LOS ANGELES — Jennie Marie Mahalick Petrini has a big decision on her hands.

For Petrini, the night of Jan. 7 brought total loss. The Eaton fire decimated her quaint home in the northwest corner of Altadena near Jane's Village, reducing her sanctuary to a pile of rubble.

"I have a spiritual connection to that house," she said. "It was the ...Read more

CHICAGO — Don’t hold your breath, Hoosiers.

The nearly three dozen Illinois counties where a majority of voters in recent years have expressed their desire to leave the Land of Lincoln won’t be joining their neighbor to the east anytime soon — or probably ever — regardless of any recommendation from a bistate commission Indiana Gov. ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado universities are bracing for major disruptions to their international student populations this fall in light of federal hostility toward foreign-born students and rapidly shifting immigration policies from the Trump administration.

More than 10,360 international students attended colleges and universities in the Centennial ...Read more

DENVER – For decades, the question of how and whether gray wolves should be legally protected has been debated through federal rulemakings, courts and now Congress — where a bill from one of Colorado’s representatives is under consideration.

U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert is leading a bill that would remove the gray wolf from the endangered ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Buckle up for another potentially dangerous peak wildfire season in the San Diego area.

“We’ve only had about 50% of the normal rainfall, and temperatures are expected to be warm as we get into this summer,” Brian D’Agostino, meteorologist and vice president of wildfire and climate science at San Diego Gas & Electric, said...Read more

State lawmakers are expected to begin the effort to override Gov. Josh Stein’s vetoes of two major immigration and gun bills on Monday night or Tuesday.

That’s when the two measures, Senate Bill 50 and Senate Bill 153, could receive the first of two required override votes in the Senate.

A top Republican leader in the Senate notified the ...Read more

A federal judge issued another court order letting Harvard University keep hosting foreign students, this one in its fight to overturn President Donald Trump’s proclamation barring their entry to the U.S.

US District Judge Allison Burroughs granted the university a preliminary injunction Monday that prevents the government from enacting a ...Read more

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department apologized for a social media post expressing sympathy for Iranians impacted by U.S. and Israeli bomb strikes.

The nation’s largest Sheriff’s department posted a message Sunday assuring residents that law enforcement was exercising vigilance following a U.S. attack on Iranian nuclear facilities ...Read more

NEW YORK — A tranche of electronic evidence shedding light on Sean “Diddy” Combs’ debauched lifestyle was admitted into evidence Monday as prosecutors wrapped up their sex trafficking and racketeering case against the jailed rap mogul.

Feds at the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office spent what’s slated to be the last full day of their ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Pamela Bondi on Monday defended a Trump administration proposal to eliminate the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a major shakeup experts say would likely require congressional action to implement.

The Justice Department in a fiscal 2026 budget request has outlined a plan to merge ATF ...Read more

President Donald Trump announced Israel and Iran had agreed to what he called a “complete and total” ceasefire, easing fears that a conflict between the two adversaries might escalate.

Trump, who made the surprise announcement on his Truth Social platform days after ordering airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, said the accord would ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Trump administration said Monday that it plans to rescind the Roadless Rule to remove restrictions on timber harvests and road-building in national forests, including the Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska.

The move drew swift condemnation, including in Alaska where conservation groups and some village leaders...Read more

WASHINGTON — The nation’s largest insurers and insurance industry groups agreed to address problems caused by prior authorization, though Health and Human Services Department officials who announced the handshake deal on Monday acknowledged they may need to take additional regulatory action.

Health plans often require additional ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Lawyers for California Gov. Gavin Newsom continued their court battle on Monday against President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard and other military personnel to Los Angeles during protests over immigration raids.

The case is the latest flash point between the Democratic governor and the Republican ...Read more

North Carolina Senate lawmakers on Monday transformed a bill about the state star into a 44-page measure that funds agencies and programs, as budget talks with the House remain stalled.

The bill could be on the Senate floor as soon as Monday night.

Senators also unveiled their reworked version of a House bill to fund more aid in Western North ...Read more

An Afghan national who served as a translator for the U.S. military and entered the U.S. legally was arrested during his immigration hearing in San Diego and is now being detained.

On June 12, Sayed Naser, whose full name is being withheld because of safety reasons, was at a courthouse in San Diego for a routine immigration hearing and was ...Read more

Three hikers were found dead over the weekend days after they jumped into a California waterfall.

The Placer County Sheriff’s Office received a report on June 18 that three men had jumped into Rattlesnake Falls, near Soda Springs.

The men did not resurface and a search and rescue mission was launched.

Officials said ground and aerial ...Read more

Anderson Cooper and several of his CNN colleagues were forced to evacuate their broadcast station live on air Monday morning while reporting from Tel Aviv.

During a report from the Israeli city at 3 a.m. local time, Cooper along with international correspondent Clarissa Ward and Jerusalem correspondent Jeremy Diamond heard an emergency alert ...Read more