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MINNEAPOLIS — Four people have been charged in federal Medicaid fraud cases involving tens of millions of dollars in allegedly fraudulent claims for services intended to help Minnesotans with disabilities.

The cases ...Read more

MIAMI — For Cubans looking for a way to reach the United States, the offers appeared on social media: help arranging flights, obtaining travel authorizations and filing immigration paperwork. Photos of travelers at ...Read more

Big Oil reaped more than $50 billion in windfall profits as conflicts in the Persian Gulf and Russia roiled energy markets and drove refining results to record highs.

ExxonMobil Holdings Corp., Chevron Corp., BP Plc, ...Read more

LONG BEACH, Calif. — For the first sea turtle eggs ever laid on California beaches, hatching day — hopefully — draws near.

At the Aquarium of the Pacific, 204 olive ridley eggs lay packed between layers of sand in ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — A man is facing federal charges in San Diego for allegedly designing and building a sophisticated cross-border tunnel found in Otay Mesa for the Jalisco Nueva Generación cartel, U.S. officials said.

On ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The firefighting helicopter that crashed in Yosemite National Park last month had problems with its water bucket during an earlier flight, according to a preliminary National Transportation Safety Board ...Read more

ANAHEIM, Calif. — By the middle of 2000, Jimmy Eat World was adrift. Capitol Records had dropped them from the label after a pair of albums. The band had left its management. They were on their own.

Then, in October ...Read more

For some, it’s a solution to ensure reliable water for millions of Californians while protecting fish and the environment. For others, it’s a travesty that will deprive the state’s rivers of vital water and push its ...Read more

Lawyers for the federal government told the Supreme Court in a brief this week that former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s corruption conviction was on solid ground, saying he was “not a low-level or novice ...Read more

The highest tides of the year so far are causing problems along the California coast, producing coastal flooding advisories and warnings from Los Angeles to Eureka to this week. And it’s not just normal tidal action that...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Gov. Gavin Newsom is launching a "strike force" of state government workers to help reduce bureaucratic delays and smooth the way for the 2028 Summer Olympics and Paralympics in Los Angeles.

Newsom plans ...Read more

Millions of Medicare enrollees who buy stand-alone prescription drug plans will see their average monthly premiums rise by 50% in 2027, a new analysis finds.

But enrollees can avoid the average increase — from $34 a ...Read more

DETROIT — Federal prosecutors unsealed a new indictment Friday charging four more people in connection with an alleged conspiracy involving a group of pro-Palestinian activists accused of waging a campaign of threats and...Read more

SUNSET BEACH, Calif. — Diane Copley-Botica stacked rows of sandbags and tarps around her home in Sunset Beach, hoping it might be enough to keep the rising water at bay.

But the seawater from record high tides came ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Former Russell City residents will be issued payments up to $25,000 per household for their forced displacement by Alameda County and the city of Hayward in the 1960s after the Board of Supervisors ...Read more

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Led by members of the marching band and Aggie and Aggietha, the North Carolina A&T State University mascots, hundreds of students at the nation’s largest historically Black university walked 40 ...Read more

DENVER — The Colorado Supreme Court on Friday shot down an attempt to nullify the vote on Amendment 87, allowing the proposal to raise taxes on the state’s wealthiest residents to proceed.

The lawsuit, filed by ...Read more

A delegation from Qatar — a main mediator in efforts to avert fresh fighting between the U.S. and Iran — arrived in Tehran on Friday for talks with senior officials, Iranian state media reported.

Headed by a senior ...Read more

On March 31, 2026, President Donald Trump was asked about plans for his presidential library, the archive that presidents build to house their administration’s records.

His was most likely going to be a hotel,...Read more