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CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson is pushing a plan to tax and regulate hemp products that can get people high, which would outlaw sales to those under 21 but forgo testing requirements the administration previously backed...Read more

California secured a court order temporarily blocking the Trump administration from discontinuing roughly $200 million in school mental health grant funding awarded to dozens of schools and universities in California, ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser sued the Trump administration Wednesday to challenge the president’s decision to move U.S. Space Command from Colorado Springs to Huntsville, Alabama.

At the top of his ...Read more

State Treasurer Stacy Garrity on Wednesday proposed making a loan to the state Department of Human Services using the Short-Term Investment Pool overseen by her office so DHS can cover the cost of federal SNAP benefits ...Read more

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently reported a spike in entangled whales off California in 2024, leading scientists and marine mammal biologists to worry about how this year will go as winter ...Read more

Three wolf pups from a pack whose adult members were euthanized by state conservation officials earlier this month had still not been captured despite weeks of searching by scientists and wildlife officers, the California ...Read more

Anca Faur, the wife of Buzz Aldrin and an accomplished scientist in her own right, died Tuesday night at the age of 66, less than three years into their marriage.

Faur’s death was announced Wednesday on Aldrin’s ...Read more

In the scrub-brush foothills between the long flat fields of California's San Joaquin Valley and the mighty peaks and Sequoia forests of the Sierra Nevada, state leaders and elders from the Tule River Indian Tribe gathered...Read more

A thief or crew of thieves recently carried out one of the largest art heists in California history, breaking into a storage facility for the Oakland Museum of California under cover of darkness and making off with more ...Read more

A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino does not have to appear daily in court to brief a federal judge on the latest uses of force in “Operation Midway Blitz” — at least for ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung finalized a trade deal Wednesday, capping months of negotiation over implementation of a framework agreement struck in July.

The deal will see Seoul ...Read more

Ana Melo, a terminal operations coordinator with the Metropolitan Airports Commission, stood behind a table of boxed-up food on Wednesday inside Terminal 1 at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, smiling and ...Read more

No, there weren’t schools of sharks circling in resort pools in Jamaica. No, a commercial plane didn’t get a bird’s eye view above the center of the storm. And no, there weren’t crowds swimming in Hurricane Melissa...Read more

As a powerful Hurricane Melissa continued its destructive path through the Caribbean and into the Atlantic on Wednesday, Jamaica began the arduous task of trying to assess what one United Nations official described as “...Read more

WASHINGTON — Google and Meta officials said Wednesday that they broadly support a push from Senate Commerce Chair Ted Cruz to create greater transparency around government contacts with social media platforms and to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A Republican-led Senate committee took a key step Wednesday to allow the Trump administration to move the FBI headquarters to the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in downtown Washington ...Read more

An expedition to investigate the disappearance of Amelia Earhart’s plane in the South Pacific in 1937 has been postponed until next year.

Richard Pettigrew, the Oregon archaeologist leading the latest venture to solve ...Read more

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A jury found Sean Grayson, a former Sangamon County sheriff’s deputy, guilty of second-degree murder Wednesday in the killing last year of Sonya Massey inside her home near Springfield, a case that ...Read more

For the first quarter since a midair blowout in January 2024, Boeing generated more cash than it spent, marking a significant financial milestone on its path to recovery.

But the aerospace manufacturer is still struggling...Read more

Paramount on Wednesday began cutting about 1,000 employees, the first wave of a deep staff reduction planned since David Ellison took the helm of the entertainment company in August.

Ellison announced the layoffs in an ...Read more