BALTIMORE — Health officials are warning consumers not to eat certain soft cheese products made by a Southern Maryland dairy over concerns about possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes, a potentially dangerous foodborne bacterium.

The Maryland Department of Health announced that Clover Hill Dairy, based in Mechanicsville, has ...Read more

NEW YORK — A sophisticated theft ring used hacked data, fake trucking logs and bogus shipping information to steal nearly $5 million in goods from retailers across the Northeast to sell in New York City, officials said.

The retail theft ring targeted logistics sites in Pennsylvania, Virginia and New Jersey. They stole everything from ...Read more

BOSTON — Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Minogue has earned the endorsement of his once-primary opponent and former fellow GOP candidate for governor, Mike Kennealy, making the announcement in front of a crowd of supporters at Minogue’s campaign headquarters in Burlington on Thursday.

Kennealy’s endorsement comes after failing to ...Read more

BOSTON — Norfolk DA candidate Adam Deitch is calling for current DA Michael Morrissey’s resignation “effective immediately” after concerning text messages between cops investigating Karen Read came to light.

“Michael Morrissey should resign his position as District Attorney effective immediately. Today’s text message revelations ...Read more

Robotics are taking center stage in discussions of national security, which is why U.S. Senators Dave McCormick, R-Pa., and John Hickenlooper, D-Co., introduced a bipartisan National Commission on Robotics Act on Thursday.

Whether the robots that end up on factory floors, folding laundry in homes or fighting wars are U.S.-manufactured robots or...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson pushed back against a claim by Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt that if he’s elected, L.A.’s homeless population would move to Seattle to take advantage of that city’s drug laws.

Pratt made the comment during an interview with ABC’s Josh Haskell, in which he claimed the city’s more...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A pair of Orange County immigration attorneys received temporary suspensions after the court discovered they used generative AI to write briefs that included “multiple nonexistent cases, misattributed quotations, and gross misrepresentations.”

Attorneys Mike Singh Sethi and William Rounds, both part of Sethi Law Group in ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Wednesday night at a White House dinner that he wanted to make acting Atty. Gen. Todd Blanche’s leadership of the Department of Justice permanent.

The president said he thought the confirmation of his onetime personal defense attorney would go “very quickly,” according to a video posted ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Thursday said he will invoke Cold War-era emergency powers to direct a nearly $700 million investment into the waning coal industry, including construction of a new West Coast coal export terminal in Oakland.

Speaking from the White House, Trump said he will use the Defense Production Act, a 1950 law that grants the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A battle unfolded in the Senate on Thursday over the Trump administration's controversial $1.8 billion payout fund for people who claim the government wronged them, as Democrats and some Republicans sought to block the fund but fell short after they rejected each other's proposals.

The episode underscored how President Donald ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Thursday said he will invoke Cold War-era emergency powers to direct a nearly $700 million investment into the waning coal industry, including construction of a new West Coast coal export terminal in Oakland.

Speaking from the White House, Trump said he will use the Defense Production Act, a 1950 law that grants the ...Read more

The U.S. State Department imposed new sanctions Thursday on Cuba’s leader, Miguel Díaz-Canel, and his family, along with Alejandro Castro Espín, the son of Raúl Castro, and several other Cuban entities as the administration ratchets up the pressure on Cuban leaders to undertake democratic reforms on the communist-run island.

The ...Read more

DENVER — The Colorado Court of Appeals reversed the homicide convictions and ordered new trials for the two former Aurora paramedics charged in the death of Elijah McClain, according to court decisions released Thursday.

McClain, a 23-year-old Black man, died after Aurora police put him in a neck hold and a paramedic injected him with an ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — To the surprise of few, President Donald Trump has once again claimed without evidence that Democrats are somehow cheating to win California’s primary elections — writing on social media late Wednesday that federal prosecutors in Los Angeles are investigating the matter.

“The Dumocrats are at it again! They are trying to ...Read more

BOSTON — Karen Read filed a lawsuit alleging a string of obscene and racist texts between a former Massachusetts State Police trooper and Canton police reveals a “culture of bias and corruption that they built, tolerated, and hid from the public.”

Read’s lawsuit was filed in Bristol Superior Court and seeks unspecified damages.

Among ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced that he planned to soon make Todd Blanche, who leads the Justice Department on an acting basis, the “permanent attorney general,” a move that would install a fervent loyalist at the top of the nation’s law enforcement apparatus.

A video posted on Wednesday by White House adviser Dan Scavino ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Initial efforts in the Senate failed Thursday to block the $1.8 billion fund that the Trump administration has sought to establish to pay people who claim the government wronged them, though further attempts were likely to come Thursday afternoon.

Republicans narrowly voted down a Democratic amendment to ban the payout fund and ...Read more

MIAMI — Michael Reiter is one of the most important figures in the Jeffrey Epstein case who you’ve probably never heard of.

Yet if Reiter had never been born, or had never become a cop, Jeffrey Epstein would probably still be living his best life, behind the walls of his waterfront Palm Beach mansion, where the laws that protect children ...Read more

For decades, the United States made steady progress in reducing surface ozone pollution, the main ingredient in smog. But that progress – made as vehicles, industries and power sources became cleaner – is increasingly being overshadowed by a different and growing source of ozone pollution: wildfires.

Our team of atmospheric and ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — Former Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador issued a blistering statement criticizing President Donald Trump and describing what he called a conspiracy by his administration to weaken the Mexican left.

He said a U.S. campaign against "narco-terrorism" was not a genuine attempt to solve a serious problem but a "pretext...Read more