A more than $15 billion spending plan is on its way to the governor’s desk 89 days after the General Assembly was supposed to be done with its work for the year.

But a plan to separately provide money for member-initiated community investment projects, commonly referred to as earmarks, fell apart.

Lawmakers on Tuesday gave their final ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — San Diego Coastkeeper and the Coastal Environmental Rights Foundation have settled a yearslong Clean Water Act lawsuit against the U.S. International Boundary and Water Commission and its contractor, Veolia Water West Operating Services, over alleged pollution violations at the South Bay International Wastewater Treatment Plant.

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The National Hurricane Center on Tuesday further raised already high odds that an Atlantic system could develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm this week.

If it were to spin up into a named system, it could become Tropical Storm Cristobal.

As of the NHC’s 8 p.m. tropical outlook, showers and thunderstorms were showing ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — “One bald eagle changed the world.”

So wrote Victoria Novak of Georgia, referring to Jackie, the internet-famous bald eagle who died Monday after weeks of intensive care for a mysterious illness.

Novak was far from alone. Her sentiment echoed nearly 200 responses to a callout asking readers what Jackie meant to them. ...Read more

California will begin phasing out paraquat, a powerful weedkiller associated with birth defects, thyroid issues and other serious health problems.

The California Department of Pesticide Regulation said this week all manufacturers of pesticide products containing the active ingredient have voluntarily agreed to withdraw the product from the ...Read more

DETROIT — Lawsuits are mounting from Michigan's largest outbreak of cyclosporiasis, a parasitic illness that causes extreme gastrointestinal issues, as some of those infected seek compensation for what they've endured, and at least one legal expert sees hundreds more claims coming down the road.

Fourteen people have filed federal lawsuits ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A Senate Republican group said Tuesday it’s adding $6 million this month to the $45 million it was already planning to spend on Michigan’s open U.S. Senate race for a total of $51 million to help GOP nominee Mike Rogers flip the seat from Democratic control.

The $6 million represents half of an additional $12 million that the...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is looking for new policy pledges he can present to voters ahead of the midterm election, according to a top economic aide and a former administration official, including potentially calling on Congress to cut capital gains taxes and create an exemption for certain home sales.

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JUNEAU, Alaska — Suicide Basin, the source of Juneau’s annual glacial outburst floods, was full as of 9 a.m. Tuesday, putting the Mendenhall Valley on standby.

With the basin full, the 2026 flood is expected to occur within one to six days. The flood begins when water from Suicide Basin, which is dammed by the side of the Mendenhall Glacier...Read more

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump on Tuesday vowed to seek a way to block Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s planned pied-à-terre tax, calling it a “dangerous political experiment” that would backfire by spurring wealthy property owners to abandon NYC.

“I am looking to see if the Federal Government has any legal right to avert this disaster, ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — The University of California, San Diego is now at the center of a global contest that hopes to unlock quality-of-life gains in the same way that a previous competition revolutionized commercial spaceflight.

The university announced Tuesday that its Stein Institute for Research on Aging will serve as the central laboratory and ...Read more

The Florida Chamber of Commerce has become the latest business booster from the Sunshine State with a message for New York City denizens who have tired of the city’s high cost of living and doing business.

In the center of Times Square, at Broadway and West 43rd Street, a newly erected digital billboard proclaims the leftist Mayor Zohran ...Read more

CHICAGO — Extreme weather usually doesn’t scare Mary Beth Uretz, but she spent Tuesday morning crying in her Homewood basement, clutching her pets as the storm pounded.

“Psychologically, it’s a lot to deal with,” said Uretz. “I’ve never gone to bed at night and worried about my house falling over, until this summer.”

Indeed, ...Read more

NEW YORK — Rama Duwaji, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s wife, will be heading to Syria and Lebanon without an NYPD detail next month as she visits family, city officials said.

“There was a miscommunication,” Mamdani said on PIX11 when asked about reports his wife would be bringing a detail with her. “She has not taken that trip. When she takes...Read more

NEW YORK — A Manhattan judge on Tuesday said there would be an overflow room open to members of the press and the public at alleged CEO killer Luigi Mangione’s upcoming murder trial and that it was “reckless” of his lawyers to suggest prosecutors were secretly involved in determining who would get a seat.

Taking the bench a few minutes ...Read more

Flesh-eating bacteria sounds like the premise of a bad horror movie, but it’s a growing – and potentially fatal – threat to people in the U.S. and beyond.

Vibrio vulnificus, a type of flesh-eating bacteria that thrives in warm seawater, is once again threatening the safety of beachgoers and raw shellfish enthusiasts. To date, ...Read more