LOS ANGELES — California's late summer COVID surge is showing signs of peaking, but the state's war with the Trump administration over vaccines is just beginning.

Coronavirus levels in California's wastewater remain "very high," according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as they are in much of the country. But some ...Read more

MIAMI — For the hundreds of men who were detained at Alligator Alcatraz, entering the gates of the makeshift migrant detention center in the Everglades meant exiting the labyrinthine but familiar federal immigration process and entering what several immigration attorneys described as an alternate system where the normal rules don’t apply.

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CHICAGO — As President Donald Trump has recently threatened to send federal troops to clean up Chicago’s violence, local officials have trumpeted a factor complicating his plans: Crime is down in the city.

It’s a feather in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s cap that he has highlighted as a political win all year, but one that’s become ...Read more

Vice President JD Vance will visit Michigan on Wednesday to deliver a speech at a manufacturing facility in Howell, according to the White House.

The Trump administration's announcement didn't identify which business Vance, a Republican from Ohio, will visit, but described the venue as "a precision metal stamping facility."

Vance has been ...Read more

A federal judge ordered the city of St. Paul to pay $1.7 million in attorneys fees after a jury found an officer used excessive force in fatally shooting a 29-year-old man.

The payment was on top of $3.25 million in compensatory damages and $1.5 million in punitive damage, plus interest. The city sent payment of more than $7.5 million last week...Read more

The National Hurricane Center on Monday bumped up again its forecast chances that a tropical wave in the Atlantic would develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. tropical outlook, a low-pressure area had formed from the tropical wave in the central tropical Atlantic about midway between the ...Read more

The nearly century-old Valley Forge Military Academy is set to close for good in May, following years of declining enrollment, numerous abuse scandals, and allegations of financial mismanagement.

In a statement posted online Monday, the board of trustees said the academy's future "is no longer viable" due to rising tuition costs and soaring ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he would have lowered American flags to half-staff in the aftermath of state Rep. Melissa Hortman’s assassination if Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz had asked him to.

Trump, who days after the assassination said it would be a “waste” of time to call Walz about it, made his latest remarks while taking questions from ...Read more

Donald Trump’s economic adviser Stephen Miran is on his way to joining the Federal Reserve board after the Senate confirmed him to the post in a vote Monday evening.

The Senate voted largely along party lines to approve Miran’s nomination, setting him up to walk into the Fed’s Washington offices Tuesday morning in time for a crucial ...Read more

Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger spoke out forcefully Monday against the partisan effort to redraw California's congressional districts that voters will decide in a November special election.

"They are trying to fight for democracy by getting rid of the democratic principles of California," Schwarzenegger told hundred of students at an event ...Read more

The Denver City Council on Monday approved a $1.06 million payout to six people who sued the city, alleging police violated their constitutional rights by using less-lethal weapons during the 2020 George Floyd protests.

The payout will settle a 2022 lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court by the Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer law firm. The agreement...Read more

The federal program intended to bring broadband internet to rural areas is moving into a new phase as states propose how they plan to use billions in grant funds under a new set of guidelines issued by the Trump administration this summer.

Now that most states have submitted their final plans for grants from the Broadband Equity, Access and ...Read more

Wetlands in Hampton Roads are an important part of the ecosystem, and a new study attempts to quantify their worth to the community by calculating a monetary value.

The study, by the William & Mary Batten School and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, found that the Middle Peninsula’s wetlands are worth about $90 million.

Researchers ...Read more

Florida politicians insist their efforts to punish Floridians over comments they don’t like about Charlie Kirk’s assassination aren’t flying in the face of the First Amendment.

Free speech advocates aren’t so sure.

“It’s a massive free speech problem,” Florida International University law professor Howard Wasserman said. “This ...Read more

A Texas Tech student has been arrested and expelled after yelling at a group of people mourning Charlie Kirk’s death on campus, state leaders confirmed Monday.

Camryn Booker, an 18-year-old freshman at the West Texas school, is no longer enrolled at the university, local CBS affiliate KCBD reported. She was also charged with assault and ...Read more

California is staggeringly wealthy; home to major agricultural businesses and influential global tech companies, it boasts an economy larger than many nations. But the state also struggles with a persistent poverty crisis.

A new report released this week by the California Budget and Policy Center, a Sacramento-based think tank, found that 7 ...Read more

Maryland House Republicans on Monday demanded the state attorney general investigate the State Highway Administration after an audit determined the agency spent over $350 million in unauthorized funds.

House Republicans called on Attorney General Anthony G. Brown to probe the findings of the Department of Legislative Services, released Sept. ...Read more

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appointed five more members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices ahead of the panel’s meeting this week, the department said Monday.

Among them are a skeptic of the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic and another affiliated ...Read more

Over the weekend, lawmakers in Sacramento passed a suite of energy-related bills pushed by Gov. Gavin Newsom that came forward in the final days of the California legislative session.

The measures that extended proceedings into Saturday include legislation that clears the way for California to join a regional electric grid, tries to boost ...Read more