For decades, Californians have generally said that immigrants, who make up more than a quarter of the state’s population and a third of its labor force, are beneficial to the state and its economy. But budget instability and concerns about rising costs are spilling into a debate over the controversial and expensive policy of allowing low-...Read more

In the 1970s and 80s, dirt bikes buzzed around its fragile landscape, creating erosion and noise. In the early 1990s, a developer planned to build 217 luxury homes there.

Now, a scenic oceanfront property with public hiking trails, bobcats, foxes and sweeping views of California's San Mateo coast, Farallon Islands and the Marin Headlands could ...Read more

President Donald Trump has shown the immense power of the executive branch to stymie offshore wind development, as nearly all projects are in waters where federal agencies operate as the landlord.

Now, as the feds block new permits and dangle billion-dollar buyout offers to convince developers to walk away from their projects, state leaders are...Read more

By this point in a typical election year, federal intelligence officials would have briefed Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon and other election officials on emerging threats to the November election.

Simon would have joined federal agencies in rehearsing responses to worst-case scenarios, from foreign cyberattacks and bomb threats to ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — She’s a judge.

He’s a crook.

Not just any crook but South Carolina’s most notorious criminal, convicted of major financial crimes and facing a retrial in an infamous double-murder case.

She'll preside at that retrial.

But long before the name of Alex Murdaugh became a synonym for villainy, the paths of Judge Debra ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Mariana Yepez climbed the ranks of the Los Angeles street food scene before building her own taco empire.

A native of Sonora, Mexico, Yepez and her husband toiled at various food trucks and restaurants until 2018, when they launched a series of stands named after their daughter: Ricos Tacos Naomi.

Serving up heaps of fatty ...Read more

Jude Pare and his partner, Diane Tix, live in rural Minnesota until temperatures dip below freezing, when they take refuge in Arizona for the winter. While away, their mail is forwarded. But Pare, 77, said he didn’t receive any warning from his Medicare prescription drug plan that his $0 monthly premium was about to increase.

So he didn’t ...Read more

Every four years when the World Cup rolls around, no matter where in the world I am watching — in a pub in England, in a crowded restaurant in Spain or in a bar in Chicago — my mind always conjures up images of that night in Senegal where I saw my first match on a portable black-and-white TV hooked up to a truck battery.

I had barely made ...Read more

For 16 years, Larry Gruber, a fitness coach from Wilton Manors, Florida, received a coupon card to help him pay for a psoriatic arthritis medication he needs that costs more than $7,700 a month.

Each year, Amgen, which makes the drug, called Enbrel, sent the coupon card worth thousands of dollars, and that counted toward Gruber's health ...Read more

It wasn’t a surprise, but it was a bombshell.

On July 6, 2026, Politico published the detailed account of a Maine woman who said she had been sexually assaulted by Maine Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner almost five years ago. Platner called the allegation “categorically untrue,” then said he was “taking the time to ...Read more

Two weeks after Venezuela was struck by twin earthquakes, families are still searching for loved ones and countries are continuing to deploy rescue teams as the United Nations appeals for continued support for the South American nation.

Tom Fletcher, the U.N.’s humanitarian chief, said Wednesday that Venezuela will need the support of ...Read more

Caribbean leaders said Wednesday they are willing to mediate escalating tensions between Washington and Havana even as Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley acknowledge the conflict is complex.

“This is not an easy issue,” Mottley said, noting that leaders of the Caribbean Community bloc known as CARICOM discussed Cuba during their four-day ...Read more

The next U.S. president should endorse publicly funded child care for all — or a $1,000 monthly credit for families with young children that don’t utilize it — according to a possible early blueprint for Democrats.

The proposal is among the first ideas published as part of Project 2029, a collection of recommendations by think tanks, ...Read more

Over 4,000 Brigham and Women’s Hospital nurses and MGB home care clinicians took to the picket lines Wednesday for what is expected to be a five-day work stoppage, making history as Massachusetts’ largest ever nurses’ strike.

Nurses with the Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA) picketed by the thousands Wednesday following months of ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A California state bill seeks to remove abused and neglected animals from crowded municipal shelters during their owners' criminal cases.

Assembly Bill 2344 by Assemblyman Matt Haney (D-San Francisco) would give animals seized in cruelty cases a respite from crowded shelters by allowing them to be placed in foster homes ...Read more

Several neighbors along Arrow Point Road in Warren, Connecticut, are pleading with state officials to get some help after they say their homes have been broken into by a black bear multiple times recently.

Warren resident Kristen Patrick said, in the span of just a couple weeks, her home along Lake Waramaug was broken into twice by a black bear...Read more

Temple University approved a $1.3 billion operating budget Wednesday that includes an average 3.4% tuition hike for both in-state and out-of-state students and plans for about 40 layoffs.

Both the average tuition increase — which is for undergraduate and graduate students — and the number of layoffs are smaller than those implemented last ...Read more

The Boston City Council passed a resolution calling for a “public safety summit” and review of the mayor’s summer safety plan in light of the July 4th gun violence that rocked the city, killing two people and injuring 11 others.

The Council approved the resolution, 11-0, on Wednesday, and later referred a related hearing order to ...Read more

The U.S. military struck Iran for the second straight day, an escalation of violence that threatens to strain an already fragile ceasefire.

“At the direction of the commander in chief, U.S. Central Command forces have started conducting additional strikes against Iran to further degrade their ability to threaten freedom of navigation in the ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — An effort to close the state’s primaries is now headed to a federal court.

The South Carolina Republican Party filed a federal lawsuit late Tuesday against the South Carolina Election Commission for not registerng people by party. The party is asking it be allowed to limit who can vote in its primaries.

The election ...Read more