After months of back-and-forth with lawmakers, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s controversial transportation bill has been signed into law.

Newsom said it makes the state Department of Motor Vehicles more efficient and introduces provisions meant to “modernize” the agency’s function, including a provision that allows Californians to carry a digital ...Read more

The federal government on Monday said it paused construction of U.S. Immigration and Customs detention facility near Gilroy, in a deal with Santa Clara County and the State of California.

ICE and its umbrella agency the U.S. Department of Homeland Security have declined to officially acknowledge the project, which was revealed through news ...Read more

President Donald Trump reinstated the U.S. blockade of Iranian ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz and demanded a 20% reimbursement on all other cargo shipped through the waterway.

Trump’s announcement Monday, in which he asserted the U.S. would become the waterway’s “GUARDIAN,” intensifies an ongoing spat between Washington and ...Read more

President Donald Trump plans to support a Russia sanctions bill championed by the late Senator Lindsey Graham, according to a White House official, a move that would intensify pressure on the Kremlin to end its war in Ukraine.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the matter. Trump’s backing would be a major win for Ukraine,...Read more

The West Nile virus has been detected in Yuba County for the first time this year, according to a Monday news release from the Sutter-Yuba Mosquito and Vector Control District.

Two mosquito samples collected on July 7 tested positive for the virus — one from the Hallwood area east of Marysville and another from near Wheatland.

West Nile ...Read more

A judge ruled that President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service was a “bad faith” attempt to manipulate the judicial process and barred him and his administration from citing its supposed settlement in any future regulatory or judicial proceedings.

Monday’s 56-page decision by U.S. District Judge Kathleen ...Read more

After months of refusing to do so, the Justice Department has turned over a substantial amount of evidence from its investigations into the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti during Operation Metro Surge to state investigators, a person familiar with the investigation but not authorized to speak publicly about the details confirmed to the ...Read more

A U.S. immigration officer shot and killed a person in Maine on Monday morning, the second fatal shooting involving federal agents in less than a week.

The incident occurred in Biddeford, a small city about 18 miles southwest of Portland. The Department of Homeland Security said it was conducting targeted surveillance on the last known ...Read more

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s new $50.8 billion state budget was sprawled across more than 600 pages of legislation and signed into law on Sunday. New data center regulations, new education funding, and more were approved in the wide-ranging spending package.

But some of the most pressing issues facing the General Assembly were noticeably ...Read more

The University of California admissions board has voted to rescind — for now — its plan to study whether to resume SAT or ACT requirements in admissions, a move that leaves the direction of one of the university's most closely watched debates unclear a day before the Board of Regents meets in San Francisco.

UC's Board of Admissions and ...Read more

Former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Sunday ended weeks of speculation about his health with a statement saying he’s on the mend.

The Kentucky Republican, who was hospitalized June 14, issued a letter to fellow Kentuckians telling them he has been recovering from a fall, followed by what he termed “a mild case of pneumonia.” ...Read more

President Donald Trump will support a Russia sanctions bill championed by the late Senator Lindsey Graham, according to a White House official, a move that would intensify pressure on the Kremlin to end its war in Ukraine.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the matter. Trump’s backing would be a major win for Ukraine, ...Read more

Darline Graham Nordone, the sister of the late South Carolina GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham, will fill his Senate seat through the end of his term in January, Republican Gov. Henry McMaster announced Monday.

“Lindsey took care of his little sister in years long departed,” McMaster said at a news conference in Columbia, referring to Graham ...Read more

The L.A. County Public Health Department announced its first case of West Nile virus this year. An Antelope Valley resident has been hospitalized with a rare and serious symptom of the virus.

On Monday, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health stated that the infected individual was currently hospitalized after developing West Nile ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A man was arrested Monday after driving up to the North Barricade of the Capitol in a rented Ford Bronco with a handgun in his lap, Capitol Police said.

He asked an officer for directions to the Supreme Court, which is across from the Capitol’s East Front. The officer ordered the suspect to put his hands up after noticing the ...Read more

State officials said Monday an outbreak of cyclosporiasis that has sickened more than 2,600 Michigan residents is believed to have originated with infected lettuce or salad greens.

Health experts have been working to figure out how the parasite got into food supplies since it began sickening people late last month.

Current test results point ...Read more

A man on Monday pleaded guilty in Minnesota federal court to defrauding the U.S. government, admitting that only a fraction of the federal funds he was issued were spent on food for children he claimed to serve.

Abdirashid Bixi Dool, 37, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis to one count of wire fraud for his role in the fraud ...Read more