thursday.

The Maryland Department of Health (MDH) reported 26 cases — 19 confirmed and seven probable, compared with four cases for all of 2025. (The ...Read more

MIAMI — Donald Trump’s presidential library foundation became the legal owner this month of the downtown Miami land adjacent to the Freedom Tower where he plans to build his highrise legacy project, county property records show, after legal hurdles last fall.

Miami Dade College President Madeline Pumariega signed away the deed for the 2.6-...Read more

Democratic New York officials and voters urged the Supreme Court in court filings Thursday not to intervene in a state court order requiring a new district for the Staten Island-based seat currently held by Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis.

The filings came in response to emergency appeals from Malliotakis and state officials last week, ...Read more