It remains illegal in California for a school district to force teachers and other staff to alert parents about their child's gender identity, but parents must be told when they ask about it, a judge ruled Tuesday in a widely watched case dealing with parental rights.

San Bernardino County Superior Court Judge Michael Sachs, weighing both state...Read more

HONG KONG — Hong Kong leader John Lee is taking the unprecedented step of outlining a five-year vision for the Asian financial hub. The question is whether he’ll be the chief executive to see it through.

On Wednesday, Lee will unveil Hong Kong’s first five-year plan, a blueprint his administration has spent much of the year crafting as it...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Tuesday ruled in favor of an Ohio House Democrat who is seeking to block efforts to add President Donald Trump’s name to the Kennedy Center.

In his ruling, Judge Christopher R. Cooper of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia said that the Trump-led board of the Kennedy Center could not add ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Todd Blanche on Tuesday said the Trump administration would not be slowed in its efforts to oversee the midterm elections by a Supreme Court decision blocking an unprecedented mail ballot rule.

During a press briefing in the Rose Garden, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney defended his former ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Did Gov. Henry McMaster exceed his authority in sending 500 South Carolina National Guard troops to the District of Columbia at President Trump’s behest?

That was the question Tuesday before state Supreme Court justices as they first heard from a lawyer from the S.C. Public Interest Foundation argue no, followed by an ...Read more

Florida Democratic members of Congress sent a letter Tuesday to state and federal officials seeking more information about findings in a recent report that people held at the now shuttered immigrant detention site known as Alligator Alcatraz were sometimes kept in small metal cages and subjected to other inhumane treatment.

The letter said ...Read more

California’s largest teachers union sued state officials Tuesday over nearly $6 billion in withheld school funding, alleging that budget actions approved by Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature violated the state’s constitutional education funding guarantee.

The lawsuit filed by the California Teachers Association, which represents 310,000...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Iran war directly cost the Pentagon $38 billion through July and is likely to consume $2 billion to $3 billion more per month if recent hostilities in the region continue, the Congressional Budget Office reported Tuesday.

The CBO report’s estimate of the war’s direct impact on the federal budget is made up mostly of the ...Read more

Federal drug agents in Los Angeles searched the home of actor Hayden Panettiere amid reports she’d been texting a drug dealer before dying from what may have been an oxycodone pill laced with fentanyl.

TMZ said Drug Enforcement Administration officers were inside the “Heroes” star’s West Coast property shortly after she died in a ...Read more

The University of Missouri said it’s investigating a professor who was covertly recorded by a conservative advocacy group seeking to expose diversity, equity and inclusion programs on college campuses.

The chair of the university’s Department of Sociology, Wayne Brekhus, was recorded in what appears to be a candid conversation with a ...Read more

A “nearly 100% fatal” disease is the rise across the United States, prompting federal officials to issue a nationwide health alert.

Since July, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has seen a sharp increase in the number of people exposed to rabies.

Meanwhile, officials in several California counties have reported ...Read more

NEW YORK — There were lines along the sidewalk in Midtown Tuesday morning, though it wasn’t for the latest iPhone or sneaker drop — but for classic pastrami and corned beef on rye and matzoh ball soup at the reopening of the legendary Carnegie Deli.

After a 10-year hiatus, the iconic eatery has opened its door at a new NYC flagship ...Read more

NEW YORK — The fund that determines if NYPD officers get largely tax-free accident disability pensions needs better regulations to make sure the system doesn’t get scammed, the city’s Department of Investigation said in a report released Tuesday.

DOI Commissioner Nadia Shihata said the 19-page report “makes clear, the current manner in ...Read more

Underwater grasses in the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries increased 13% in 2025, covering almost 5,000 more acres in Maryland’s portion of the Bay, the Maryland Department of the Environment reported.

“More underwater grass means more habitat for blue crabs and fish, cleaner water, and a more resilient Chesapeake Bay,” Maryland ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Tuesday that his administration will be “reimagining” the hallmark street-safety plan of the Bill de Blasio administration, Vision Zero.

The plan, which aims to reduce annual traffic fatalities to none, has been in place since 2014. To date, Vision Zero has been credited with a 30% reduction in ...Read more

NEW YORK — Amid a reckoning on digital devices in the classroom, the New York City Council called for further reforms to reduce screen time in public schools during a hearing Tuesday.

Earlier this month, Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiled a sweeping education technology policy, including a one-year ban on artificial intelligence until high school ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The United States fired so many munitions at Iranian targets during the first few months of Operation Epic Fury that it “has resulted in strategic inventory shortfalls and revealed industrial base bottlenecks for munitions resupply,” Pentagon officials acknowledged to the Defense Department’s independent watchdog.

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CHICAGO — Cook County Forest Preserves has used a $40 million yearly windfall from voters to buy up and conserve more land, pay for maintenance and add programming while bolstering its pension funds, the district reported Tuesday.

Voters overwhelmingly gave the preserves the OK to raise property taxes by 0.025% in a 2022 referendum. While at ...Read more