LAS VEGAS — A former lawyer for O.J. Simpson has filed a lawsuit in Las Vegas asking for over $1 million in back legal fees from the former football player’s estate.

Ronald Slates, a California attorney, is asking the court stipulate that Malcolm LaVergne, a Las Vegas lawyer who is the administrator for Simpson’s estate, pay him over $1.1...Read more

When it rains, it pours. And that’s good news for California’s water supply.

After a relatively slow start to the winter rainy season, a series of atmospheric river storms has sent hundreds of billions of gallons of water pouring into reservoirs across California over the past three weeks, easing the concerns of water managers and ...Read more

NEW YORK — One year after New York’s much-delayed and hotly debated congestion toll went into effect, Gov. Kathy Hochul, Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and MTA Chairman Janno Lieber have released numbers they argue points to the success of the program, which charges drivers a base toll of $9 to enter Midtown and lower Manhattan.

According to state ...Read more

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu was officially sworn into her second term Monday, and while she used her inauguration speech to sharply criticize the Trump administration and outline her office’s priorities, she didn’t announce any new initiatives.

Wu addressed a supportive crowd at the Symphony Hall, where she drew applause for her administration...Read more

NEW YORK — The judge overseeing the Nicolás Maduro prosecution is a 92-year-old native New Yorker who’s willing to take unpopular stances, is unafraid to challenge lawyers and has managed to win praise from President Donald Trump despite crossing him on key issues.

“He doesn’t reflexively rule for the government,” said Roger Stavis, ...Read more

Illinois is now at “very high” levels for flu activity – a designation that coincides with the federal government’s decision Monday to no longer recommend many vaccines for children, including the flu vaccine.

Flu activity has been increasing in Illinois and across the country in recent weeks. The “very high” designation for the ...Read more

Hilton Hotels said one of its Hampton Inn operators had apologized for an incident in which reservations for Department of Homeland Security agents traveling to Minnesota were canceled.

The Hampton Inn in the Twin Cities exurb of Lakeville was “independently owned and operated, and these actions were not reflective of Hilton values,” a ...Read more

Three kids in the Bay State have died from the flu in recent weeks as influenza cases spike, according to health officials who are pleading with residents to get vaccinated.

The flu has already been tied to the deaths of three pediatric patients in Massachusetts, the Department of Public Health reported on Monday.

Also, 29 adult influenza ...Read more

Minnesota U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar is mulling whether to run for governor after Tim Walz announced he won’t seek a third term this fall.

Should she decide to run, it’s common for members of Congress to remain in office while campaigning for governor.

At least three of Klobuchar’s Senate colleagues — Colorado’s Michael Bennet, Alabama�...Read more

Federal health care officials on Monday cut the number of vaccines recommended for every child, reaffirming the need to immunize children against 11 infectious diseases such as measles but leaving families to decide whether to pursue flu shots and others.

Physician groups reacted negatively, calling the change a scientifically unsupported ...Read more

NEW YORK — Ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro appeared in a federal courtroom in Manhattan on Monday, three days after his stunning capture in a night-time military operation in Caracas by the U.S. military. He pleaded not guilty.

He and his wife, Cilia Flores, who joined him in the courtroom, stand accused of facilitating the ...Read more

NEWPORT NEWS — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth visited the Newport News Shipyard on Monday to speak with shipbuilders about what he called the “generational struggle to maintain peace through strength.”

With the in-progress submarine USS Oklahoma behind him, Hegseth highlighted the importance of industrial workers to the military’s ...Read more

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removed six vaccines from the recommended list for American children on Monday, a sweeping decision that could have widespread consequences for U.S. public health.

Before Monday, the CDC had recommended vaccines against 17 different diseases for ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The Trump administration is sending hundreds of additional federal agents to the Twin Cities in a significant escalation of its immigration enforcement presence in Minnesota, according to a report published Monday by CBS News.

The report cites anonymous law enforcement sources who say as many as 2,000 agents from U.S. ...Read more

More than two days after U.S. forces apprehended Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday publicly endorsed the Trump administration’s move — tying the dramatic arrest to the lived experience of South Florida’s large Venezuelan exile community and his own hardline approach to immigration.

Speaking at a press ...Read more

Ousted Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro pleaded not guilty on Monday to U.S. charges in a narco-terrorism case against him, kicking off an extraordinary legal battle with major geopolitical ramifications.

“I am innocent,” Maduro said through an interpreter. “I am not guilty. I am a decent man,” adding that he is still the president ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced sweeping changes to the pediatric vaccine schedule on Monday, sharply cutting the number of diseases U.S. children will be regularly immunized against.

Under the new guidelines, the U.S. still recommends that all children be vaccinated against measles, mumps, rubella, polio, pertussis, ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced sweeping changes to the pediatric vaccine schedule on Monday, sharply cutting the number of diseases U.S. children will be regularly immunized against.

Under the new guidelines, the U.S. still recommends that all children be vaccinated against measles, mumps, rubella, polio, pertussis, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Venezuela risks “a second strike” if its interim government doesn’t acquiesce to U.S. demands. Cuba is “ready to fall,” and Colombia is “very sick, too.”

Iran may get “hit very hard” if its government cracks down on protesters. And Denmark risks U.S. intervention, as well, because “we need Greenland,” ...Read more