Less than a week before Election Day, The New York Times reported that people with links to Alaska Democrat Mary Peltola’s U.S. Senate campaign and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee had recruited a candidate to the race whose name is nearly identical to that of the incumbent Republican senator, Dan Sullivan, whom Peltola was ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Four people have been charged in federal Medicaid fraud cases involving tens of millions of dollars in allegedly fraudulent claims for services intended to help Minnesotans with disabilities.

The cases were highlighted Friday as five senior Trump administration officials gathered in St. Cloud to tout the White House’s efforts ...Read more

MIAMI — For Cubans looking for a way to reach the United States, the offers appeared on social media: help arranging flights, obtaining travel authorizations and filing immigration paperwork. Photos of travelers at airports and messages celebrating arrivals in South Florida helped advertise the services.

Six participants in the network behind...Read more

Big Oil reaped more than $50 billion in windfall profits as conflicts in the Persian Gulf and Russia roiled energy markets and drove refining results to record highs.

ExxonMobil Holdings Corp., Chevron Corp., BP Plc, Shell Plc and TotalEnergies SE all surpassed analysts’ expectations with combined adjusted net income of $56.3 billion in the ...Read more

LONG BEACH, Calif. — For the first sea turtle eggs ever laid on California beaches, hatching day — hopefully — draws near.

At the Aquarium of the Pacific, 204 olive ridley eggs lay packed between layers of sand in the same styrofoam coolers scientists used to transport them to the Long Beach facility in late September — just days before...Read more

SAN DIEGO — A man is facing federal charges in San Diego for allegedly designing and building a sophisticated cross-border tunnel found in Otay Mesa for the Jalisco Nueva Generación cartel, U.S. officials said.

On Thursday, a federal grand jury indicted Luis Manuel Hernández, 60, on charges of providing material support to a foreign ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The firefighting helicopter that crashed in Yosemite National Park last month had problems with its water bucket during an earlier flight, according to a preliminary National Transportation Safety Board report. The report did not determine the cause of the Sept. 20 crash, which killed pilots Greg King and Ryan Cutter as they ...Read more

ANAHEIM, Calif. — By the middle of 2000, Jimmy Eat World was adrift. Capitol Records had dropped them from the label after a pair of albums. The band had left its management. They were on their own.

Then, in October 2000, the alternative rock band from Mesa, Arizona, entered Cherokee Studios in Hollywood to try something new, drummer Zach ...Read more

For some, it’s a solution to ensure reliable water for millions of Californians while protecting fish and the environment. For others, it’s a travesty that will deprive the state’s rivers of vital water and push its declining native fish closer to extinction.

A controversial plan that dramatically changes how the state governs the pumping...Read more

Lawyers for the federal government told the Supreme Court in a brief this week that former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s corruption conviction was on solid ground, saying he was “not a low-level or novice official” and noting he testified himself that it was illegal to exchange benefits for official action.

Madigan, who turns ...Read more

The highest tides of the year so far are causing problems along the California coast, producing coastal flooding advisories and warnings from Los Angeles to Eureka to this week. And it’s not just normal tidal action that is to blame.

For starters, the king tides are the strongest tides of the year, occurring during new and full moons in the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Gov. Gavin Newsom is launching a "strike force" of state government workers to help reduce bureaucratic delays and smooth the way for the 2028 Summer Olympics and Paralympics in Los Angeles.

Newsom plans to sign an executive order Friday to create the post of executive director of a new Olympic and Paralympic Games Delivery and ...Read more

Millions of Medicare enrollees who buy stand-alone prescription drug plans will see their average monthly premiums rise by 50% in 2027, a new analysis finds.

But enrollees can avoid the average increase — from $34 a month to $51 — by switching to lower-cost plans during the program’s open enrollment period, which runs through Dec. 7.

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DETROIT — Federal prosecutors unsealed a new indictment Friday charging four more people in connection with an alleged conspiracy involving a group of pro-Palestinian activists accused of waging a campaign of threats and vandalism targeting University of Michigan leaders, police, and businesses.

The 64-page indictment brings to a total of 12 ...Read more

SUNSET BEACH, Calif. — Diane Copley-Botica stacked rows of sandbags and tarps around her home in Sunset Beach, hoping it might be enough to keep the rising water at bay.

But the seawater from record high tides came anyway, flowing across the neighborhood like a river, flooding homes and businesses along the stretch of Pacific Coast Highway.

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — Former Russell City residents will be issued payments up to $25,000 per household for their forced displacement by Alameda County and the city of Hayward in the 1960s after the Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to authorize payments from the Russell City Redress Fund.

By authorizing payments, former Russell City residents ...Read more

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Led by members of the marching band and Aggie and Aggietha, the North Carolina A&T State University mascots, hundreds of students at the nation’s largest historically Black university walked 40 minutes from campus to the nearest early polling site on a recent afternoon.

They started the journey with a pep rally, watched ...Read more