WASHINGTON — Congressional Democratic leaders filed a lawsuit Thursday aiming to prevent the Trump administration from following through on statements that they are considering sending armed federal agents to polling places in November.

The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by Senate Minority Leader Charles E...Read more

BALTIMORE — Sixteen people, including four juveniles in a car reported stolen, were hospitalized after the car crashed into a Maryland Transit Administration bus while officers followed it Thursday afternoon in East Baltimore, police said.

Two occupants of the car and some other patients were in critical condition. The bus driver was awake ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Mayo Clinic is paying $50,000 to settle a federal discrimination lawsuit, filed after the Rochester-based health system declined to exempt a security guard from its COVID-19 vaccine mandate on religious grounds.

The health system also agreed to accommodate future requests for religious exemptions from vaccine mandates, except in...Read more

The Clark County coroner’s office said it has investigated 260 deaths where heat was a factor so far this year.

In a Thursday update, the first since the end of July, the number shot up dramatically from 46.

The toll from 2024, the hottest year on record in Las Vegas since reliable records began in the 1937, still ranks the highest among ...Read more

NEW YORK — More than 100 people, including several celebrities and local elected officials, were arrested at protests against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of his scheduled speech before the U.N. General Assembly in Midtown Manhattan Thursday, police said.

City Councilman Chi Osse and Councilwoman Alexa Aviles were among the...Read more

DENVER — Charges filed against four demonstrators arrested during a July protest outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Arapahoe County will be dismissed Friday, the 18th Judicial District announced Thursday.

Yoselin Corrales, Arnie Carter, El Moss and Terry Burnsed were each charged with obstructing a passageway ...Read more

A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday that removes President Trump’s ban on three news outlets from White House grounds, a rebuke of the administration’s most severe attack yet on the Washington press corps.

Journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico were still denied access to the White House early Thursday, as the ...Read more

MIAMI — The man arrested at Miami International Airport after chaotic reports of an active shooter Wednesday afternoon was firing toward the crowded terminal before he was detained by deputies, according to a Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office arrest report.

Deputies found three bullet holes in a trash can and one through the windshield of an ...Read more

A Haitian pastor who received a brief reprieve from deportation after he was abruptly removed from a flight to Haiti last week was returned to the country on Thursday.

Molis Augustave was deported to Haiti along with dozens of other people despite several legal efforts to halt his removal and reverse a decision by U.S. Citizenship and ...Read more

Fall has arrived in California.

After a scorching summer with temperatures climbing above 100 degrees, nearly 70% of California is now experiencing either abnormal dryness or drought, according to the latest date from the U.S. Drought Monitor.

The return of dry conditions marks a sharp shift from earlier this year.

In January, none of ...Read more

CHICAGO — Chicago Public Schools enrollment dropped 11,537 students this year, continuing a decades-long decline amid a shrinking number of school-aged children.

CPS CEO Macquline King said Thursday that the district’s 20th day enrollment — which represents the official count for the school year — was 304,687, a decline of 3.7% since ...Read more

The California Supreme Court excoriated Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco over his seizure of hundreds of thousands of Proposition 50 ballots earlier this year, ordering the former gubernatorial candidate to immediately hand over all remaining materials in a pair of scathing decisions Thursday.

“We hold that the seizure of the ballots was ...Read more

Attorneys for the prosecutor at the center of the “Broadview Six” scandal said Thursday that U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros personally instructed her to get an expedited transcript of grand jury proceedings after she failed to get an indictment in the controversial case — a transcript that Boutros says he is “quite certain” he didn’t ...Read more

A dolphin that was part of an international rescue effort to transfer 30 whales and four dolphins from a Canadian marine park has died at an aquarium in Spain, according to a statement. Four beluga whales also have died since the moves began in July, including one at the Spanish facility and three at the Shedd Aquarium. A fifth beluga that had ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republicans and Democrats alike on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee tried repeatedly with little success to elicit opinions from the White House’s nominee to lead the Food and Drug Administration, Heidi Overton, on health policy or a pledge to assert the agency’s independence.

Throughout the hearing ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Maryland is projected to collect more revenue in fiscal year 2028, but the increase won’t be enough to close the state’s projected $3.1 billion budget shortfall, according to new estimates released Thursday.

The state is projected to collect roughly $28 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2028, a 3% increase from fiscal year ...Read more

Is Kansas City bat country? Recent guidance from local health departments says you should be prepared as exposure to bats has increased.

The Kansas City, Missouri Health Department and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment are urging residents to take extra precautions as the region reports that more residents have encountered the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate Finance Committee on Thursday approved the nomination of Chris Klomp to serve as deputy secretary of Health and Human Services, which would make him second in command to Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in a 15-12 vote.

Klomp has risen through the ranks of the Trump administration, most recently serving as chief ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s 176-page voter guide is dense with ballot measure legalese, policy debates and obscure candidates for statewide office.

But as the guides have begun showing up in voters’ mailboxes, some have noted it’s missing some seemingly important information: candidate statements from the two candidates for ...Read more