A mysterious human case of the H5N1 bird flu was recently discovered in Missouri — and experts are still working to determine how the patient was infected.

The avian flu has been circulating among poultry and wild birds since 2022, but made the interspecies jump to dairy cows earlier in 2024. Just over a dozen humans have been infected in the...Read more

A California woman and an Idaho man accused of leading a terrorist group known as the "Terrorgram Collective" have been charged with soliciting their followers to assassinate government officials and commit hate crimes, federal prosecutors said Monday.

Utilizing the digital messaging app Telegram, Dallas Humber, 34, of Elk Grove, California, ...Read more

Los Angeles County prosecutors charged actor Gabriel Olds with five additional counts of sexual assault Monday, bringing the total number of charges against him to 12 after three more women came forward following media coverage of his initial arrest, officials said.

The new allegations against the 52-year-old actor, who has appeared in TV shows...Read more

The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled Monday that the state must remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from the presidential ballot, which will likely delay the mailing of absentee ballots by several weeks.

The court ruled 4-3 in favor of Kennedy, who sued to have his name removed after suspending his candidacy and endorsing former President Donald ...Read more

Enough House Republicans ranging from conservative spending critics to those who want a bigger defense budget have come out against Speaker Mike Johnson’s stopgap spending strategy to imperil passage, as leadership tries to rally the troops to back the plan during a vote that’s currently expected Wednesday.

At least five Republicans have ...Read more

A real estate developer is suing to block San Diego from creating a shelter by the airport, arguing that a decades-old agreement between the city and federal government prohibits homeless services at the H Barracks site.

The lawsuit was filed Friday in San Diego Superior Court by McMillin-NTC, a limited liability company and an offshoot of ...Read more

The Biden administration is seeking a year’s extension of the current Kenya-led security mission in Haiti, while also asking the United Nations Security Council to begin planning to transition the underfunded and ill-equipped operation into an official U.N. peacekeeping force.

The request is outlined in a four-sentence draft resolution ...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock said the speech he delivered on the Senate floor Monday evening was the third he had given memorializing people killed in a mass shooting in Georgia, and he encouraged Congress to pass legislation limiting access to firearms.

“This is not a political issue. It is a moral issue,” the Atlanta Democrat ...Read more

A fast-moving brush fire that erupted in Orange County Monday afternoon grew to roughly 1,300 acres in less than three hours and prompted evacuations in Trabuco Canyon.

The blaze, dubbed the Airport fire, started about 1:30 p.m. along the 32200 block of Trabuco Creek Road near a remote-controlled airplane airport in Trabuco Canyon. By 2 p.m., ...Read more

The Nevada Supreme Court barred the Green Party from the state’s November general election ballot, overturning a lower court ruling in the party’s favor.

In June the Nevada State Democratic Party filed a lawsuit alleging the Nevada Green Party submitted invalid signatures to appear on Nevada’s ballot. A District Court judge ruled against ...Read more

Denver is set to pay $465,000 to settle a lawsuit filed on behalf of two men shot in the head with less-lethal projectiles by police officers during the George Floyd protests in 2020.

Nicholas Orlin and Shawn Murphy jointly sued the city and up to five unknown police officers in January 2022, seeking damages for eye and facial injuries they ...Read more

Justice Samuel Alito is the only U.S. Supreme Court member with a stake in more than two dozen individual companies, a distinction that threatens to sideline him from major business cases.

Alito or his wife own tens of thousands of dollars of stock in companies including Raytheon Co., ConocoPhillips and a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. The ...Read more

The White Stripes are suing former President Donald Trump and his campaign for unlawfully using audio from their hit song, "Seven Nation Army," in a video posted on social media.

Jack White and Meg White, as the White Stripes, sued Trump, his campaign and his deputy director of communications Margo McAtee Martin Monday in the U.S. District ...Read more

A pro-Palestinian protester busted inside Hamilton Hall was indicted for burning an Israeli flag during an earlier incident at Columbia University, the Manhattan District Attorney announced Monday.

James Carlson, 40, was attending a demonstration on April 20 when a Jewish student had his Israeli flag stolen by another protester, prosecutors ...Read more

As the school year kicks off, local school districts have been “blindsided” by new students who are staying at a shelter housing migrant families, as Bay State officials announce nearly $2 million in federal funding to help dozens of districts.

Norfolk officials on Monday reported that 20 children staying at the former prison in town, which...Read more

Former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was rushed from Rikers Island to Bellevue Hospital for emergency heart surgery, his lawyer confirmed Monday.

“He wasn’t feeling well yesterday, he let us know, and we let Rikers and Bellevue know and convinced them to rush him to Bellevue [Sunday],” Weinstein’s lawyer Arthur Aidala told the Daily News...Read more

NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban could step down from his position in the coming days after revelations his electronic devices were seized and home searched by federal authorities, sources say, though Mayor Eric Adams told reporters Monday the commissioner was continuing to do his job, and Caban has reportedly informed police officials he isn’t ...Read more

FITZGERALD — The grandfather of the 14-year-old Georgia school shooting suspect blamed the teen’s home life and father for creating an environment that led to last week’s violence that left two teachers and two students dead.

Charles Polhamus, speaking to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Monday, said he largely blamed his grandson’s ...Read more