DETROIT — A hazardous chemical spill resulting from a military jet crash in Grand Traverse County has prompted an evacuation order after the training mishap created a risk of highly toxic vapors or fluid seeping into the area.

A Texas Air National Guard F-16 crashed Thursday in Blair Township during a training exercise, military officials ...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday announced a new state effort to aid Californians rebuild after wildfires and other disasters.

The Disaster Rebuilding Assistance Program aims to make it easier for homeowners to secure construction and renovation loans by offering perks to lenders, such as reimbursement opportunities and coverage on losses.

The ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Thursday first said a system in the Atlantic had increased chances, but then rolled those predictions back that it could become the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. EDT tropical outlook, the small area of low pressure, now listed as Invest 98-L, was located...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The 36-year-old woman charged with murder in a violent, high-speed crash that killed two people in Chatsworth on Tuesday was under the influence of drugs and had narcotics in the car when she drove the wrong way on city streets and broadsided a Metro bus, prosecutors said.

The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office on ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senators from both parties emerged from a classified briefing with the Pentagon’s policy chief on Thursday morning expressing outrage at what they described as the official’s stonewalling.

The stated purpose of the briefing by Elbridge Colby, the undersecretary of Defense for policy, was to update the Senate Armed Services ...Read more

SEATTLE — The Washington Supreme Court has ruled the state's natural gas initiative unconstitutional, ending a 2024 effort to turn voters out against policies intended to curb climate change.

Voters passed Initiative 2066 with 52% of the vote, but it was struck down in Superior Court in 2025. Not long after, state Attorney General Nick Brown ...Read more

CHICAGO — Juan Muñoz is tired of remembering the events of Oct. 3, 2025.

On that day, at the height of Operation Midway Blitz, Muñoz was among hundreds of people protesting the blitz at the Broadview processing center when dozens of agents confronted the crowd outside the building and began to make arrests.

Muñoz, a trustee of west ...Read more

Peter Max, the pop artist and hippie icon who helped define the vibrant psychedelic style of the 1960s and whose work graced posters, album covers, T-shirts, dinnerware, postage stamps and beyond, has died. He was 88.

Max died Monday at a Manhattan hospital, according to a statement provided to The New York Times by his son, Adam Max. No cause ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — San Diego County warned doctors at the Otay Mesa Detention Center this week that continued weeks-long delays in reporting suspected tuberculosis cases “may subject health care providers to professional licensing actions.”

The letter, dated Tuesday and signed by Dr. Sayone Thihalolipavan, the county’s public health officer, ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Standing handcuffed in an orange jumpsuit behind plexiglass, ICE agent Christian Castro appeared in a Minnesota courtroom Thursday after months of resistance and faced charges that he shot a Venezuelan immigrant during Operation Metro Surge and later lied about it to the FBI.

Castro’s alleged shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis...Read more

SEATTLE — Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson joined Democratic Party lawmakers and other allies Thursday in warning voters against an initiative on the November ballot that would modify parents’ and students’ rights in public schools.

Supporters of state Initiative 001, including conservative millionaire Brian Heywood’s Let’s Go Washington ...Read more

Diplomatic relations between Costa Rica and Cuba are formally severed and will remain so until the Cuban people “recover their freedom,” the Central American nation’s foreign minister, Manuel Tovar Rivera, said Thursday.

“There is a rupture of diplomatic relations,” the minister said in an interview with The Miami Herald, clarifying ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Republican gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds said Thursday he supports broadening the uses of hotel taxes in Florida, specifically to allow the levy on room nights and short-term rental stays to be spent on transportation and infrastructure projects.

While both he and his Democratic opponent David Jolly have said they ...Read more

CHICAGO — Veteran U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent Luis Uribe tried to tell a federal jury this week that he was raised to respect women, that “no means no” and “stop means stop.”

“I’ve never raped anybody in my whole life,” Uribe said emphatically from the witness stand Tuesday. “I never robbed anybody in my whole ...Read more

Former Sen. Jon Kyl, once a key player in Arizona politics and a powerful voice in Republican leadership, has died at the age of 84.

His family announced his death on Thursday of complications from an unspecified neurological disease, sharing a statement with Arizona’s KTAR News. Kyl had previously announced at the end of 2025 that he would ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The 36-year-old woman charged with murder in a violent, high-speed crash that killed two people in Chatsworth on Tuesday was under the influence of drugs and had narcotics in the car when she drove the wrong way on city streets and broadsided a Metro bus, prosecutors said.

The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office on ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania is seeking more emergency aid from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to respond to the state’s largest measles outbreak in more than 30 years, but only if the federal agency acknowledges the four measles-associated deaths Pennsylvania has reported.

The CDC has so far declined to publicly report ...Read more