Federal wildlife managers euthanized 28,000 animals in California in 2025 and dispersed about 1 million more as part of a nationwide program meant to control invasive species and minimize danger to people, pets and livestock, new data shows.

The removals by a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture — which nationwide involved killing 2...Read more

The Trump administration is injecting more than $100 million into education programs for American researchers in STEM fields, as federal policies stanch the flow of foreign scientists to the U.S. and policymakers focus on an AI arms race with China.

The initiative, which President Donald Trump is set to announce at a White House summit on ...Read more

New York Attorney General Letitia James has added new allegations to a child safety lawsuit against TikTok Inc., accusing the platform of running secret experiments on teen users.

The new claims are attributed to a Bloomberg Businessweek report, based on a confidential TikTok document, about an algorithmic test the company began in 2021 that ...Read more

President Trump told a crowd in Texas on Wednesday night that he would not allow Iran to attack San Diego or Los Angeles, a comment that came two days after he made off-the-cuff remarks suggesting the West Coast cities could be struck.

"You want to see a horror show? You want to see problems? Let them hit San Diego, let them hit Los Angeles," ...Read more

Dolly Parton's estate is alleging that Bryan Seaver, the country icon's nephew and former head of security, used a "no trespassing" sign and barbed wire to avoid being served legal documents.

There is an active restraining order and lawsuit against Seaver by Parton's company, She's Alive LLC, which is run by Parton's former manager, Danny ...Read more

The Turks and Caicos says it has intercepted another overloaded boat from Haiti, this time carrying more than 100 Haitian migrants.

The group included 87 men and 23 women.

Shortly after the 110 migrants were interdicted at sea on Wednesday by the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force and Turks and Caicos Islands Regiment and Border Force...Read more

Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, are not even remotely planning to apologize to Prince William and Catherine, Princess of Wales, contrary to rumors that have swirled since the couple moved back to the U.K. last month, according to a new report.

A London tabloid’s assertion that a public apology from the Sussexes to the Prince and ...Read more

After Florida’s attorney general refused to accept millions from Meta in a multistate settlement he criticized as borderline “absurd,” he now is asking a state court to force the social media giant to make the same — and more — concessions to Florida that it did to the 52 other states and territories it settled with.

In an 85-page ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Education said Wednesday it was expanding its antisemitism investigation of Swarthmore College after a student group allegedly shared a video of an effigy of an Israeli soldier being set on fire.

The group, Students for Justice in Palestine, already had its affiliation revoked by Swarthmore College in 2025 for past ...Read more

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill disclosed additional issues with the state’s voter registration system Wednesday, months after she announced the discovery of noncitizens on the voter rolls.

Sherrill said Wednesday that a review of the state’s voter registration processes revealed that the same system that allowed for those improper ...Read more

A vigil at Manhattan’s Union Square to remember the 1,200 Jews killed during the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel three years ago was thrown into chaos Wednesday when more than 200 pro-Palestinian demonstrators swarmed the plaza, officials said.

Waving Palestinian flags and screaming “Normalize the intifada!” and “There is only one ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is disputing that federal immigration agents arrested a man on a California community college campus, contradicting college officials who maintain that the enforcement occurred on school property.

DHS’ denial came Wednesday, two days after Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria said U.S. Immigration and ...Read more

Patricia Krenwinkel, convicted of seven murders as one of the most notorious members of the Manson family, was granted parole this week and, barring a move by the full state parole board and governor, will see freedom some 56 years after imprisonment.

Krenwinkel was granted parole on a preliminary basis Tuesday at her 18th hearing to gauge her ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE — A state appeals court Wednesday expunged a confidential Hope Florida grand jury report leaked two months ago that described a “sophisticated scheme” to misappropriate $10 million in taxpayer dollars from a Medicaid settlement for political purposes.

The First District Court of Appeal ruled that the presentment produced by ...Read more

NORTHAMPTON COUNTY — Oyster grower Alex Lambert had one day’s notice that an algal bloom was heading toward his 4,000-basket farm. It could be years before scientists know why.

A local grower messaged Lambert on Sept. 17, telling him discolored water was spotted in nearby creeks with suspicion it could be harmful to sea life like his ...Read more

The Boston City Council unanimously passed a resolution calling for the city and state to provide housing for Haitian immigrants facing deportation due to the expiration of their temporary protected legal status in late July.

The Council voted, 12-0, Wednesday in favor of a resolution put forward by Councilors Miniard Culpepper, Ruthzee ...Read more

In the span of an afternoon, the North Carolina General Assembly revealed and passed legislation that will pause the state’s gas tax through November, if it becomes law.

Though nearly all Democrats voted for the GOP-written bill, they questioned the election timing as Republicans are facing strong headwinds in the midterm elections, and ...Read more

Prosecutors in the Alex Murdaugh double murder case have criticized a defense lawyers’ recent court filing seeking deep dive cellphone data as containing “inexplicable false assertions.”

The alleged false assertions are being made “in highly prejudicial public filings by design,” prosecutors said in a filing in Colleton County court ...Read more