Environmental advocates, Alaska Natives and commercial fishermen say they are at once confident and anxious as they wait for the EPA to announce a final ban on mining wastes in Bristol Bay, Alaska — home to one of the world’s largest salmon fisheries — that would effectively kill a gold and copper mine estimated to be worth $350 billion.

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PONCE, Puerto Rico — President Joe Biden declared in Puerto Rico on Monday that his administration is committed to helping the island recover from Hurricane Fiona and other disasters, announcing a more-than $60 million federal investment in flood management that he said was only a small piece of the overall assistance he is ready to provide ...Read more

NEW YORK — Former U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson testified at a criminal trial about the Trump administration’s seemingly chaotic foreign policy while leveling a veiled criticism at Jared Kushner.

Tillerson appeared Monday as a prosecution witness in the trial of Tom Barrack, a longtime friend of former President Donald Trump, on ...Read more

As residents in Havana and other cities continue demonstrating against the government and its response to Hurricane Ian, security forces have beaten and arrested some protesters, and Cuba’s handpicked president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, warned the population that “counterrevolutionary” behavior like blocking the streets will be punished.

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court turned away a bid by MyPillow Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mike Lindell to derail a lawsuit accusing him of defaming a voting technology company with his claims that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump.

The court decided against reviewing a federal appeals court’s conclusion ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear two challenges to the federal regulatory ban on bump stocks Monday, leaving in place a prohibition on the devices that were used in the Las Vegas Strip mass shooting.

Although the high court’s decision was “welcome news,” U.S. Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., said it was not the end of legal ...Read more

NEW YORK — An accused gang member who dodged murder charges in the 2015 killing of an aide to former Gov. Andrew Cuomo scored another court victory Monday when a jury acquitted him of federal gun possession charges connected to the fatal shooting.

Stanley Elianor, 31, was found not guilty after a weeklong trial in Brooklyn Federal Court of a ...Read more

A high school football team in Northern California was forced to forfeit the remainder of its season after a video showed several players staging a reenactment of a "slave auction," according to district officials.

In a statement, Doreen Osumi, the superintendent of Yuba City Unified School District, called the incident at River Valley High ...Read more

The top attorney at the National Archives emailed former White House lawyers in May 2021 alerting them that the administration had failed to turn over correspondence between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, according to documents obtained by Bloomberg.

“There are also now certain paper/textual records that we cannot...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia Common Pleas Court judge on Monday blocked the city from enforcing an executive order Mayor Jim Kenney signed last week banning guns at recreation centers and playgrounds following the fatal shooting of a Parks and Recreation employee last month.

The Gun Owners of America, on behalf of several state residents, ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A nor’easter that started grinding the Jersey Shore over the weekend caused widespread moderate flooding as tides peaked Monday. It was expected to continue to throttle the coast overnight.

Local officials already dealing with the high water issues and loss of beach braced for more at least through Tuesday and possibly into ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California's drought has become the state's driest three-year period on record, surpassing that of 2013-15 — and a fourth dry year is looking increasingly likely, officials said Monday.

The news came just days after the state began its new water year, which runs from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30. The 2022 water year was marked by ...Read more

NEW YORK — Donald Trump asked a judge to put a defamation lawsuit by New York columnist E. Jean Carroll on hold — and delay his deposition — after a federal appeals court issued a preliminary ruling that could derail the case.

Trump last week won part of his appeal over whether Carroll’s suit is barred by a statute that broadly protects...Read more

MIAMI — Florida officials have linked about 100 deaths spanning 10 counties to Hurricane Ian, with more than half in Lee County where storm surges as high as 10 feet razed homes and destroyed some of the only bridges that contact barrier island residents to the mainland.

Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno on Monday afternoon announced that ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors cast the Oath Keepers as a threat to democracy in the first seditious conspiracy trial to stem from the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

Describing the long tradition of a peaceful transfer of power after U.S. presidential elections, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Nestler said in opening arguments Monday that the right-...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Franklin County sheriff’s deputy who claimed that the county’s public defenders defamed him and violated his First Amendment rights when they criticized him for attending a Trump rally in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021.

Franklin County Sheriff’s Deputy Jeff Farmer ...Read more

CHICAGO — Planned Parenthood is launching a mobile abortion unit in southern Illinois to help reach out-of-state patients and decrease wait times, as more states ban or severely restrict terminating a pregnancy.

The abortion provider announced the project Monday, roughly 100 days after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v...Read more