FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A week after a Learjet 60 plummeted out of the sky and exploded in flames on a main road in Palm Beach County killing all nine people aboard, federal and local authorities have finished their on-site investigation, which included recovering the aircraft’s cockpit voice recorder and other pieces.

Shortly before 1 p.m....Read more

LOS ANGELES — Police in Santa Barbara launched an investigation this week after more than two dozen half-marathon runners showed up at hospitals with “unusual symptoms” after participating in a race on Sunday.

The roughly 6,000 people who participated in the half-marathon and 5K were running in temperatures that were much warmer than ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A Minneapolis City Council committee new regulations on data centers Monday limiting their size, where they could be built and where their servers would have to be located.

The city is already home to eight data centers, but they’re loosely regulated, so unless the council and mayor can agree to regulations, additional data ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The federal government moved forward on Monday with criminal cases against two Sacramento area residents caught up in the Trump administration’s efforts to investigate and prosecute noncitizens it believes registered and voted illegally.

Juan Antonio Rivas Garcia, of Sacramento, and Giezell Viduya Adawag, of Vacaville, ...Read more

The anonymous satirical art activist group Secret Handshake is at it again — this time erecting a giant golden statue of a seated President Trump rubbing a bare foot. Titled "The Foot Soldier," the statue pokes fun at the president's famous bone spurs — a diagnosis he received in 1968, which led to a medical exemption during the Vietnam War....Read more

WASHINGTON — Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., took to the House floor Monday to unveil a resolution that would impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and a vote on the issue could occur by Wednesday.

A draft resolution that Massie read aloud on the House floor on Monday accused Hegseth of eight violations of law or the Constitution, including that...Read more

Russian and Ukrainian envoys will discuss territorial issues and proposals for ceasefire monitoring in the United Arab Emirates this week, according to a senior U.S. official, as a new round of negotiations to end the war gets underway.

The official, who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity Monday, said there had been daily discussions ...Read more

Abortion advocates are hopeful that Texas’ newly elected Democratic leaders could mean the state could enact more exceptions to the state’s near-total abortion ban.

Here’s where the laws currently stand, and what could change when the new leaders, including Gov.-elect Gina Hinojosa, are sworn in.

What do current Texas abortion laws say? ...Read more

NEW YORK — Starting this off season, a portion of New York City’s ferry fleet will be temporarily reinvented as science classrooms on the waterways.

On Monday, NYC Ferry, the Economic Development Corporation, and an educational oyster-reef restoration nonprofit plan to announce the launch of the “Floating Classroom,” a 90-minute, twice ...Read more

CHICAGO — A top Justice Department official told a federal judge in Chicago on Monday that communications with local prosecutors about the controversial “Broadview Six” case are privileged and off-limits to her ongoing inquiry into alleged misconduct.

U.S. District Judge April Perry had set a deadline of 2 p.m. Monday for the U.S. ...Read more

Meghan Markle authorized “a source close to her” to let a British paper know she wants to help the FBI and other international authorities investigate her father, Thomas Markle, who was arrested in Florida ON Friday and charged with possession of child sexual abuse images he kept in two Los Angeles-area storage lockers.

This source ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump offered full-throated support for Pete Hegseth, signaling that the embattled defense secretary’s job was safe for now amid a congressional effort to impeach him for his conduct of the Iran war.

Republican Representative Thomas Massie introduced a measure on Monday to impeach Hegseth, roughly one week ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Bronze statues representing American veterans who fought for the United States throughout its 250-year history are ready to be seen in a different light.

While the 18 towering figures and their mammoth granite-wall backdrop have existed for over a decade, their new home in far northwest Las Vegas has not.

Workers on Monday ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to take on a civil rights case filed by residents of Poppleton in West Baltimore who challenged the city’s eminent domain taking of homes under a 20-year-old, failed agreement with a developer.

The Poppleton Now Community Association and six residents filed the lawsuit in August 2024, alleging Baltimore�...Read more

After initially congratulating Democrats on their midterm wins, which he said he was "absolutely willing to accept," President Donald Trump posted a baseless missive to social media about not trusting early ballot totals or voting machines.

"Does anybody really believe that this 'Election' was honest. How could the Polls be so wrong???" he ...Read more

BOSTON — Boston Mayor Michelle Wu pitched zoning changes that she said will jump-start housing production by making it less costly for developers to build, but held firm on the core affordability requirements that critics have blamed for the slow-down.

Wu on Monday proposed four changes to the city’s inclusionary zoning policy that requires...Read more

WASHINGTON — The incoming Democratic chairman of the Senate Finance Committee signaled three major banks with ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein would be top investigative targets for the panel when his party takes control next year.

“We’ve got three Wall Street banks who if they had done nothing, nothing except follow the law ...Read more

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang’s affair with an alleged Chinese spy has sent the company’s stock plunging, become a focus of internal and government investigations, and is now threatening to reverberate across the AI industry.

Nvidia shares slid 4.3% on Monday, erasing nearly $200 billion in market valuation, after Huang...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — A multiagency operation in Fort Worth that lasted more than two months led to the arrests of 141 people, the seizure of more than 60 kilograms of drugs and the recovery of 38 guns, officials said.

The charges faced by the suspects arrested during this operation include possession of a machine gun, escape from detention, ...Read more