"Chimp Crazy" star Tonia Haddix on Thursday was sentenced to 46 months in prison.

The 55-year-old exotic animal broker was convicted for lying to a federal judge about the death of her chimpanzee Tonka, whom she was hiding in her basement. Haddix, who calls herself the "Dolly Parton of chimps," pleaded guilty to perjury and obstruction of ...Read more

Nevada’s solar boom could be hampered by too much direct oversight from the Interior Department, the governor told the Trump administration in a letter Monday.

Gov. Joe Lombardo, a Republican, raised concerns about a July 15 memo that requires Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to directly sign off on every step of solar and wind development on ...Read more

CHICAGO — The man in a blue Hawaiian shirt paced up and down the line of fellow protesters outside the Congress Plaza Hotel on South Michigan Avenue, shouting into a megaphone with the fervor of someone leading the sermon at a megachurch.

“They are not welcome in this city!” he yelled. “This is an immigrant city!”

The “they” he ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A rapidly growing wildfire straddling the Ventura-Los Angeles county line Thursday afternoon triggered evacuations in and around Piru and Castaic amid a major heat wave that officials warned could foster extreme fire growth and behavior.

The Canyon fire was initially reported to be about 30 acres, but within about two hours that...Read more

President Donald Trump said he’d be willing to meet with Vladimir Putin, even if the Russian leader hadn’t yet agreed to also sit down with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

The signal from Trump suggested an increased willingness to grant the Kremlin’s request for a one-on-one meeting. But the U.S. president said he was “very ...Read more

MIAMI — The city of Miami wants another day in court.

Last week, a three-judge panel with Florida’s Third District Court of Appeal upheld a lower court’s ruling that found the city’s decision to postpone the November 2025 election to 2026 without voter approval was unconstitutional.

After two losses in court, the city is now asking for...Read more

OAKLAND, Calif. — The trauma among Oaklanders after a grueling spike in violence and property crime during the COVID-19 pandemic may not yet be healed, but now even the fiercest tough-on-crime voices here have begun to acknowledge that the city is becoming safer.

Oakland leaders, meanwhile, saw fit to take a victory lap Thursday, announcing ...Read more

Stanford University's student newspaper is suing the Trump administration, claiming the threat to deport foreign students for speaking out against Israel's handling of the war in Gaza is chilling free speech.

That threat is hampering the paper's ability to cover campus demonstrations and to get protesters to speak on the record, according to a ...Read more

MIAMI — A federal judge in Miami has ordered construction halted for two weeks at Florida’s immigration detention center in the Everglades, handing a victory to critics concerned about the potential environmental impacts of Alligator Alcatraz.

With the state potentially looking to expand the site, District Judge Kathleen Williams on ...Read more

DENVER — A retired Aurora police detective who spent 41 years on the job kept 30 boxes of investigative material in his home under his floorboards for years, Chief Todd Chamberlain said in a news conference Thursday.

The chief called the retired detective’s actions “unacceptable” and acknowledged that the records-keeping breach raises �...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A rapidly growing wildfire straddling the Ventura-Los Angeles County line Thursday afternoon triggered evacuations in and around Piru and Castaic amid a major heat wave that officials warned could foster extreme fire growth and behavior.

The Canyon fire was initially reported to be about 30 acres, but within about two hours that...Read more

Fewer Kentucky kindergarten students have received the vaccines required to attend school, and data from the state’s School Immunizations Survey shows religious objections are a growing reason why.

State data for the 2024-25 school year puts the overall percentage of kindergarten students fully caught up on required vaccines at 82%. That’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he would host the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan for a peace summit with expectation that the pair will sign an agreement seeking to end decades of conflict between the South Caucasus nations.

Armenian President Vahagn Khachaturyan and both Azerbaijani Prime Minister Ali Asadov and President Ilham ...Read more

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said this week the Trump administration plans to review and potentially alter the nation’s climate science reports.

In a Tuesday appearance on CNN’s The Source, Wright told CNN host Kaitlan Collins the National Climate Assessments have been removed from government websites “because we’re reviewing ...Read more

Two Pennsylvania state troopers were shot in an ambush responding to a call in Susquehanna County on Thursday morning, and the suspected gunman is dead, authorities said.

Troopers Joseph Perechinsky and William Jenkins suffered serious injuries and were airlifted to a local hospital, according to Pennsylvania State Police. Both troopers were in...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Trump administration petitioned the Supreme Court to free up its mass deportation efforts across Southern California on Thursday, seeking to lift a ban on “roving patrols” implemented after a lower court found such tactics likely violate the Fourth Amendment.

The restrictions, initially handed down in a July 11 order, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A 600-acre brush fire burning in Ventura County on Thursday afternoon triggered evacuations in and around Piru and put nearby communities in the Santa Clarita Valley on high alert amid a major heat wave that officials warned could foster extreme fire growth and behavior.

The Canyon fire broke out around 2 p.m. near Holser Canyon...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he had chosen Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Stephen Miran to serve as a Federal Reserve governor.

“He has been with me from the beginning of my Second Term, and his expertise in the World of Economics is unparalleled — He will do an outstanding job,” Trump said Thursday in a social media ...Read more

HINESVILLE, Ga. — Sgt. Aaron Turner said he was working at Fort Stewart on Wednesday morning when someone told him a gunman was firing in a neighboring building.

Moments later as he was helping secure the post, Turner encountered someone familiar: Quornelius Radford. The fellow Army sergeant, Turner said, was wearing a hoodie over his uniform...Read more