SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Proposition 42 is a proposed constitutional amendment that would do two big things: block new state taxes on personal property, including financial assets, and limit certain retroactive state taxes.

It would apply to new taxes enacted or taking effect on or after Jan. 1, 2026 — a provision aimed squarely at the Prop. 40...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Carnegie Mellon University will open an innovative campus in Miami after a $3 billion donation from hedge fund CEO Kenneth Griffin, whose nationally historic gift will also aim to bolster CMU’s flagship Pittsburgh campus.

The gift from Griffin — the founder of Citadel whose nearly $50 billion net worth makes him the 37th ...Read more

BOSTON — Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell has released a new report detailing nearly 1,000 cases of child sex abuse allegedly committed by 270 clergy across the Fall River, Worcester and Springfield dioceses, first publicly exposed in 2002, and the institutional failures that allowed the abuse to occur and continue.

The report ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill last week to narrow an exemption to the California Environmental Quality Act for manufacturing facilities. But the long-running political struggle over the cornerstone law continues apace, with both sides now turning their full attention from the Capitol to the voters.

That’s because one ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani has finally received high-level security clearance from the federal government, after nine months on the job without it, the mayor said Wednesday.

It’s unclear when he got the green light, though the news comes after Mamdani met with President Donald Trump at Gracie Mansion last week during the United Nations...Read more

New reports about Presley Gerber’s final hours before his Sept. 20 death in a sober living home in Santa Monica, California, reveal that Cindy Crawford’s troubled son was able to check into the facility, even though he was known to be under the influence of drugs.

Even more, Gerber reportedly brought drugs into the home that he would use ...Read more

Thursday is fueling up to bring the noise with two SpaceX launches on the Space Coast that could bring three boosters back for landings that could bring sonic booms across Central Florida.

First up at 11:10 a.m. EDT is only the second crewed mission to fly from Florida this year, and one that features an astronaut raised in Volusia County.

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The U.S. Justice Department has filed a judicial misconduct complaint against Minnesota’s former chief federal judge and others on the bench who gave media interviews regarding the government’s violations of court orders during Operation Metro Surge.

Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Wednesday the department filed the complaint ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — More than a year of tensions inside the office that shapes UCLA's public image spilled into a Los Angeles courtroom Tuesday, as lawyers for a campus vice chancellor asked a judge to block the public release of an investigation into allegations from six employees that she bullied them or misused university funds.

Vice Chancellor ...Read more

BOSTON — Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell has released a new report detailing nearly 1,000 cases of child sex abuse allegedly committed by 270 clergy across the Fall River, Worcester and Springfield dioceses, first publicly exposed in 2002, and the institutional failures that allowed the abuse to occur and continue.

The report ...Read more

BOSTON — The chances of a two-month suspension of the state’s 24-cents per gallon gas tax proposed by Gov. Maura Healey last week being taken up by state lawmakers this legislative session looks bleak, at best, as gas prices continue to soar and the general election sits just over a month away.

Healey announced last week that she had filed ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — Facing high resignation rates and significant staffing shortages in the University of Connecticut police and fire departments, UConn will offer tuition waivers for public safety personnel and their dependents beginning next year, according to public safety officials at the university.

Lawmakers say the tuition waivers will ...Read more

A pilot of a jet carrying more than 170 passengers to Tel Aviv stabbed his colleague and tried to crash the plane in what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu branded a serious security incident.

Catastrophe was narrowly avoided after a passenger and members of crew stormed the cockpit of the Flydubai plane that had taken off in Dubai and ...Read more

DUBLIN, Calif. — A married man and woman in their 70s have been charged with murder, days after they allegedly shot and killed their son-in-law at a local parking lot, taking turns firing at the victim, who was embroiled in a bitter divorce and custody battle with the suspects’ daughter.

Shouyong Zhang and Shili Chen, both 77, were charged ...Read more

WASHINGTON — With less than five weeks to go until the midterm elections, Republicans face historical headwinds as the party in power and must also contend with high gas prices amid the ongoing Iran war.

But Republican groups enjoy a clear cash advantage as the party seeks to hold on to the House, and redistricting in several states has ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The once unlikely prospect of Democrats scoring a net gain of four seats to win the Senate majority now looks more plausible less than five weeks out from the midterm elections.

Still, that would require the party to win in red states that haven’t elected a Democrat to the Senate in years. But strong recruits, coupled with a ...Read more

Tropical Storm Hanna continued to churn Wednesday in the central Atlantic though it is expected to become a remnant low by tonight.

Hanna, located nearly 1,210 miles east of Bermuda as of 5 a.m. Wednesday, was moving east-southeast at 5 mph with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph.

This hurricane season broke a 112-year record now that the ...Read more

Sea-level rise is one of the most visible signs of climate change, one that is threatening low-lying coastal communities around the world. Today, about 1 billion people live in coastal areas; about 100 million live within 1 meter (3.3 feet) of sea level, highly exposed to coastal flooding.

Over the long term, when it comes to future ...Read more