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.

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A majority of the Supreme Court appeared skeptical Monday of an effort by Boulder, Colo., to hold major oil producers accountable in state courts for the harms caused by climate change.

Across almost two hours of oral arguments, the justices raised concerns about upsetting the balance between states and the federal government and Congress’ ...Read more

Southern California has seen some toasty Octobers, but this year's start to the fall season has been marked by a persistent heat wave that's shattered records and ushered in an unusual streak of 100 degree days.

The extreme heat is driven by a persistent high pressure ridge that has parked over the region causing sinking warming air with very ...Read more

CHICAGO — Attorneys for Marimar Martinez, shot by a Border Patrol agent during Operation Midway Blitz last October, called on authorities Monday to file criminal charges against the agent involved, alleging a new bullet trajectory analysis showed her car was moving away from the agent when he opened fire and disproves his claim he feared for ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Monday increased 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 2 p.m. tropical outlook, the surface trough of low pressure, now dubbed Invest 92L and producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms, had moved ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court will open its latest term Monday morning by hearing arguments over whether Boulder can sue two oil and gas companies for their roles in climate change in a case that is garnering national attention because the decision could affect the outcome of other climate cases pending in the United States.

Suncor Energy and ...Read more

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries expressed confidence Sunday that Democrats would gain the majority by winning key swing districts in places such as Iowa, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, New York and Arizona.

But with just 30 days until the election, he also predicted the party would pad its margins by picking up seats in Republican terrain.

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A popular trail on North Carolina’s Bald Head Island has been closed due to “invasive yellow wasp” attacks on hikers, officials say.

The north side of the Bald Head Woods Reserve Trail will remain blocked at both ends until the nest can be eradicated, Bald Head Island officials said in an Oct. 2 news release. The south side of the trail ...Read more

CHICAGO — On Saturday morning, 7-year-old Eddimar Hernandez-Chacon was walking down the street holding hands with her older sister when a woman walking the other way lunged at the girls.

Shavon Gayden, 48, first hurtled toward Hernandez-Chacon’s 17-year-old sister before she grabbed the younger child and stabbed her to death in an ...Read more

With nearly eight months in space under their belt, the four members of Crew-12 are set to depart the International Space Station as early as Wednesday.

The quartet of NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force ...Read more

MIAMI — A man was arrested Sunday after he dressed as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent while aggressively walking around a polling site for Brazil’s general election at Miami Dade College’s Kendall campus, the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office said.

Danilo Silva, 46, was wearing an ICE hat, ICE jacket, sunglasses and a mask ...Read more

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has a history of proving his critics wrong. But his decision Monday to call a snap election in the midst of a housing affordability crisis may be his most precarious political move to date.

The 54-year-old Socialist premier is seeking to tap into the anger sweeping the nation over the real estate issue and...Read more

MIAMI — Major milestone alert in Billionaire Bunker.

Ivanka Trump, 44, announced that her maternal grandmother has turned the century mark.

Born Marie Zelnickova, the Prague native lives with Ivanka, along with her husband, Jared Kushner, and their three kids in the mega-affluent community of Indian Creek Village near Miami Beach.

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MINNEAPOLIS — The state murder trial for convicted political assassin Vance Boelter has been delayed until May due to the “exorbitant amount” of investigative materials that have been turned over to his defense attorneys in addition to the availability of key victim witnesses for testimony.

Assistant Hennepin County Public Defender Raissa...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Last summer's Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations left many foreign-born residents of Los Angeles afraid to venture outdoors, even when their health depended on it.

A new study from USC finds that emergency room visits from patients born outside of the U.S. fell by more than 20% in the first four weeks after arrests ...Read more