DENVER — A wildfire burning on Colorado’s Western Slope consumed hundreds of acres on Tuesday and destroyed two buildings, including a home, according to firefighting officials.

Colorado River Fire Rescue crews first responded to the Dry Creek fire near Rifle at about 3:20 p.m. Tuesday, agency officials said. Mandatory evacuations were ...Read more

NEW YORK — A federal judge in Manhattan on Wednesday temporarily blocked the Trump Justice Department from seizing the medical records of transgender youth from New York City hospitals and cast doubt on the government’s claim that it didn’t want to use the information to prosecute patients.

In a lengthy oral decision announced at a remote...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The Southern Nevada Health District announced Wednesday that it has identified the first mosquitoes of the season to test positive for West Nile virus in the Las Vegas Valley.

According to the agency, the mosquitoes were collected in the 89121 ZIP code as part of the Health District’s ongoing mosquito surveillance program. The ...Read more

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — Authorites on Wednesday identified a man and confirmed he died after going over the edge of a waterfall in Yosemite National Park last weekend.

The death of 22-year-old Josue Baires Alfonso happened after he went over the Nevada Fall, the National Park Service said. Search-and-rescue teams found Baires Alfonso...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — Camp Mystic has filed for bankruptcy nearly a year after a devastating July 4 flood killed 28 people at the Christian summer camps for girls in Texas Hill Country.

The camp sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization on Wednesday, June 24, according to the paperwork filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern ...Read more

The state Department of Housing and Community Development announced Wednesday it will award nearly $30 million to indigenous communities across the state to reduce homelessness and build housing.

Some 68 communities will receive $28.5 million via the state Tribal Homeless, Housing Assistance and Prevention program to “implement unique, ...Read more

SURFSIDE, Fla. — Five years ago, Raquel Oliveira had just celebrated her son Lorenzo’s fifth birthday. She hosted dozens of children at her home at the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, unaware that the condominium was beginning to fail.

Wednesday marks five years since the building’s collapse, which killed 98 people, including Oliveira...Read more

BALTIMORE — A group of Republican candidates, a voter, and an election-integrity organization are asking an Anne Arundel County Circuit Court judge to stop the state from certifying primary election results until election officials contact every voter whose original ballot was rejected and allow them to correct the problem.

The lawsuit, filed...Read more

Texas activists are gathering in Washington on Wednesday to mark the four-year anniversary of Roe v. Wade being overturned.

More than 30 Texans are joining abortion rights advocates from around the country to protest the overturning of Roe v. Wade and to call for abortion access to be reinstated throughout the country.

On June 24, 2022, the ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A 36-year-old survivor of slavery said he has tried to follow all the rules since fleeing Mauritania, a mostly desert land in West Africa, and seeking asylum in the United states in 2023.

But when Ousmane Soumare arrived at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Philadelphia in November for a routine check-in, ...Read more

Amid a worsening flu outbreak at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, the U.S. Air Force, Army and Navy are once again requiring new recruits to get vaccinated against the influenza virus, according to ABC News. The move comes two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth rescinded the U.S. military’s mandate that they do so....Read more

LOS ANGELES — The top strategist for Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass' reelection bid has left her campaign, just as she is gearing up for a bruising showdown against City Council member Nithya Raman in the Nov. 3 runoff.

Douglas Herman, who has worked with Bass since 2021, told the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday that he stepped down from the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The sentencing of Vance Boelter, who recently pleaded guilty to the shootings of two Minnesota lawmakers and their families last year in a shocking act of political violence, has been set for July 23 in Minneapolis.

Boelter, 58, faces two consecutive life sentences along with several more years in federal prison as part of a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s executive order requiring major changes to the way Americans vote suffered another courtroom defeat, this time in a suit brought by Democratic state attorneys general who disputed the government’s claims of widespread voter fraud.

Chief U.S. District Judge Denise Casper in Boston on Wednesday issued a...Read more

CHICAGO — The next round of tickets for the museum at the Obama Presidential Center go on sale to the public on July 8, for admission to the museum from September through January 2027.

According to an announcement from the Obama Foundation, a presale for Founding Members will begin July 1. (Tickets are $30, with discounts and select Tuesday ...Read more

NEW YORK — The NYPD and the FBI executed search warrants at the homes of several former and current high-ranking NYPD officers early Wednesday as part of an ongoing bribery probe, the Daily News has learned.

Former NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey and former NYPD Deputy Commissioner Tarik Sheppard were among those visited by a joint ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Republicans on Wednesday overrode a series of Gov. Josh Stein’s vetoes on diversity, equity and inclusion practices and immigration enforcement.

The bills, which broadly ban DEI in schools and government and require further cooperation with ICE, were already overridden by the Senate, so they now become law.

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NEW YORK — Protesters rallied Wednesday outside a Brooklyn cafe that banned Rep. Dan Goldman over his support for Israel.

A couple of dozen people turned out for the demonstration organized by an antisemitism watchdog group that accuses management of Poetica Coffee of discrimination over a now-deleted social media post vowing not to serve ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A fire that has burned at a Boyle Heights warehouse for more than a week is nearly out, after crews managed to extinguish flames on the roof overnight, Los Angeles Fire Department officials said Wednesday.

Water-dropping helicopters are no longer needed to knock down flames on the roof of the nearly 500,000-square-foot cold ...Read more

CHICAGO — A hearing on reversing Chicago’s legalization of video gambling terminals ended abruptly Wednesday after protests from opponents of Mayor Brandon Johnson escalated into a call for a commissioner to resign.

The Workforce Development Committee met to debate an ordinance being pushed by the mayor to authorize an agreement with Bally�...Read more