The parents of an 8-year-old California girl who died after an extended asthma attack in her family's squalid San José home have been charged with felony child neglect, Santa Clara County prosecutors announced this week.

The girl's mother, Gabrielle Hanson, 32, and stepfather, Jacob Randolph, 39, were arraigned Tuesday in Santa Clara County ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Justice threatened legal action Tuesday if California fails to take action on what it claims are thousands of noncitizens on the state’s voter rolls.

In letters sent to Secretary of State Shirley Weber and Los Angeles County Registrar Dean Logan, acting-U.S. Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter gave the state 48 hours...Read more

OAKLAND, Calif. — Ex-Mayor Sheng Thao betrayed Oakland by making herself “open for business” to illegal bribes before stepping foot into the mayor’s office, federal prosecutors declared Wednesday at the start of a federal corruption trial detailing the East Bay’s largest political scandal in decades.

Yet that narrative came under ...Read more

CHICAGO — After more than seven years of reform efforts, the Chicago Police Department has reached preliminary compliance with almost all paragraphs of the ongoing federal consent decree, according to the team that reviews the city’s adherence.

The consent decree monitoring team, led by attorney Maggie Hickey, announced the progress Tuesday...Read more

President Donald Trump called for executing individuals who leak information to the media during a campaign rally as he railed against what he saw as critical coverage of the Iran war.

“In my opinion, leakers should be shot. They should be shot. In the old days, we used to shoot leakers,” Trump said at the campaign event in Bullhead City, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A new lawsuit accuses Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, of unlawfully exercising significant government power by acting as one of the administration’s “go-to foreign policy negotiators” without Senate confirmation or compliance with federal ethics rules.

The complaint was filed Wednesday by Citizens for ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Since the Eaton and Palisades fires, there has been report after report documenting how woefully unprepared city, county and fire officials were. This week’s upcoming Santa Ana winds will provide one of the first major tests of whether Los Angeles has applied those painful lessons.

A red flag alert is in place across most of ...Read more

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals nixed a trailblazing California law on Wednesday, permanently barring the state's efforts to force federal immigration agents to display identification while on duty.

"As before, we conclude ... the No Vigilantes Act attempts to directly regulate the United States in its performance of governmental functions," ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Federal authorities are investigating a second medical evacuation helicopter incident near Catalina Island that occurred just moments before a separate fatal crash claimed the lives of three on board.

The Federal Aviation Administration is seeking to determine what led to the incident with a Mercy Air Eurocopter bound for Harbor...Read more

BALTIMORE — Former Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby can keep a Florida vacation home at the center of her criminal case after the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Maryland decided not to pursue a retrial on a count of mortgage fraud, according to court documents filed Wednesday.

Mosby was previously sentenced in May 2024 to three years ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court in an unsigned decision Wednesday sided with Republicans in a dispute over expanding discounted television advertising rates beyond political candidates ahead of the midterms.

The unsigned order from a majority of the court paused a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals from the 4th Circuit that could have ...Read more

NEW YORK — Lawyers for Oscar Belgal, the undocumented Dominican immigrant shot by ICE agents in New York City last week, are asking for his immediate release, calling his arrest illegal and saying that, six days later, he still hasn’t been allowed to undergo surgery despite having a bullet lodged in his neck.

The Legal Aid Society, which ...Read more

Kimberly Guilfoyle may have announced her resignation Tuesday as U.S. ambassador to Greece over an expanding corruption scandal. But so far she hasn’t left.

The disgraced, short-lived diplomat has yet to vacate the elegant, official ambassador’s residence in Athens, the Daily Mail reported. Guilfoyle is “gripped by the mounting paranoia�...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court sided with Republicans on Wednesday and gave political parties and their fundraising committees lower rates for broadcast campaign ads.

Over two dissents, the justices granted a fast-track appeal from the Trump administration and the National Republican Congressional Committee and upheld the use of the GOP-...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Waving signs and chanting, more than 100 Temple University students and employees rallied Wednesday to protest cuts across the university and health system.

“Who makes Temple work? We make Temple work!” they shouted.

Temple laid off 300 workers and raised tuition 3.4% this year. President John Fry said at the time the ...Read more

NEW YORK — Fewer than 9,000 New York City homeowners will be subject to the pied-à-terre surcharge on pricey second homes as the city continues to sift through applications for exemption from the tax, City Hall numbers show.

The number is lower than the 13,000 homeowners initially estimated by the state, but city officials said they were ...Read more

The feds and her rival are blasting Gov. Maura Healey for deflecting blame for letting now twice-charged, fired aide LaMar Cook collect SNAP benefits.

Cook, Healey’s former $113,400 deputy director for Western Massachusetts, was charged with SNAP fraud and wire fraud in federal court Wednesday. A judge found probable cause and released Cook ...Read more