Among the most disorienting things about President Donald Trump’s public language is how easily it can feel numbing and shocking in the same moment. He says something outrageous, the country recoils, and then the recoil itself begins to feel familiar.

As a scholar who studies presidential rhetoric, I know that over time that rhythm ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A woman known as the “Ketamine queen” who provided the drugs that killed actor Matthew Perry was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in federal prison.

Jasveen Sangha, who prosecutors said operated a high-volume drug trafficking business out of her North Hollywood home, pleaded guilty in September to one count of maintaining a ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum reiterated Tuesday that the federal government favors a negotiated deal between the seven states that share Colorado River water over the resource’s allocation rather than a protracted legal battle.

During a Las Vegas Valley visit, Burgum said the federal government will continue pushing for ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A day after the United States and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire, the tentative truce showed early signs of strain amid continuing attacks across the region and reports that Iran moved to restrict traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.

The developments tested President Donald Trump’s ability to convert a fragile pause in ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Secret warrants obtained by the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department to seize more than 650,000 ballots in a controversial investigation of election fraud allegations will soon be made public.

Riverside County Superior Court Judge Gail O’Rane on Tuesday ordered the warrants unsealed after several media organization, ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Defense Department ordered the National Guard Bureau federal agency last week to permanently close three Guard-run camps for at-risk teens, among them the Maryland National Guard Freestate Challenge Academy, to boost national defense spending, a bureau spokesperson said in an email to The Baltimore Sun.

Citing national defense...Read more

DENVER — U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet backed out of a weekend gubernatorial forum hosted by Colorado Muslims because he didn’t want to address questions about the war in the Gaza Strip, the event’s organizers said.

While a state senator backed up that account, Bennet’s campaign disputed the characterization on Tuesday.

For the Sunday event...Read more

Three weeks after Sophia Bassan’s mastectomy, she felt a stabbing pain beneath her right armpit. In the following months, painful shocks radiated through her chest and back. Her body became so sensitive that at times she couldn’t wear a shirt or lift a fork to her mouth.

Bassan slept sitting up because it hurt to lie down, and she would ...Read more

The Trump administration is quietly seeking unprecedented access to medical records for millions of federal workers and retirees, and their families.

A brief notice from the Office of Personnel Management could dramatically change which personally identifiable medical information the agency obtains, giving it the power to see prescriptions ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The largest alligator in Gatorland’s history has died.

Buddy, who measured about 13 feet, 8 inches long and weighed nearly half a ton, had been in failing health for a while, according to an announcement on Gatorland’s social media accounts. The animal was under veterinary care, the post said.

“He was on and off ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina Senate finance panel has adopted a proposal that freezes the state’s school voucher program at 10,000 students and suspends portions of the law that have been used to award taxpayer-funded scholarships to students educated at home.

The temporary measure grandfathers in roughly 1,000 home-educated students ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani has an approval rating of 48%, with a majority of New Yorkers thinking the city is headed in right direction under his leadership, a poll by Marist University found Wednesday.

The poll comes as Mamdani is rounding out his first 100 days in office. Conducted over the last week in March, the Marist survey is the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Federal prosecutors are seeking a 15-year prison sentence Wednesday for a woman known as the "Ketamine Queen" who provided the drugs that killed actor Matthew Perry.

Jasveen Sangha, who prosecutors said operated a high-volume drug trafficking business out of her North Hollywood home, pleaded guilty in September to one count of ...Read more

NEW YORK — Accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann admitted in a Long Island court Wednesday to murdering eight young women during a nearly two-decade spree — after adamantly denying the charges against him since he was arrested in 2023.

Heuermann, 62, pleaded guilty to slaying seven victims before State Supreme Court Justice ...Read more

Two men accused of failing to follow a police order to leave a high-profile pro-Palestinian protest at the University of California, Irvine were acquitted of criminal charges Tuesday, and a mistrial was declared for a third man after the trio became the first of dozens of protesters to take their controversial cases to trial.

After deliberating...Read more

BOSTON — A Jamaican national connected to a massive cargo-theft scheme that hit Massachusetts has been indicted for allegedly stealing nearly 34,000 pounds of frozen snow crabs from a Worcester storage warehouse.

Romoy Forbes, 31, of Deer Park, New York, is facing the courts for his alleged spree of thefts that the feds say involved other ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — Former Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin leveled sharp criticism against his successor, Gov. Abigail Spanberger, and called the April 21 redistricting referendum she’s championed “illegal and unconstitutional” during a recent appearance on Fox News host Sean Hannity’s podcast.

Youngkin again dodged questions about a future ...Read more

AMMAN, Jordan — As the 11th-hour ceasefire agreement between the U.S. and Iran came into effect on Wednesday, Middle East governments welcomed the cessation of hostilities even as Israel continued to pound wide swaths of Lebanon.

Regional countries are breathing a sigh of relief after Washington and Tehran announced Tuesday night that they ...Read more