SAN DIEGO — Nine members of the U.S. Navy and one other suspect were arrested in connection with an assault in which the victim was pistol-whipped and beaten at a house party in the San Diego County community of Jamul last year, sheriff’s officials said Wednesday.

Deputies received a report on May 3 of an assault at a home on Proctor Valley...Read more

A week after the NASA Administrator promised consequences for the agency’s mishandling of the Boeing Starliner saga, two key leaders of its Commercial Crew Program are being replaced.

NASA said that Ken Bowersox, who announced his retirement Wednesday, will be stepping down from his role as associate administrator of Space Operations Mission ...Read more

NEW YORK — For the first time in roughly 90 years — dating back to the Great Depression — the United States has seen more people moving out of the country than moving in.

The Trump administration has made immigration to the U.S., along with mass deportations, chief among its priorities. But according to the Wall Street Journal, there’s ...Read more

The Missouri House passed a bill permanently extending its ban on transgender athletes competing in school sports consistent with their gender identity.

The athletics ban comes two weeks after the Missouri House permanently extended its ban on gender-affirming care for minors, and both will codify moratoriums on transgender issues passed in ...Read more

BALTIMORE -- Maryland lawmakers are considering an unprecedented number of bills addressing the quality and nature of elder care as the state grapples with a growing senior population.

With the number of Marylanders 65 or older growing at more than 3% per year — more than four times the rate of the rest of the population — and costs for ...Read more

After years of states pushing legislation to accelerate the development of data centers and the electric grid to support them, some legislators want to limit or repeal state and local incentives that paved their way.

President Donald Trump also has changed his tone. Last year he issued an executive order and other federal initiatives meant to ...Read more

State officials across the country are looking to crack down on fraud and mistakes in the nation’s largest food assistance program, spurred by looming federal rules that will force states with high error rates to pay more.

But the Republican proposals mostly focus on more frequently verifying the eligibility of individual households that ...Read more

BASSETERRE, Saint Kitts and Nevis — U.S. officials close to Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Raul Castro’s grandson on the sidelines of the annual meeting of Caribbean leaders Wednesday in Saint Kitts’ capital as efforts to negotiate economic and political changes in Cuba continue.

Multiple sources with knowledge of the meeting, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump may continue constructing a 90,000-square-foot ballroom at the White House, a Washington federal judge held in a ruling that dealt an initial blow to historic preservationists who tried to halt the project.

Senior Judge Richard Leon of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia found Thursday that...Read more

Jeffrey Epstein didn’t beat the justice system by accident.

For decades, the New York financier curated a network of influential people — politicians, business titans, media figures and academics — whom he leveraged to build his fortune and restore his reputation after he had been accused of preying on underage girls in South Florida in ...Read more

NEW YORK — A suspect has been arrested for a felony for injuring cops responding to a giant snowball fight in Washington Square Park — an incident Mayor Zohran Mamdani said should not result in criminal charges, angering NYPD officials.

Gusmane Coulibaly, 27, was nabbed by police early Thursday after he was identified as one of four men ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Board of Education is scheduled to meet behind closed doors Thursday afternoon, a day after federal authorities raided the home and office of Superintendent Alberto Carvalho in what appears to be a probe related to AllHere, a now-defunct company that developed a failed AI chatbot for the district.

At noon on ...Read more

NEW YORK — Federal Department of Homeland Security agents made “misrepresentations” to enter a Columbia University residence early Thursday morning to detain a student, university and local elected officials said.

Columbia acting President Claire Shipman said DHS professed to be searching for a missing person. The agency allegedly used a ...Read more

MIAMI — A steady stream of Haitians with temporary protected status poured into a Broward County library parking lot Wednesday morning, not for books but for a much-needed lifeline: the chance to renew their driver’s license.

After a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration could not end immigration protections for Haitians — for...Read more

Pressured by businesses on the importance of immigrant labor, some Republican states are backing off plans to require all employers to check for legal employment status before hiring workers.

State and federal legislation to require that employers use E-Verify, a federal system to check legal status, has been limited this year as a push grows ...Read more

Iran said nuclear talks with the United States have progressed “very intensely and very seriously” as the two sides continued negotiations over a deal into the early evening in Switzerland.

With days to go until President Donald Trump’s deadline to reach an agreement, the two countries started their third round of Omani-mediated ...Read more

CHICAGO — By Wednesday afternoon, the day before the first public visitation for the Rev. Jesse Jackson, long rows of barricades stretched throughout the parkway in the middle of Drexel Boulevard, where thousands are expected to gather Thursday and Friday to honor one of America’s most enduring civil rights leaders.

More than a week of ...Read more

BASSETERRE, Saint Kitts and Nevis – U.S. officials close to Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Raul Castro’s grandson on the sidelines of the annual meeting of Caribbean leaders on Wednesday in Saint Kitts’s capital as efforts to negotiate economic and political changes in Cuba continue.

Multiple sources with knowledge of the meeting...Read more

NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton gave closed-door testimony Thursday to a congressional committee investigating the Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking scandal, with Bill Clinton to follow on Friday.

The former secretary of state sat for a deposition to the House of Representatives oversight committee near the couple’s home in suburban Chappaqua, New...Read more

NEW YORK — A pair of social media trolls — including one who sports a “Make America Great Again” red hat — have been arrested for trying to light a Black woman’s boots on fire during a clash on a Manhattan street filled with racist insults, police said Thursday.

The duo, known online as “ScrubsNYC,” were nabbed late Wednesday, ...Read more