NEW YORK — She has been dead for many years now, not from anything related to 9/11, because they saved her that day.

But to hear the firefighters who pulled Josephine Harris from the World Trade Center rubble on Sept. 11, 2001 tell it, she was the one who saved them.

All six of them.

“We considered Josephine our guardian angel,” said ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to launch a new phase of the county’s fight against Tijuana River pollution, approving funding to plan a new treatment system to capture sewage from the river itself and to advance a permanent fix at a toxic air pollution hot spot in South County.

Supervisors voted 4-1 to ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A wildfire broke out Tuesday afternoon roughly 10 miles west of Yosemite National Park, prompting authorities to order evacuations and close Highway 140, one of the main routes into the park, only a few days before Labor Day weekend.

The fire, along Highway 140 and Colorado Road, was 200 acres by 4 p.m., according to the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The conflict between the United States and Iran has escalated sharply, with American forces carrying out a fresh wave of strikes and the Iranians saying they have retaliated.

U.S. Central Command said in a Tuesday evening statement that the targets in the now-completed operation included “air defense sites, radar systems, ...Read more

Dolly Parton’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is being repaired after vandals reportedly defaced it.

The “Here I Come Again” singer’s name was scratched off of a sidewalk marker dedicated to Parton in 1984, according to TMZ. The alleged vandal is also believed to have stolen flowers from that memorial. Photos posted on social media ...Read more

Legislation that would have helped California wildfire victims receive compensation more quickly, but that utilities said didn’t do enough to reduce their financial risks, died in Sacramento on Tuesday after the Assembly declined to vote on it.

The failure of Senate Bill 492 disappointed wildfire victims and lawmakers who had negotiated the ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A wildfire broke out Tuesday afternoon roughly 10 miles west of Yosemite National Park, prompting authorities to order evacuations and close Highway 140, one of the main routes into the park.

The fire, along Highway 140 and Colorado Road, was 171 acres by 3:05 p.m., according to Cal Fire, with 0% containment.

Yosemite ...Read more

DENVER — Voters will decide whether to raise income taxes on the highest-earning Coloradans this November, the secretary of state’s office said Tuesday, all but setting the ballot for the general election.

Initiative 195 would create a graduated income tax for the state under which higher earners pay a greater percentage of their income ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Defense-minded lawmakers are growing concerned about leadership vacuums in the military following the resignation of Army Secretary Dan Driscoll.

“I’m tired of all the churn. I want to see some stability,” House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike D. Rogers, R-Ala., told reporters Tuesday.

Pressed on if he’s concerned...Read more

A federal judge this week threw out the U.S. Justice Department's lawsuit challenging California policies that allow transgender athletes to compete on school sports teams that match their gender identity.

The Justice Department alleged that the California Department of Education and the California Interscholastic Federation were in violation ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The United States launched a fresh wave of strikes against targets in Iran and the Islamic Republic said it retaliated, as the back-and-forth of fighting between the two escalated sharply.

President Donald Trump said the U.S. strikes were in retaliation for Iran trying to put mines in the Strait of Hormuz and for an earlier ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Mamdani administration on Tuesday released the city’s first Racial Equity Plan — a citywide blueprint to reduce racial inequities — after years of delay.

The release comes just days after a Manhattan state court judge ruled that both the Mamdani and Adams administrations had broken the law by failing to release the ...Read more

PLYMOUTH, Mass. — Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial asked to be sent home early Tuesday afternoon, after telling the judge they were deadlocked earlier in the day.

“After many hours of deliberations, we are unable to come to a unanimous decision,” jurors wrote in a note around 10:15 a.m.

There was a quiet gasp from people in the ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney for the District of Kansas have formally filed suit against Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools over the school district’s guidelines pertaining to its transgender students, the department announced in a Tuesday news release.

The lawsuit comes after several months of back and forth between ...Read more

DENVER — Voters will decide in November whether to dedicate state sales taxes collected on outdoor gear to conservation and wildfire prevention grant programs.

If approved, Proposition 137 would also exempt that sales tax revenue from falling under the state’s spending cap set by the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, the mechanism that ...Read more

SANTA ANA, Calif. — A Newport Beach surgeon once accused of drugging and sexually assaulting a series of women recently had his medical license revoked, state records show, years after his headline-grabbing criminal proceedings concluded with him admitting to drastically pared-back charges.

Grant Robicheaux’s long-running criminal case ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump was nonchalant last week when asked about a contested administration rule that would use the U.S. Postal Service to weed out allegedly illegal midterm election ballots. His foes say that’s all part of a broader plan, even as they offered few surefire ways to stop it.

Trump was asked last Thursday ...Read more