President Donald Trump on Thursday said he will invoke Cold War-era emergency powers to direct a nearly $700 million investment into the waning coal industry, including construction of a new West Coast coal export terminal in Oakland.

Speaking from the White House, Trump said he will use the Defense Production Act, a 1950 law that grants the ...Read more

The U.S. State Department imposed new sanctions Thursday on Cuba’s leader, Miguel Díaz-Canel, and his family, along with Alejandro Castro Espín, the son of Raúl Castro, and several other Cuban entities as the administration ratchets up the pressure on Cuban leaders to undertake democratic reforms on the communist-run island.

The ...Read more

DENVER — The Colorado Court of Appeals reversed the homicide convictions and ordered new trials for the two former Aurora paramedics charged in the death of Elijah McClain, according to court decisions released Thursday.

McClain, a 23-year-old Black man, died after Aurora police put him in a neck hold and a paramedic injected him with an ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — To the surprise of few, President Donald Trump has once again claimed without evidence that Democrats are somehow cheating to win California’s primary elections — writing on social media late Wednesday that federal prosecutors in Los Angeles are investigating the matter.

“The Dumocrats are at it again! They are trying to ...Read more

BOSTON — Karen Read filed a lawsuit alleging a string of obscene and racist texts between a former Massachusetts State Police trooper and Canton police reveals a “culture of bias and corruption that they built, tolerated, and hid from the public.”

Read’s lawsuit was filed in Bristol Superior Court and seeks unspecified damages.

Among ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced that he planned to soon make Todd Blanche, who leads the Justice Department on an acting basis, the “permanent attorney general,” a move that would install a fervent loyalist at the top of the nation’s law enforcement apparatus.

A video posted on Wednesday by White House adviser Dan Scavino ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Initial efforts in the Senate failed Thursday to block the $1.8 billion fund that the Trump administration has sought to establish to pay people who claim the government wronged them, though further attempts were likely to come Thursday afternoon.

Republicans narrowly voted down a Democratic amendment to ban the payout fund and ...Read more

MIAMI — Michael Reiter is one of the most important figures in the Jeffrey Epstein case who you’ve probably never heard of.

Yet if Reiter had never been born, or had never become a cop, Jeffrey Epstein would probably still be living his best life, behind the walls of his waterfront Palm Beach mansion, where the laws that protect children ...Read more

For decades, the United States made steady progress in reducing surface ozone pollution, the main ingredient in smog. But that progress – made as vehicles, industries and power sources became cleaner – is increasingly being overshadowed by a different and growing source of ozone pollution: wildfires.

Our team of atmospheric and ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — Former Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador issued a blistering statement criticizing President Donald Trump and describing what he called a conspiracy by his administration to weaken the Mexican left.

He said a U.S. campaign against "narco-terrorism" was not a genuine attempt to solve a serious problem but a "pretext...Read more

The idea started with a sermon Micah Longmire heard at his Presbyterian church in Ogden, Utah, about the importance of grandparents in a child’s life.

Longmire, now 31, exchanged a look with his mother-in-law. “We were like, ‘I’d be OK living with you after that sermon,’ and the ball rolled downhill from there,” Longmire said.

Both...Read more

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pursuing federal government access to most Americans' medical records, in a quest to research a link between vaccines and autism — a connection the medical establishment studied for decades and flatly rejects.

The Department of Health and Human Services is seeking data from little-known state ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sens. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Bill Cassidy, R-La., filed a court brief Thursday supporting a lawsuit seeking to block implementation of the Trump administration’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund.

The bipartisan brief was filed as the Senate voted on a measure to fund immigration enforcement, and where senators on ...Read more

MIAMI — The House Oversight Committee on Thursday asked the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate sexual assault allegations made by a former assistant of Jeffrey Epstein against former Miami Beach mayor and 2018 Florida gubernatorial candidate Philip Levine.

The committee called on the Department of Justice to “use all available tools,...Read more

There was no sign of progress in ceasefire talks between the U.S. and Iran after the worst burst of violence in weeks and as the Tehran-backed Hezbollah militia rejected on Thursday a U.S.-brokered truce in Lebanon.

President Donald Trump said ceasefire talks are in the “final” stages. Earlier, Iran’s foreign minister said the ...Read more

The Trump administration’s rollout of a federal mandate that millions of Americans on Medicaid must work or risk losing health benefits will force states to scrap months of preparation, according to advocates for Medicaid enrollees and consultants advising states.

And they say an overhaul — less than seven months before states must start ...Read more

The Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine published new clinical guidance this week affirming that acetaminophen, better known by its brand Tylenol, should be the “first-line” defense against pain and fever during pregnancy.

The directive contradicts the Trump administration’s notice to physicians last year cautioning against the use of the...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle L. Parker picked a fight with big tech companies.

In the end, the tech companies won.

City Council on Thursday morning gave preliminary approval to a more than $7.1 billion budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1. The plan does not include the mayor’s tax proposals meant to squeeze revenue ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court upheld on Thursday the Federal Communications Commission’s power to issue findings that companies broke the law, turning aside challenges from telecommunications giants that the agency had to go to the courts first.

The 8-1 decision found that the FCC’s forfeiture process does not run afoul of the ...Read more