This is just jaw-some.

Another shark species has the attention of local white shark researchers, who will be “closely monitoring” an additional apex predator this season as beachgoers return to the water.

Dusky sharks — which were spotted attacking seals off Nantucket in the past — have also been seen off Orleans’ Nauset Beach, where...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A wolf known as BEY03F seems intent on making history over and over again.

The 3-year-old, black-furred wolf has become the first of her kind known to venture into Sequoia National Park in more than a century — after making similarly momentous visits to Los Angeles and Inyo counties.

By 7 a.m. Sunday, BEY03F had passed just ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Shortly after attorneys for President Trump moved Monday to dismiss his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over claims it had leaked his personal tax returns, the Justice Department announced that a settlement in the case would be used to create a $1.776-billion fund for other victims of “weaponization and...Read more

BALTIMORE — As the Maryland State Board of Elections moves to rectify a recent error in sending incorrect mail-in ballots, President Donald Trump and state Republicans are calling for the federal government to intervene.

Trump on Monday called for the Department of Justice to look into an incident where a vendor contracted by the board mailed...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — An air show at the Mountain Home Air Force Base ended in disaster after two fighter jets collided in midair Sunday. The military said Monday morning that of the four crew who ejected, only one was injured.

Three of the airmen came out of the collision without any injuries, Commander Amelia Umayam, a spokesperson for Naval Air ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Vice President JD Vance’s visit to a Kansas City manufacturing company drew a small group of protesters who waved signs, sang and lamented President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday.

They watched from a distance as Vance’s motorcade rolled in and out of the Milbank Manufacturing facility on Deramus Avenue, ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota lawmakers worked until the midnight deadline Sunday and successfully passed a series of bills that made up a bipartisan end-of-session agreement.

Democratic-Farmer-Labor and Republican leaders were pleased with many of the measures that passed, including a bailout for Hennepin County Medical Center, $125 million ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A wildfire sparked by the flare of a shipwrecked mariner has burned nearly a fifth of Santa Rosa Island and marks what officials called the largest blaze recorded on the island in modern history.

Firefighters ferried in personnel, equipment and pallets of supplies by boat amid gusty winds and rough seas as they raced to save ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Several survivors of sexual abuse within the Archdiocese of Baltimore and their advocates expressed dismay Monday that the church’s proposed bankruptcy plan doesn’t do enough to compensate for decades of emotional damage.

“I think they have a long way to go yet,” said survivor and attorney Teresa Lancaster. Although she ...Read more

Former Los Angeles police detective and Fox News personality Mark Fuhrman is dead at 74.

An associate of the controversial officer told TMZ he died from an aggressive form of throat cancer in Idaho last week.

Fuhrman came to national prominence in 1994 after discovering a bloody glove outside the California home of O.J. Simpson’s murdered ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — When Vice President JD Vance rallied a crowd of supporters and Republican officials in Kansas City Monday afternoon, his speech illustrated broader confusion over Missouri’s gerrymandered congressional map.

Vance, during the speech at Milbank Manufacturing in northern Kansas City, touted the Trump administration’s ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Three people were fatally shot at an Islamic center in the Clairemont neighborhood on Monday morning, and two teenage suspects were found dead of apparent self-inflicted gunshot wounds in a vehicle nearby, San Diego police said.

The report of an active shooter at the Islamic Center of San Diego on Eckstrom Avenue came in around 11...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — When Vice President JD Vance rallied a crowd of supporters and Republican officials in Kansas City Monday afternoon, his speech illustrated broader confusion over Missouri’s gerrymandered congressional map.

Vance, during the speech at Milbank Manufacturing in northern Kansas City, touted the Trump administration’s ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Five people were killed when two teenage gunmen opened fire at the Islamic Center of San Diego on Monday morning in an attackthat sparked widespread shock and condemnation.

Police swarmed the center after receiving calls of an active shooter and found a crime scene that expanded across several blocks in the area.

According to ...Read more

Five people are dead, including the suspected gunmen, after two active shooters entered the Islamic Center in San Diego on Monday morning and opened fire, police said.

Police swarmed the Islamic Center in San Diego on Monday morning after receiving reports of an active shooter and significant injuries. By 1 p.m. police said in a social media ...Read more

It’s just another day in paradise for the sheriff in the Florida Keys.

Despite a report about Cuba discussing plans to use drones to attack U.S. targets, including Key West, Sheriff Rick Ramsey says he wasn’t told a thing — and urged calm among Keys people who are usually pretty calm about all sorts of things.

Axios reported Sunday that ...Read more

The Trump administration imposed sanctions Monday on nine Cuban senior government officials and generals and the country’s intelligence agency, under an executive order signed by President Donald Trump earlier this month that calls Cuba an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to U.S. national security.

The list of Cuban officials newly ...Read more

CHICAGO — A federal judge on Monday said she will review unredacted grand jury transcripts in the politically charged “Broadview Six” case against Operation Midway Blitz protesters to “see if there is anything suspicious about them,” though she guessed most of the redactions had to do with “IT issues.”

U.S. District Judge April ...Read more

NEW YORK — Thousands of New Yorkers began a chaotic commute to work Monday as talks between striking Long Island Rail Road workers and the MTA continued for a third day.

The MTA and a consortium of unions representing 3,500 LIRR workers returned to the bargaining table at 7:30 a.m. Monday morning, following a late-night session that ran until...Read more