LOS ANGELES — The Trump administration has launched an "enforcement action" against the Los Angeles Unified School District, accusing it of hiding sensitive student information from parents in relation to a student's gender identity. The administration also is investigating alleged violations of parents' right to safeguard their children from ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Pressure has intensified on Los Angeles Unified to follow through with emergency budget cuts after a California fiscal crisis oversight team concluded that the school district is at "high risk" for insolvency — and must move quickly to avoid losing control over budget decisions.

The state's school Fiscal Crisis and Management ...Read more

MIAMI — A federal judge in Miami has struck down a decades-old federal law barring people who are U.S. citizens from voting in federal elections, ruling that Congress overstepped its constitutional authority by imposing a voter qualification that belongs to the states.

The decision comes as the Trump administration has made non-citizen voting...Read more

SEATTLE — The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has stayed an order issued last week that reinstated the U.S. attorney in Western Washington who was fired by President Donald Trump.

Roger Rogoff, who was appointed to the post by the 17 sitting federal judges in July only to be fired by Trump less than an hour later, won the post back on Thursday ...Read more

Washington might see its legislative maps get redrawn once again, after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday granted a petition related to a long-running dispute over the state's 2020 redistricting process.

It won't happen before the 2026 midterm elections. But Monday's development is the latest twist in the saga of Washington's redistricting ...Read more

Germany’s far-right party secured a bigger-than-expected majority for the top parliamentary post in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, giving it a firm foothold as it builds support to take power in a regional government.

The Alternative for Germany installed its candidate, Tobias Rausch, with 48 votes in the 83-seat assembly in Magdeburg ...Read more

Belgian-born Francis Halzen was awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for helping discover particles from deep space using a detector buried beneath the Antarctic ice.

Halzen, 82, will receive a 12 million-krona ($1.2 million) award, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm said in a statement Tuesday. He is currently affiliated ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Tuesday continued to increase the odds a system that formed in the Gulf could develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical outlook, the broad area of low pressure, dubbed Invest 92L, has more organized showers and thunderstorms in the ...Read more

The pitches from Temple University came almost daily.

“You belong at Temple,” one email insisted. Another said, “Your future starts at Temple.”

Day, who asked that her last name not be used to protect her privacy, sifted through the barrage of emails as a Middletown, Del., high school senior graduating in 2024. She was ultimately ...Read more

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KYLE, Texas — Kenney Blewett was diagnosed with lung disease more than a decade ago but started experiencing flare-ups this year that made him feel like he couldn’t breathe.

Blewett ...Read more

Voters in four states will decide housing-related ballot measures in November, providing testing grounds for different strategies to boost affordable homes.

The six measures across California, Hawaii, Massachusetts and Rhode Island are the highest number in a single election year in at least two decades, according to Ballotpedia, a nonpartisan ...Read more

The Scott River, which flows out of mountain forests into a broad valley near the California-Oregon border, provides vital habitat for salmon that swim upstream from the ocean to spawn in the fall and winter.

But this year, portions of the river have been transformed into stretches of dry sand and gravel, while farmers have kept hayfields green...Read more

Kalshi, Polymarket and the Coalition for Prediction Markets have spent at least $3 million this year on lobbying and campaign contributions across the federal and state levels, according to a new report from the government watchdog group OpenSecrets.

Prediction market platforms say they are like commodity markets that offer contracts to ...Read more

Voters in Quebec elected a separatist political party for the first time in more than a decade, setting the stage for more strained relations with Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government and an eventual referendum on the province’s independence from Canada.

The Parti Québécois won the election, Radio-Canada declared shortly before 8:40 p....Read more