The California Department of Transportation is crunching the data from a pilot program it wrapped up earlier this year that addresses one of the most controversial topics in the Golden State — creating a per-mile road charge that drivers across California would pay.

Backers say it’s worth considering because revenue collected from the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In the first 24 hours of the Eaton fire, Pasadena's communications director helped activate four different kinds of alerts to keep its residents apprised of evacuation orders, while also hopping on several news programs and doing interviews to share updates in real time.

Further east, when Arcadia joined the sphere of concern as...Read more

Michele Andrews had been seeing her internist in Northampton, Massachusetts, a small city two hours west of Boston, for about 10 years. She was happy with the care, though she started to notice it was becoming harder to get an appointment.

“You’d call and you’re talking about weeks to a month,” Andrews said.

That’s not surprising, as...Read more

After the Senate voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary, supporters of his “Make America Healthy Again” movement cheered at having a champion in the federal government.

Now the grumbling has begun. Some of Kennedy’s allies say he’s become almost inaccessible since his confirmation and complain that...Read more

Japan is looking into reviewing its car safety standards as the country seeks to strike a trade deal with U.S. President Donald Trump, Japanese business daily Nikkei reported on Sunday.

The report comes after Japan’s chief negotiator Ryosei Akazawa kicked off tariff discussions with U.S. counterparts in Washington last week. Preparations are ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A group of property owners affected by the January wildfires is suing major California insurer carriers, including the state’s largest, State Farm, for allegedly violating California’s antitrust and unfair competition laws.

The lawsuits follow others regarding insurers’ handling of the aftermath of the Eaton and Palisades ...Read more

Rachel Reeves vowed not to raise wealth taxes in her Autumn Budget, casting off speculation that the Chancellor of the Exchequer will increase levies to defend the U.K.’s fiscal buffer.

“We’re not interested in a wealth tax,” Reeves said in an interview with the Telegraph on Saturday. “Our priority is to grow the economy and that’s...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Naval Academy canceled a speech by author and podcaster Ryan Holiday after he declined a request not to reference 381 books and literary works removed from its library as part of a review of diversity, equity and inclusion materials, according to an opinion piece he authored for The New York Times.

Holiday, who has hosted a ...Read more

NEW YORK — As the Trump administration escalates its campaign against international students and Palestinian activists, Jewish New Yorkers are increasingly refuting the idea that the president’s efforts are actually about fighting antisemitism.

After Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi was arrested at his U.S. citizenship test in Vermont, a ...Read more

ATLANTA — Wearing the badge cost one metro Atlanta officer his life and left three others injured during a heartbreaking week for law enforcement agencies.

The South Fulton Police Department, which formed in 2018, lost its first officer in the line of duty Tuesday night when Lt. Helio Garcia was killed in a head-on collision, according to ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — A 33-year-old Texas man was sentenced in San Diego federal court Friday for coordinating the smuggling of at least six protected baby Mexican spider monkeys through the Calexico Port of Entry, prosecutors said.

U.S. District Judge Robert Huie ordered Sarmad Ghaled Dafar, who pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge, to serve four ...Read more

BALTIMORE — At least two cases of listeria have been linked to ice cream in the Baltimore metro area, prompting health and safety concerns.

Listeria is a bacterium that can contaminate food and cause serious, sometimes fatal infections, particularly in pregnant women, newborns, the elderly and those with weakened immune systems, according to ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Hope Florida charity created by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration took in more than $867,000 in donations in its first year, mostly from companies regulated by the state or doing business with it, according to the organization’s first tax filing.

In the year leading up to Tampa Electric asking state regulators for ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — With an intensifying drought anticipated to last at least through mid-May, the Central Florida region faces a serious threat for destructive wildfires that can spark quickly and spread rapidly, meteorologists and emergency officials said.

“One of the things that is concerning to us is that there are still a lot of downed ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Baltimore community gathered Saturday morning at the spot where Freddie Gray was arrested in 2015 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of his death in police custody.

A few hours later and several blocks away, activists held a rally calling for social justice as they marched from Penn-North Metro to Mondawmin Metro.

A decade ...Read more

Florida State University will resume all “classes and business operations” on Monday, four days after a gunman opened fire at its Tallahassee campus, killing two people and wounding several more.

FSU President Richard McCullough made the announcement in a social media post Saturday, reminding students, professors and staff members that the ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court to roll back its decision to block the deportation of Venezuelans to a notorious prison in El Salvador, arguing that the early-morning order was overbroad and premature.

In 15-page filing, U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer said the detainees’ lawyers were wrong to turn to ...Read more