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

SACAMENTO, Calif. — A new analysis from the Senate Committee on Appropriations shows a bill supporting telework for state workers could save California hundreds of millions of dollars, even after accounting for its implementation costs.

Assembly Bill 1729, spearheaded by Assembly member Alex Lee, D-San Jose, would require the Department of ...Read more

DETROIT — Attorneys for a man accused in the murder of Detroit synagogue president Samantha Woll in October 2023 are criticizing new charges against him and say the prosecutor's office is interfering with his release on parole.

A jury deadlocked in July 2024 when determining if Michael Jackson-Bolanos was responsible for killing Woll in her ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday favorably reported Todd Blanche’s bid to be attorney general after some Republican senators delayed the vote over the Trump administration’s controversial “weaponization” fund.

Key GOP holdouts on the committee, Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Thom Tillis, R-N.C., voted in favor ...Read more

More than 900 people in Washtenaw County, Michigan, have been sickened with cyclosporiasis since mid-June. Linda Kim, a public health nurse, has called more than 100 of them. Almost everyone has said the same thing: It’s excruciating, and one of the worst illnesses they’ve experienced.

But on a Wednesday in July, she called one man who said...Read more

NEW YORK — An appellate judge has cleared the way for a man convicted of sexually assaulting and brutally murdering Howard Beach jogger Karina Vetrano to continue pressing forward with his appeal.

More than a decade after Vetrano’s body was found in Spring Creek Park near Howard Beach in Queens, Chanel Lewis, the man serving a life sentence...Read more