LOS ANGELES — A plan to attack several Los Angeles-area businesses on New Year's Eve was detailed, dangerous and already in motion, authorities said.

But as four people allegedly tied to a left-wing, antigovernment group gathered last week in the Mojave Desert to make and test several test bombs, FBI officials say, agents were able to foil ...Read more

Charles Booker is going for it again.

The former state representative and staffer under Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear launched his third run for the U.S. Senate in Kentucky Wednesday morning, joining a crowded field of Democrats and Republicans seeking to replace Sen. Mitch McConnell in 2026.

His early campaign strategy leans in on economic ...Read more

CHICAGO — Vandals decapitated and smashed the statue of Mary in an Evanston church’s outdoor Nativity scene Friday, and the church responded, according to an associate minister, by replacing it with a sign saying Mary was beaten and dragged away in front of her son and is being held in immigration detention.

Lake Street Church of Evanston ...Read more

DEDHAM, Mass. — Brian Walshe was found guilty of murder in the first degree in Norfolk Superior Court late Monday morning in the killing and dismembering of his wife, Ana Walshe, in the early hours of New Years 2023.

Over a 10-day trial in Norfolk Superior Court, prosecutors gave evidence that Walshe, 50, killed his wife before dismembering ...Read more

DENVER — A proposal that would make possession of any amount of fentanyl a felony and stiffen penalties for distribution will go before the state’s voters next November, the Colorado Secretary of State’s office said Monday.

Initiative 85, which is backed by the conservative advocacy group Advance Colorado, is the first statewide ...Read more

SYDNEY — Following the deadliest domestic terror attack in Australia’s history, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese faced criticism he didn’t do enough to combat rising assaults on the Jewish community nor swiftly enact recommendations from the nation’s antisemitism envoy released five months ago.

Albanese — who shrugged off criticism of ...Read more

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin will present his final budget proposal to the General Assembly on Wednesday. Part of that proposal will include $50 million for child welfare, he announced at an event in Richmond Monday.

The funding is part of a three-year child welfare strategy that includes centralizing the Child Protective Services intake ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Rob Reiner’s son Nick was arrested on suspicion of murdering his parents after the Hollywood legend and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead at their Brentwood home Sunday.

Los Angeles police Chief Jim McDonnell said that officers responded to the Reiner home about 3:40 p.m. Detectives from the elite Robbery-...Read more

Two of the victims who were shot and killed at Brown University have been identified while the suspect remains at large.

Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov and Ella Cook were separately identified as the two students killed in a Brown classroom Saturday night at the tail end of a study session for an introductory economics class.

The U.S. Ambassador to ...Read more

Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox reported homicides are up nearly 30% this year, as Mayor Michelle Wu continued to tout Boston as the safest major city in the country at a year-end public safety briefing.

Cox said there have been 31 homicides in the city thus far this year, compared to 24 for all of last year, but said that number still ...Read more

Norovirus, also known as the “stomach flu” or “winter vomiting sickness,” is active in California and across the nation. But cleaning and disinfecting can help check its spread, experts say.

Precautions are crucial because the virus is highly infectious and there’s no real treatment for it, the Centers for Disease Control and ...Read more

U.S. negotiators offered more significant security guarantees to Kyiv as part of President Donald Trump’s renewed push to end the Russia-Ukraine war, but the effort still appeared part of a bid to pressure President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on territory.

The Trump administration offered to provide Ukraine with strong “Article 5-like” security...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Dozens of California National Guard troops under President Trump’s command apparently slipped out of Los Angeles under cover of darkness early Sunday morning, ahead of an appellate court’s order to be gone by noon Monday.

Administration officials would not immediately confirm whether the troops had decamped. But video taken ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — On Thursday, Gov. Gavin Newsom touted the “comeback” of coho salmon after state officials spotted juvenile fish in the Russian River’s upper basin — the first such sighting in more than 30 years.

As the state celebrated the news, however, federal fisheries officials announced that they would not designate Chinook ...Read more

Nearly 23% of Illinois high school students said they drank alcohol within the last 30 days when surveyed in 2021, according to a report released Monday by the Illinois Department of Public Health.

Nearly 12% of the teens acknowledged binge drinking – consuming four to five drinks within a couple hours time.

The findings are part of a new, ...Read more

South Florida state Rep. Robin Bartleman has filed a bill that seeks to rectify what she and other advocates say is a gap in the legal system that makes it easy for domestic violence perpetrators with restraining orders to avoid surrendering their guns, a flaw highlighted by the February triple homicide in Tamarac.

Bartleman, D-Weston, cited ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani plans to unveil several top-level hires for his administration this week, potentially including his pick for City Hall budget chief, according to sources familiar with the matter.

Dean Fuleihan, Mamdani’s incoming first deputy mayor, revealed during a Monday forum hosted by the Citizens Budget ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams has “no desire” to remain in public life after he leaves City Hall at the end of December, he said in a media briefing for select outlets Monday, indicating that at least for now he’s done with public service.

Since he ended his reelection bid in September amid fallout from his dismissed corruption indictment...Read more

DENVER — The Arizona man who caused millions in damage to the Colorado Supreme Court building last year was sentenced Friday to eight years in prison.

Brandon Olsen shot out one of the Ralph L. Carr Colorado Judicial Center’s first-floor windows and broke in shortly after 1 a.m. on Jan. 2, 2024. He was fleeing from a car crash at 13th ...Read more

Former Haitian President Michel Martelly has been blacklisted by the European Union alongside two once powerful lawmakers and a criminal gang, the EU said Monday, citing their alleged roles in Haiti’s escalating gang violence.

Martelly’s name was added to the EU Council’s sanctions list along with that of former senators Youri Latortue, ...Read more