Sen. Rand Paul said he doesn’t understand why people are demanding Sen. Mitch McConnell to release more details about his health condition as he continues his recovery.

McConnell, 84, was discharged from a rehabilitation center Aug. 6 after being hospitalized June 14. McConnell said in an Aug. 6 statement he will continue physical therapy ...Read more

DETROIT — The University of Michigan's regents are expected to appoint the university's second female president in its history at a special board meeting in two weeks, hoping to cap a turbulent year for the university while presenting Raver with major challenges to tackle.

Vanderbilt University Provost C. Cybele Raver was announced Tuesday as...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court was urged Tuesday to block construction of President Trump’s huge new ballroom until Congress weighs in. A decision, perhaps only temporary, is likely by Friday.

Acting on his own, Trump had the East Wing of the White House torn down in October and ordered work to start on a massive new building that would ...Read more

OAKLAND, Calif. — From the day of his arrest on murder charges, Anthony Alonzo maintained that he was being booked for “some s— I didn’t even do,” according to court records.

While perhaps unpolished, Alonzo’s protestations of innocence now appear to have been justified. On Monday, the Alameda County District Attorney’s office ...Read more

Scammers are using the death of a beloved California bald eagle for a get-rich-quick scheme involving sales of bogus merchandise benefiting the raptor center where she died.

Jackie, who gained worldwide fame from a bald eagle cam on her nest at Big Bear Lake, died Aug. 10 at the Ojai Raptor Center, where she had been taken to recover after ...Read more

NEW YORK — A man arrested for attacking multiple people during Shabbat service at Midtown’s Central synagogue is now facing federal hate-crime charges, officials said Tuesday.

Larry Montes, 46, was charged with two counts of committing hate crimes and one count of damage to religious property resulting in bodily injury for Friday’s attack...Read more

The Trump administration on Tuesday advanced a formal proposal to rescind a decades-old rule that protects more than 44 million acres of national forestland from road construction and timber harvesting, including about 4.4 million acres in California.

The Roadless Area Conservation Rule is a 2001 bipartisan measure that established lasting ...Read more

Invasive carp reached just 80 miles from Lake Michigan on the Illinois River last week, marking the closest the fish have gotten to the Great Lake as work was halted on a state-federal project meant to stop the voracious fish from moving farther upstream.

Illinois Department of Natural Resources workers removed several hundred small silver carp...Read more

Hayden Panettiere’s estranged mom said their family wanted the 36-year-old actor’s on-and-off boyfriend out of her life before she was found dead in his company on Sunday.

“This person in her life that we have been trying to get rid of for quite some time was with her at her death and that was Brian Hickerson,” Lesley Vogel told NBC ...Read more

BOSTON — Mayor Michelle Wu contacted garage and lot owners to ask them to reject ICE requests to use their property for “surge parking,” saying it would constitute an “unwarranted escalation” in federal immigration enforcement in Boston.

“On July 21, we received the distressing news that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE...Read more

WASHINGTON — A close aide to President Donald Trump is at the center of an ugly clash between the White House and Sen. Jon Ossoff, after the Democratic lawmaker drew the administration’s ire for highlighting the close nature of her relationship with the president.

Natalie Harp, a 35-year-old executive assistant to the president, is little ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Charlotte immigration agents losing key surveillance video in a case accusing protesters of assaulting them is “troubling,” a federal judge said Monday. But it’s not enough to justify tossing charges, he said.

Neither are the false statements agents once made about protesters Heather Morrow and William Stanley, U.S. ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — A Mercer County, Pennsylvania, woman is suing Taco Bell and Taylor Farms, accusing the companies of negligence after the Avocado Ranch Chicken Stacker she bought at the fast food chain last month left her hospitalized with a cyclosporiasis infection.

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in federal court on behalf of Heather Kebert, also ...Read more

DENVER — The Colorado Bureau of Investigation’s years-long failure to stop the misconduct of DNA analyst Yvonne “Missy” Woods constituted outrageous government conduct, a Weld County District Court judge ruled this month.

Judge Vicente Vigil dismissed a felony sex assault on a child case after finding that the CBI’s inaction, even ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Facing what could be the rainiest winter in years thanks to an expected El Niño, San Diego officials plan to announce Tuesday a broad preparation campaign focused on clearing flood channels and educating residents.

The city plans to nearly double the number of miles of storm channel it clears of weeds and debris this fiscal year,...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump insisted Tuesday that there were no talks ongoing with Iran, leaving the simmering conflict in the Middle East and control of the Strait of Hormuz stuck in limbo.

“There are no talks or conversations going on, or scheduled, with the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Trump posted on his social media ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — A sailor faces charges in the June killing of a shipmate on the future USS John F. Kennedy.

Aviation Boatswain’s Mate Jayjrion Rodriguez is charged with murder while engaging in an act inherently dangerous to another, involuntary manslaughter, simple assault with a loaded firearm and reckless endangerment.

On June 6, ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The state of Minnesota sued Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in federal court on Tuesday over a nearly three-month delay in extraditing Christian Castro, the federal agent accused of shooting Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in north Minneapolis during Operation Metro Surge and later lying about it.

In a news conference announcing the suit, ...Read more