DULUTH, Minn. — Donn Branstrator and his team pulled up the traps just offshore of the Duluth-Superior Harbor. There, in the nets, were dozens of tiny wriggling red-spotted shrimp, both male and female, some pregnant, some juvenile.

It was the first evidence that Hemimysis anomala, commonly known as bloody red shrimp, which is native to the ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — An effort by California lawmakers to require transportation agencies to “consider alternatives” to widening highways was thwarted recently after special interest groups fought to preserve more freedom to build bigger freeways.

Assembly Bill 2560, authored by Assembly member Nick Schultz, D-Burbank, seeks to codify ...Read more

HUGHSON, Calif. — The sun beat down and wind chimes sounded quietly in the tiny Central Valley city of Hughson, where Tiffany Nolan Rodriguez had come to the local cemetery to talk with her husband.

She wanted to know: should she speak to a reporter about what it’s like to carry on without him, a year after he died in a Yolo County ...Read more

Proponents of a tax on California billionaires vowed on Thursday to move forward with their November ballot measure despite mounting opposition from many of the state's most powerful political forces.

A labor union spent $31 million gathering signatures to qualify the measure for the ballot in an effort to offset federal healthcare funding cuts...Read more

YORBA LINDA, Calif. — More than 400 people gathered at the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda on Thursday to hear Vice President JD Vance speak on current issues and his personal journey with his faith, the subject of his new memoir.

The Republican official’s talk turned political at times. Vance began the event by ...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law Thursday to crack down on inflated profits stemming from car crash lawsuits, blessing a hard-fought compromise between Uber and the state's trial attorneys that averts a November showdown between two of California's most powerful and moneyed lobbying forces.

The deal, the fruit of months of negotiations, takes aim...Read more

MIAMI — For nearly two weeks, wildfires — the first of which was spawned along Krome Avenue from a lightning strike and split into two blazes spanning over 22,000 acres — have suffocated neighborhoods in western Miami-Dade County. Now, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue says its diligent job is done, signaling full containment of the fires soon.

On ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump had a surprise for the farmers he invited to dinner at the White House on Thursday: a request to Congress for $11.1 billion in assistance that would amount to the second bailout of the year for the beleaguered agriculture sector.

The appeal to Congress is part of a supplemental funding package that includes...Read more

CHICAGO — Amid a projected deficit of over $700 million, Chicago Public Schools officials said they aim to have the district’s budget for the upcoming school year approved by the end of July, a month earlier than last year, in part to secure short-term borrowing to help cover operational costs.

A budget proposal is set to be published ...Read more

BOSTON — Paying the bills is not a party, a new report reveals.

The Pioneer Institute says the Bay State is not as progressive as its political leadership makes it out to be when it comes to taxing lower-and middle-income families.

That conclusion follows the Supreme Judicial Court's striking down of the Massachusetts ballot initiative that ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright visited the Idaho National Laboratory on Thursday after the first new-age nuclear reactor to switch on in more than 40 years did so at INL earlier this month.

In an executive order issued in May 2025, President Donald Trump created the Reactor Pilot Program with the explicit goal to have three...Read more

Authorities have intercepted six watercraft that illegally attempted to launch on Lake Tahoe amid a campaign to keep golden mussels and other invasive species out of the iconic Sierra lake.

The boaters stopped this summer by Tahoe Regional Planning Agency inspectors were attempting to enter the lake with tampered inspection seals. The wire ...Read more

MIAMI — Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski, local leaders and Haitian immigrants condemned a Supreme Court decision on Thursday allowing the Trump administration to end deportation protections under Temporary Protected Status for over 350,000 Haitians and Syrians.

“These are people that are very nervous. They’re nervous about having to go ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The White House is poised to nominate Adam Candeub, the general counsel at the Federal Communications Commission, to take over as the Justice Department’s antitrust chief, according to people familiar with the plans.

Justice Department staff members were informed this week to expect the nomination in the near future, according ...Read more

The Supreme Court’s decision to end temporary legal protections for Haitians and Syrians hit the state hard, with an outcry of “you cannot turn your back on us,” but was hailed by some for capping asylum seekers.

The blow was especially difficult for the 45,000 Haitians who live and work in Massachusetts.

The 6-3 ruling is a big win for ...Read more

Haitians across New York City are bracing for the possibility of mass deportations in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing the Trump administration to remove thousands of longtime New Yorkers from the country.

The ruling, which permits the federal government to strip more than 300,000 Haitians and roughly 3,000 Syrians of their ...Read more

LOS ANGELES —The fire may be out, but Boyle Heights is now dealing with massive amounts of rotting meat and a foul smell as the cleanup phase from a weeklong fire at a massive cold-storage warehouse begins.

Outside the Lineage warehouse Thursday morning, the smell of heavy smoke was already being replaced with that of spoiling food and filthy...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A West Philadelphia man who was convicted last year of seeking to build bombs in support of Islamic extremist groups was sentenced Thursday to 20 to 40 months in prison and six years of probation.

Muhyyee-Ud-din Abdul-Rahman, 20, was found guilty in September of charges including attempting to possess weapons of mass ...Read more

More than half of the population struggles every day to find food. Nearly 1.5 million have been displaced by terrorizing gangs and hundreds have taken to the sea, just in the first six months of this year, only to be intercepted and forcibly returned to Haiti.

Conditions inside Haiti have deteriorated to such an extent that observers say the ...Read more