The U.S. Southern Command has activated a new military headquarters to coordinate operations against drug cartels and other transnational criminal organizations across the Western Hemisphere, marking a significant reorganization of the military’s regional security mission.

The new Joint Task Force-Western Hemisphere, activated Monday, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Out-of-service equipment managed by Southern California Edison started the deadly Eaton fire that killed 19 people and destroyed much of Altadena in January 2025, according to a long-awaited report by state and county fire officials.

The report, released Tuesday by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — A budget bill is likely to soon be on its way to the governor’s desk, with a variety of funding changes and power shifts. It’s much smaller than the comprehensive, long-delayed $34 billion budget bill Democratic Gov. Josh Stein signed into law in July.

But what is known as a budget technical corrections bill has more than ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The University of Alaska Board of Regents voted Tuesday to eliminate higher tuition rates for students with out-of-state residency.

Regents voted unanimously in favor of the change, but final approval will not occur until November, when regents vote on tuition rates for the 2027-28 school year.

University finance ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Hours before President Donald Trump is scheduled to headline a Tuesday evening fundraiser at his Rancho Palos Verdes golf course, authorities announced that they had arrested a heavily armed individual seen wandering the grounds Sunday.

L.A. County sheriff’s deputies responded to the golf course around 3:30 p.m. Saturday after...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Out-of-service equipment managed by Southern California Edison started the deadly Eaton fire that killed 19 people and destroyed much of Altadena in January 2025, according to a long-awaited report by state and county fire officials.

The report, released Tuesday by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The prospect of an interim deal focused on the Strait of Hormuz appeared to be gaining traction on Tuesday, with Qatar saying a proposal had been drafted and both American and Iranian officials sounding hopeful about an agreement to reopen the crucial waterway.

President Donald Trump discussed efforts to deescalate U.S.-Iran ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — A federal agency that aims to make healthcare safer and less expensive has canceled two grants to University of Pittsburgh researchers, adding to the institution’s recent string of funding losses.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality canceled a grant worth about $2 million to Leslie P. Scheunemann, an assistant ...Read more

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson praised on Tuesday the “maturation” of Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch, whose handling of sexual harassment issues involving former state Rep. Harry Benton has made him politically vulnerable in leading the supermajority House Democratic caucus in Springfield.

“Watching his maturation has...Read more

BOSTON — Massachusetts residents are looking down the barrel of $300 million in federal penalties, equivalent to an additional $90 per taxpayer annually, if the payment error rate in the state’s SNAP program fails to improve significantly from current levels, according to a new study released by the Fiscal Alliance Foundation.

The study, ...Read more

The Cuban government has announced it is opening up banking, pharmacies, gas stations, elder-care homes, port terminals and — almost unnoticed — the practice of law and architecture to private companies for the first time in six decades.

Prime Minister Manuel Marrero signed the new decree that takes effect Tuesday. In 2024, when the economy...Read more

WASHINGTON — Todd Blanche cleared the first hurdle Tuesday on his path to confirmation as attorney general, setting the stage for a vote by the full Senate this week as Republicans race to shore up support among three potential holdouts in their party.

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 12 to 10 along party lines to advance his nomination, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s planned deployment of National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., through the end of his presidential term will cost $1.43 billion, or $51 million a month, in addition to the amount spent so far, according to a new Pentagon estimate.

The new estimate of the costs going forward, first reported by The ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Friends and family members have described the victims in Saturday’s mass shooting in Twin Falls as an “ace,” a “beautiful soul,” and someone who made a “courageous decision.”

Three people were killed at an In-N-Out Burger off of Blue Lakes Boulevard, Twin Falls Police Chief Matthew Hicks said on Sunday. Seven ...Read more

MIAMI — A former Haitian national police officer pleaded guilty on Tuesday to illegally exporting more than 140 firearms from South Florida to Haiti, including weapons that authorities say he bought without obtaining a license to ship them to the besieged Caribbean country.

Jean Robert Casimir, 53, a naturalized U.S. citizen of Lauderhill, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California Attorney General Rob Bonta said Tuesday that his office has protected more than $200 billion in federal funding for the state, defended core civil rights and removed military forces from Los Angeles streets by suing the Trump administration about once a week.

"Since President Trump returned to office, California has ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The prospect of an interim Iran deal focused on the Strait of Hormuz appeared to be gaining traction Tuesday, with Qatar saying a proposal had been drafted and American officials sounding hopeful for an agreement to reopen the crucial waterway.

Oil reversed earlier gains, and U.S. government bonds rallied, on optimism that ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Out-of-service equipment managed by Southern California Edison started the deadly Eaton fire that killed 19 people and destroyed much of Altadena in January 2025, according to a long-awaited report by state and county fire officials.

The report, released Tuesday by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and ...Read more