WASHINGTON — California's two Democratic senators on Thursday criticized the Trump administration after it requested $87.6 billion from Congress to address some of the nation's most "urgent needs" but omitted funding for victims of last year's Los Angeles wildfires.

"Donald Trump's desire to punish Los Angeles and the state of California for ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The United States wants to reach a deal with Iran to end the war but won’t do so “at any price,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday, as he reiterated that tolls in the Strait of Hormuz were unacceptable.

“You can call it a toll, you can call it a fee, whatever you want to call it — it’s a game of ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — California, joined by Santa Clara County, is asking the U.S. District Court in San Jose to block work on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility outside of Gilroy in a legal motion filed Wednesday.

The court’s decision will determine whether work on the ICE facility can continue as the lawsuit against the facility...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — State lawmakers have advanced a bill that would ban homeless encampments across North Carolina.

Currently, encampments in the state are regulated through local laws. The City of Raleigh, for example, has banned homeless encampments on public property and has removed a few encampments over the past couple of years.

The bill, ...Read more

The Trump administration is reportedly ordering staff not to confirm deaths or details about severe injuries at U.S. national parks — but officials are adamant the policy is not meant to conceal information from the public.

In a statement to the Los Angeles Times, an Interior Department spokesperson said the "narrative" that the agency is ...Read more

The heat wave baking western Europe broke records in the U.K. and France, as the region faced another day of soaring temperatures.

The U.K. recorded its hottest June day on Thursday, with daytime highs hitting 36.7C (98F) in Merryfield in southern England, according to the Met Office. France’s average daily temperature reached an all-time ...Read more

BOSTON — Michael Proctor, the since-fired lead investigator in the John O’Keefe murder investigation, finally sat down for a deposition by Karen Read’s lawyers for the wrongful death suit against her, according to a source familiar with the matter.

The O’Keefe family filed a wrongful death suit against Read even before her second trial,...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The jury is deadlocked in the Palisade fire trial, in which 30-year-old ex-rideshare driver Jonathan Rinderknecht is accused of setting what eventually became the most destructive wildfire in Los Angeles city history.

More details on the jury’s note to the judge, and her response, are expected momentarily. The U.S. Attorney’...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court backed the Trump administration’s efforts to end temporary protected status, or TPS, for Haitian and Syrian immigrants on Thursday over objections that the countries remain unstable and too dangerous for immigrants to return to.

The ramifications could impact thousands of immigrants living in Minnesota under TPS.

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Illinoisans will soon see fewer unexpected “junk fees” and greater protections from robots snatching up concert tickets, lawmakers and Gov. JB Pritzker said at a signing for a handful of consumer protection bills Thursday.

“Corporations have become more and more creative in finding ways to charge consumers more while telling them less ...Read more

As the artificial intelligence industry continues to grow, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday announced a first-in-the-nation tracker to monitor AI-related job losses, with the initial released data showing no statewide surge in unemployment in at-risk fields.

The tool stems from a May executive order by Newsom to prepare California for “economic ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A federal jury hearing the arson case against Jonathan Rinderknecht, a 30-year-old former Uber driver, accused of setting what would become the deadliest wildfire in Los Angeles history, said on Thursday they were “at a standstill” and “unsure how to proceed” after more than 13 hours of deliberations.

The jury sent a ...Read more

Pennsylvania health officials have now detected measles cases in York and Northumberland Counties as cases in Lancaster County, the center of an ongoing outbreak, continued to rise.

And the state health department is now recommending early measles vaccinations for infants beginning at six months in affected areas in an effort to protect them ...Read more

BOSTON — Time to pull out the bug spray.

Bay State health officials have announced that West Nile virus was detected in mosquitoes for the first time this year.

The presence of WNV was confirmed by the Massachusetts State Public Health Laboratory in a mosquito sample collected in Clarksburg — out in Berkshire County.

The Department of ...Read more

NEW YORK — A religious 75-year-old grandfather mysteriously gunned down by a Queens lake last month may have been the victim of an antisemitic hate crime, the victim’s shattered family said Thursday as detectives continue to hunt for clues and a clear motive in the killing.

Albert Itzkowtiz was enjoying a warm Spring day by Kissena Lake in ...Read more

Florida’s public universities moved a step closer Thursday to barring undocumented students from enrolling, after the Florida Board of Governors unanimously advanced an admissions change that could take effect in the 2027-28 academic year.

The proposal targets universities that, in the two most recent academic years, didn’t admit all ...Read more

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday confirmed the Alligator Alcatraz immigrant detention center is closing, but insisted the collection of reinforced tents in the middle of the Everglades proved effective in bolstering President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts in Florida.

“Alligator Alcatraz fulfilled the role that it was designed to ...Read more

MIAMI — Nilka Simosa Verde, a Venezuelan-American living in Miami Beach, has been hoping and praying to hear from her family since two earthquakes jolted Venezuela’s Caribbean coast Wednesday evening.

In La Guaira, a coastal state neighboring Caracas where her family lives — and one of the hardest-hit areas of the 7.2 and 7.5 earthquakes ...Read more