DENVER — Gov. Jared Polis will reduce Tina Peters’ sentence by half, he confirmed Friday, appearing to bend to demands from President Donald Trump — while ignoring the pleas of many other Colorado elected officials and the prosecutor who won the former county clerk’s conviction in an election data-breach scheme.

The commutation will ...Read more

Three people were recently hospitalized after eating poisonous wild mushrooms foraged in California wine country amid an unprecedented outbreak of illness and deaths linked to the practice statewide, health officials in Napa County announced.

The adults ate poisonous wild mushrooms foraged in the Napa Valley community of Deer Park over the ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Manhattan judge declared a mistrial Friday at Harvey Weinstein’s rape retrial after a jury became “hopelessly deadlocked” over whether the disgraced producer was guilty of an attack on Jessica Mann, less than a year after his last trial ended in the same result.

The eight men and four women on the jury, who got the case ...Read more

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Gov. JB Pritzker sought treatment at a Springfield hospital this week after experiencing a “minor complication” following an outpatient urology procedure he had earlier this month, though the governor was not admitted, his spokesman said Friday.

Matt Hill, the governor’s spokesman, said Pritzker went to the hospital ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — The remains that were this week found in the backyard of the home where missing 6-year-old Noel Rodriguez Alvarez lived have been positively identified as belonging to the child, district attorney Phil Sorrells said.

The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office used dental records to identify Noel, who hadn’t been seen...Read more

Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein’s rape retrial ended in a mistrial Friday after the jury deadlocked. This is the third trial for the New York rape case.

Weinstein, whose decades-long history of alleged sexual assault upended the entertainment industry and inspired the #MeToo movement, has been convicted of other sex crimes in New ...Read more

BEIJING — A conciliatory President Donald Trump on Friday hailed success in his state visit to China, claiming a tonal reset with Xi Jinping despite departing Beijing with few concrete achievements.

The visual spectacle around Trump’s visit was itself considered a breakthrough by the two sides, who expressed an eagerness entering the talks...Read more

CHICAGO — There was a time, not so very long ago, when the most famous tavernkeeper in the history of this city could be found alone in the quiet, empty hours between last call and sunrise, placing chairs upside down on tables and sweeping the floor.

He was in one of the six taverns he owned, the oldest of the Billy Goat brood, on Hubbard ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Days of tension over stalled gun safety legislation in the Minnesota House erupted into yelling matches, with Democrats taking over the chamber and demanding Speaker Lisa Demuth hold a vote.

Democrats are staging a House chamber sit-in until Saturday over the lack of movement on the issue, a shift in tone that came just ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Manhattan judge declared a mistrial Friday after a jury said it was unable to reach a unanimous decision on whether Harvey Weinstein was guilty of raping Jessica Mann, a year after his last case also ended in a mistrial.

The seven men and five women on the jury, who began deliberating Wednesday, had initially sent out a note at ...Read more

NEW YORK — The 68 boxes of pivotal documents about the toxins swirling over ground zero that the city claimed for years didn’t exist were actually discovered during a remodeling project and “carpet installation” at the city’s Department of Environmental Protection offices, city attorneys humbly admitted as a judge ordered agency heads ...Read more

MIAMI — A federal indictment charging Raúl Castro for the murders of four people in the shoot-down of two Brothers to the Rescue planes in 1996 is expected to be unsealed Wednesday, to coincide with a symbolic event at Miami’s Freedom Tower on Cuba’s independence day.

Two sources familiar with the investigation in Miami told the Miami ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Manhattan judge declared a mistrial Friday after a jury said it was unable to reach a unanimous decision on whether Harvey Weinstein was guilty of raping Jessica Mann, a year after his last case also ended in a mistrial.

The seven men and five women on the jury, who began deliberating Wednesday, had initially sent out a note at ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A new report by the California Department of Justice found that conditions at immigrant detention facilities in the state have worsened as surging arrests under the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign led to overcrowding and insufficient medical care.

For the report, which was released Friday, California Justice ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — According to San Diego County vaccination records, about 6,800 of the 19,000 residents who received their initial mpox vaccination dose did not receive a follow-up booster shot, a fact that is increasingly important as the “clade I” version of the virus increasingly causes outbreaks worldwide.

San Diego officials this week ...Read more

The United States on Thursday unveiled terrorism and drug trafficking charges against an alleged senior leader of Venezuela’s feared Tren de Aragua gang after Colombian authorities extradited him to Houston, marking the first time a member of the criminal organization has been transferred from Colombia to face prosecution in the U.S.

Jose ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Manhattan jury Friday said it was deadlocked, unable to agree on whether Harvey Weinstein was guilty of raping Jessica Mann, a year after his last case ended in a mistrial for the same reason.

The seven men and five women on the jury, who began deliberating Wednesday, sent out a third note at 11:20 a.m., reading, “We the jury ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Louisiana is a step closer to a new congressional map after the state Senate approved a plan Thursday that would eliminate one of the state’s two majority-Black districts, both held by Democrats.

The new map comes after the Supreme Court invalidated Louisiana’s current House map last month in a ruling that found the state had...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Carmen Benavides sat on the motel bed, holding her daughter Abrahannys’ hand. The 4-year-old lay on her back, awake, as if waiting for her mother’s voice.

“You are beautiful,” Benavides said in Spanish. “Who’s the most beautiful?”

She checked a monitor and feeding tube connected to the girl’s stomach. Abrahannys...Read more