BOISE, Idaho — Idaho and the Trump administration are locking horns over who controls the flow of water to the Idaho National Laboratory in a case that pits America’s nuclear ambition against the bedrock rules of Western water policy — and the state sovereignty that governs it.

The Department of Justice in September sued Idaho to override...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles is going to get more expensive next year thanks to a half-cent sales tax hike approved by voters last week, but city officials say the benefit will be a stronger fire department and faster response times.

Measure FD will generate about $345 million annually for the city Fire Department by raising the city's retail ...Read more

AGUADILLA, Puerto Rico — To the enlisted members and officers of the Coast Guard Cutter Joseph Doyle, their mission on Sept. 28 is known as the “miracle on the Mona.”

They saved almost 50 people that day from the Mona Passage, a treacherous waterway between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico known for big waves, strong currents and smuggling ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sen. Chris Van Hollen announced Thursday night that he would run for Senate majority leader, launching a challenge to Sen. Charles E. Schumer of New York, the current Democratic leader.

Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat first elected to the Senate in 2016, served in leadership in the House and has been chairman of the Democratic ...Read more

Christian Emmanuel Sanon took the witness stand Thursday in his own defense, spending much of his testimony addressing questions about his professional background, which prosecutors have sought to cast doubt on, and trying to explain how his involvement in Haiti led to accusations that he conspired to violently overthrow President Jovenel Moïse...Read more

SEATTLE — Nick Shirley, the conservative social media influencer who has been feted at the White House, has retracted viral videos he posted last month in which he accused Lam’s Seafood Asian Market, a small Seattle grocery store, of committing food stamp fraud.

Shirley’s videos have been viewed millions of times on social media and ...Read more

At the end, Jensen Huang looked broken and shattered, his legendary energy depleted. After weeks spent denying the allegations of infidelity and fighting to remain in his job as Nvidia Corp.’s chief executive officer, his surrender late Wednesday night was unconditional. Huang’s usual take-charge demeanor had evaporated, according to a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Credit agency Fitch Ratings has dealt another blow to the troubled Skylink people mover train at Los Angeles International Airport, downgrading the project's debt deeper into junk bond territory over the continued inability of the contractor and city's airport department to complete the project.

The downgrade — to B-, from BB ...Read more

Two competing camps of victims’ rights advocates have emerged to pressure Gov. Gavin Newsom as the California Supreme Court weighs his request to grant blanket commutation to the 548 people on death row before he leaves office in two months.

On Thursday, former Sacramento prosecutor Anne Marie Schubert — supported by law enforcement groups ...Read more

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