WASHINGTON — Senate Environment and Public Works ranking member Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., said Thursday that the process of papering, selling and voting on a potential deal to take up legislation overhauling the federal permitting system will likely push consideration to the lame-duck session in November.

Speaking at a news conference, ...Read more

The California Supreme Court excoriated Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco over his seizure of hundreds of thousands of Proposition 50 ballots earlier this year, ordering the former gubernatorial candidate to immediately hand over all remaining material in a pair of scathing decisions on Thursday.

“We hold that the seizure of the ballots ...Read more

NEW YORK — The storm threatening to wallop the Northeast strengthened offshore Thursday into a full-blown nor’easter that appeared increasingly likely to bring rain to the tri-state area beginning Friday, according to the latest National Weather Service predictions.

Late Thursday morning it seemed slated to skew east of New York City toward...Read more

A Northern California community college wrestling star slipped and fell to his death Sunday at Yosemite National Park, officials confirmed.

Santa Rosa Junior College sophomore Ryan George died in an apparent accident, his college coach, Fred Duerr, posted in a statement Tuesday.

The Santa Rosa Press Democrat broke the news this week, saying ...Read more

Presley Gerber was reportedly living in a sober home rather than a licensed rehabilitation center when he died from a suspected drug overdose.

People who knew the 27-year-old model felt that Resolutions Living should have referred him to a facility that is legally authorized to offer detox, counseling, group sessions and treatment planning, ...Read more

NEW YORK — More than 100 people, including local elected officials, were arrested at protests against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of his scheduled speech before the U.N. General Assembly in Midtown Manhattan on Thursday, police said.

City Councilman Chi Osse was among the dozens taken into NYPD custody around 1 p.m. at ...Read more

A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday that removes President Donald Trump’s ban on three news outlets from White House grounds, a rebuke of the administration’s most severe attack yet on the Washington press corps.

Journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico were still denied access to the White House early Thursday. ...Read more

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to temporarily restore journalists’ access to the White House on Sept. 24, 2026. As he had in a similar case in 2018, U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly decided the revocation of the reporters’ press passes likely violated their Fifth Amendment right to due process.

His decision ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A nonprofit that steered nearly $100 million to fraudsters has agreed to hand over $18.5 million to the state of Minnesota to settle a lawsuit by Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison.

Under the settlement agreement, which was filed Thursday in Hennepin County District Court, Partners in Nutrition will dissolve and turn over ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The next phase of a highly successful satellite mission led by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has burned through its rainy day fund and now risks cost and schedule overruns, according to a new report.

One of the culprits: the 2025 Eaton fire, which came within a mile of the La Cañada Flintridge research facility.

The ...Read more

The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s trustees want the university to grow.

By a lot.

On Thursday, the board passed a resolution to recommend UNC enroll 5% of North Carolina’s high school seniors by 2030.

That would increase the number of students from North Carolina enrolling at UNC by up to 46%.

The university already had a ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Thursday it will not change its stance that the state General Assembly wrongfully tried to impeach Lexington Judge Julie Muth Goodman.

Facing significant criticism from Republican lawmakers over decisions she made in court, Goodman was impeached by the Kentucky House earlier this year. The ...Read more

A U.S. Postal Service employee pleaded guilty to stealing mail from a Johnson County post office location, federal court records show.

David Alan Boutte, 60, of Olathe, pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of theft or receipt of stolen mail, according to the U.S. District Attorney’s Office for the District of Kansas.

According to court ...Read more

With deepfakes on the rise, forgery and deception are often viewed as distinctly modern problems – a new era of misinformation made possible by artificial intelligence. One of the first alarming cases occurred at the start of the war in Ukraine when a doctored video appeared to show President Volodymyr Zelenskyy telling his soldiers to lay ...Read more

Most Americans know that in all criminal cases – those filed by the government against an accused individual – the defendant has a constitutional right to a lawyer. The Supreme Court established this right in 1963 in the landmark case Gideon v. Wainright.

What many people may not know is that no such right exists in civil cases. ...Read more

At least a quarter of Americans suffer from high levels of cholesterol or fatty acids in their bloodstream, a condition called dyslipidemia. Uncontrolled cholesterol levels increase the risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, or ASCVD: a group of diseases that result from the buildup of plaque in the blood vessels, preventing blood ...Read more

A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday that removes President Donald Trump's ban on three news outlets from White House grounds, a rebuke of the administraton's most severe attack yet on the Washington press corps.

But the showdown is far from over. Journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico were still denied access to the...Read more