PHILADELPHIA — A line in Philadelphia’s zoning code conflates drag performances with strip clubs, topless bars, and other adult cabaret venues. It’s a definition that City Council hopes to change.

Council member Rue Landau introduced legislation on Thursday to remove references to “male or female impersonators” in a section of the ...Read more

DENVER — Someone tampered with the oxygen supply at UCHealth’s University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora earlier this month, but the facility was able to quickly switch to a backup supply before any patients got hurt.

The Sept. 3 incident, first reported by Colorado Public Radio, involved someone who got into an oxygen storage area outside ...Read more

Deepening the news media's clashes with President Donald Trump, CNN, MS NOW and Politico are headed to court to challenge the constitutionality of the president's order to ban the three news organizations from the White House.

The three outlets filed a lawsuit Monday in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., asking for a temporary restraining...Read more

WASHINGTON — After dishing out more domestic discord this month, President Donald Trump this week will pivot hard to foreign affairs, putting his controversial artificial intelligence and Iran policies in the spotlight as the Senate looks to pass a college sports bill he has backed.

The president heads to New York City on Monday for meetings ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom signed seven new data center regulations into law Monday, as public concerns about the facilities’ demands for water and electricity have reached a fever pitch.

Newsom signed a raft of bills that require data center operators to report their water consumption and pay for upgrades to offset any ...Read more

Amazon has launched what it calls one of the biggest corporate water conservation efforts for a single U.S. watershed with a pledge to invest $20 million into the Colorado River Basin.

Executives are calling the program the Colorado River Basin Collaborative. Participating companies, including supermarket giant Aldi and The Coca-Cola Foundation...Read more

California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Monday his office will dismiss felony vandalism charges against five Stanford activists, if they complete 100 hours of community service each and pay almost $52,000 in restitution.

The defendants — German Gonzalez, Maya Burke, Taylor McCann, Hunter Taylor Black and Amy Zhai — stood trial ...Read more

The president is going after the press again.

On Sept. 19, 2026, journalists from CNN, MS NOW, and Politico were denied access to the White House after President Donald Trump revoked their credentials, citing “their constant ‘reporting’ FAKE NEWS!” On social media, Trump posted, “Media Outlets shouldn’t be able to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A passenger on a Carnival Cruise Line ship returning to Long Beach from Mexico went overboard over the weekend and is still missing.

The U.S. Coast Guard said Monday that it was actively looking for a 56-year-old man.

Video filmed by passengers and posted on social media captured the cruise ship’s announcement that day.

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — A few weeks ahead of the anticipated trial start, a Santa Clara County judge has paused proceedings for the second murder and kidnapping trial of Antolin Garcia Torres in the 2012 disappearance of Sierra LaMar.

Superior Court Judge Brian Buckelew made the decision Monday morning during what was supposed to be a hearing in ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — On the morning Alex Pretti was killed by federal agents in Minneapolis, Jadah Green stood in the bitter January cold as a pitched battle between federal agents and protesters unfolded.

She wiped tear gas from her eyes. She filmed ICE agents grabbing people from cars. The moment felt earth-shattering.

By the next day, a memorial...Read more

A helicopter battling the Dome fire in Yosemite National Park has crashed, killing two people.

According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the Eurocopter AS332L1 crashed at 2:55 p.m. Sunday, during firefighting operations while it made a water bucket drop. Two people were on board, a pilot and a passenger.

The FAA said in a statement ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — For years, former Santa Clara County Supervisor Dianne McKenna helped older friends and family navigate the process of seeking an excuse from jury duty — an experience she eventually brought to her state lawmaker.

Last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the bill McKenna inspired — beginning Jan. 1, 2028, people 80 and older...Read more

WASHINGTON ― Retiring Michigan U.S. Sen. Gary Peters said he has accepted a position as the new director of the Center for the Political Future at the University of Southern California, beginning after his term ends in January.

The Bloomfield Township Democrat will also be appointed the Carmen H. and Louis Warschaw Endowed Chair in Practical ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Tropical Storm Fay continued to churn Monday even gaining some forecast short steam in the far eastern Atlantic, according to the National Hurricane Center.

As of the NHC’s 5 a.m. advisory, the center of the storm was located about 405 miles southwest of the Azores moving south-southeast at 2 mph with maximum sustained winds...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Gov. Newsom has declared a statewide emergency for California in anticipation of this winter's El Niño-fueled storms, a new sign of growing worry about costal flooding and high waves expected in the coming months.

El Niño may bring high surf, high impact storms to the state which "warrants early, coordinated, and targeted ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA – In the last month, Pennsylvania health officials have announced four measles-associated deaths but have been tight-lipped about almost every detail, beyond sharing their county of residence and that all were unvaccinated.

Most of what the public knows about the four deaths linked to the outbreak — ranging in age from a ...Read more

Ukrainians are already drawing up contingency plans for what threatens to be the worst wartime winter yet.

Under near-constant attack since Russia’s invasion of February 2022, residents are well-versed in getting through cold periods during airstrikes and regular blackouts. But last winter’s prolonged sub-zero temperatures brought a new ...Read more

An indignant Cuban Foreign Ministry said over the weekend that it learned through a story in the Miami Herald that Costa Rica considers diplomatic relations between the two countries fully severed, and that San José never formally notified Havana of the decision.

The ministry’s statement was responding to remarks Costa Rican Foreign Minister...Read more

Chancellor Friedrich Merz reinforced his message that he’ll see through his reform agenda as Germany’s leader after his Christian Democratic Union crashed out of a regional parliament for the first time in the country’s post-World War II history.

The election debacle in the Baltic coast state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania — where ...Read more