The Michigan Department of Transportation will receive $145 million for rail infrastructure projects as part of a series of federal grants worth more than $5 billion nationwide, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Friday.

The money includes $98 million to improve the train tracks between Dearborn and Kalamazoo; $29 million to ...Read more

License plate reading technology has been the subject of scrutiny locally and nationally as concerns about civilian privacy and using sensitive location-based data for immigration enforcement escalate.

The concern isn’t unfounded. Law enforcement agencies across California — a sanctuary state — have routinely violated state law by sharing...Read more

Growing more drought-tolerant crops could be an option for San Joaquin Valley farmers facing severe groundwater cutbacks, according to two joint studies by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC).

The studies looked at growing winter crops or forage using less water as an economic alternative to straight out fallowing ground.

“This ...Read more

Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon has condemned a Florida-based political group after its members secretly recorded interactions with poll workers at several Minneapolis polling places during Tuesday’s primary election.

Poll workers immediately reported the encounters to local election officials, according to Simon. Law enforcement is ...Read more

Lebanon saw its deadliest day of fighting in months, heaping pressure on stalled U.S.-Iran negotiations while Washington preps fresh sanctions.

The Israel Defense Forces said on Sunday that it killed Abu Hassan Alaa, a senior Hezbollah commander, in southern Lebanon a day earlier. A total of 11 people died in the Israeli strikes, making them ...Read more

The unhinged man who assaulted two people in an antisemitic attack at a Midtown synagogue referred to himself as God, called the congregants “swine” and screamed an anti-Black slur at a security guard, prosecutors said.

Larry Montes, 46, was ordered held on $30,000 bond at his arraignment before Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Janice Chen ...Read more

Lebanon saw its deadliest day of fighting in months, heaping pressure on stalled U.S.-Iran negotiations while Washington preps fresh sanctions.

The Israel Defense Forces said on Sunday that it killed Abu Hassan Alaa, a senior Hezbollah commander, in southern Lebanon a day earlier. A total of 11 people died in the Israeli strikes, making them ...Read more

A Wildberries warehouse near Moscow caught fire after a Ukrainian drone strike, the regional governor said, part of one of the largest recent attacks on the broader capital area.

Separately, Kremlin forces continued to target Odesa and other parts of Ukraine’s Black Sea region, as well as Kyiv, with missiles and drones. Romania’s defense ...Read more

TACOMA, Wash. — The beef is served red and raw, or not at all. What’s edible comes in small portions, just 2 ounces of protein, often hours past normal mealtimes, according to advocates. Lunch arrives at 5 p.m., dinner at midnight.

And so on Saturday, 140 detainees at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma began their fourth day ...Read more

Approaching six months of war with Iran after predicting a six-week campaign, President Trump has few options before him to bring the conflict to a close. But some experts believe a new strategy emerging from his administration could avert a more consequential defeat.

The president has repeatedly flirted with broadening the assault, hoping yet ...Read more

One person has died as storm Lala continues to batter Hawaii, potentially bringing nearly three feet of rain and damaging winds to parts of the state Sunday after narrowly missing landfall.

The storm got closest to the South Point area, where one person died in a car accident on Saturday, Hawaii Governor Josh Green said in a post on X.

Lala ...Read more

Zambia’s president maintained his lead among voters with nearly half of electoral constituencies counted, moving closer to extending his rule over the copper-rich southern African nation for a second term.

Hakainde Hichilema won 1,056,812 votes in 105 of the country’s 226 constituencies announced by the Electoral Commission of Zambia on ...Read more

Lebanon saw its deadliest day of fighting in months, heaping pressure on stalled U.S.-Iran negotiations while Washington preps fresh sanctions.

The Israel Defense Forces said on Sunday that it killed Abu Hassan Alaa, a senior Hezbollah commander, in southern Lebanon a day earlier. A total of 11 people died in the Israeli strikes, making them ...Read more

U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche defended Jeanine Pirro for dismissing a federal vandalism case in a decision that angered President Donald Trump, saying the top prosecutor in Washington, D.C., should be judged fairly.

Blanche, a former personal lawyer for Trump who was sworn in last week as head of the Justice Department, took Pirro’s side...Read more

Flock Safety is tightening privacy and oversight controls for its nationwide network of automated license plate readers as more communities pull back from the technology and lawmakers across the political spectrum push for new restrictions.

The company announced Thursday that it will recommend that police agencies retain license plate reader ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — As spring rolls into Idaho every year, the snow starts to melt and the chilly water flows down the mountains through soil and streams. Water that isn’t trapped in dams or pulled from wells or rivers eventually reaches the Pacific Ocean.

These high spring flows are sorely missed come summer, especially in years like this, when...Read more

Last year, Baltimore had three mass overdose incidents in the span of three months in its Penn North neighborhood.

In one incident, more than two dozen people were hospitalized after many were found unresponsive, lying in the streets or on sidewalks. No one died, but some came close.

Follow-up testing found that the street drugs contained high...Read more

Hurricane Lala disrupted travel between Los Angeles and Hawaii on Saturday, canceling flights from LAX to destinations across the islands as the Category 1 storm approached the Big Island.

Several flights from LAX to Hawaii were canceled Saturday, including service to Kona, Maui, Kauai and Honolulu. Canceled flights included United Flight 2373 ...Read more