BOSTON — A battered Republican Lt. Gov. candidate Shawn Oliver was arraigned in New Bedford District Court on Monday morning on operating under the influence charges following a violent crash into several parked cars Saturday night.

Oliver, with a noticeable head injury held together with surgical staples, declined to comment on his charges, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider outlawing school diversity policies that limit Asian American students at magnet programs and selective high schools.

Three years ago, the court ruled that Harvard and other universities may not discriminate on whom they admit based on the race of their applicants. Evidence in that ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Federal authorities have charged 28 people from across California with illegally registering to vote or casting ballots in federal elections despite not being U.S. citizens — again escalating an election battle between the state and the Trump administration just weeks before the Nov. 3 midterms.

Authorities said 11 of the 28 ...Read more

Sara Gray buys gas once a month.

Her 40-mile commute to work is entirely electric in her Volvo V60 plug-in hybrid. Gray, director of arts at California’s Monterey Museum of Art, only relies on the car’s combustion engine for longer weekend road trips up the coast or to see her parents in Reno, Nevada.

“This was kind of a happy medium”...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Alaska Department of Education and Early Development has approved the first group of Scholarship Granting Organizations, nonprofits that can redistribute taxpayer contributions to grant scholarships for K-12 students starting next year.

Gov. Mike Dunleavy opted Alaska into the federal program created by last year's ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — A male beluga whale rescued from a shuttered Canadian marine park almost two months ago died Sunday at his new home at SeaWorld San Diego.

Cyprus, 9, was one of three beluga whales relocated to SeaWorld San Diego from Marineland, an animal theme park in Niagara Falls that closed in 2024. Thirty beluga whales and four dolphins ...Read more

BLAINE, Minn. — More than 40 local, state and federal law enforcement agencies are working together on a new strategy to respond to gang and group violence in Minnesota.

Law enforcement leaders unveiled a plan Monday to curb gang violence in Minnesota using an existing investigative model and greater collaboration across agencies.

The ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — An FBI agent offered greater detail about the man charged in the thwarted terrorism-inspired attack at the Mall of America, describing how his pro-ISIS social media posts triggered their investigation into what they allege was a plot to kill “as many people as possible.”

After hearing the testimony during a Monday detention ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Michigan U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin tangled online with conservatives angry over her remarks last week about holding Trump officials accountable for corruption and specifically her suggestion that such moves might dissuade young graduates from going to work for the administration.

A clip of her remarks circulating on social media ...Read more

PARIS — French officials, acknowledging law-enforcement failures, rolled out tougher security measures and pledged aid for businesses after cost-of-living protests this weekend degenerated into violence, vandalism and looting.

An 11 p.m. curfew was put in place in a few areas of Paris amid other restrictions after Prime Minister Sébastien ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Federal authorities have charged 28 people from across California with illegally registering to vote or casting ballots in federal elections despite not being U.S. citizens — escalating an election battle between the state and the Trump administration just weeks before the Nov. 3 midterms.

Authorities said 11 of the 28 were ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The wind-driven Norte fire in San Clemente and San Juan Capistrano that damaged or destroyed seven homes was 75% contained by Monday morning, and remained at 570 acres.

“Crews will continue working to extinguish hot spots and strengthen containment lines,” the Orange County Fire Authority said.

Containment, the percentage ...Read more

In March 2025, when California ran out of Medicaid funds to pay doctors and hospitals, the state borrowed $3.4 billion to keep the program afloat. It was, as a spokesperson for Gov. Gavin Newsom insisted, nothing new. Indeed, a handful of times over the years, the state had taken out internal, short-term loans to sustain its healthcare program ...Read more

NEW YORK — A vandal smashed the window of an Upper East Side bank Monday morning and left a message in red paint criticizing an Israeli weapons manufacturer, police said.

The vandal targeted the Capital One bank on East 86th Street near Second Avenue, breaking the front window at 7:40 a.m., cops said.

They left a message in red paint across ...Read more

Late last month, the Trump administration announced that it had cut 760,000 people from the Affordable Care Act rolls, claiming fraud and improper enrollments and touting billions in potential taxpayer savings.

Not all of those kicked off were fraudulently enrolled, KFF Health News has learned. Insurance industry sources said the Centers for ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Monday defended ordering the extensive redevelopment of a historic Washington, D.C. public golf course in defiance of a federal judge’s orders.

The duffer in chief announced the imminent closure of the East Potomac Golf Course, the closest links to the White House, for a planned 15-month renovation to transform it ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani is announcing an expansion of free childcare for 2-year-olds Monday with an additional 10,000 seats, bringing the “2-K” program to a majority of all New York City school districts in 2027, including all of Staten Island and the Bronx.

Mamdani, with a boost of $425 million in state money set aside in January...Read more

California has designated its first tribal-championed marine protected areas, often described as underwater parks. While environmentalists celebrate the historic move, commercial fishers warn they will lose access to key waters.

The California Fish and Game Commission voted Thursday to create two roughly nine-square-mile State Marine ...Read more