SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Federal, state and local officials largely remained in agreement Thursday that there were no imminent threats to California from Iranian drones.

The warning of a drone strike was first reported by ABC News on Wednesday. The report centered on an FBI alert sent to local police departments about a tip that Iran “allegedly...Read more

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington lawmakers approved a partial rollback of last year's increase in top estate tax rates — the highest in the nation — as Democrats advanced a separate proposal to tax the state’s highest earners.

The Senate voted 39-10 Thursday to pass an expedited measure intended to soften last year’s sharp increase in ...Read more

Republicans in the Florida Senate passed legislation Thursday requiring citizenship verification for all registered voters in the state, a central element of President Donald Trump’s demands for sweeping election-law changes.

The measure also would restrict the kinds of IDs Florida voters can use to identify themselves at the polls. Student ...Read more

A KC-135 refueling plane that was part of the American military campaign against Iran crashed over western Iraq after an incident involving another plane, U.S. Central Command said Thursday night.

“This was not due to hostile fire or friendly fire,” Centcom said in a statement, adding that rescue efforts were underway and that the episode ...Read more

TEL AVIV, Israel — The U.S.-Israeli strikes have significantly weakened Iran and its clerical leadership but cannot guarantee regime change in the country without an internal uprising, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in his first press briefing since the start of the war.

“We are creating the optimal conditions for a toppling of the...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — A man once convicted of offering support to a terrorist group burst into an ROTC classroom at Old Dominion University on Thursday morning and opened fire, killing one person and wounding two others. The students disarmed and killed him.

The FBI later identified the shooter as Mohamed Bailor Jalloh. A former Army National ...Read more

Two 12-year-old sisters born in the United States were deported to Guatemala along with their mother earlier this week only to be returned the same day, with the twins forced to endure hours of flights in a legal maneuver the U.S. Attorney’s Office now concedes was unlawful.

“What’s going on in this country is shocking in a lot of ways, ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Trump administration on Thursday levied attacks at Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochul over the immigration status of a repeatedly deported Honduran man now accused of shoving two straphangers from a subway platform onto the tracks below.

ICE asked unspecified law enforcement agencies to detain Bairon Hernandez, who is ...Read more

Massachusetts mayors have their red ink ready for a statewide rent control ballot measure after a study found the initiative would eliminate $300 billion in property values, as supporters call it a solution to the housing crisis.

The Tufts Center for State Policy Analysis has found that if landlords capped annual rent increases at 5%, municipal...Read more

SANTA ANA, Calif. — An Orange County Superior Court judge on Thursday, March 12 decided against dismissing criminal charges against three people accused of failing to follow a police order to leave a pro-Palestinian protest at UC Irvine, leaving a jury to decide whether law enforcement’s actions on the campus were constitutional.

Attorneys ...Read more

Nearly 500 structures in Kankakee County were damaged by massive storms that produced tornadoes and hail swept across Illinois Tuesday night, according to Gov. JB Pritzker, who promised that state officials would seek federal aid to help those most affected.

The governor spent Thursday afternoon in the Aroma Park neighborhood alongside local ...Read more

DETROIT — The FBI in January held an active-shooter prevention training at the same synagogue in West Bloomfield Township where a gunman Thursday rammed his truck into the building and then opened fire on the temple, exchanging gunfire with security guards before he was killed.

The training was designed to help staff and security personnel ...Read more

CHICAGO — Federal prosecutors on Thursday abruptly moved to drop charges against two defendants in the politically charged “Broadview Six” case accusing a group of Democrats and other protesters of conspiring to block and damage an immigration agent’s vehicle outside the ICE facility in Broadview in September.

In a one-paragraph filing,...Read more

Massachusetts charter schools are public entities and must comply with the public records law, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled in a case between Mystic Valley Regional Charter School and the Attorney General.

“For the reasons explained below, we conclude that Commonwealth charter schools, including Mystic Valley, are‘agencies’ subject to...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration plans to waive a century-old maritime law that requires American ships be used to transport goods between U.S. ports as it seeks to blunt surging oil and gasoline prices, according to people familiar with the matter.

The 30-day exemption, which is still being developed, is set to apply broadly to vessels...Read more

TEL AVIV, Israel — The U.S.-Israeli strikes have significantly weakened Iran and its clerical leadership but cannot guarantee a regime change in the country without an internal uprising, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in his first press briefing since the start of the war.

“We are creating the optimal conditions for a toppling of ...Read more

WEST BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Leaders of Temple Israel said all children, staff and congregants said they were safe Thursday after a gunman rammed a truck into the synagogue and opened fire before being killed in a violent exchange with security personnel.

In a message to members, temple officials said all 140 students in the Susan and ...Read more

DETROIT — The man who rammed a truck into the Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield Township and started shooting appears to have acted alone, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said Thursday evening.

Police had been actively searching for a possible second suspect linked to the attack on Temple Israel. At Shenandoah Country Club, ...Read more

TOKYO — When the United States pulled its only aircraft carrier based in Asia to support the military surge in Afghanistan back in 2010, allies in the region had little concern that China or North Korea might look to take advantage. Today things are different.

As the U.S. continues to pour weapons into the Middle East for military operations...Read more