LAS VEGAS — Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford announced Wednesday that he has appointed three political strategists, including two who worked on his successful gubernatorial campaign, to lead the team that will help him make the switch to the governor’s office.

Additionally, the Democratic governor-elect has unveiled a new website — ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday pulled Vice President JD Vance away from negotiations with Iran, suggesting that the United States no longer needs to pursue a deal to end the Middle East conflict and instead directing Vance to turn his attention to corruption in states run by Democrats.

“We don’t need a deal with Iran. ...Read more

NEW YORK — The city Building Department conducted a sweeping inspection campaign of roughly 100 construction sites Thursday as it launched an investigation into what caused the deadly building collapse in Brooklyn gets underway.

At least eight people, including two children, died in the collapse, in which a three-story residential building ...Read more

CHAROTTE, N.C. — A far-right influencer pardoned by President Donald Trump in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, filmed himself in Charlotte Douglas International Airport this week ranting against Muslim prayer rugs in the airport chapel.

“Hey, guys, we’re here at the Charlotte, North Carolina, airport,” Jake Lang says in a video ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said the U.S. doesn’t need a deal with Iran and instructed Vice President JD Vance to focus on domestic issues rather than negotiations with Tehran.

The directive, posted on social media on Thursday, threw cold water on ongoing back-channel talks and dampened prospects for a diplomatic breakthrough to ...Read more

DENVER — A former Mesa County sheriff’s deputy who resigned last year after he was accused of illegally collaborating with federal immigration agents was later hired by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to a leaked roster of agency personnel released last month.

Alexander Zwinck is listed in the leaked data as a special ...Read more

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson’s new human resources chief was accused during her time in the city’s procurement department of threatening staffers and interfering with attempts to correct employees who fell short of the city’s contracting protocols.

Tiheta Hinton, confirmed last month as Johnson’s commissioner of the Department of ...Read more

DENVER — Gov. Jared Polis pardoned 27 people Thursday for relatively minor crimes as he nears the end of his time as Colorado’s governor.

Among those pardoned was Vanessa Peoples, who was featured in a 2021 Denver Post story after she received $100,000 in a police brutality settlement from Aurora. Officers used excessive force on Peoples ...Read more

A virus linked to the deaths of about 220 fish at a Nevada County lake was detected in California for the first time, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife said.

“This is a sobering discovery given how widely distributed largemouth bass are in California, how popular they are as a sport fish and their economic importance to our rural ...Read more

MIAMI — Dozens, and possibly hundreds, of inmates could now join a federal lawsuit alleging that extreme temperatures at Dade Correctional Institution, a state prison in South Miami-Dade, are putting them at “substantial risk of serious harm.”

U.S. District Court Judge Kathleen Williams allowed the case to expand into a class action ...Read more

CHICAGO — A federal judge on Thursday agreed to delay by two weeks a potentially explosive hearing into prosecutorial misconduct in the now-defunct “Broadview Six” case.

U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros and several assistant prosecutors had been ordered by U.S. District Judge April Perry to testify under oath on Monday about their actions in ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mourners at a funeral for slain jogger Katie Suarez were encouraged Thursday to remember the Brooklyn bank teller for the upbeat and positive way she lived instead of the cruel and heartless way she died.

Family, friends and co-workers filled a Gravesend church to say their final goodbyes to a woman whose grisly murder shocked the ...Read more

NEW YORK — The City Council on Thursday passed a bill that would ban surveillance pricing in New York City, a tactic under which companies assess how much an individual consumer might pay.

Under surveillance pricing, companies tap shoppers’ personal data to decide what they’re charged — resulting in some consumers paying more for ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — No one disputes that a Cypress High School teacher last year told a Muslim student of Palestinian descent: “I don’t negotiate with terrorists.”

School officials called it a mere joke, nothing personal.

The student’s lawyer called it a racial epithet that shamed a teenager because of his Palestinian-American roots.

The ...Read more

DENVER — A combination of extreme fire behavior and human error contributed to the deaths of four firefighters who were overtaken by a wildfire on Colorado’s Western Slope this summer, according to the results of a federal investigation released Thursday.

Firefighters Emily Barker, Nick Hutcherson and Sydney Watson were killed after they ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Department of Food and Agriculture will conduct research on cyclospora following the national foodborne illness outbreak this summer.

The agency said it is using $250,000 of unused specialty block grant funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to support a broader food safety research project. The ...Read more

Typically, when people hear about nitrates, it involves runoff from farm fields, sewage systems and cities that can fuel harmful algae blooms and raise the risk of a serious illness in infants known as “blue baby syndrome.”

But a river can also run through a sparsely populated landscape with little farming and still contain ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The 20th class of the California Hall of Fame — and Gov. Gavin Newsom’s last — was announced Thursday morning, with a slew of icons in sports, film, arts, activism and cuisine etched into the state’s canon.

A group of 19 Californians, including legends such as Barry Bonds, Metallica and Guillermo del Toro, will be...Read more