Chinese authorities said they arrested a Northern California scholar earlier this month, accusing him of espionage and endangering national security.

U Min Zin was taken into custody on June 3 at Kunming Changshui International Airport in Yunnan Province, southwestern China, according to a New York Times report. Details about the arrest are ...Read more

BOSTON — Massachusetts is not participating in the Great American State Fair, a 16‑day festival on the National Mall marking the country’s 250th anniversary that Gov. Maura Healey has ridiculed.

Healey’s office confirmed to The Boston Herald that, like other Democratic Party-controlled states, it has declined to send a delegation to ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Florida Legislature has gone from budgeting $229 million to the Florida Forever program two years ago to putting no new money into it next year, something that has rarely happened in the 25-year history of the state’s premier land conservation initiative.

Instead of buying land for the public to enjoy, the ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Four people were taken to the hospital Saturday after a helicopter collided with a plane while taking off from North Perry Airport, officials say.

The Robinson R44 helicopter crashed about 11:20 a.m., according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The helicopter was preparing to lift off when it “rolled over,” ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — A new launch pad could be constructed at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station — if the military has its way.

The Department of the Air Force, which oversees the facility, is gathering information for an Environmental Assessment for a proposed Space Launch Complex 51 that would be about 2 miles from Port Canaveral.

The goal of...Read more

NEW YORK — A Queens pilot about to take off in his seaplane from the East River near the Throgs Neck Bridge had to abandon ship when a large wave smashed into the plane, which began sinking, officials said.

It was the second time in six years restaurateur Joe Oppedisano, 67, and passenger Jose Urena needed to be rescued from a smashed ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles has one of the deadest downtowns in the world, according to a new survey.

Out of 75 of the top cities around the world, L.A. ranked among the lowest for vibrancy in Gensler’s 2026 City Pulse report released this week.

Around 65% of those surveyed found DTLA vibrant compared to more than 80% vibrancy scores for New...Read more

DENVER — A proposed settlement that would cut 37% off of the electric rate increase sought by Xcel Energy would still be the highest-ever jump in yearly revenue for a utility in Colorado history, according to the state Office of the Utility Consumer Advocate.

The agency represents the public, particularly residential and small-businesses ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump tapped an experienced white-collar lawyer who helped defend him in a hush money case to be U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, the federal prosecutor whose office handles many high-profile Wall Street cases.

James McDonald would replace Jay Clayton, whom Trump nominated as U.S. director of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — One woman is dead and another is in critical condition after they were swept out to sea by a powerful tide in Santa Cruz this week amid hazardous ocean conditions that forecasters warn will continue across the California coastline this weekend, authorities said.

The victim, whose identity has not been released, was the second to...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — For years, Myreanna Bebe felt guilty celebrating her birthday, which came just one day after her brother, 19-year-old Jason Benjamin Josaphat, was among the 49 killed in the Pulse nightclub attack on June 12, 2016.

But as she spoke Friday at the remembrance ceremony marking the tragedy’s 10th anniversary, she said she had ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli — President Donald Trump’s loyalist federal prosecutor in Los Angeles — has not been shy in recent days about his intention to ferret out voter fraud in California’s primary election and criminally charge those responsible.

He has announced that his office “has multiple ...Read more

Anthropic PBC has disabled access to its most advanced artificial intelligence models, including Mythos, following an unprecedented order by the Trump administration to keep the technology out of the hands of all foreign nationals.

The U.S. government told Anthropic to suspend access to the Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models by any foreign national �...Read more

President Donald Trump will meet with U.S. partners in the Middle East at the Group of Seven leaders’ summit in France next week, underscoring the outsized role the war in Iran continues to play as European allies grapple with the global economic fallout.

The president will hold bilateral meetings with the leaders of France, Qatar, United ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Southern California’s top fire officials met behind closed doors in East Los Angeles Friday to discuss the outlook for this year’s peak fire season and how to coordinate the region’s world-class firefighters to keep communities safe.

At a press conference afterward, officials stressed that even though coastal Southern ...Read more

President Donald Trump said an interim deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the conflict with Iran would be signed on Sunday, a claim contradicted by Iran as the two sides still differ over key points, including management of the waterway and payments to the Islamic Republic.

“The Deal is scheduled to get signed tomorrow, and ...Read more

The U.S. Justice Department says it has dropped plans for a $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund that critics denounced as a “slush fund” for President Donald Trump’s supporters.

But “weaponization” claims will keep coming.

The new fund was expected to offer a faster and easier path to government payouts for people alleging ...Read more