LOS ANGELES — Over four years, a Los Angeles school district manager enriched herself with $3 million in kickbacks by working with a tech company executive to deliver $22 million in work, according to allegations in a lawsuit filed by the school district.

She gave high scores to secure contracts, signed off on increasing payouts to the firm ...Read more

DENVER — The pedestrian fatally struck by a Frontier Airlines plane at Denver International Airport on Friday died by suicide, according to the medical examiner.

Michael Mott, 41, died from multiple blunt and sharp force injuries caused by the plane engine, Denver Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Sterling McLaren said in a Tuesday morning news ...Read more

DENVER — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have repeatedly violated a November court order requiring them to follow the law when making warrantless arrests in Colorado, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

In a 60-page opinion, U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson wrote that ICE had continued making the arrests without first ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Kevin Warsh, the nominee for chairman of the Federal Reserve, was confirmed Tuesday for a 14-year term on the board and moved a step closer to a four-year term as chairman after a procedural vote.

The Senate voted 51-45 to put Warsh on the board and by the same margin to limit debate on his nomination to be chairman, bringing ...Read more

MIAMI — After an Evangelical pastor presided over the unveiling of a golden statue of President Donald Trump at his Doral golf course last week, several Florida religious leaders are likening the homage to idolatry and a violation of the biblical prohibition against worshiping false idols.

At a ribbon-cutting ceremony last Wednesday at Trump ...Read more

DENVER — After nearly eight years working with Gov. Jared Polis, Colorado lawmakers are looking to reset their relationship with the governor’s office — and require future governors to be more transparent in how they exert influence over the legislative process.

They just have to get past Polis first.

Ninety-two of the Capitol’s 100 ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Federal prosecutors have charged Synergy Marine Group, Synergy Maritime and one employee in connection with the March 2024 collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, alleging a conspiracy to conceal dangerous safety violations aboard the Dali container ship that contributed to the disaster and led to the deaths of six.

The ...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump is showing signs of frustration at a lack of progress in negotiations to end the 10-week war with Iran, as the Strait of Hormuz remains all but closed to vital energy supplies and oil prices continue to rise.

Trump told reporters Monday that the response from Tehran to his latest offer was a “piece ...Read more

Embattled U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer appeared to buy himself a reprieve from efforts to oust him, after a high-stakes Cabinet meeting that ended with a public show of support from a handful of key allies.

In a meeting in Downing Street on Tuesday, Starmer sought to hold back the gathering calls for his resignation, according to people ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A preliminary hearing the murder case against David Anthony Burke, the 21-year-old singer better known as D4vd, will go forward at the end of June, setting a timeline for when more detailed evidence about the gruesome murder and dismemberment of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez will become public.

Burke — who prosecutors ...Read more

All eyes are on passengers of a cruise ship battling an outbreak of Andes virus, an infectious disease that has so far left three people dead and several others sick.

On Monday, a group of Americans on the ship were flown from the Canary Islands in Spain to Nebraska for monitoring, with at least two later flown to Atlanta for treatment. Their ...Read more

Cuba’s new migration and citizenship laws maintain several restrictions affecting Cuban Americans, including a requirement that Cubans with dual citizenship travel to the country with a Cuban passport and maintaining the government’s broad authority to deny entry to government critics.

The National Assembly passed the laws in July 2024, but...Read more

Despite a dodgy weather forecast, SpaceX has lined up its latest resupply run for NASA to the International Space Station on Tuesday night that could bring a sonic boom to parts of Central Florida.

A Falcon 9 on the CRS-34 mission looks to send a cargo Dragon spacecraft filled with 6,500 pounds of supplies to the space station launching from ...Read more

Embattled U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer appeared to buy himself a reprieve from efforts to oust him, after a high-stakes Cabinet meeting that ended with a public show of support from a handful of key allies.

In a meeting in Downing Street on Tuesday, Starmer sought to hold back the gathering calls for his resignation, according to people ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Tuesday an additional $4 billion in state cash flowing to the five boroughs, ahead of the mayor’s release of his executive budget proposal.

The budget plan was originally due May 1, but that deadline was pushed back due to state budget delays.

The officials did not include ...Read more

Innovators who are working on ways to pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere to fight climate change are having a tough time lately.

Their biggest supporter, Microsoft, recently began telling partners that it is pausing its carbon removal purchases. To get a sense of how big of a deal this is, look at the numbers: The tech company ...Read more

If you wanted to learn the Cherokee language in the 1990s, there weren’t many written resources: three dissertations from the 1970s and ’80s, one textbook and a handful of college classes in North Carolina and Oklahoma. Even on most Cherokee land, it was unusual to see street or building signs in this endangered Indigenous language.

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Living by the sea in the tropics means being exposed to some of nature’s most powerful forces. Hurricanes can bring storm surges, flooding and destructive waves that threaten homes, infrastructure and livelihoods.

For many communities, coral reefs are a natural first line of defense against these storms. The reefs’ rugged ...Read more

Passengers from the Hondius cruise ship are being repatriated under a patchwork of measures that reflect uncertainty over how this strain of hantavirus spreads, complicating efforts to contain the deadly outbreak.

Some passengers are being placed in biocontainment units, notably in France, for at least two weeks. Australia plans to quarantine ...Read more