LOS ANGELES — Mark Fuhrman, the former Los Angeles police detective whose testimony, credibility and incendiary racist language became central to the O.J. Simpson murder trial, has died at 74.

Fuhrman became one of the most recognizable law enforcement figures in America when he discovered a bloody glove outside Simpson’s Brentwood estate ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Gov. Wes Moore on Monday announced nearly $57 million in state grants for energy efficiency in schools, government buildings, nonprofits and low-income housing developments across Maryland, aiming to move away from fossil fuels.

The administration said the funding is part of a broader effort to lower utility costs for Marylanders,...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Aimee Bock should spend 50 years in prison for coordinating the biggest pandemic-era fraud in the U.S., according to a court filing made today by Minnesota U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen.

Bock was convicted last year of using her nonprofit, Feeding Our Future, to help steal $250 million from a federally funded program aimed at ...Read more

BOSTON — Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s revelation that the city needs to ask for an additional $70 million in funding to cover this year’s budget shortfall was slammed by her critics as “fiscal mismanagement.”

Wu filed two supplemental budgets with the City Council Monday that will see her administration seek approval to use $47.1 ...Read more

President Donald Trump said that he’d called off a strike on Iran planned for Tuesday after an appeal by the leaders of Persian Gulf allies, who called for more time to pursue a diplomatic resolution.

“I put it off for a little while, hopefully maybe forever, but possibly for a little while, because we’ve had very big discussions with ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A former Trump Justice Department official on Monday criticized what he called the administration’s “shocking” settlement with Live Nation and its subsidiary Ticketmaster, telling lawmakers that the department abused its prosecutorial discretion to reach the deal.

Roger Alford, a former principal deputy assistant attorney ...Read more

NEW YORK — The MTA and unions representing 3,500 Long Island Rail Road workers who walked off their jobs reached a tentative deal late Monday, bringing the three-day strike that paralyzed the nation’s largest commuter rail system to an end.

The trains are set to begin running again starting Tuesday at noon Eastern time. Service will be ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s internal watchdog will investigate whether U.S. boat strikes in the Caribbean followed targeting guidelines, amid claims from outside groups that the attacks were illegal.

“The scope of this evaluation includes the joint process for targeted vessels in the US Southern Command area of responsibility as part of ...Read more

NEW YORK — In the span of a few hours Monday, Gautam Adani, Asia’s richest person, neared a resounding victory halfway around the world that had been months in the making.

In Brooklyn, New York, the Justice Department sought to drop criminal charges against the Indian billionaire, just after an announcement that the Treasury Department was...Read more

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