TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida is, after a year of anticipation, moving forward with a plan to remove four required school-entry vaccines.

The Department of Health filed its proposed rule change Monday as part of Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo’s plan to remove all Florida vaccine mandates.

Under the proposal, Florida children would no longer ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court cleared the way Monday for President Donald Trump to continue seeking new limits on the use of mail ballots, though their implementation remains in dispute as the November election rapidly approaches.

California leaders immediately noted the limits of the high court ruling and said they would file a lawsuit to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s threat to unleash an “economic D-Day” against Iran risks setting the U.S. on a collision course with China, its main trading partner.

That’s only if Bessent actually follows through on a threat the Trump administration has made before. And many are skeptical he will, especially when it ...Read more

Jaylen Edgar, the teen tried for the Halloween mass shooting in 2024 in downtown Orlando that killed two and injured several others, was found guilty of all charges, including first-degree murder, by a jury Monday.

Following three days of arguments and testimony, the 12-person panel was sent out Monday afternoon to deliberate the charges ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Attorneys for former Letcher County Sheriff Shawn “Mickey” Stines filed an emergency appeal Friday to try to get Stines a bond after a judge rejected his request earlier this month.

Warren Circuit Judge Christopher Cohron, who was appointed as a special judge in the case, ruled Aug. 13 that Stines has to be held without ...Read more

CHICAGO — Protesters gathered in the McKinley Park neighborhood Monday afternoon after immigration agents earlier in the day crashed into a pickup truck near the Damen Avenue exit on I-55 and detained a driver, witnesses and local officials said.

Livestream footage shows the blue pickup truck surrounded by ICE vehicles after colliding with ...Read more

California Gov. Gavin Newsom's sprawling Sacramento-area mansion is up for sale.

The 12,700-square-foot mansion in Fair Oaks — an unincorporated community in Sacramento County bordering the American River — has been listed for $7.5 million.

News of the listing, which is being handled by Sotheby's International Realty, was first reported by...Read more

The National Hurricane Center on Monday was tracking two systems in the Atlantic, either one of which has a chance to spin up and become Tropical Storm Dolly this week.

As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. EDT advisory, the system of most concern to Florida was a tropical wave that emerged off the west coast of Africa and was located a few hundred miles ...Read more

BOSTON — After nearly a weeklong search, Worcester police said Monday they believe they found the body of a 58-year-old woman wanted in connection with the death of her police officer husband last week, calling the incident likely a “tragic murder-suicide.”

“Today, at approximately 12:49 hours, officers were dispatched to 189 May Street...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Attorneys for Kansas City last week briefly admitted in a legal filing that Mayor Quinton Lucas ordered a 2024 audit of The Star’s coverage for perceived bias against the city, a remarkable admission that undercut Lucas’ denial of his role in directing the report.

A day later, however, the city backtracked and filed a ...Read more

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Attorneys demanding that Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco return the more than 650,000 ballots cast in November that he seized argued before the California Supreme Court on Monday, Aug. 24, that the law was clear: Bianco should have used legal channels before serving warrants to obtain the ballots and begin a criminal ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Maryland officials declared a measles outbreak in three counties as cases continue to rise, according to the Maryland Department of Health.

Officials identified St. Mary’s, Carroll and Cecil counties as outbreak spots. MDH is investigating 14 new confirmed cases in unvaccinated Maryland residents. No public exposures have been ...Read more

MIAMI — Tracy Caruso, the wife of suspended Palm Beach County Clerk of Courts Mike Caruso arrested last week on child sex abuse charges, said Monday she believes in his innocence and will “stand firmly beside him as he faces these serious allegations and works to clear his name.”

Caruso said she is resigning from public boards “to ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The renewed murder case in the 2012 disappearance and presumed killing of Sierra LaMar is heading to jury selection this week, with defendant Antolin Garcia Torres telling a judge Monday that he’s ready to defend himself again following his conviction reversal earlier this year.

Prospective jurors will be evaluated in ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court cleared the way Monday for President Donald Trump to seek new limits on the use of mail ballots, but they are not likely to take effect this year.

Acting by a 6-3 vote, the court’s conservatives granted an emergency appeal from Trump’s lawyers and set aside a judge’s order that blocked new federal ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent threatened economic punishment against any country doing business with Iran as part of what he called an “economic D-Day” campaign to isolate the country and end nearly six months of war.

President Donald Trump is calling world leaders with “specific requests to cease their interactions with...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal court struck down the Trump administration’s attempt to put a $100,000 fee on visas for some highly skilled foreign workers in June. Now the administration is trying again — this time through a regulatory process that proposes a broader levy to help finance its wide-ranging immigration crackdown.

Companies would pay...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As the murder-for-hire trial of Grammy-winning rapper Lil Durk got underway Monday in Los Angeles, prosecutors painted him as a man "consumed with revenge" after the killing of a close friend.

In opening statements, Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Weiner told jurors that the rapper, whose legal name is Durk Devontay Banks, wanted...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday dismissed talk of a battle brewing between his administration, Speaker Julie Menin and the influential teachers union after he took the City Council to court over what the lawsuit called an illegal pay boost for public school paraprofessionals.

The mayor brought the legal challenge last week over ...Read more