SEATTLE — While Navneet Kaur was pregnant with her son, she hung up sonogram images on the walls of her and her husband’s Auburn, Washington, home, shopped for cute baby clothes and talked about how happy she was to soon welcome her first child.

She was also unknowingly in a phase of life when women are at higher risk of intimate partner ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa Bay’s new congressional map looks like a pinwheel, with districts shaped like vanes that carve through Black neighborhoods in the urban cores and fan out into the rural, white and Republican counties beyond.

East Tampa, with its historically Black neighborhoods, will share a representative with the outer reaches of ...Read more

CHICAGO — The woman parked her car and thought about going to the front entrance of her luxury River North apartment building. But walking through the front door felt impossible.

So the woman instead hurried from the parking lot through the building’s back entrance, bypassing the front desk where she worried that the security guard who ...Read more

Donald Trump is expecting economic deals and a “wild” welcome this week in China. He’ll arrive facing an emboldened Xi Jinping, just as his own hand is constrained by the conflict in Iran.

When the U.S. president touches down in Beijing on Wednesday evening for a 36-hour summit, it’ll mark his first overseas trip since waging war in ...Read more

Nancy Guthrie’s neighborhood association has asked supporters to stop leaving mementos and flowers outside her Tucson residence three months after her apparent dead-of-night abduction, citing warmer temperatures and encroaching wildlife.

“I write this message with a very heavy heart as our friend and neighbor, Nancy Guthrie, remains missing...Read more

LAS VEGAS — A Nevada woman who drowned her two children by holding their heads under water in separate bathtubs apologized in court Tuesday.

“On Monday July 19, 2021, my babies’ precious, innocent lives were taken at the hands of their mommy,” Jovan Trevino told District Judge Carli Kierny, her voice full of emotion. “I truly was not ...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

WASHINGTON — The aging congressional campus urgently needs work, Architect of the Capitol Thomas Austin said Tuesday, warning of “system degradation and failure.”

As the deferred maintenance piles up, so do the costs and the risk to lawmakers and staff, he said.

But Senate appropriators had a warning of their own: They need a better ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The South Carolina state Senate on Tuesday rejected a proposal to extend their legislative session, making it appear unlikely the state will redraw its House map ahead of the November elections.

Five Republican state senators joined all Democrats in voting against a sine die agreement that would have allowed the chamber to ...Read more

After a hantavirus outbreak killed three passengers aboard a cruise ship, Washington state residents are wondering if they’re at risk of the deadly rodent-spread disease.

At least three Washington state residents have been exposed to the Andes strain of hantavirus, according to public health officials.

Two King County residents were “...Read more

NEW YORK — Harvey Weinstein’s attorney on Tuesday said the woman at the center of his rape trial was either delusional or a liar, pulling pages from the defense playbooks of many a high-profile rape suspect in the #MeToo era.

Arguing Weinstein, 73, should be acquitted of third-degree rape, defense attorney Marc Agnifilo asked the jury to ...Read more

In late February, animal rights activists flew a drone over a calf ranch in California's Central Valley and watched as workers kicked and punched the animals.

Footage reviewed by the Los Angeles Times shows a worker pulling a calf by the nose with pliers.

It shows two workers removing the budding horns of a calf with a hot iron. While one held...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — Almost a year late, North Carolina is headed toward having a new state budget.

House Speaker Destin Hall and Senate leader Phil Berger, both Republicans, had been at a stalemate since the summer of 2025, when they failed to reach an agreement on the amounts of tax cuts or raises for teachers and state employees. Hall and ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Senate stopped an effort to redraw the state’s congressional maps, bucking pressure from the White House and the expedited process to redistrict in the House.

State senators could not muster the necessary votes to amend a sine die agreement to allow for a discussion on middecade congressional ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Eileen Wang emerged as an up-and-coming community leader in the San Gabriel Valley several years ago.

She won the endorsement of prominent political figures and was elected to a seat on the Arcadia City Council. In a 2024 interview with the Los Angeles Times, Wang said she moved to Southern California from China 30 years ago.

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LAS VEGAS — A gunman shot and killed two people inside a busy south Las Vegas grocery store Tuesday morning before several witnesses tackled and subdued him until officers arrived.

The Metropolitan Police Department said the shooting was reported just before 11:30 a.m. and that a gunman was taken to a local hospital with injuries that were ...Read more

The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the state’s gerrymandered congressional map in a pair of landmark rulings that ease a path for Republicans to unseat Kansas City’s longtime Democratic congressman.

The first unanimous ruling found that the map itself, which carves up Kansas City, was legal and did not violate the state ...Read more

In a clear symbol that California is not facing water shortages or a drought this summer, Lake Oroville, the state’s second-largest reservoir and a key component of California’s water system, has nearly filled to the top.

The massive reservoir, contained behind America’s tallest dam, was 99% full on Tuesday afternoon, at 122% of its ...Read more