LOS ANGELES — Federal authorities have charged 28 people from across California with illegally registering to vote or casting ballots in federal elections despite not being U.S. citizens — again escalating an election battle between the state and the Trump administration just weeks before the Nov. 3 midterms.

Authorities said 11 of the 28 ...Read more

WICHITA, Kan. — A Kansas man is facing federal charges, accused of making threats on social media to shoot U.S. President Donald Trump under TV news posts about his political rally Monday in Park City.

Federal prosecutors say a Crime Stoppers tip Thursday led authorities to investigate the Facebook posts from 24-year-old Jaden John Read, of ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — A federal judge declined to block North Carolina’s new mail-in ballot rules from taking effect, ruling that it would be “infeasible” to do so since voting has already begun.

U.S. District Judge Thomas Schroeder, an appointee of President George W. Bush, issued the 72-page ruling Monday evening — less than a week after ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Mexico has found a temporary use for a new customs facility in Tijuana that was built as part of the future Otay Mesa East Port of Entry project while the U.S. finishes construction on its side of the border in San Diego.

On Monday, the facility began serving as the access point for certain commercial cargo trucks waiting to cross...Read more

NEW YORK — In a day of emotional testimony, a Brooklyn woman accused of getting military training from ISIS told jurors about how her controlling father spirited her and her family into ISIS-controlled territory in Syria at age 17, and forced her into a subservient arranged marriage at age 18.

Dressed in a blue hijab, her face uncovered, and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he would be willing to meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping but indicated his focus would be on denuclearization efforts rather than ending the war in Ukraine.

“I would do it — not so much for Ukraine, because Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine,” Trump ...Read more

As President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice pushed for sweeping actions on a list of nearly 20,000 alleged noncitizen voters, election experts argued its much more limited prosecutions suggested Trump’s DOJ failed to find anything like the scale of fraud it claimed.

The DOJ sued California Secretary of State Shirley Weber and Los ...Read more

CHICAGO — A federal judge on Monday quashed a subpoena filed by the state Attorney General and city of Chicago in an ongoing lawsuit over the Trump administration’s immigration-enforcement tactics, saying it would be better to wait and see what’s left of the case after her upcoming ruling on a motion to dismiss.

The lawsuit filed earlier ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate who is facing potential deportation, asked the Supreme Court on Monday to hear his case.

Khalil is challenging a ruling in January that opened the door him being once again detained after winning release from a Louisiana detention center.

New Jersey Federal ...Read more

A slight upturn in young striped bass numbers from last year’s survey isn’t enough for Maryland’s state fish, also known as rockfish, to repopulate, experts say.

Allison Colden, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Maryland executive director, said the fish needs committed action from Atlantic Coast states if its population has any chance to...Read more

SAN DIEGO — An outage Friday on a San Diego Gas & Electric line that occurred moments before the start of the Norte fire that mobilized hundreds of firefighters and damaged homes in Orange County has raised questions about whether any of the utility’s equipment may have ignited the fire.

An SDG&E spokesperson on Monday cautioned against ...Read more

BOSTON — A battered Republican Lt. Gov. candidate Shawn Oliver was arraigned in New Bedford District Court on Monday morning on operating under the influence charges following a violent crash into several parked cars Saturday night.

Oliver, with a noticeable head injury held together with surgical staples, declined to comment on his charges, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider outlawing school diversity policies that limit Asian American students at magnet programs and selective high schools.

Three years ago, the court ruled that Harvard and other universities may not discriminate on whom they admit based on the race of their applicants. Evidence in that ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Federal authorities have charged 28 people from across California with illegally registering to vote or casting ballots in federal elections despite not being U.S. citizens — again escalating an election battle between the state and the Trump administration just weeks before the Nov. 3 midterms.

Authorities said 11 of the 28 ...Read more

Sara Gray buys gas once a month.

Her 40-mile commute to work is entirely electric in her Volvo V60 plug-in hybrid. Gray, director of arts at California’s Monterey Museum of Art, only relies on the car’s combustion engine for longer weekend road trips up the coast or to see her parents in Reno, Nevada.

“This was kind of a happy medium”...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Alaska Department of Education and Early Development has approved the first group of Scholarship Granting Organizations, nonprofits that can redistribute taxpayer contributions to grant scholarships for K-12 students starting next year.

Gov. Mike Dunleavy opted Alaska into the federal program created by last year's ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — A male beluga whale rescued from a shuttered Canadian marine park almost two months ago died Sunday at his new home at SeaWorld San Diego.

Cyprus, 9, was one of three beluga whales relocated to SeaWorld San Diego from Marineland, an animal theme park in Niagara Falls that closed in 2024. Thirty beluga whales and four dolphins ...Read more

BLAINE, Minn. — More than 40 local, state and federal law enforcement agencies are working together on a new strategy to respond to gang and group violence in Minnesota.

Law enforcement leaders unveiled a plan Monday to curb gang violence in Minnesota using an existing investigative model and greater collaboration across agencies.

The ...Read more