TAMPA, Fla. — A security officer at MacDill Air Force Base fired on a civilian intruder Saturday after the person breached the Tampa base’s perimeter, officials said.

The incident happened about 1 p.m. when an “assailant” armed with a wrench breached the base’s perimeter, according to information released Monday by the public affairs ...Read more

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Winnie Brinks, the Democratic leader of the Michigan state Senate, expressed openness on Monday to a suspension of the state gas tax, amid high fuel prices, and to a moratorium on new data center developments.

Brinks, who is the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor, made the comments during a press conference on ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A former Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy who admitted to violating the civil rights of multiple victims through intimidation, illegal search warrants and other abuses of power, was sentenced Monday to nearly two years in prison.

Eric Saavedra, 42, pleaded guilty in February 2025 to one count of conspiracy against rights ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The man gunned down Saturday afternoon at a Dublin sports complex spent the past year embroiled in a bitter custody dispute with his wife — the suspects’ daughter, a woman whom he accused of abuse shortly after his own arrest on child abuse and endangerment charges in late 2025, court records show.

The legal dispute ...Read more

With SpaceX signaling it wants to sunset its crew Dragon spacecraft flights, NASA has reinvested its efforts to bring the beleaguered Boeing Starliner back in line with the agency’s needs to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station.

“Given our extensive history with Starliner and the taxpayer investment already made, we believe ...Read more

The U.S. Coast Guard said its crews rescued at least 40 people from an overloaded boat Monday that capsized off Puerto Rico the day before after a fight broke out on board and people were injured by a machete.

Crews also recovered two bodies, the agency said.

The initial crews that responded found people clinging to the overturned boat, which ...Read more

DENVER — A federal judge in Denver says immigration agents involved in the violent arrest of an 18 year old should be punished for violating a court order, and the federal government should release the teenager and pay his medical bills.

U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson wrote in a recent filing that U.S. Immigration and Customs ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Sept. 28 finalized an effort to set far looser environmental targets for new passenger vehicles while also transforming how cars and trucks are defined in the United States.

President Donald Trump's corporate average fuel economy rule, commonly known as CAFE, takes a much more relaxed approach than ...Read more

MIAMI — Federal prosecutors accused a former Colombian special-forces soldier of being one of the gunmen who shot and killed Haitian President Jovenel Moise, laying out the evidence against one of the newest defendants brought into the sprawling Miami prosecution surrounding the 2021 assassination.

Victor Albeiro Pineda Cardona was ordered ...Read more

Parents will soon be able to find out what their baby's diaper is made of under a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom Monday that requires companies to disclose ingredients both on packaging and online.

Babies can go through about 3,000 disposable diapers a year, a basic-need product that has increasingly drawn concern from child health, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he has not discussed selling arms to China, contradicting a suggestion made by his ambassador to Beijing.

“I never heard of that,” the president told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday, when asked about Ambassador David Perdue’s statement over the weekend. Trump initially appeared confused ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado will distribute almost $170 million to 91 rural healthcare providers next year to try to put them on a more solid long-term footing and improve patients’ outcomes.

The state will receive $1 billion over five years through the Rural Health Transformation Program created by H.R. 1. The sweeping tax law known as the “big, ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Attorneys for Baltimore Inspector General Isabel Mercedes Cumming asked a judge Monday to hold the city in contempt and impose daily fines for failing to restore her office’s access to government records, even as Mayor Brandon Scott said he had directed his team to comply.

The petition escalates a months-long battle over the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The attorneys for Vance Boelter on Monday asked a Hennepin County judge to issue a gag order on state Sen. John Hoffman, his wife, Yvette, and their daughter, Hope, to prevent them from speaking publicly as his state case on murder and attempted murder charges proceeds.

Public defenders Bryan Leary and Raissa Carpenter filed the...Read more

SpaceX launched its Starship and Super Heavy rocket on Monday morning and made it to orbit for the first time ever despite losing one of its engines on its trip up to space.

“Insertion. Starship is orbital,” was the callout from mission control during the company’s livestream followed by cheers from employees watching the event.

“Huge ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Multiple people were injured overnight in a shooting at a nightclub in South Carolina, according to the Richland County Sheriff’s Department.

At about 1 a.m. Sunday, deputies responded to a call about a shooting at La Rumba, the sheriff’s department said in a news release. That’s a nightclub at 1745 Decker Boulevard, ...Read more

LONDON — President Donald Trump criticized the UK’s move to release on bail five men held over an alleged terror plot against a Royal Air Force base used by the U.S. for strikes against Iran, as British police continue to investigate foreign links to the incident.

“I’m surprised that they released them, I wouldn’t have done that,” ...Read more