LAS VEGAS — During the state’s legislative session in 2019, Democratic lawmakers repeatedly stated that the intent of Assembly Bill 431 was to restore voting rights for convicted felons. But the bill quietly restored other rights, as well.

The legislation automatically restored the rights of those convicted of the most serious felonies to ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — An outspoken advocate for restoring voting rights for felons could become the first candidate with a known felony conviction to be elected to state office in Nevada.

Jovan Jackson, the Democratic candidate in heavily Democratic Assembly District 6, has a string of arrests, Medicaid sanctions and a felony conviction for his part in...Read more

Israel and Iran are at war. In truth, the two sides have been fighting for decades, but the conflict has played out largely under the cover of covert and clandestine operations.

The recent actions of both sides in this once “shadow war” have changed the nature of the conflict. It is not clear that de-escalation is on the horizon.<...Read more

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III has sent to leaders of the Armed Services panels a 15-page letter detailing his serious worries about several dozen pending provisions in the House or Senate NDAAs.

Some of these are “topics of significant concern,” Austin wrote in the Sept. 26 letter, obtained by CQ Roll Call. “lf left...Read more

MARJAYOUN, Lebanon — For much of the last year, as Hezbollah and Israel traded blows in an escalating tit-for-tat, the predominantly Christian village of Ain Ebel remained mostly out of the crossfire: Hezbollah cadres didn’t use the village as staging ground for attacks, and Israeli warplanes and artillery avoided striking it.

And while ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon will spend about $1.2 billion to maintain ships deployed as part of operations in the Red Sea and to replenish stocks of missiles fired to repel attacks by Iran and its proxies, according to new budget documents.

The spending, detailed in two Sept. 6 budget documents submitted to congressional defense committees and ...Read more

NEW YORK — Footage of Daniel Penny’s statements to police after he placed Jordan Neely in a fatal chokehold aboard a subway car— in which he called the victim a “crackhead” — were shown in court Thursday.

The videos, which Penny’s defense wants prosecutors barred from showing the jury at his upcoming manslaughter trial, will not ...Read more

A fire ignited Thursday afternoon near the southwestern bank of Lake Piru in Ventura County, California, and by evening had burned nearly 300 acres. The flames stranded half a dozen boaters, who were forced to shelter in place lakeside, officials said.

The blaze, dubbed the Felicia fire, threatened from three to five structures, including homes...Read more

LOS ANGELES — More than three decades after Erik and Lyle Menendez killed their parents in a sensational murder case that captivated the nation, Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón said Thursday that his office would review what he described as new evidence that the brothers were molested, a move that could lead to their resentencing...Read more

ATLANTA — The Georgia attorney general’s office has asked the state Supreme Court to reinstate the restrictive abortion law that a Fulton County judge struck down earlier this week.

In a court filing, Georgia Solicitor General Stephen Petrany asked the justices to “affirm basic constitutional principles” and put on hold an order made by...Read more

Smugglers have abandoned over a hundred Haitians fleeing the island of Hispaniola that Haiti shares with the Dominican Republic in a remote nature reserve off the western coast of Puerto Rico in recent weeks.

The incidents come amid a worsening humanitarian and gang crisis in Haiti and a ramp-up of deportations by Dominican authorities. The ...Read more

Six months after a scathing state audit found that California had failed to track the $24 billion it spent to combat homelessness over the past half-decade, Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have required state homelessness programs to more closely monitor and report their spending.

In a message explaining his decision to kill the ...Read more

A bipartisan group of senators this week revealed draft legislation that aims to prod the U.S. government into taking a more active diplomatic role in bringing about an end to the civil war in Sudan.

The legislation, led by Senate State-Foreign Operations Appropriations Chairman Chris Coons, D-Del., and Senate Foreign Relations ranking member ...Read more

Forecasters had warned for days that Hurricane Helene was likely to cause widespread devastation. But when the powerful storm struck Florida and barreled through the eastern U.S. last week, killing more than 180 people and taking whole communities offline, it still managed to come as a shock.

Florida’s Big Bend, where Helene made landfall, ...Read more

ATLANTA — After a fire in August 2020 at a BioLabs chemicals facility in Louisiana, sent a massive toxic plume over the surrounding community, federal investigators blamed the company for its poor preparation and faulty fire suppression system.

Investigators also called for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to change its rules to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — More than three decades after Erik and Lyle Menendez killed their parents in a sensational murder case that captivated the nation, Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón said Thursday his office would review what he described as new evidence that the brothers were molested, a move that could lead to their resentencing.

...Read more

Among at least 17 artificial intelligence-related bills signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom recently is a bill that will integrate AI literacy into K-12 curriculum throughout the state.

“AB 2876 responds to the rapid proliferation of AI in nearly every aspect of young people’s lives, as well as the impact AI will have on their futures,” according...Read more

KOCHVILLE TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump told a crowd in Saginaw County Thursday that, he believes, Michigan will be the "biggest beneficiary" of his much-debated plan to place tariffs on goods imported into the United States.

Trump made the statement during an 80-minute speech on the campus of Saginaw Valley ...Read more