The Tulare County elections office in California's Central Valley was suddenly getting peppered with questions from baffled voters.

On the afternoon of Oct. 13, residents began calling and showing up in person at the registrar of voters’ office in Visalia, worried they would be accused of committing fraud by trying to vote twice.

That’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A recent slowdown of SpaceX's Starlink satellite system that enables Ukraine to fend off deadly Russian aerial assaults came from an order by Elon Musk, the company’s chief executive officer, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.

Musk restricted the speed of Ukraine’s access to the satellite system, which hampered the ...Read more

BOSTON — A two-month suspension of the 24-cents-per-gallon state gas tax proposed by Gov. Maura Healey last month has been stripped by lawmakers from a supplemental budget bill now moving through the House.

Healey made her pitch just days after her Republican challenger in the general election, Mike Minogue, announced a similar proposal, ...Read more

An ICE officers’s accusation against an assistant federal defender has added fresh scrutiny to the case against 15 Minnesotans accused of coordinating with each other to impede federal immigration officers, leading to blistering rebukes by a judge against an attorney for the government.

The allegation, detailed in a memo written by ICE ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Federal authorities this week teased a "separate batch" of 17,000 potential noncitizen voters in their federal court challenge to California's handling of alleged voter fraud.

In response, Los Angeles County officials questioned the accuracy of the government's earlier list of 20,000 alleged noncitizen voters — saying a ...Read more

A deepening childcare crisis is costing Washington parents, businesses and taxpayers billions of dollars each year.

Washington’s economy is projected to lose $6.3 billion annually because parents can’t find affordable, accessible, high-quality childcare, according to an April study.

In March, researchers with ReadyNation — a nonprofit ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — An upcoming amendment on the general election ballot could limit when Kentucky’s governor is able to pardon people convicted of crimes.

Voters will see a constitutional amendment on the Nov. 3 ballot that would prevent the state’s governor from issuing pardons for roughly three months — 60 days before an election and ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — A University of Idaho professor has detailed the mental toll caused by a TikTok tarot reader who accused her of being responsible for the 2022 high-profile murders of four students in Moscow, Idaho. She now wants people to reconsider how they consume social media.

History professor Rebecca Scofield wrote a New York Times ...Read more

BALTIMORE — With the appellate review of Marilyn Mosby’s federal perjury convictions complete, disciplinary proceedings that could cost the former Baltimore state’s attorney her law license may resume.

Separate federal juries convicted Mosby of perjury and mortgage fraud. Mosby has since completed a yearlong home-detention sentence.

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A 46-year-old Sacramento man accused by the Trump administration of voting in two elections without being a U.S. citizen was ordered released from federal custody on Tuesday pending further court proceedings.

Juan Antonio Rivas Garcia was the last of three people arrested in the sprawling federal judicial district that ...Read more

DENVER — A federal judge has ordered immigration officials to immediately release a retired Ugandan priest who has been held in an Aurora detention center for more than a year.

The Rev. Edward Nalwamba was scheduled to be released before the end of the day on Tuesday under an order issued Monday by U.S. Magistrate Judge Cyrus Y. Chung. Chung ...Read more

A monument honoring Black Maryland patriots who served in the Revolutionary War will be unveiled Nov. 1 at the Maryland State House.

The unveiling ceremony for “The Pursuit of Transcendent Liberty” — a sculpture created by the California-based artist Branly Cadet — represents the culmination of a six-year passion project spearheaded by ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As ocean levels rise, waves crash farther inland and the coast continues to crumble, Southern California is on track to lose 30% to 70% of its beaches over the next several decades. Almost half of all beach cliffs are likely to retreat by 30 to 80 feet by 2100. And a 1.6-foot increase in sea level rise by 2060 will leave low-...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is deferring an additional $1.2 billion in Medicaid reimbursements to California, citing concerns about potential fraud in a state program that helps older adults and people with disabilities with everyday tasks.

Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — An Idaho ballot measure that would rewrite the state’s strict abortion laws and enshrine protections for other reproductive healthcare is one of the hottest topics of pre-Election Day debate in the Gem State, with millions of dollars flooding in from supporters and opponents.

Its proposed changes to Idaho abortion ...Read more

The Tulare County elections office in the California's Central Valley was suddenly getting peppered with questions from baffled voters.

On the afternoon of Oct. 13, residents began calling and showing up in person at the registrar of voters’ office in Visalia, worried they would be accused of committing fraud by trying to vote twice.

That’...Read more

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson is debuting a new gunshot detection system to replace ShotSpotter in some of the neighborhoods that see the most shootings, his administration told aldermen Tuesday.

In a letter to Ald. Emma Mitts, chair of the Contracting Oversight Committee, Chief Procurement Officer Sharla Roberts informed her “the city is...Read more

MIAMI — Alberto Sierra, who admitted to snuffing the lives of his estranged wife and her two young daughters with a plastic Sedano’s Supermarket bag, should be executed for his crimes, a jury said Tuesday.

Sierra, 42, was stoic as the verdict was read before Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Marisa Tinkler Mendez. Sierra admitted to suffocating his ...Read more