WASHINGTON — The Energy Department wants to build nuclear-powered artificial intelligence data centers on federal land using new public-private partnerships.

Co-locating advanced nuclear reactors with data centers on DOE sites is part of the Trump administration’s bid to accelerate the development of both technologies, sources say, as ...Read more

CHICAGO — Irma Garcia’s life revolves around food. Eight hours a day, she prepares hundreds of meals for students at James Russell Lowell Elementary School in Humboldt Park. She can list the menu offhand — popcorn chicken, pepperoni pizza, mozzarella sticks.

But at home, her kitchen shelves are often empty: Once a month after work, she ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Joey Morales’ Ford SUV stopped along a quiet residential street in South L.A., its headlights shining on what would be a perfect parking spot if not for the three orange cones blocking it.

Cones in this part of town carry weight — they’re used not just by public works and construction crews but by locals as de facto ...Read more

SpaceX managed to find a lull in the winds early Monday, but a second SpaceX launch as well as one from United Launch Alliance opted to wait at least a day before trying to add to the Space Coast’s rocket mission total.

The one that did go up though was SpaceX’s 100th launch from Florida this year.

A Falcon 9 on the Starlink 6-82 mission ...Read more

At least four people were detained in Minneapolis Monday as part of the Department of Homeland Security’s Minnesota-focused enforcement campaign that has been underway for several weeks.

The Minnesota effort, “Operation Metro Surge,” has seen Immigration, Customs and Enforcement (ICE) agents step up their presence in Minneapolis and St. ...Read more

Gov. JB Pritzker on Monday mourned the deaths of Hollywood filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife this weekend, noting he was with both of them in Los Angeles just four days ago, as the governor also lambasted President Donald Trump’s reaction to the tragedy.

In addition to being a Hollywood A-lister who both made films and acted, Reiner was a ...Read more

At the end of Maryland’s legislative session earlier this year, Gov. Wes Moore vetoed some 29 bills, looking to shave off extra costs as the state faced budget constraints.

Just six months later, a growing bipartisan coalition of both lawmakers and advocates across the aisle is worried that one of these vetoes — the Data Center Impact ...Read more

Mayor Adams has tapped Joe Borelli, who led the New York City Council’s Republican delegation, to sit on the oversight panel of local public schools, as the outgoing mayor continues to stack boards related to housing, policing and now education before Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani takes office.

The string of eleventh-hour appointments have been ...Read more

A group of Democratic state attorneys general dropped one of the last remaining legal fights over whether President Donald Trump unlawfully delegated too much power to Elon Musk during the months the billionaire served within the administration.

The officials filed a notice on Monday evening in the federal district court in Washington notifying...Read more

House Republican leaders plan votes this week on their plan to reduce health care costs, but consumers shouldn’t expect much help with soaring premiums anytime soon.

The 111-page GOP blueprint, likely to get a House vote Wednesday, does not include an extension of the expiring health care premium subsidies.

Those credits for qualified ...Read more

Shock over a shooting rampage at Brown University over the weekend is giving way to frustration over the lack of video footage and suspects.

Authorities in Providence, Rhode Island, said Monday they hadn’t identified any new persons of interest in the shooting that killed two people and injured nine on the Ivy League campus Saturday ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In the world that Rob Reiner built, amplifiers went “up to 11.” People readily ordered “what she’s having.” Courtrooms couldn’t “handle the truth,” comedy and drama traded places seamlessly and liberal ideals born in the 1960s and '70s formed the gold standard of politics.

A writer, director, producer, actor and ...Read more

Rain showers hit Western Washington Monday morning as another atmospheric river drenches the state.

The National Weather Service said Monday that the storm will continue through Wednesday, with about 2 to 4 inches of rain expected in foothill areas and 4 to 6 inches on higher ground. That will likely shift to snow in the mountains, including in...Read more

President Trump signed an executive order Monday that classifies fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction.

The order comes after several months of controversial strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats and “narco-terrorists” from Venezuela in the Caribbean, which some critics have said could be illegal.

“No bomb does what this is doing,”...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate Commerce Committee leaders vowed Monday to secure enactment of legislation to improve flight safety at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, and they said an appropriations measure next month could be a vehicle.

Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and ranking member Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., want Congress to delete a provision...Read more

President Donald Trump sued the BBC for $5 billion over a misleading edit in a documentary last year that gave the impression he’d made a direct call for violence in a speech leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters.

The defamation lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corp. was filed Monday in federal ...Read more

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