The Trump administration on Thursday imposed sanctions on nine Cuban state companies and the three top officials of the island’s main organization for cultivating foreign sympathizers, extending a pressure campaign that has now reached Cuba’s nickel industry, its construction ministry and the state agency that hires out Cuban labor to ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — For a second time, Attorney General Russell Coleman’s attempt to toss out extensive death penalty litigation has been denied. This time, by the Kentucky Supreme Court.

In a ruling handed down Thursday, the state’s highest court said it will not issue a “writ of prohibition” on nearly two-decades-long litigation about ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott lauded Tarrant County as the perfect example of how to create meaningful tax relief for residents during a Thursday press conference, where he discussed his four-point plan to lower property taxes.

On Aug. 13, the county Commissioners Court first discussed its budget and tax rate for next fiscal year, ...Read more

FBI agents seized former Rep. Eric Swalwell’s phone and laptop Saturday under a search warrant tied to a federal civil rights investigation, records obtained by Bay Area News Group show.

The seizure occurred at San Francisco International Airport, and agents searched Swalwell’s Washington, D.C., home the following day as part of an ...Read more

The U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions Thursday on an Ecuador-based cocaine trafficking network accused of using commercial fishing vessels to move thousands of kilograms each month toward Mexico, where major cartels allegedly helped smuggle the drugs onward to the United States.

The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets ...Read more

MIAMI — Ten defendants have been sentenced to federal prison for participating in a South Florida cocaine trafficking network that prosecutors say obtained drugs from a Mexican cartel, transported cocaine and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash across the United States and included a cartel representative sent to Miami to oversee the ...Read more

The Southern Nevada Water Authority has agreed to leave some of its water in Lake Mead this year in exchange for cash to comply with what water managers expect to be a firm requirement to do so through 2028.

At a board meeting Thursday, directors ratified an agreement between the water authority and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation that gives ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Hundreds of Boyle Heights residents suffered health problems after a fire at a cold storage facility burned stubbornly for days, including respiratory infections, eye disorders and persistent cough, according to a new study.

The St. John’s Community Health study found the symptoms were “directly related to toxic exposure and...Read more

At least 23 Minnesotans have suffered foodborne infections and two have been hospitalized in an outbreak traced back to locally produced alfalfa sprouts.

The Minnesota Department of Health on Thursday urged people to discard any sprouts sold under the Everything Sprouts and Calco brands, which are available at numerous grocery chains, including...Read more

NEW YORK — An Albany woman was charged Thursday with planning to carry out an Islamic State-inspired terror bomb attack on the New York State Capitol.

Jessica Bowie, 35, told confidential federal informants that she wanted to buy bombs and weapons to carry out a terror attack and kill as many lawmakers as possible in support of ISIS.

“I ...Read more

Federal agents served embattled ex-Rep. Eric Swalwell with several search warrants over the weekend, seizing his phone and raiding his Washington, D.C., home, sources told CNN and CBS News.

The FBI took Swalwell’s electronic devices at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday and then searched his home the following day as part of an ...Read more

A federal investigation into former Rep. Eric Swalwell appeared to gain steam this week after agents seized his electronic devices and raided his Washington home over the weekend, even briefly holding the former lawmaker at San Francisco International Airport, a person familiar with the inquiry told the Los Angeles Times.

Swalwell, a Democrat ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Less than a week after a federal judge ruled that Idaho cannot enforce state abortion bans in certain physical or mental health-related instances, the Idaho Attorney General’s Office appealed the case to a higher court.

Idaho District Court Judge B. Lynn Winmill issued his decision Aug. 13 in a case brought by Boise maternal-...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Republican lawmakers acknowledged shortcomings in their proposals to eliminate the income tax and raise the bar for amending the state Constitution. Still, they didn’t rule out a second try on either proposal.

Missouri voters overwhelmingly rejected Republican-sponsored ballot measures in the Aug. 4 primary, with both ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Most of the people named in a legal action to keep two gangs from associating at the Minnesota State Fair have agreed to stay away voluntarily.

The Ramsey County Attorney’s Office and Minnesota Attorney General’s Office filed the legal cases against two primarily Somali gangs. They and law enforcement said it’s an ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — Defense attorneys for Karmelo Anthony appeared in a Collin County courtroom Thursday morning to argue that the 19-year-old should receive a new trial.

Anthony was sentenced in June 2026 to 35 years in prison for fatally stabbing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a Frisco track meet in April 2025. Judge John Roach, who presided...Read more

DETROIT — The cyclosporiasis outbreak that has sickened thousands in Michigan over the last two months appears to be slowing, according to data released by the state Department of Health and Human Services.

State data shows that 190 new cases of the parasitic illness were reported this week, down from 735 cases reported last week and the ...Read more

MIAMI — The family of the young boy who alleges he was molested by former Palm Beach County Clerk of Courts Mike Caruso hoped to protect his identity.

Living with the alleged assaults would be difficult enough, they reasoned. Having others know about it would make it worse.

That hope fizzled Tuesday.

Shortly after Florida Department of Law ...Read more

BOSTON — A chaplain who visited with Lindsay Clancy in the hospital told jurors Thursday that Duxbury mom reported hearing a voice that urged her to kill her children and herself.

Sheila Cavanaugh, a board certified chaplain at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, said that Clancy told her about the voice on Jan. 31, 2023, about a week after ...Read more