In a move that reverses nearly a decade of practice, California wildlife officials have quietly begun to allow killing mountain lions in order to protect another iconic native — bighorn sheep.

Though limited to the Eastern Sierra — the steep, rugged home of a rare type of the wild sheep — it marks a sea change for California, where ...Read more

MIAMI — At 3 pm on a Tuesday in July, a man from Georgia contacted the Collier County Sheriff’s Office to report a woman with purple hair sitting in a car on the south side of Route 41, across from the gates of Alligator Alcatraz. She was live on TikTok, recording the license plates of vehicles entering and leaving the facility.

“She’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Two partners are each taking the lead in a dance to celebrate America’s 250th birthday next year: Rosie Rios, chair of a bipartisan commission created by Congress to plan events to commemorate the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and President Donald Trump, chair of a White House task force that is making its own ...Read more

Citizens of Antigua and Barbuda and Dominica will face new restrictions on entry into the United States after President Donald Trump on Tuesday expanded a partial travel ban to include 15 new countries as of Jan. 1.

In adding the two eastern Caribbean nations to the list, Trump cited concerns about their Citizenship by Investment, or CBI, ...Read more

Lake Mead may be facing historic shortages, but officials from the Colorado River state that uses the most water are celebrating unprecedented water savings.

At a briefing for reporters at Tuesday’s Colorado River Water Users Association conference at Caesars Palace, leaders from California’s biggest water districts said the state is on ...Read more

Citizens of Antigua and Barbuda and Dominica will face new restrictions on entry into the United States after President Donald Trump on Tuesday expanded a partial travel ban to include 15 new countries as of Jan. 1.

In adding the two eastern Caribbean nations to the list, Trump cited concerns about their Citizenship by Investment, or CBI, ...Read more

The House passed a bill Tuesday that would give the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission authority to require retiring power plants to remain open if their closure could pose reliability concerns.

Under the bill, known as the Power Plant Reliability Act, FERC would determine whether a plant scheduled to retire should remain open if a complaint ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Tuesday designated the government of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro a foreign terrorist organization and ordered “a total and complete” blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers moving in and out of the South American country.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump claimed that the “illegitimate Maduro Regime” stole ...Read more

Canada wants to work more closely with China to stop the chemicals used to create the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl from reaching North America, said Prime Minister Mark Carney’s point person for fighting the opioid crisis.

“We’re looking to collaborate with China, because it’s not an indictment against the Chinese government, per se...Read more

Nick Reiner is said to have stormed out of Conan O’Brien’s holiday party after a tense moment with Bill Hader, the night before his parents were found stabbed to death in their Los Angeles home.

It all started at Saturday night’s annual event, where 32-year-old Reiner, who now faces murder charges in connection with the slayings, ...Read more

It was late in the night when Yisroel Goldstein received a call from a relative notifying him of the shooting at Bondi Beach.

After that, the rabbi and former director of a suburban San Diego County synagogue was glued to his phone, filtering calls and messages for updates on his brother-in-law, his niece and other family members who ...Read more

Dozens of school districts across Long Island have found lead in their drinking water this year, the New York State Department of Health announced on Tuesday.

More than 40 districts in Suffolk County and over 20 in Nassau County tested positive for lead, according to the new report.

The discovery comes after the state reduced the acceptable ...Read more

Officials released more footage Tuesday of the person suspected of killing two students and injuring nine others in a shooting at Brown University over the weekend.

The videos released by the Providence Police and Federal Bureau of Investigation are compiled in chronological order and spliced with maps tracing the suspect’s path.

The clips ...Read more

WASHINGTON — For a man who vowed to stay out of the political spotlight, Jared Kushner is finding himself very much in its glare.

He helped clinch a ceasefire agreement and secure the release of hostages in Gaza. He has sat across from Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy — separately — in a bid to negotiate a peace deal over Ukraine. ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County prosecutors on Tuesday announced murder charges against Nick Reiner, days after his parents — Hollywood legend Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner — were found stabbed inside their Brentwood home.

Prosecutors filed two counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances against Nick Reiner on Tuesday...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he was ordering a “TOTAL AND COMPLETE BLOCKADE OF ALL SANCTIONED OIL TANKERS” going into and leaving Venezuela, ratcheting up pressure on Caracas amid a U.S. military buildup in the region and the threat of land strikes.

“Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled in ...Read more

Los Angeles prosecutors announced Tuesday that Nick Reiner will be charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the brutal stabbing deaths of his parents, actor-director Rob Reiner and photographer Michele Singer Reiner.

The charges are punishable by life in prison without parole or the death penalty, which District Attorney Nathan ...Read more

Wildlife managers have significantly pared back their efforts to find three juvenile gray wolves who are the last remaining members of a pack that had established itself in the Sierra Valley ranch lands north of Truckee, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife said Tuesday.

Three adult wolves and one juvenile from the same group, the ...Read more

As the United States prepares to bolster Haiti’s fight against increasingly brutal armed gangs, a new report is urging officials and mission planners to heed the lessons of the recent Kenya-led security mission and warns that suppressing gangs cannot be reduced solely to killing their members.

Previous efforts in Haiti, the International ...Read more