HARTFORD, Conn. — Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents released Afghan refugee Saifullah Khan on bond Friday evening, nearly a month after they immobilized him with Taser fire and detained him as he and his wife left an immigration hearing in Hartford’s federal building.

In a related development, Connecticut’s U.S. District Court ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is reviewing hundreds of state parole hearings to see if any inmates who were denied parole were rejected because of faulty drug tests.

Nearly 6,000 drug tests in California prisons are believed to have yielded false positives between April and July last year, and ...Read more

DENVER — Concerningly low amounts of water are flowing from Rocky Mountain snowpack this spring, a summer of drought looms across swaths of the West, and the negotiators tasked with devising a sustainable long-term water plan for the 40 million people who rely on the Colorado River are running out of time.

Commissioners from the seven states ...Read more

The White House said on Saturday it would name a new nominee for NASA administrator, just days before billionaire Jared Isaacman, the current pick, was to face his planned Senate confirmation vote.

“It’s essential that the next leader of NASA is in complete alignment with President Trump’s America First agenda and a replacement will be ...Read more

Sen. Lindsey Graham’s vow to act on a bill imposing new sanctions on Russia is set to test whether President Donald Trump is finally ready to punish Vladimir Putin for delaying a ceasefire with Ukraine.

On a visit to Kyiv on Friday, Graham signaled he’s tired of waiting for Trump to come around, saying he believes the Senate will “start ...Read more

Sen. Mitch McConnell thinks the cuts to Medicaid spending in the wide-ranging budget bill backed by President Donald Trump will remain.

He said to a crowd gathered at a Kentucky Chamber of Commerce event Friday that he supports those entitlement cuts, which reduce 10-year spending on Medicaid by about $723 billion and are estimated to cut about...Read more

As promised, federal health officials have dropped longstanding recommendations that healthy children and healthy pregnant women should get the COVID-19 vaccines.

"The COVID-19 vaccine schedule is very clear. The vaccine is not recommended for pregnant women. The vaccine is not recommended for healthy children," the U.S. Department of Health ...Read more

Iran said on Saturday that Oman’s Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi presented a U.S. proposal to the country during a visit to the Iranian capital.

Albusaidi “paid a short visit to Tehran today to present elements of a U.S. proposal which will be appropriately responded to in line with the principles, national interests, and rights of the ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — Patrick Carney's mother, Edith, always embraced his taste for the extravagant.

That includes the tarps he and a dozen friends purchased from Home Depot on a shoestring budget in 1995, painted "Mardi Gras pink" and installed on Twin Peaks on a dark June night. He's stepped up as the annual event organizer ever since, inspired ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Another potentially dangerous hurricane season officially begins Sunday and with forecasters calling for an “above-average” number of storms, Floridians should have their initial preparations in place soon.

We can expect an above-average season over the next six months due to many factors, including hot Atlantic ...Read more

DENVER — Gov. Jared Polis signed into law new regulations for the herbal remedy kratom on Thursday, giving resolution to a public lobbying campaign that included the family of someone who died from kratom-related complications and an herbal supplement company that offered free product to people who called their lawmakers to urge a veto.

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Hamas said it submitted a response to the U.S. proposal for a truce in Gaza, but Trump administration envoy Steve Witkoff quickly dismissed it as “totally unacceptable.”

“Hamas should accept the framework proposal we put forward,” Witkoff said Saturday in a post on X. He added that further talks on a truce “can begin immediately this ...Read more

A legal argument that the U.S. Supreme Court used to foil Joe Biden on climate change and student debt now looms as a threat to President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs.

During Biden’s presidency, the court’s conservative majority ruled that federal agencies can’t decide sweeping political and economic matters without clear ...Read more

MIAMI — A federal judge has granted protection from deportation and work permits to as many as 5,000 Venezuelans who have Temporary Protected Status.

U.S. District Judge Edward E. Chen in San Francisco on Friday granted an emergency motion filed by Venezuelan plaintiffs following last week’s Supreme Court ruling that the Trump ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — The Norfolk-based USS Gravely last week seized more than 850 pounds of narcotics while in the Caribbean Sea.

The ship’s search and seizure team had boarded a “vessel of interest” on May 25 and found 19 bales of cocaine, according to a news release from the Navy. A spokesperson for the Navy said the drugs had a street ...Read more

NEW YORK — Sean “Diddy” Combs’ federal sex trafficking trial wrapped its third week on Friday, following a failed mistrial bid and additional testimony detailing the rapper’s alleged abuse, including that of a former assistant who accused him of raping her at his Los Angeles home.

Combs, 55, has pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — There are 26 letters in the alphabet but only 21 are set aside each year for potential tropical storm and hurricane names in areas tracked by the National Hurricane Center.

The names for the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season are Andrea, Barry, Chantal, Dexter, Erin, Fernand, Gabrielle, Humberto, Imelda, Jerry, Karen, Lorenzo, ...Read more