James Mu had braced for the call that came in late January.

A patient from his rural Northern California county had measles, a disease so rare there that many physicians have never treated a case.

While California has some of the strictest vaccine laws in the country, conservative Shasta County's approach during the COVID pandemic stood in ...Read more

BALTIMORE — In 2024, Alison Rudolph found herself in the middle of a social media spat with Carroll County school board member Steve Whisler, who accused the bookstore owner and former teacher of “sexualizing kids” because she promoted an annual Banned Books Week on her store’s Facebook page.

Rudolph said Whisler’s comments triggered ...Read more

Yolibeth’s 4-year-old daughter scrambled headfirst onto a cushy leather love seat at their home near New Orleans and pushed a hairbrush into the hands of Miriam Romero, a health coordinator who works with the family. Romero placed the girl in her lap and started brushing her dark hair.

Yolibeth, a 38-year-old single mother who moved to South ...Read more

DENVER — Thunderstorms have delayed more than 350 flights in and out of Denver International Airport on Saturday afternoon.

The storms were not severe enough as of 4:45 p.m. to warrant official warnings from the National Weather Service, but posed enough risk to delay 143 departing flights and 107 arrivals, according to tracking service ...Read more

U.S. and Iranian forces continued to trade fresh attacks, after a week that saw the worst flare-up in tensions since the shaky ceasefire started and little progress toward an interim peace deal.

U.S. Central Command shot down two Iranian one-way attack drones that threatened international maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, it said a ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Twin Cities activist Isabel Lopez faced the possibility of decades in prison after being accused of assaulting federal agents during an anti-immigration enforcement protest in south Minneapolis last summer. Yet with just weeks to go before trial, prosecutors downgraded her four felony charges to a single misdemeanor in return...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Jeff Skobin was tired of asking.

Last November, amid a startling increase in LAPD shootings, the Los Angeles police commissioner requested a report from the department about how its officers' use of deadly force compared with other large agencies. At the time, Chief Jim McDonnell promised a careful review.

The following month, ...Read more

A former senior Social Security Administration official alleges that Trump administration officials discussed a proposal to classify millions of living people as deceased in government records as part of an effort to pressure immigrants to leave the United States.

The allegations surfaced Thursday in a whistleblower disclosure made public by ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Two toddlers found shot Friday evening in Orange County died at a hospital, while a man who was their father was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

At 6:30 p.m. deputies responded to the 4400 block of South Rio Grande Avenue over a report of a man with a gun who’d ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The fear is real when it comes to Florida’s looming property tax cuts — but so is the zeal.

The prospect of voters heading to the polls in November to decide whether to give themselves a break on their property taxes has put cities in South Florida and across the state on edge, triggering alarm and dread.

At the ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The Colorado River Basin faces a complete “system crash,” with little chance that a wet winter will fully prevent a worst-case scenario, a leading group of experts says in a new academic paper.

That is, unless water managers can get serious about cutting water use fast.

Study author Anne Castle, a fellow at the University of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is seeking to steer Iranian assets toward helping U.S. allies in the Persian Gulf rebuild from damage inflicted by Tehran, and to repair any future destruction.

The effort, which was described by a senior administration official who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly, is unfolding alongside fitful ...Read more

Rita Elias and her family fled southern Lebanon to shelter with relatives in Beirut during the last war between Hezbollah and Israel in 2024, returning only after a truce. This time, she stayed to protect her property, her husband’s trucking business and their tobacco farm.

“We didn’t want to leave and come back to nothing,” the 36-year...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A federal judge sided with California and other Democratic states on Friday in a preliminary injunction that blocked the Trump administration's attempt to condition food benefits on compliance with the president's policies on gender and immigration.

Twenty states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit in March ...Read more

U.S. and Iranian forces traded fresh attacks overnight, at the end of a week that saw the worst flare-up in tensions since the shaky ceasefire started and little progress toward an interim peace deal.

U.S. Central Command said it headed off multiple Iranian missiles and drones in the Persian Gulf and responded with attacks on radar sites in the...Read more

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz warned of a major shakeup in two key eastern German state elections in September where the Alternative for Germany leads in the polls, urging the political center to work together to counter the far-right party.

“If we don’t do our job and if we’re not good enough, there will be a big bang in September,”...Read more

DENVER — Fourth-generation Colorado rancher Susan Nottingham acknowledges that one of her employees was behind the killing of the matriarch of the new King Mountain wolf pack in March.

“One of my employees ended up shooting the mother female. The investigation is still ongoing and extremely stressful, costing me tens of thousands of dollars...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A year ago, on June 6, federal agents descended on Ambiance Apparel, detaining dozens of workers in one of the largest workplace immigration enforcement actions Southern California had seen in years.

By day’s end, more than 40 workers, many of them from Zapotec Indigenous communities, were arrested in an enforcement operation ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — Sailors and Marines aboard the USS Iwo Jima returned Saturday to Naval Station Norfolk from a 10-month deployment spent mostly in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Originally bound for Europe, the Iwo Jima was rerouted after leaving Norfolk in August and was extended twice to support missions, including Operation Southern Spear....Read more