ATLANTA — Don’t get Sandy Springs dentist Cary Goldstein wrong: he supports fluoride in drinking water.

But if local water utilities end fluoridation, in response to a promised change from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Goldstein foresees a grim benefit.

“It will be amazing for our business,” he said. “We ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Eighteen-year-old Sam attended his immigration court hearing on Wednesday in downtown Los Angeles without a lawyer.

He wore a black puffer jacket, jeans, and white sneakers, and held a bright blue folder with his documents, staring straight ahead as he waited for an immigration judge to call on him.

Sam, who asked that his last...Read more

Kaile Shilling, a writer and former theology student, says she moved from Los Angeles to Canada during the first Trump administration to escape America's toxic politics. She never saw herself as the kind of person to hang a giant flag on the front of her house.

But after Donald Trump was reelected last fall and started threatening to turn ...Read more

When the catastrophic Los Angeles fires broke out, John Volckens suspected firefighters and residents were breathing toxic air from the burning homes, buildings, and cars, but it was unclear how much risk the public faced. So, the professor of environmental health at Colorado State University devised a plan to get answers.

Volckens shipped 10 ...Read more

Christopher Julian’s opioid journey is familiar to many Americans.

He was prescribed painkillers as a teenager for a series of sports injuries. He said the doctor never warned him they could be addictive. Julian didn’t learn that fact until years later, when he was cut off and began suffering withdrawal symptoms. At that point, he started ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Weeks after Donald Trump won reelection, Keith Ives held an all-staff meeting at his Denver-based company to reassure his 30 employees that their work evaluating the success of U.S. aid projects overseas wasn’t under threat.

“I enthusiastically told them, ‘I’m not worried at all — the work we do isn’t political,’”...Read more

A Wisconsin teenager is accused of killing his parents as part of an extremist plot to assassinate President Donald Trump and start a revolution to “save the white race,” newly unsealed federal court documents show.

Nikita Casap, 17, was arrested last month after his mother, 35-year-old Tatiana Casap, and stepfather, 51-year-old Donald ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A former LAPD officer accused of slamming into another vehicle while driving under the influence of alcohol — killing all the passengers inside — pleaded guilty Friday to three counts of murder, prosecutors said.

Edgar Verduzco, 34, also pleaded guilty to one count of driving under the influence of alcohol causing injury and...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Bay Area advocates for foreign citizens living in the U.S. without authorization or with temporary legal status are decrying the Trump administration’s increasingly aggressive tactics against migrants.

“It has a huge impact in our region,” said San Francisco-based immigration lawyer Erin Quinn of the Immigrant Legal ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s administration exempted smartphones, computers and other electronics from its so-called reciprocal tariffs, representing a major reprieve for global technology manufacturers including Apple Inc. and Nvidia Corp. even if it proves a temporary one.

The exclusions, published late Friday by U.S. Customs and Border ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A dead 50-foot gray whale washed ashore in Huntington Beach on Friday, according to officials with the Pacific Marine Mammal Center.

The cause of death of the young adult female is not yet known, said Glenn Gray, chief executive of the Laguna Beach-based nonprofit. Employees of the center performed a necropsy of the body on ...Read more

NEW YORK — Detectives have arrested a 46-year-old woman recorded dumping trash on a Tesla Cybertruck parked on a Brooklyn sidewalk in an apparent swipe against the company’s controversial CEO Elon Musk, police said Saturday.

Natasha Cohen, who lives around the block from where the vandalism took place, is also accused of leaving a brick ...Read more

MIAMI — A Cuban woman was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison by a federal district judge in Miami on Friday for her role in a tragic human smuggling operation that left 16 people dead, many of them children.

On Nov. 16, 2024, a small fishing boat carrying 18 Cuban migrants departed Playa Jaimanitas, Cuba, en route to South Florida....Read more

LOS ANGELES — California’s national forests are on the chopping block — literally — in the wake of the Trump administration’s April 5 order to immediately expand timber production in the United States.

Last week, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins issued an emergency declaration that ordered the U.S. Forest Service to open ...Read more

ATLANTA — When a coalition of federal and local law enforcement agents swarmed a Bartow County flooring manufacturer late last month, some workers picked up and ran, mistakenly thinking an immigration raid was taking place.

The authorities’ arrival at Wellmade Industries in Cartersville, roughly 40 miles north of Atlanta, was the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — One after another in recent weeks, Maria's accounting clients raised the same fear: immigration agents finding and detaining them using information from their tax filings.

"I heard it from everybody," said the 40-year-old consultant for undocumented small-business entrepreneurs in Southern California. "They come to me and they ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — All full-time employees in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Vessel Sanitation Program were laid off this week, even as a cruise ship arrived in Miami with another norovirus outbreak among passengers and crew.

The CDC employees whose jobs were cut were responsible for monitoring, tracking and assisting...Read more

Bill Maher capped off his usual jabs at President Donald Trump’s administration by saying the Don is only playing the role of “a crazy person,” describing him as “self-aware” and “measured” following a recent White House dinner.

During Friday’s episode of “Real Time With Bill Maher,” the self-proclaimed centrist launched ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — As President Donald Trump blasts American allies and adversaries alike for “unfair trade” and sets steep tariffs, California Governor Gavin Newsom has a different message for the nations of the world.

“Donald Trump’s tariffs do not represent all Americans,” the Democrat said in a video posted on social media last ...Read more

The Federal Emergency Management Agency will end its 100% match for Helene disaster recovery in North Carolina.

“The need in Western North Carolina remains immense — people need debris removed, homes rebuilt, and roads restored,” Gov. Josh Stein said in a news release. “I am extremely disappointed and urge the President to reconsider ...Read more