LAS VEGAS — Terry Hulse knew when he watched the horror of airliners crashing into the World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11, 2001, that the months ahead were going to be challenging for the FBI in Las Vegas.

“It’s going to be all-out boots on the ground,” said Hulse, a Henderson resident who was the assistant special-agent-in-charge of...Read more

On Aug. 10, in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order telling American parents to break the measles, mumps, and rubella shot into three separate injections and to space childhood vaccines across many more trips to the doctor.

He said the change would "align the United States with other advanced and developed nations....Read more

LOS ANGELES — The huge inland body of water that is the heart of California’s water system is under major stress.

That’s why state officials say they worked for years to come up with a plan to help halt the ecological decline of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

Now that plan is under attack from the Trump ...Read more

After a failed round of in vitro fertilization this year, Anne Hug’s fertility doctor said she had a single polyp in her uterus that should be removed to improve the chance of pregnancy. Hug, a professor of radiology, learned that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says the procedure can be done in a doctor’s office with...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Rafael Vela Gonzalez was a few steps away from the front door of his Silver Lake home when two Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents grabbed him in early January.

The 66-year-old, originally from El Salvador, had been in the U.S. since he was a teenager. His boyish grin was a fixture in his tight-knit neighborhood for more ...Read more

NEWBERRY SPRINGS, Calif. — Two of the ostriches died instantly, hit with .22-caliber slugs fired through the fence of Mike Matson's desert ranch. The third suffered, bleeding out then collapsing some 40 feet away.

That's the body his wife Arcelia found first, one Sunday morning in June.

Matson was angry but he wasn't surprised. Months ...Read more

The U.S. Justice Department demanded that Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar preserve records related to the 2024 election while the federal government appeals a court ruling in a lawsuit that seeks the state’s unredacted voter registration database.

In a litigation-hold letter, DOJ official Eric Neff also informed the state’s ...Read more

The National Transportation Safety Board released transcripts of recordings Wednesday from the Amazon cargo plane that skidded off the runway at Miami International Airport, revealing repeated warnings that the plane was flying too close to the ground and too quickly just before the crash.

Joseph Carroll, 55, and Jaime Filipe Silva Molina, 37, ...Read more

Iran is ready for a more intense war and will escalate counterstrikes if the U.S. continues attacking its territory and infrastructure, according to a senior official from the Islamic Republic.

Tehran has no intention of backing down in the face of an American naval blockade and attacks on its oil tankers, said the official, who asked not to be...Read more

MIAMI — A federal judge refused to release Andrew and Tristan Tate from a Miami jail while they fight extradition to the United Kingdom, finding that the controversial social-media personalities remain flight risks and pose a danger to the community.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Lauren F. Louis denied the brothers’ requests for bond Wednesday, ...Read more

BOSTON — Lindsay Clancy’s attorney says he is prepared to ask that the court dismiss the case against the Duxbury mother accused of murdering her three children, as more jurors speak out after the mistrial.

Continuing his post-trial appearances on national television, Kevin Reddington has said he will request that the case be thrown out ...Read more

UC Berkeley's law school discriminated against white and Asian applicants by illegally using race in admissions, the Department of Justice alleged Wednesday in an investigative finding that expands the Trump administration's probes into University of California admissions practices.

For more than a year, the federal government has focused its ...Read more

NEW YORK — When they talked on 9/11 about facing a new world, city officials didn’t envision a fire department that would continue to suffer traumatic losses from a 25-year-old terror attack.

“I cannot tell you your lived experience in this quarter century,” FDNY Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore said at a special FDNY commemorative ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A woman who worked for labor leader César Chávez and the United Farm Workers organization he helped found is suing a pair of related nonprofits for negligence, sexual harassment and civil rights violations, claiming they facilitated her abuse and did nothing to protect her and others from his unwanted sexual advances.

The ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Supreme Court wants Secretary of State Denny Hoskins to explain himself.

Chief Justice W. Brent Powell late Tuesday ordered Hoskins, a Republican, to appear in person Thursday and explain why he should not be held in contempt for ordering local election officials to use a gerrymandered congressional map that ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A federal appeals court on Wednesday denied an attempt to block Missouri from using a gerrymandered congressional map in November, a decision that struck a blow to opponents of the map who appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The ruling from the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals declined to block Judge Stephen R. Clark’s ...Read more