BALTIMORE — Parents in Baltimore will have another helping hand courtesy of the city government, with a $300,000 grant given to The Family Tree by the city on Wednesday to help strengthen families and prevent abuse.

The Board Estimates approved the grant on Wednesday, giving The Family Tree funding that will go directly to the Baltimore City ...Read more

A person was found dead inside a burned home as the Gann fire continued to tear through western Calaveras County, California, where the wildfire has burned more than 10,000 acres, destroyed at least seven structures and injured a firefighter, officials said Thursday.

The body was found inside a burned residence in the 4600 block of Jaquima ...Read more

Sen. Mitch McConnell was discharged from a rehabilitation center Thursday and is continuing his recovery at home following his June hospitalization, his office announced.

McConnell said in a statement that he and his wife Elaine Chao are grateful for the well-wishes from friends, colleagues and Kentuckians, as well as the care he received from ...Read more

Sen. Mitch McConnell on Thursday said he was discharged from a rehabilitation center and will continue his recovery from a recent fall and illness at home.

“Earlier today, I was discharged from the rehabilitation center to continue my recovery at home,” McConnell said in a brief statement.

The 84-year-old seven-term Kentucky lawmaker, who...Read more

LAS VEGAS — A trial slated to start next week could answer longstanding questions about the slaying of hip hop icon Tupac Shakur, one of the most notorious killings in recent Las Vegas history.

Shakur, 25, was shot four times on the night of Sept. 7, 1996, at the intersection of Flamingo Road and Koval Lane, near the Strip. He died Sept. 13 ...Read more

Iran will seek to bar U.S. and Israeli ships from the Strait of Hormuz and require compensation from hostile countries before they’re allowed to use it, according to local media reports on a proposed Iran-Oman deal to manage the crucial waterway.

The agreement has become key to expectations for a reopening of Hormuz and a resumption of energy...Read more

Sen. Mitch McConnell was discharged from a rehabilitation center Thursday and is continuing his recovery at home following his June hospitalization, his office announced.

McConnell said in a statement that he and his wife Elaine Chao are grateful for the well-wishes from friends, colleagues and Kentuckians, as well as the care he received from ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s choice for attorney general is facing a tight vote for confirmation in a Republican-controlled Senate nearly halfway through his second term, reflecting mounting doubts about his leadership of the Justice Department as bipartisan concerns over the weaponization of justice intensify.

The confirmation of...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Authorities are trying unlock the mystery of a Downey security guard accused of weapons violations after he twice visited the Trump National Golf Course in Rancho Palos Verdes in advance of this week’s presidential visit.

Jeanine John Taele was charged by federal prosecutors with possession of an unregistered short-barreled ...Read more

Vaccines have been reliably and affordably protecting people from diseases worldwide for centuries. Until the COVID-19 pandemic, however, vaccine development was still a long and idiosyncratic process. Traditionally, researchers had to tailor manufacturing processes and facilities for each vaccine candidate, and the scientific knowledge ...Read more

NEW YORK — A judge has given John Gotti grandson Carmine Agnello an ultimatum: go through with his oft-delayed kidney transplant to his mom Victoria Gotti by Monday, or report to prison to start his sentence.

Agnello, who was supposed to start serving his 15-month sentence for COVID fraud back on June 20, got a two-month reprieve so he could...Read more

Now that a federal judge who temporarily blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary protected status for as many as 350,000 Haitians living in the U.S. has officially lifted that order, immigrants from the Caribbean nation are more vulnerable than ever to arrest and ultimately deportation.

Attorneys challenging the Department of ...Read more

At least 613 people have been killed and 375 others injured in months of violent confrontations between armed criminal gangs in Port-au-Prince’s Cité Soleil neighborhoods and sprawling Plaine du Cul-de-Sac, according to a new report from the United Nations detailing one of the capital’s deadliest outbreaks since 2024.

The casualties ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — A U.S. Marine recruit died Wednesday, days after experiencing a medical emergency at Camp Pendleton, military officials said Thursday.

The recruit, who was assigned to Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, was undergoing a “routine physical fitness evaluation” at Camp Pendleton on Saturday when the medical emergency occurred, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Three years ago, environmental regulators discovered garbage burning deep inside the Chiquita Canyon Landfill in the Santa Clarita Valley. Few imagined the calamity that would follow.

Somehow the landfill’s pollution control system introduced oxygen below, causing decades-old waste to rapidly decompose, generating intense heat...Read more

The Trump administration is proposing a sweeping overhaul of Head Start that would largely relinquish federal control of the early learning program for low-income babies, toddlers and preschoolers.

Standards, such as the number of children a teacher can supervise, would soon be under local control, leading to variations across the country, ...Read more

Pornhub is trying to convince Texas lawmakers to rethink the state’s age verification law for adult websites.

The effort comes more than a year after the pornography website blocked access in Texas instead of complying with the requirement.

Now, Pornhub is making a new push to change the law that led to that decision.

So what exactly is the...Read more

OKLAHOMA CITY — State leaders of both parties say the federal government — including the president — wields too much power, and they want to see more authority returned to the states.

Bipartisan groups of governors and state lawmakers held major gatherings in recent days where issues of state authority became a major focus. They agreed ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Attorneys for Twin Cities journalist Georgia Fort asked a judge on Thursday to throw out federal charges against her over an anti-ICE protest at a St. Paul church, arguing the indictment violates her First Amendment free speech rights among other things.

Fort was indicted alongside former CNN host Don Lemon and several ...Read more