SEATTLE — Seattle on Tuesday became the latest U.S. city to extend civil rights protections to people in polyamorous and nonmonogamous relationships.

The City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to pass a law barring discrimination in employment, housing, business licensure, park usage, policing and public accommodation against adults in ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Not long after Parkville suspended its automated license plate reader cameras, Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe has created new policies regarding how the cameras are used statewide.

Kehoe issued an executive order Wednesday regarding the use of Flock and similar ALPR cameras in Missouri, establishing safeguards to “prevent the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Surgeon general nominee Nicole Saphier, seeking to be confirmed as the nation’s top health educator and spokesperson, on Wednesday declined to fully distance herself from the Trump administration’s changes to the childhood vaccine schedule when pressed by a prominent Republican.

During a hearing of the Senate Health, ...Read more

SEATTLE — The Seattle Police Department has released internal messages sent by police leaders and personnel related to the fatal Bite of Seattle shooting on July 26.

The messages posted Wednesday afternoon on the SPD Blotter include communications from Andre Sayles, who was deputy police chief at the time, and other police employees, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — It was a night of devastation in Chatsworth that began with a deadly Metro bus collision and ended with the fiery crash of an NBC4 helicopter that left two journalists and, on the ground, a bystander dead.

Tuesday’s scene was a mixture of confusion and chaos with first responders fanned out across two catastrophes and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A Democratic congresswoman asked for an emergency court hearing into the closure of the Kennedy Center, suggesting the move may violate a court order against an earlier attempt to shutter the Washington performing arts venue.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts board’s decision to physically shutter the facility,...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California companies will be required to disclose when they use artificial intelligence-generated actors to sell a product or service, under a new law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Wednesday.

Current law makes it a misdemeanor for companies to engage in “deceptive” marketing practices. The law Newsom signed, Senate Bill ...Read more

Mosquito bites can be more than a nuisance this summer — they can make you sick.

Florida has become a hotbed for mosquito-borne dieases, reporting hundreds of cases of dengue fever, chikungunya fever, and even West Nile virus.

The state leads the nation in dengue cases this year with 270 reported. Increasingly, residents aren’t just ...Read more

The Florida Board of Education on Wednesday approved guidelines restricting the use of artificial intelligence in K-12 schools and public colleges.

The rules are intended to safeguard students from inappropriate content while allowing teachers access to high-quality educational tools, said Paul Burns, senior chancellor at the state Department ...Read more

Patrick Clancy will appear on “60 Minutes.”

The CBS news program advertised its interview with the ex-husband of the Massachusetts woman accused of killing the couple’s three children on Wednesday.

An ad promoting Sunday’s program simply shows the 38-year-old subject getting wired for sound, then sitting in a chair as cameras roll.

It...Read more

Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins conceded Tuesday that it’s too late to change the state’s congressional districts to the gerrymandered map lawmakers passed in 2025.

In a legal filing in the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway, who is representing Hoskins, said that the districts won’t ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Wednesday signed an executive order aimed at protecting bees and other critical pollinators as they face compounding threats from climate change, habitat loss and pesticides.

“Pollinators touch everything we love about Colorado,” Polis said shortly before signing the order during a news conference at ...Read more

Get ready for another storm to descend on Buckingham Palace and the reign of King Charles III following the tempestuous return of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to the United Kingdom.

The Daily Mail on Wednesday published a preview of a hotly anticipated new book on the late Princess Diana, and it reveals comments that Charles allegedly made ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York teachers unions and supporters in the labor movement and the Democratic Party rallied Wednesday to urge Gov. Kathy Hochul to reject President Donald Trump’s signature school voucher plan.

Hochul, a moderate Democrat, first announced her intention to opt into the Republican-led federal tax credit program in May. Governors...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Maryland comptroller’s office failed to use available enforcement measures to pursue hundreds of millions of dollars in delinquent taxes from individuals and businesses since 2022, according to a state audit released Wednesday.

The 33-page report by the Department of Legislative Services examined the collection and ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — A California man accused of defacing some five dozen political signs in the Las Vegas Valley pleaded no contest to a gross misdemeanor in court early Wednesday and was sentenced to 30 days in jail along with restitution.

David Lawrence Smith Jr., 73, appeared in court with the assistance of a walker and wearing unkempt, long white...Read more

President Donald Trump has removed Venezuela from a U.S. list of countries deemed to have failed to meet their international counternarcotics obligations, citing increased cooperation with interim President Delcy Rodríguez’s government following the capture of strongman Nicolás Maduro by U.S. forces.

Venezuela remains classified as a major ...Read more

CHICAGO — Lawyers for the “Broadview Six” are urging a federal judge to order the Chicago U.S. attorney’s office to divulge any communications with officials in Washington about the controversial case, saying in a filing late Tuesday that the government’s “hair-splitting” response so far was just one indication of an ongoing cover-...Read more