LANSING, Mich. — President Donald Trump's Department of Justice has informed Michigan officials it intends to send election monitors to three cities in the battleground state for the Aug. 4 primary.

Letters from the federal department about the plans have mentioned Detroit, Lansing and East Lansing, said two sources who had knowledge of the ...Read more

DENVER — More than 250 homes have been destroyed by the Aspen Acres fire in Pueblo and Custer counties, their sheriffs said Monday afternoon.

The state’s largest ongoing wildfire, the Aspen Acres fire, jumped in size overnight to 91,523 acres, roughly 143 square miles and nearly the size of Denver. As of Monday morning, the wildfire was the...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — State employees will be able to take up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave after Gov. Josh Stein signed new legislation on Monday.

Current law gives eight weeks of paid parental leave to state employees who gave birth and four weeks for other parents.

Staci Meyer, the state human resources director, said that the current ...Read more

DENVER — More than two dozen laws kick in across Colorado starting this month, instituting new rules gun control, asset forfeiture and “conversion therapy.”

The laws took effect July 1. Several were passed earlier this spring, while others — including one related to ammunition sales and another penalizing wildlife trafficking — were ...Read more

CHICAGO — Illinois will be the first state to require independent audits of large artificial intelligence developers’ safety practices under a new law Gov. JB Pritzker signed Monday.

The measure was part of a broader package of bills the Democratic-controlled General Assembly pushed to fill what lawmakers view as a void left by federal ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is touting its tax-advantaged investment accounts for those under 18, but critics say the accounts may only reach those who are already set in life.

Parents can contribute up to $5,000 annually to what Republicans have dubbed Trump Accounts and children born between 2025 and 2028 receive a $1,000 federal ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Newport Beach police are used to crowds on the Fourth of July.

But they were not expecting the thousands of teenagers and young adults who descended on the city Saturday, leading to hours of chaos and vandalism that some say is the worst the city has seen in years.

Authorities are still trying to determine what drew so many ...Read more

FRESNO, Calif. — The Department of Homeland Security has purchased two privately-operated ICE detention facilities in California for $1.5 billion dollars, according to company officials.

Tennessee-based private prison operator CoreCivic announced Monday that it had completed the sale of the 2,560-bed California City Immigration Processing ...Read more

Prince Harry is up in arms as he claims his invite to stay at Buckingham Palace during his trip to London this week has been rescinded “at the last moment.”

The palace invited 41-year-old Duke of Sussex, whose relationship with the rest of the royal family has been contentious in recent years, to stay for one night, BBC News and ITV News ...Read more

CASTRIES, Saint Lucia — Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says the reappointment of the Caribbean Community’s secretary-general earlier this year was unlawful, and she wants the Caribbean Court of Justice to intervene in the dispute.

Carla Barnett, who has been secretary-general of the 15-member Caribbean Community ...Read more

In the months leading up to Jeffrey Epstein’s arrest on federal sex trafficking charges on July 6, 2019, a small U.S. Virgin Islands bank he owned that had employed no one and laid dormant for years suddenly came alive.

A flurry of transactions totaling more than $20 million passed through the bank named Southern Country International from ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The California Supreme Court is poised to rule in a lawsuit that has pitted the state's court reporters — the workers who create transcripts of court proceedings — against victims of domestic violence and other vulnerable litigants.

The case will determine whether to end a long-standing prohibition on the electronic ...Read more

Prince Harry has thrown what was supposed to be his “landmark” homecoming to the United Kingdom into further chaos by going “nuclear” on the royal family Monday, accusing them of dangling an offer for him to stay at Buckingham Palace only to withdraw it “at the last moment” for allegedly nefarious reasons.

Harry was expected to ...Read more

Cuba’s power grid failed again on Monday afternoon, leaving the entire island without electricity, following days of protests over the long blackouts amid the island’s hot summer.

Shortly after noon, the state utilities company Electric Union of Cuba announced a “total disconnection of the national electric power system” and said it was...Read more

NEW YORK — Hours after Mayor Zohran Mamdani vowed to release New York City documents about the toxins swirling above ground zero in the days after 9/11 in time for the 25th anniversary of the attacks, city lawyers asked a judge to quash a lawsuit requesting the same papers, the New York Daily News has learned.

In court documents filed in ...Read more

Boeing’s Starliner costs and delays remain the target of the latest audit from NASA’s Office of the Inspector General, but remains a cheaper option for the agency than relying solely on SpaceX for its commercial crew needs.

The audit released June 30 dinged the beleaguered spacecraft’s tumultuous and still uncertain path toward ...Read more

BOSTON — Two city councilors are calling for a “Public Safety Summit” following a deadly Fourth of July night in Boston.

“Enough is enough ... I am outraged,” City Councilor at-Large Erin Murphy wrote in a statement after news that two people were killed and 11 others were injured in five shooting incidents that began late Saturday ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The leaders of Europe are bracing for another turbulent summit with President Donald Trump this week as NATO members gather for their annual meeting in the Turkish capital.

European diplomats view Trump’s decision to attend as a positive sign of his continued commitment to the alliance. But the president’s grievances with ...Read more

Johnny Beig may have played in a semiprofessional cricket league in Australia, but this summer he's a big fan of soccer in the United States.

It's not just because he's rooting for the World Cup team, though.

Last year, Beig's Beverly Hills-based company, Dioz Group, won a $2.5 million contract with On Location, FIFA's hospitality partner, to ...Read more