HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. — A small two-seater airplane made an emergency landing on Huntington State Beach after losing engine power shortly after takeoff from John Wayne Airport Monday afternoon, July 27, according to tower communications.

The fixed-wing, single-engine Piper Cherokee 140 took off from the airport about 2 p.m. and, minutes ...Read more

For the second time in the past year, North Carolina and 25 other states are suing FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security for threatening to withhold millions of dollars in disaster relief and counterterrorism funding.

FEMA and DHS manage several grant programs that give states millions each year to respond to natural disasters and fight ...Read more

As the Senate speeds toward its upcoming August recess, President Donald Trump is turning up the pressure on Senate Majority Leader John Thune to keep his chamber in session and in Washington instead.

So far, that’s unlikely.

“You could stay here till Christmas” and the situation wouldn’t change, Thune said. “If I thought there was ...Read more

The federal judge in Florida overseeing President Donald Trump’s $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the New York Times has deferred ruling on the newspaper’s request to toss the case, and instead is allowing Trump to revise his complaint.

The president has until Aug. 27 to file an amended suit, U.S. District Judge Steven Merryday ruled ...Read more

President Donald Trump headed to Michigan on Monday to again try selling the U.S. economy to voters ahead of November’s midterms, hitting the state’s competitive 7th District with control of the House on the line.

After making a campaign stop last week in Georgia, he was back in a state with races that are expected to help decide which ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Celeste Rivas Hernandez told the singer D4vd she would destroy his career and ruin his life roughly 24 hours before prosecutors say he killed the teenager, according to text messages made public Monday in court.

After an argument about a relationship between a woman and the singer, whose legal name is David Anthony Burke, the 14...Read more

Hurricane Genevieve on Monday became the first Category 5 storm in the eastern Pacific Ocean since Hurricane Kristy in 2024, with winds peaking at 160 mph, and the strongest July Cat 5 in the basin since 2002.

It has since weakened to a high-end Category 4 storm, with wind speeds still topping out at 150 mph as of 2 p.m. Pacific time.

The pace...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Nevada gaming regulators say they have reached an agreement with a leading prediction market that prevents it from writing contracts involving sports results, elections or entertainment-related propositions.

The Nevada Gaming Control Board late Friday announced that it had reached an agreement with New York-based Kalshi to stop ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Prediction market platforms Kalshi and Polymarket notched an early legal victory Monday in fighting a state law meant to ban Minnesotans from making certain wagers.

U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez granted a preliminary injunction that pauses the state law banning the markets temporarily while legal challenges brought by ...Read more

The United Kingdom shared its “Stone Cloak” technology capable of jamming Russian air defense systems with Ukraine as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy became the first foreign leader to visit Britain for talks with new Prime Minister Andy Burnham.

Burnham told broadcasters that the meeting aboard the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Queen ...Read more

NEW YORK — The family of a teenage tourist killed in a Central Park horse carriage crash said Monday during a memorial for the victim that it plans to sue the city over the teenager’s.death.

Romanch Mahajan’s family has already expressed public support for a legislative bid to ban the carriages in New York City after Mahajan fell from a ...Read more

WINDSOR, Canada — Motorists driving over the Gordie Howe International Bridge Monday were bored — but in a good way.

Gone was the rumble-strip bumpiness of the Ambassador Bridge, the death-defying swaying of the Mackinac Bridge, the phalanx of traffic lights that await other crossings.

On its opening day, the Gordie Howe bridge performed ...Read more

James Fishback, a Republican candidate for Florida governor, will stay on the ballot despite questions about his state residency, a Tallahassee judge ruled Monday.

One of Fishback’s opponents, Lt. Gov. Jay Collins, sued, arguing that the former investor is ineligible to be Florida governor because of time he spent in Washington, D.C.

Florida...Read more

The U.S. Department of Justice confirmed it has reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with a Kentucky-based drug treatment provider to resolve allegations the company defrauded the state’s Medicaid program.

Addiction Recovery Care announced July 16 it had agreed to settle with the DOJ over claims of Medicaid fraud. However, at that time, ...Read more

Savannah Guthrie wants her mother’s kidnapper to know “there’s always a way home” for her missing mom as well as whoever’s responsible for the 84-year-old woman’s disappearance. The NBC News personality’s plea follows a message of hope from a public figure who’s an expert on abductions.

“It has been months since our mom was ...Read more

Former FBI Director James Comey Jr. is asking a federal judge to dismiss the criminal case accusing him of threatening President Donald Trump, arguing that the prosecution endangers free speech by treating a political message as a criminal threat.

“While the indictment fails on its face to allege a true threat, the background to this ...Read more

MIAMI — Federal prosecutors in Miami said on Monday they will seek permanent detention of brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate, the infamous social media influencers wanted on rape charges in England, setting the stage for their bond hearing on Aug. 13 as they await extradition to the United Kingdom.

The brothers’ defense team will confront a ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — When Robert Barclay’s two daughters moved from Africa to live with him in Delaware County, getting them up-to-date on their vaccines was top of his list.

His daughters, 14-year-old Albertine and 20-year-old Ruth, were among the first clients at Delaware County Health Department’s new mobile clinic, which launched earlier ...Read more

NEW YORK — The city-run grocery stores the Mamdani administration is spending $70 million to set up will provide a 30% discount on essential foods like produce, eggs and milk, the mayor said Monday.

“No exceptions, no gimmicks,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani said at an East New York press conference. “Savings will last for the entire month. That...Read more