DENVER — A Colorado community activist was convicted of doxxing a Denver police commander last week in a first-of-its-kind case that has fueled debate about whether the state’s online privacy laws violate free speech rights.

A jury in Denver County Court found Regan Benson, 53, guilty of sharing the personal information of a protected ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — First they found metates — ancient grinding stones. A human pinky bone, jawbone and ribs were next.

Repeated discoveries of Native American remains and other artifacts on the site of a housing development in Poway has led the San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians to call for construction to be stopped — a move the tribe hopes ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Many Minnesotans are still struggling to afford food as residents set a fourth consecutive record for food shelf visits in 2025.

Since the pandemic and the record inflation that followed, food insecurity has grown dramatically in the North Star State.

Minnesotans made more than 9 million food shelf visits last year, according ...Read more

MIAMI — Nancy Metayer Bowen appeared to be living her best life. Successful, involved, happy, loved by her friends, family and community — and getting ready for a congressional run.

The 38-year-old posted herself on Instagram at community events, from political rallies to parades to little league baseball games. She posted herself assuming ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s threat to unleash “all hell” on Iran as early as Monday was met with defiance in the Islamic Republic as the U.S. military continued its dayslong search for an airman whose F-15E was shot down.

The Defense Department maintained its public silence about the downed aircraft — as well as the reported crash of an A-...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — “Lake Nona Concentration Camp” is certainly an evocative nickname for a potential Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in east Orlando. But lawyers for a development company say the monicker violates their clients’ trademark, and they are insisting that the activists who are using it in flyers and signs ...Read more

India is buying crude from Iran among other countries in order to navigate the current energy crisis, the country’s oil ministry said, denying payment hurdles were impeding those purchases.

The statement is a rare public recognition of energy ties that India largely abandoned as a result of U.S. sanctions, but has begun to rekindle thanks to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Across the country, President Donald Trump has installed handpicked loyalists as top federal prosecutors. Several have been pushed out after legal battles because they lack Senate confirmation to serve as U.S. attorneys.

But in Los Angeles, Bill Essayli wields the power of a top prosecutor under a lesser title: “first ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — The bomb placed outside the MacDill Air Force Base visitors center last month was built inside two 2-liter cherry Pepsi bottles, according to federal prosecutors.

Alen Zheng, 20, of Land O’Lakes, is accused of planting the bomb and lighting the fuse at the base on March 10. He drove the explosive to MacDill in the trunk of his...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Trump administration announced on Saturday the arrests of two Los Angeles-based relatives of a high-ranking member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard killed in a U.S. drone strike in 2020.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that federal authorities detained Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter Friday. Soleimani is the...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A new report on the deadliest avalanche in California history — which killed nine backcountry skiers and guides in February near Lake Tahoe — found that a guided group deviated from basic safety practices in crossing slide-prone terrain close together despite a warning that avalanches were expected.

The report, compiled...Read more

Satellite startup Impulse Space is working with Anduril Industries Inc. to develop space-based interceptor technology for President Donald Trump’s planned Golden Dome missile defense shield, according to people familiar with the matter.

The companies have been selected by the Pentagon to develop prototypes of space-based interceptors ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — NASA’s Artemis II mission got the limelight this week, but U.S. Space Force has an arsenal of other space-bound hardware muscling onto Florida’s launch pads this year.

This year’s schedule from either Kennedy Space Center or Cape Canaveral Space Force Station already features six different rockets. Vying for many of the ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As Democratic leaders in California challenge President Donald Trump’s latest effort to restrict the use of mail-in ballots, they also must grapple with a troubling development in the last election.

A significant number of mail-in ballots arrived too late to be counted in the Nov. 4 special election for Proposition 50,...Read more

BOSTON — A person clearly suffering from a mental health crisis attacked a police officer with a sword and was Tasered and shot, leading to his death, authorities say.

“This was a very chaotic circumstance for a number of first responders, both from the mental health perspective, as well as members of the Boston Police Department doing ...Read more

Kendra Duggar is reportedly renting out her home and selling some personal items to help cover husband Joseph Duggar’s $600,000 bail.

According to People, 31-year-old Joseph posted the $60,000 required for his release from custody on Friday, after he pleaded not guilty to child sex abuse charges in Florida. He is facing counts of lewd and ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina Supreme Court this week ended a more than 30-year-old case wrestling with the roles of the courts and the legislature in public education.

The court decided that state courts do not have the authority to make decisions involving education policy, including ordering the state to spend billions of additional ...Read more

Five European Union members urged the bloc to tax windfall profits energy ​companies are reaping as a result of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.

The finance ministers of Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal ​and Austria ​made the ​joint call in an April 3 letter seen by Bloomberg to Wopke Hoekstra, the EU’s climate commissioner.

They wrote ...Read more