Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said he wants to build more housing to bring down costs, but researchers caution that even a significant increase in the state’s housing supply may not make homes affordable for its poorest residents.

Moore signed two executive orders Thursday aimed at speeding up permitting, expanding modular housing and creating more...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — A federal court has temporarily blocked enforcement of a new state law that would ban the sale of legal handguns that can be converted, by the attachment of illegal devices, to fully automatic weapons.

U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley’s hurried ruling grants an emergency order sought by Austrian gun maker Glock and three...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Days after signing a package of bills to rebuff aspects of federal immigration enforcement in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed two bills from Los Angeles lawmakers that targeted public employment for federal agents.

One of the bills, backed by Speaker Robert Rivas, D-Hollister, would have blocked agents and ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Justice sued Maryland and two of its largest counties Thursday, challenging state and local laws that restrict all law enforcement officers, including federal agents, from wearing masks, and require them to identify themselves in certain circumstances.

The lawsuit names Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown, the ...Read more

ST, PAUL, Minn. — St. Paul released the full report Thursday of the outside investigation the city commissioned after Police Chief Axel Henry made claims of sexual harassment against Mayor Kaohly Her, which says attorneys did not substantiate the mayor sexually harassed him but found she “created an uncomfortable work environment” for him....Read more

LOS ANGELES — In the University of California's strongest rebuke yet of the Trump administration's pressure campaign against it, the university is asking a federal judge to throw out a Justice Department lawsuit accusing UCLA of enabling antisemitism, describing the case in court filings as "political coercion."

UC is seeking to block a ...Read more

The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline has restored the "Press 3" option connecting LGBTQ+ youth to targeted support services, more than a year after the Trump administration cut off the program.

Starting Sept. 30, people who call or text 988 can once again be connected directly with counselors trained to support young LGBTQ+ people. The lifeline ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Santa Ana Police arrested a woman Thursday who appeared to deliberately run over a 9-month-old puppy in a disturbing surveillance camera video.

Hahn Nguyen, 75, was booked into Santa Ana jail on suspicion of animal cruelty and animal abandonment. She admitted to owning the 9-month-old pit bull, "Blackey," and that she abandoned ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Investigators have located the wreckage of a medical transport helicopter that crashed in the Pacific Ocean after departing Wednesday night from Santa Catalina Island, killing a pilot and a nurse.

One person, a female patient being taken to the mainland, remains missing, and two survived. Sources familiar with the investigation ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — After being duped by Hannah Gann, one organization closely affiliated with the Philadelphia School District teacher and activist is dissolving, and another is on a two-month hiatus pending a decision about its future.

The moves come after Gann admitted she lied for years about her identity, claiming at times to be Palestinian, ...Read more

Forecasters are, once again, monitoring the remnants of Tropical Storm Fay for potential redevelopment before the end of the weekend, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Tropical Storm Fay initially formed on Sept. 20 in the subtropical Central Atlantic and degenerated a few days later. It regained tropical-storm status on Sept. 24, ...Read more

NEW YORK — As a rent freeze on stabilized units took effect Thursday to the delight of housing advocates and tenants of the city’s one million rent-stabilized apartments, a legal mess that could challenge the freeze continued to unfold.

A group of landlords suing the city over the rent freeze on Thursday published pages of correspondence ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — The Democratic-controlled Michigan Senate avoided, during its Thursday meeting, a plan to temporarily suspend the state's 52-cent-per-gallon gas tax amid bipartisan calls for action to combat high fuel costs.

The Senate was in session for about 21/2 hours, but Democratic leadership didn't hold a vote on a gas tax holiday. ...Read more

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department reportedly performed a welfare check on Hayden Panettiere a week before she was found dead in South Carolina.

Police received a 10 p.m. call from a Panettiere acquaintance concerned that the 36-year-old actor wasn’t returning phone calls to her West Hollywood apartment. The “Heroes” star wasn�...Read more

WASHINGTON — While the rest of the Senate was in recess, the Banking Committee held a hearing Thursday morning featuring Trump administration nominees — a move that the panel’s leading Democrat called out of bounds.

The panel convened fewer than 12 hours after the Senate gaveled out for the midterm recess late Wednesday night. The chamber...Read more

Christa Pike survived an execution attempt in Tennessee on Sept. 30, 2026, after receiving two doses of pentobarbital, a lethal drug. Gov. Bill Lee has temporarily suspended executions in the state.

Pike became the first person ever to get full doses of the drugs intended to kill her and to live nonetheless. But she is not the only ...Read more

MIAMI — Federal investigators released their first report into what went wrong when 21 Air Flight 7598 overshot the runway at Miami International Airport last month, killing five people in a work van and seriously injuring five others.

The report released Thursday afternoon shows the plane was coming in much faster than investigators ...Read more

Maryland is officially the first state in the nation to designate a state shark: The extinct megalodon became one of the state symbols Thursday as nearly 300 new laws took effect.

The megalodon was the largest predatory shark to ever live, according to a news release from the Calvert Marine Museum. Its fossils, including highly coveted teeth, ...Read more