North Carolina GOP senators did not confirm his nominee to lead the state’s public safety department, so Democratic Gov. Josh Stein has appointed that official to another role.

This comes as lawmakers in the GOP-led legislature have passed a bill making corrections and changes to the budget that became law in July. Among the new bill’s ...Read more

Local law enforcement leaders are providing guidance to Minnesota voters as the Trump administration sends seven teams from the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division to monitor polling locations during Tuesday’s primary.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said in a statement that “out of an abundance of caution” his office ...Read more

NEW YORK — Monday was deadline day for John Gotti’s grandson Carmine Agnello to donate a kidney to his mom, Victoria Gotti, or go to prison — and a federal judge rejected the “Growing Up Gotti” star’s last-minute request to push back his date to surrender on fraud charges.

Agnello, 40, was given an ultimatum last week after his ...Read more

U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., joined Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Monday to reintroduce legislation that would require employers to provide full-time workers with at least two weeks of paid vacation.

The Guaranteed Paid Vacation Act would allow workers to earn one hour of paid leave for every 25 hours worked. Full-time employees would ...Read more

The family of “Revenge of the Nerds” standout Robert Carradine is suing the Los Angeles hospital where the actor died for elder abuse and wrongful death.

The 71-year-old star, who known as nerd-leader Lewis Skolnick long before playing the title character’s dad on “Lizzie McGuire,” died by hanging in February while being treated for ...Read more

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday to drastically change the childhood vaccine schedule by recommending shots be administered in separate visits to the doctor’s office.

The executive order acts on Trump’s long-held belief that splitting up routine childhood vaccinations across multiple visits lessens the risk of ...Read more

Faced with federal cuts that slashed billions annually from public healthcare, state legislators touted $250 million Monday in funding to help salvage California’s public hospital system. But Santa Clara County expects only $20 million to $30 million from this funding against a projected $1 billion loss, while other counties continue to ...Read more

In a news conference loaded with “Back to the Future” and “The Jetsons” references, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Monday that Florida would become a national hub for testing ultralight electric aircraft, generally considered the next frontier of electric vehicles.

Although many people call them “flying cars,” without wheels or landing...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman is expected to lose her leadership role on the L.A. City Council’s Housing and Homelessness Committee, which she has chaired since 2023, according to people familiar with the situation.

Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson is planning to announce this week that the committee will...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom directed California agencies on Monday to better prepare for threats from artificial intelligence cyberattacks by using the technology to find vulnerabilities in the state’s systems.

“The digital environment is rapidly evolving before our eyes,” Newsom said in a statement. “Attacks are faster, more sophisticated and ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Staten Island judge temporarily hit the brakes on the Mamdani Administration’s controversial rollout of the pied-à-terre surcharge on expensive second homes in a Monday order.

Staten Island Supreme Court Justice Wayne Ozzi, in a ruling on a lawsuit challenging the city’s rollout of the tax on second homes, ordered the city ...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump made sweeping new demands on Iran after Tehran reiterated requests for reparations as part of talks to wind down the conflict, dimming hopes of a quick deal that would reopen the vital Strait of Hormuz as oil prices surged once again.

“I am likewise demanding compensation from Iran, for all of the ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A fire that started Saturday night in steep, rugged terrain in Big Sur quadrupled in size Monday, prompting the evacuations of residents and visitors from luxury resorts including the Ventana Big Sur hotel and Post Ranch Inn, along with the Nepenthe restaurant and other popular tourist attractions.

The Timber Fire, burning ...Read more

MIAMI — An OnlyFans model who stabbed her boyfriend to death inside a luxury Miami high-rise will serve about two years in prison, and she won’t be able to profit from the saga.

On Monday, Courtney Clenney — sandwiched between her attorneys and wearing orange jail attire — pleaded guilty to manslaughter, a charge lesser than second-...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sen. Thom Tillis can add “author” to his resume.

Last week, the North Carolina Republican announced on MS Now he wrote a book, “How to Lose Friends and Antagonize Presidents: The Trouble with Sycophants, Courage Outsourcing, and Partisan Group Think.”

Here’s how his publisher, HarperCollins, explains the book: “...Read more

BOGOTA, Colombia — A deadly earthquake hit Colombia on Monday morning, toppling buildings, burying people under rubble and leaving more than 100 dead in the Pacific region and the central Andes.

The magnitude 7.4 quake struck at 7:34 a.m. local time near the town of San Jose del Palmar, Choco province, according to the U.S. Geological Survey....Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump renewed his administration’s efforts to dismantle the childhood vaccination schedule with a direct attack on the measles shot, returning to a politically unpopular issue and making unproven scientific claims just months ahead of the midterm elections.

Trump issued an executive order that recommends ...Read more

NEW YORK — A mail carrier has been arrested for fatally striking a pedestrian in Hell’s Kitchen with his U.S. Postal Service box truck and then driving off without stopping, police said Sunday.

James Simmons was arrested Saturday afternoon for leaving the scene of a fatal accident that killed a beloved performer from the downtown Manhattan ...Read more

SpaceX on Monday scrubbed what would have been the Space Coast’s 51st orbital launch of the year on what’s lining up to be a busy month. It will try again Tuesday.

A Falcon 9 on the Starlink 10-19 mission with 29 Starlink satellites had been aiming to launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 on Monday ...Read more