Jurors listened Tuesday to the frantic moments a physician and a Davis police officer tried to save Karim Abou Najm as he lay dying on a Sycamore Park bicycle trail.

The wrenching recording culled from the officer’s body camera concluded the second morning of Carlos Reales Dominguez’s murder trial in Yolo Superior Court in Woodland, now in ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — The state House approved bills Tuesday that would ban entities connected to Russia and China from purchasing farmland in Michigan and prohibit digital applications created in those countries from being accessed on government-issued electronic devices.

The eight-bill package was intended to promote national security, its ...Read more

A UC Berkeley student just weeks away from graduating became paralyzed from the waist down after a recent fall at a university fraternity event.

Bandna Bhatti's family told KTVU that on April 19, Bhatti fell from a stairway at Phi Kappa Tau on Piedmont Avenue. She was found 15 minutes later but didn't know how bad her injuries were; 911 was ...Read more

Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson’s guilty plea to federal corruption charges is another strike against a Council that has been tarred by ethical and legal lapses of late and left her colleagues scrambling to restore the public’s trust.

Council President Ruthzee Louijeune said Monday that she was “committed” to working to �...Read more

Five Venezuelan opposition leaders who had been trapped inside the Argentinian Embassy in Caracas have been rescued and are now safely in the United States, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Tuesday night.

“The U.S. welcomes the successful rescue of all hostages held by the Maduro regime at the Argentinian Embassy in Caracas,” ...Read more

For hundreds of thousands of immigrants without permanent legal status, a nine-digit number from the Internal Revenue Service serves as a lifeline.

The Individual Taxpayer Identification Number, or ITIN, allows individuals without Social Security numbers to work for contractors and pay taxes.

But a recent agreement between the revenue service ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX knocked off its latest Cape Canaveral mission on Tuesday night.

A Falcon 9 carrying 28 Starlink satellites lifted off at 9:17 p.m. from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40.

The first-stage booster for the mission flew for the seventh time with a recovery landing downrange in the Atlantic on ...Read more

India conducted targeted military strikes against Pakistan, which said it shot down five Indian jets in retaliation, in widely expected tit-for-tat blows after a militant attack last month in Kashmir that killed 26 people.

India said in a statement early Wednesday that it conducted “a precise and restrained response” that was “designed to...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A bill limiting when minors can consent to medical treatment without parental involvement passed the North Carolina House, with every Republican who voted supporting it and all but four Democrats who voted opposing it.

Rep. Jennifer Balkcom, a Hendersonville Republican, said the bill upheld the “essential role of parents ...Read more

India conducted targeted military strikes against Pakistan, which said it shot down five Indian jets in retaliation, in widely expected tit-for-tat blows after a militant attack last month in Kashmir that killed 26 people.

India said in a statement early Wednesday that it conducted “a precise and restrained response” that was “designed to...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer will travel later this week to Switzerland for trade talks with China led by Vice Premier He Lifeng, jump-starting negotiations between the two nations.

The travel was announced in statements Tuesday from the Chinese and U.S. governments. It will ...Read more

DENVER — A federal judge on Tuesday granted a preliminary injunction to indefinitely limit President Donald Trump’s administration from deporting Venezuelan immigrants in Colorado under the Alien Enemies Act.

U.S. District Judge Charlotte Sweeney also granted a request from the American Civil Liberties Union to turn the civil case into a ...Read more

Florida will become the second state in the nation to prohibit fluoridation of public water supplies, reversing decades of public health policy in favor of a new mindset that discounts experts and embraces individual autonomy.

“It’s forced medication when they’re jamming fluoride. And they did it because if you have fluoride, it’ll help...Read more

With President Donald Trump warning that his tariff policy may cause the price of toys to spike, a Barbie with swimsuit accessories that cost $10.49 on April 16 is now selling at Target for $14.99 — marking a 43% increase.

While it’s not clear if the higher price is directly linked to tariffs, toymaker Mattel reportedly confirmed its plans ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Tuesday that his proposal to overhaul the U.S.’s air traffic system, which he plans to unveil May 8, will cost “tens of billions” of dollars.

Urgency around upgrading the Federal Aviation Administration’s aging system has grown after a radar and radio outage early last week at the...Read more

The girlfriend of a 17-year-old arrested in connection with a massive wildfire in New Jersey last month allegedly admitted to a friend that her group started the blaze, court documents show.

“We started the fire,” she wrote to a classmate in a Snapchat message, according to an affidavit of probable cause obtained by NJ Advance Media.

The ...Read more

Around two dozen California State University students say they have started an “indefinite” hunger strike in support of Palestinians facing starvation in Gaza amid the Israel-Hamas war.

Students are demanding each CSU campus and the California State University system as a whole adopt policies divesting from companies that “supply weapons,...Read more

President Donald Trump’s international trade war may not be as popular as he might wish, but his approval rating hasn’t suffered as a consequence, new polling shows.

According to a Morning Consult survey of more than 2,200 registered voters, Trump’s approval rating has “stabilized” but remains underwater.

“Sentiment about Trump’s...Read more