The mighty-but-little-known Amargosa River gained dubious national recognition this week.

Without intervention preventing mining and solar farm development, the river that makes life possible in one of America’s harshest deserts is in grave danger, the nonprofit American Rivers declares in its top 10 most endangered rivers list, which was ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — Prompted by shootings and heavy-handed tactics, the state Senate voted on party lines Tuesday night for a new state civil rights law that would allow Connecticut citizens to sue federal immigration agents.

The controversial measure would permit civil lawsuits against federal officials if citizens believed that their civil ...Read more

Haitian businessman Rodolphe “Dodof” Jaar provided more than $150,000 in cash and material support — including housing and semi-automatic weapons — to back the plot that ultimately led to the assassination of his country’s president, Jovenel Moïse, he told a Miami federal jury.

That support included $110,000 in bribes paid to members...Read more

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent hailed Anthropic PBC’s Mythos as a revolutionary step that will keep America ahead of China in AI, endorsing an industry leader that’s clashed with Washington over its role in military endeavors.

Bessent, speaking Tuesday at a Wall Street Journal event in Washington, dismissed a question suggesting ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A man who was shot seven times by immigration agents during a traffic stop near Modesto and then charged with assaulting, resisting and impeding a federal officer will remain in custody for at least two days while the government appeals a judge’s order to release him.

Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez, 36, who until Monday ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Two guards at a notorious prison were recently indicted for having illicit relationships with prisoners and helping to smuggle contraband into the correctional facility, according to the South Carolina attorney general’s office.

South Carolina Department of Corrections employees Niccole Matthews Al-Saddiq and Candace ...Read more

The Justice Department said Tuesday it was seeking to vacate the conviction of Zach Rehl, the former leader of the Philadelphia Proud Boys who was found guilty of seditious conspiracy for his role in helping incite the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — the latest development in President Donald Trump’s efforts to effectively erase...Read more

SPRINGFIELD — A coalition of unions representing workers from bus drivers to construction workers converged on the statehouse Tuesday to lobby against legislation that would create pilot programs for driverless vehicles in Chicago and other parts of Illinois, calling the legislative effort the start of “a major domino effect against the ...Read more

Artificial intelligence-driven chatbots are giving users problematic medical advice about half the time, according to a new study, highlighting the health risks of the technology that’s becoming increasingly integral in day-to-day life.

Researchers from the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom evaluated five popular platforms — ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump might have declared Vice President JD Vance did a “good job” in weekend talks that did not produce a peace pact with Iran, but there are scant signs his recent high-profile international setbacks improved his political prospects to be the next commander-in-chief.

The lack of a deal with the Islamic ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiled new details about how his planned city-run grocery stores in each borough would work on Tuesday, saying the stores will offer discounted prices for an “essential basket of goods” like bread, eggs and produce.

Mamdani said his administration is still working out the calculation for exactly how much ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. and Iran are looking to arrange a second round of peace talks in the coming days, while a standoff in the Strait of Hormuz worsens a global energy crisis and complicates diplomatic prospects.

The objective is to hold more discussions before an April 7 ceasefire expires next week, according to people familiar with the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A strike that would have shut down schools for nearly 400,000 students was averted at the eleventh hour early Tuesday after the Los Angeles Unified School District reached a tentative agreement with the union that represents workers including custodians, bus drivers and cafeteria workers.

Schools in the nation’s second-largest...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — Former FedEx driver Tanner Horner apologized to Athena Strand’s family for killing their daughter, but also joked with his grandmother about selling his story for $1 million, according to evidence presented Monday during Horner’s capital murder trial in Fort Worth.

Horner, 34, pleaded guilty Tuesday, April 7, to ...Read more

NEW YORK —Harvey Weinstein brazenly made a shameless comment to an officer at the lower Manhattan criminal courthouse when he was first tried for rape and sexual assault, prosecutors claimed Tuesday as the disgraced film producer’s third New York trial got underway.

Assistant District Attorney Candace White told Justice Curtis Farber that ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — Amid growing outrage about deaths of Mexican citizens in immigration custody, President Claudia Sheinbaum on Tuesday ordered Mexican diplomats to step up scrutiny of U.S. detention centers where Mexican nationals are being held for deportation.

Daily visits by consular personnel to immigration lockups will henceforth replace ...Read more

As of July 1, a new law will allow the state of Maryland to determine what vaccines can be administered to individuals at least seven years of age, while also reducing certain out-of-pocket costs for families. Gov. Wes Moore on Tuesday signed the “Vax Act,” officially decoupling the state’s vaccine policy from shifting federal guidelines. ...Read more

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Gov. Andy Beshear nixed a funding cap for natural disaster response, state audits of local school district finances and a designated spot in the Capitol for a statue of Sen. Mitch McConnell as part of line-item vetoes issued in recent days, though lawmakers moved quickly to override them Tuesday.

The vetoes come as Beshear ...Read more