WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is investigating Alice Huang, the woman U.S. officials suspect as a possible spy targeting the ousted head of Nvidia Corp., over whether entities linked to her were involved in efforts to smuggle products made by Super Micro Computer Inc. to China, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The ...Read more

Russia is stepping up attacks on Ukraine’s crop-processing facilities, further straining an industry vital to the war-battered economy and global food supplies.

The country’s food giant Kernel Holding SA halted operations at all of its oilseed crushing plants after massive Russian drone attacks damaged its equipment and storage tanks, the ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — For years, Texas has had the worst uninsured rate in the nation.

Nearly 4 million Texans lacked health insurance in 2024, leaving them with no easy way to pay for medical care.

Now that Democrats have swept the Nov. 3 elections, health advocates are hopeful that will change.

Voters picked Democrats for both the governor�...Read more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said progress had been made during a meeting with U.S. envoys in Ireland, hailing a prisoner swap deal and a decision to include Europeans in the next round of peace talks with Russia.

Speaking alongside U.S. negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner following a meeting at Casement Aerodrome, a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Michigan Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed said Democrats have not yet earned a "mandate" and need to "do good things" with their new majorities in Congress in order to win Americans' trust, even after overwhelming victories in last week's blue wave election.

In a Thursday interview on Capitol Hill, the progressive firebrand from Ann ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The skyline of downtown Los Angeles got a lot less colorful in the past few months as crews wiped florid, eye-catching graffiti off the towers of a stalled $1.2-billion real estate development.

City officials joined the buyers of Oceanwide Plaza on Thursday to celebrate the removal of spray-painted graffiti splashed as high as ...Read more

FORT LEADERDALE, Fla. — A South Florida resident has begun serving a two-year federal prison sentence for threatening posts he made online against Trump administration officials Marco Rubio and Kristi Noem earlier this year.

Jon Christopher Enriquez, 47, of Miami, pleaded guilty in August to three counts of transmitting threats through ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A Virginia couple who celebrated their 2025 engagement at the Kentucky Castle in Versailles have filed a potential class-action lawsuit over allegations that cameras may have been hidden on the property by bourbon entrepreneur Wes Henderson.

Henderson had been CEO of the Kentucky Castle’s parent company, TKC Hospitality ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford announced Wednesday that he has appointed three political strategists, including two who worked on his successful gubernatorial campaign, to lead the team that will help him make the switch to the governor’s office.

Additionally, the Democratic governor-elect has unveiled a new website — ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday pulled Vice President JD Vance away from negotiations with Iran, suggesting that the United States no longer needs to pursue a deal to end the Middle East conflict and instead directing Vance to turn his attention to corruption in states run by Democrats.

“We don’t need a deal with Iran. ...Read more

NEW YORK — The city Building Department conducted a sweeping inspection campaign of roughly 100 construction sites Thursday as it launched an investigation into what caused the deadly building collapse in Brooklyn gets underway.

At least eight people, including two children, died in the collapse, in which a three-story residential building ...Read more

CHAROTTE, N.C. — A far-right influencer pardoned by President Donald Trump in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, filmed himself in Charlotte Douglas International Airport this week ranting against Muslim prayer rugs in the airport chapel.

“Hey, guys, we’re here at the Charlotte, North Carolina, airport,” Jake Lang says in a video ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said the U.S. doesn’t need a deal with Iran and instructed Vice President JD Vance to focus on domestic issues rather than negotiations with Tehran.

The directive, posted on social media on Thursday, threw cold water on ongoing back-channel talks and dampened prospects for a diplomatic breakthrough to ...Read more

DENVER — A former Mesa County sheriff’s deputy who resigned last year after he was accused of illegally collaborating with federal immigration agents was later hired by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to a leaked roster of agency personnel released last month.

Alexander Zwinck is listed in the leaked data as a special ...Read more

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson’s new human resources chief was accused during her time in the city’s procurement department of threatening staffers and interfering with attempts to correct employees who fell short of the city’s contracting protocols.

Tiheta Hinton, confirmed last month as Johnson’s commissioner of the Department of ...Read more

DENVER — Gov. Jared Polis pardoned 27 people Thursday for relatively minor crimes as he nears the end of his time as Colorado’s governor.

Among those pardoned was Vanessa Peoples, who was featured in a 2021 Denver Post story after she received $100,000 in a police brutality settlement from Aurora. Officers used excessive force on Peoples ...Read more

A virus linked to the deaths of about 220 fish at a Nevada County lake was detected in California for the first time, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife said.

“This is a sobering discovery given how widely distributed largemouth bass are in California, how popular they are as a sport fish and their economic importance to our rural ...Read more

MIAMI — Dozens, and possibly hundreds, of inmates could now join a federal lawsuit alleging that extreme temperatures at Dade Correctional Institution, a state prison in South Miami-Dade, are putting them at “substantial risk of serious harm.”

U.S. District Court Judge Kathleen Williams allowed the case to expand into a class action ...Read more