Sen. Thom Tillis is continuing to needle White House officials in a string of media appearances this week, as the account of his 11-year career in Washington prepares to hit shelves on Tuesday.

Tillis — whose memoir “How to Lose Friends and Antagonize Presidents” comes out Oct. 6 — embarked on a series of press appearances on “60 ...Read more

Officials fighting the Dome fire in Yosemite National Park in California seemed to confirm last month what many already suspected: That the cause of the blaze (now burning for nearly three full weeks) was an abandoned campfire in an area just north of Wawona.

They’ve appeared to walk that back, some.

The fire’s official incident ...Read more

Artificial intelligence whistleblowers painted a dismal picture about the direction the technology is going at a City Council hearing Monday, warning local lawmakers to put in place regulations to slow its growth — even as the companies insist they’re operating with caution.

The rare Committee of the Whole meeting came as public fears ...Read more

Yemen's embattled government and a Saudi-led coalition have launched a major campaign aimed at dislodging Iran-backed Houthis who had recently seized vital parts of Yemen's Red Sea coast.

The offensive, which had already reclaimed territory overlooking a key waterway, marks a sharp escalation in what thus far been an ancillary conflict in the ...Read more

Nova Southeastern University took an unusual step Sunday of trying to reassure students about their on-campus safety after online comments claimed one of the seven men accused of sexually assaulting a woman at Cornell University in 2024 now attends the school in Broward County.

Jonathan Newell, 21, of Broward, and six other members of the Ivy ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from eight firefighters who sued Snohomish Regional Fire & Rescue after they were placed on leave for refusing Washington's 2021 COVID-19 vaccine mandate, citing religious reasons.

With the Supreme Court not reviewing the decision, an appeals court ruling remains in place that said the Snohomish...Read more

Pennsylvania surpassed 1,000 measles cases Monday, crossing a grim milestone to rank among the largest U.S. measles outbreak in decades.

Pennsylvania reported 106 new measles cases in the past week, totaling 1,004 this year. That includes 992 in the current outbreak that began in April, with Pennsylvania poised to soon surpass an outbreak in ...Read more

Billionaire Mark Cuban will assist a New Jersey panel Gov. Mikie Sherrill created to study how to halt the soaring price of healthcare for public workers in the state.

“I’ll volunteer to be on the committee that cuts health benefits cost. You need someone from the outside that is objective and can stand up to the big health care ...Read more

Federal authorities released Ho Yin Mo, a district employee for Assemblymember Catherine Stefani, D-San Francisco, from an immigration detention center in Nevada after around two weeks in custody, the lawmaker announced on Friday.

Federal agents detained Mo on Sept. 17 as he was traveling through Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas. A...Read more

Sen. Chuck Schumer Monday warned Democrats will block most of President Trump’s judicial and cabinet nominees if they retake control of the Senate in the midterms.

With Democrats boasting decent odds of flipping the four seats they need, the Democratic leader said the White House would have to shift course on only nominating judges that back ...Read more

On Jan. 25, 2022, a Jacksonville-based tugboat crew returning from a job in Puerto Rico found an overturned 25-foot boat with a man sitting on the hull floating about 45 miles off Fort Pierce Inlet.

The crew rescued 22-year-old Juan Esteban Montoya, who later told federal agents he and his 18-year-old sister were among 40 people on the boat ...Read more

Though the state does not collect a property tax, the topic has become a big issue in the race for Texas governor.

A homeowner’s bill is based on their appraised home value and the tax rates set by local governments, including the county, city and school district. Lawmakers in Austin indirectly impact the tax burden by creating homestead ...Read more

A self-styled cryptocurrency businessman who paid Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies to set people up for arrest and extort money from others was sentenced Monday to more than six years in prison.

Adam Iza, 26, previously admitted to generating tens of millions of dollars through a fraud scheme, concealing millions in income from the IRS and...Read more

Homicides are down and fewer people have been wounded by gunfire in Minneapolis so far in 2026, leading some residents to notice their neighborhoods quieting down. But increased thefts and the frequent car window-breaking sprees are complicating the city’s progress compared to last year.

The city had 27% fewer homicides through September 2026...Read more

More than 120,000 cases of Gatorade have been recalled by PepsiCo due to undeclared color dyes, according to the Food and Drug Administration.

Michigan is one of 37 states affected by the recall.

The voluntary recall covers 28-ounce Gatorade products in the Lemon Lime, Lemon Lime Zero, Orange and Orange Zero products, which were found to ...Read more

The Supreme Court justices sounded wary Monday of state-by-state lawsuits that could impose huge damage verdicts on energy producers for the impact of global climate change.

Instead, several of them suggested these local and state claims may be blocked by the federal Clean Air Act.

"Interstate air and water pollution are matters for federal ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security has purchased two immigrant detention facilities in Adelanto for $950 million, according to the private prison corporation that sold them.

The sale by the GEO Group, a Florida-based government contractor, follows a $1.5-billion sale over the summer of two other California detention facilities ...Read more

Tens of thousands of acres within Florida’s three national forests could be opened to new road construction and logging under a proposed rollback of protections from the Trump administration, further imperiling wildlife and plants already squeezed by overdevelopment, environmental advocacy groups warned Monday.

The U.S. Department of ...Read more