The Trump administration’s immigration enforcement efforts in Southern California have created “widespread fear” among employees, including those with legal immigration status, a group of Republican California legislators said in a recent letter to the president.

Led by state Sen. Suzette Martinez Valladares, whose district includes Los ...Read more

Four disability rights organizations and a Littleton woman are challenging Colorado’s medical aid-in-dying law, arguing it discriminates against people with disabilities by allowing them to die by suicide instead of preventing it.

The complaint, filed Monday in U.S. District Court, argues that the law’s requirement that someone have a ...Read more

MIAMI — Could Trump land in the Florida Everglades on Air Force One during his visit to “Alligator Alcatraz” on Tuesday?

It’s possible. To land near the controversial immigrant detention facility, which the DeSantis administration constructed over the last week, Air Force One would have to land at the Dade-Collier Training and ...Read more

NEW YORK — The City Council approved the upcoming fiscal year’s budget Monday in an unanimous vote, as the city faces funding threats and the likelihood of intensified immigration enforcement from President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.”

The election-year budget, at $115.9 billion, is the city’s largest ever and was touted by ...Read more

Hurricane forecasters are at risk of losing a crucial tool because of military concerns surrounding the cybersecurity of a long-shared satellite system — the latest potential cut to federal weather science programs by the Trump administration.

After criticism and questions from a slew of forecasting experts, the Department of Defense on ...Read more

BRUSSELS — The European Union is willing to accept a trade arrangement with the U.S. that includes a 10% universal tariff on many of the bloc’s exports, but wants the U.S. to commit to lower rates on key sectors such as pharmaceuticals, alcohol, semiconductors and commercial aircraft.

The EU is also pushing the U.S. for quotas and ...Read more

A California teen who walked off a cliff while experiencing altitude-related hallucinations on the tallest mountain in the lower 48 states has begun a slow recovery but remains in a medically induced coma, his family said.

Early this month, Zane Wach, 14, ascended Mount Whitney in the Sierra Nevada with his father, Ryan, an experienced hiker, ...Read more

Kansas will have new laws affecting child care, sex education, public health agencies and more that go into effect starting Tuesday, July 1, 2025.

During the 2025 legislative session, elected officials passed 129 bills. While Gov. Laura Kelly, who’s a Democrat, vetoed 19 bills, Kansas’ Republican supermajority overrode all but five of them....Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Bryan Kohberger, the suspect in the highly anticipated murder trial who is accused of killing four University of Idaho college students, accepted a plea deal, NewsNation first reported.

A victim’s family member told The Idaho Statesman that they received a letter, and provided the letter to the Statesman, confirming the plea ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A remote, state-run facility in the Everglades constructed for immigrant detainees is slated to open Tuesday with a visit from President Donald Trump, as Gov. Ron DeSantis tries to place Florida at the forefront of the federal government’s mass deportation campaign.

DeSantis, who is expected to join Trump on Tuesday ...Read more

MIAMI — The twin Alexander brothers will have to stand trial for a sexual assault in which, prosecutors say, they took turns raping a woman as their friend pinned her down eight years ago.

On Monday, Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Lody Jean denied the requests of Oren and Alon Alexander and Ohad Fisherman to throw out the sexual battery case....Read more

MIAMI — Miami-Dade and Broward community leaders and activists said Monday they are sending a letter to President Donald Trump asking for a sit-down to discuss the recent decision by the administration to terminate Temporary Protected Status for Haiti.

North Miami Beach Councilwoman Mary Estimé-Irvin called the administration’s decision �...Read more

DENVER — A new dinosaur species unearthed from the famed Morrison Formation in Colorado has been identified, according to a journal article published last week in Royal Society Open Science.

Scientists have named the speedy, dog-sized dinosaur Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae, according to the article. Its skeleton, or what fossil hunters could ...Read more

Tropical Storm Barry disintegrated after striking Mexico early Monday morning while the National Hurricane Center continued to forecast the season’s next tropical depression or storm could form off the coast of Florida later this week.

In its 2 p.m. Eastern time tropical outlook, the NHC said an area of low pressure could develop off either ...Read more

The UK’s Prince William has reportedly dropped a donor to his annual charity polo match who was allegedly peddling access to him and his wife, Princess of Wales Kate Middleton.

The Royal Charity Polo Cup tournament cut ties with millionaire Minerva Mondejar Steiner after The Times of London reported Sunday that the art gallery owner was ...Read more

You won't see the "Hershey" crew filming in Western Pennsylvania any longer.

After filming in and around Pittsburgh across roughly six weeks, the Mark Waters-directed movie has completed its camerawork and moved on to post-production, The Hershey Company announced in a Monday news release. The film is slated for a 2026 release.

The biopic ...Read more

A judge overseeing a challenge to President Donald Trump’s restrictions on automatic birthright citizenship asked the U.S. government to confirm it won’t seek to deport impacted children during the Supreme Court’s 30-day pause on enforcement of the directive.

U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman in Maryland said during a hearing Monday ...Read more

Tuesday marks the first day of July — and when some new California laws take effect.

One law that won’t be going into effect as planned, though: state-mandated insurance coverage for in vitro fertilization. Legislators pushed the start date for that law — which requires state-regulated health insurance plans to cover IVF and other ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Harvard University’s talks with the White House have stalled, according to a person familiar with the matter, threatening a quick resolution to a standoff that’s endangering the school’s finances and upending foreign student plans.

A potential deal was knocked off course last week although hopes remain for an accord, said ...Read more