Federal prosecutors urged the court to sentence Vance Boelter to two life prison terms ahead of his sentencing for carrying out one of the most shocking acts of political violence in state history, as newly filed documents detail more about how he plotted the attacks and his movements in the immediate aftermath.

Boelter pleaded guilty last ...Read more

Tropical Storm Bertha strengthened Tuesday as it moved closer to the Gulf Coast, and the National Hurricane Center extended tropical storm warnings into Florida.

As of the NHC’s 8 p.m. EDT advisory, the center of Bertha was located about 120 miles west-southwest of Panama City and 105 miles south-southeast of Mobile, Alabama, moving west at 6...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Yolo County’s Board of Supervisors declared a local emergency Tuesday in response to the threat of invasive golden mussels spreading through the county’s waterways, officials announced.

Yolo County authorities confirmed June 25 that the invasive freshwater mollusk, native to Asia, had been found in county waterways ...Read more

A newly released study of children has connected the extra stress of an “unpredictable” environment early on to depression, obesity and mental health issues, factors that previously weren’t always included in traditional childhood risk screenings, its authors said.

Researchers from UC Irvine and Chapman University and two doctors from ...Read more

A federal judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit by the Justice Department targeting Minnesota’s laws prohibiting law enforcement from assisting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, saying state and local laws do not intrude on federal authority.

In a 56-page order, Chief U.S. District Judge Eric Tostrud rejected the Justice ...Read more

After U.S. strikes on Iran’s largest nuclear facilities last year, both President Donald Trump and the White House were adamant that the Middle East nation’s nuclear program had been destroyed.

“Monumental Damage was done to all Nuclear sites in Iran, as shown by satellite images. Obliteration is an accurate term!” Trump wrote on social...Read more

WASHINGTON — The good news for Republicans is that President Donald Trump’s job approval rating isn’t getting any worse. The bad news is that many of the issues that drove his rating down in the first place are making their way back into the news, with the midterm elections creeping closer with each passing day.

After beginning his second...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. war against Iran has cost the United States about $37.5 billion, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, giving the most up-to-date official estimate for a conflict that shows no signs of ending soon.

Hegseth gave the estimate in an appearance before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday that was focused on ...Read more

South Carolina Republican Sen. Darline Graham has collected several key endorsements since announcing Monday she would run for the seat of her late brother, Lindsey Graham.

But the political newcomer, who entered the race for a full six-year term at the urging of President Donald Trump, now faces a potentially fractious GOP primary on a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES —A group claiming to represent California fire survivors began sending mailers and paying for social media ads this spring, calling on lawmakers to take action to reduce the rising cost of wildfires.

"Contact your legislator and tell them we need to fix our wildfire problem to make California more affordable," said a mailer sent ...Read more

East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine is among five medical schools newly under investigation by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, the department announced Tuesday. The investigation seeks to hunt out alleged racial discrimination in ECU’s admissions.

The federal probe is a joint effort between the ...Read more

CHICAGO — A dozen progressive aldermen have signed on to a demand for their colleagues to reject contributions from corporations tied to federal immigration enforcement, in the latest political fallout over the recent U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement presence in Chicago.

The “ICE Out of Chicago Elections” campaign debuted on ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Former Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield's chief of staff told state investigators the Republican lawmaker's travels featured trips with lobbyists, the use of a private jet, a yacht rental in Miami, gambling, poolside cabanas and bottle service.

Court records, reviewed by The Detroit News on Tuesday, revealed some of the ...Read more

SEATTLE — Multiple Gates Foundation employees warned senior leaders of the nonprofit, including Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, about the risks of associating with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to the findings of an external review.

Gates’ relationship with Epstein, which he maintains was strictly professional, has been...Read more

SpaceX sent up a Tuesday evening launch of a Northrop Grumman robotic vehicle featuring a pair of swiveling arms with clampy hands that aims to become an all-purpose Mr. Fix-It in space.

The Mission Robotic Vehicle (MRV) has been in the works for years, with Northrop subsidiary SpaceLogistics working with the Defense Advanced Research Project ...Read more

NEW YORK — Council Speaker Julie Menin bashed the Mamdani administration’s handling of the Legionnaires’ disease outbreak on Tuesday, after a fourth New Yorker died from the disease.

Menin argued the city moved too slowly in response to the outbreak and said that more should have been done to proactively clean building cooling towers in ...Read more

Hundreds of thousands of Haitians in the U.S. are living in uncertain times. On June 25, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration could proceed with a plan to end Temporary Protected Status – a federal program that allows people to stay in the United States when the government considers their own country unsafe – ...Read more

Washington’s Gulf Arab allies are increasingly frustrated as hostilities between the U.S. and Iran intensify, jeopardizing their national security and economies.

The Gulf states’ exasperation is underscored by their wide-ranging views on what the U.S. should do next.

Some officials believe President Donald Trump should escalate military ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Maryland’s lone Republican in Congress told The Baltimore Sun on Tuesday that he is skeptical the Francis Scott Key Bridge can be rebuilt by late 2030 and wants clearer answers about the project’s cost as the federal government is being asked to provide additional funding.

Rep. Andy Harris declined Gov. Wes Moore’s ...Read more