SAN JOSE, Calif. — Four men pleaded no contest Monday in a sweeping gang shooting case that illuminated reams of racist text messages shared between dozens of Antioch police officers.

Terryon Pugh, Eric Windom, Keyshawn McGee and Trent Allen all pleaded no contest Monday to voluntary manslaughter and attempted murder in the March 2021 ...Read more

Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner will have to wait at least another day for its first human spaceflight as teams scrubbed a Monday night launch attempt.

With just over two hours on the countdown clock before a planned 10:34 p.m. Eastern time liftoff, an issue with an oxygen relief valve led to the call while NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni ...Read more

Sexual abuse of juvenile detainees was rampant in youth centers across Illinois for more than two decades, according to a sweeping lawsuit filed Monday.

One claimant was about 14 years old when he was raped repeatedly – sometimes daily – in his cell by an employee who revoked his yard and phone privileges if he tried to protest, according ...Read more

DENVER — A Colorado bill to ban the sale, transfer and manufacturing of many high-powered, semi-automatic firearms is set to die Tuesday amid opposition in the state Senate, a month after the measure passed a historic vote in the House.

Sen. Julie Gonzales, the bill’s Senate sponsor, announced in a statement Monday that she would shelve the...Read more

NEW YORK — A potential smoking gun shown to jurors at Donald Trump’s Manhattan hush money trial on Monday appeared to harm his defense that money doled out to Michael Cohen from the White House was for payment for legitimate legal services — and not reimbursement for paying off a porn star.

The document displayed was a bank statement ...Read more

A member of President Joe Biden's administration stopped in the city of Lake Elmo, Minnesota, on Monday to talk PFAS with local officials, visiting an area that's been at the forefront of contamination just three weeks after the Biden administration released the first-ever drinking water standards for the so-called "forever" chemical.

Brenda ...Read more

BEIRUT — Hamas announced Monday that it accepted a cease-fire agreement with Israel in Gaza, a diplomatic breakthrough that came hours after Israel ordered civilians in eastern Rafah to evacuate in what was seen as a prelude to a long-anticipated offensive on the area.

Hamas said the head of its political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, spoke by ...Read more

NEW YORK — Donald Trump was threatened with jail time by Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan on Monday after being found in criminal contempt again for the tenth violation of a gag order in his hush money case.

In his sternest warning yet, Merchan, in stunning courtroom remarks, said it appeared the $1,000 fines he has issued for Trump’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene will not move to oust Speaker Mike Johnson Monday night and will instead continue to talk with him following a nearly two-hour meeting between the two and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., earlier in the day.

With House Democratic leadership vowing to vote to table Greene’s motion, it appears unlikely that ...Read more

President Vladimir Putin ordered Russia’s military to carry out combat drills involving tactical nuclear weapons, ramping up his confrontation with the West just a day before his inauguration for a fifth term.

The army will carry out exercises in southern Russia to “practice the preparation and use of nonstrategic nuclear weapons,” the ...Read more

The Pulitzer Prizes were awarded at Columbia University on Monday, honoring the achievements in journalism, books, music and drama.

The ceremony came at a charged moment, coinciding with Columbia University canceling its graduation ceremony (and largely closing off its campus).

The seven-month war in Gaza continues less than a week after the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For several years now, one question has held the key to understanding just how much we should worry about the hundreds of tons of DDT that had been dumped off the coast of Los Angeles:

How, exactly, has this decades-old pesticide — a toxic chemical spread across the seafloor 3,000 feet underwater — continued to reenter the ...Read more

The question of how best to protect Big Cypress National Preserve for future generations — install stricter protections or keep it open to all — is now officially a congressional matter.

Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., filed a bill Monday to block a move by the federal Department of Interior that would ratchet up protections for the broad swath of...Read more

As the number of completed federal financial aid applications remains at a record low, the U.S. Department of Education has launched a $50 million grant program to encourage more students to complete their problem-plagued forms.

“We are determined to close the FAFSA completion gap,” said Cindy Marten, deputy secretary of education. “The ...Read more

BOSTON — Even in times of economic uncertainty, some investments are worth making, according to state Senate President Karen Spilka.

That was the message Spilka shared on Monday after she appeared at Middlesex Community College’s Lowell campus to announce the upper chamber’s plan to provide a free college education to every Massachusetts ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — An independent journalist and prominent police critics were among the dozens of people detained by police at the UCLA campus amid ongoing protests of the Gaza war on Monday morning — raising objections from legal experts and press organizations.

Journalist Sean Beckner-Carmitchel, who has a long history of covering protest ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Heightened and quick-moving police actions against protesters unfolded Monday at UCLA and other campuses, as university officials said there will be little tolerance for demonstrators who disrupt campus and violate laws and student conduct codes in the wake of last week’s violence and tensions at pro-Palestinian encampments.

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