There’s still a month left, but this winter in California so far can be summed up in two words: roller coaster.

It began so dry that Lake Tahoe ski resorts couldn’t open for their usual Thanksgiving kickoff. Then 10 feet of snow fell around Christmas, saving ski season and bringing totals up to historic averages. But five weeks of warm, dry...Read more

MIAMI — The boat the Cuban government says arrived in its waters Wednesday carrying 10 armed men was reported stolen hours later from the Florida Keys according to a report from the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.

The Cuban coast guard approached the boat and shot several of the men after taking fire from people aboard, according to a ...Read more

The Florida Senate unanimously passed a bill Thursday to add regulations to large-scale data centers aimed at protecting consumers from potential price increases for electricity or water.

The bipartisan move came as wealthy tech companies are eyeing Florida as a potentially new frontier for the nationwide boom of data centers, the climate-...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The wife of a senior UPS pilot who was killed in a plane crash last year in Louisville, Kentucky, has filed a lawsuit against the companies that manufactured the plane and its engines, according to court records.

Donna Diamond filed the lawsuit Wednesday against Boeing, General Electric and VT San Antonio Aerospace in ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota has reported 10 measles cases so far in 2026 amid a declining vaccination rate that’s left more people vulnerable to the highly infectious disease and its characteristic head-to-toe rash.

The case cluster is raising concerns when considering that Minnesota had 26 infections in total last year. All 10 people were ...Read more

The Cuban government’s accusations that several Floridians attempted to invade the island Wednesday on a speedboat carrying Molotov cocktails and sniper rifles has set off shockwaves across the Sunshine State.

For now, it’s unclear whether the men Havana identified were actually on the boat and what they were doing. The federal government ...Read more

The Pentagon’s first kamikaze drone unit is ready to participate if President Donald Trump decides to launch strikes on Iran, according to U.S. officials and analysts.

The drone unit is known as Task Force Scorpion and evolved from an experimental U.S. military drone unit. It’s now ready for operations, U.S. Central Command spokesman Capt. ...Read more

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro met with leaders in Berks and Schuylkill counties Thursday as those communities confront the planned federal conversion of two warehouses into ICE detention centers, pledging to do everything possible to block the Trump administration’s plans in the state.

Shapiro, a Democrat who first opposed the potential ...Read more

The Maryland House of Delegates passed two bills Thursday to restrict the spread and impact of immigration detention facilities in the state, amid work by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and private companies to set up immigration detention centers. The legislation now goes to the State Senate.

One bill, HB 1017, that passed 98-36 ...Read more

FRESNO, Calif. — A new California bill co-authored by a Fresno-area legislator intends to reopen Medi-Cal applications for undocumented adults who lost access to the program because of cuts made to the state’s budget last year.

The Medical Access Restoration Act, known as SB 1422, would end the Medi-Cal enrollment freeze that took effect ...Read more

Hillary Clinton gave closed-door testimony Thursday to a congressional committee investigating the Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking scandal, with Bill Clinton to follow on Friday.

The former secretary of state sat for a deposition to the House of Representatives’ oversight committee near the couple’s home in suburban Chappaqua, New York, ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Five police officers say in a new federal lawsuit they were skipped over for promotions because of a Philadelphia policy change to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in the municipal workforce.

The officers — Christopher Bloom, Kollin Berg, Joseph Musumeci, Marc Monachello, and Leroy Ziegler — claim they were victims ...Read more

Mayor Zohran Mamdani presented President Donald Trump with a pitch to build 12,000 housing units in New York City at a White House sit-down Thursday, marking the moment with a chummy picture of the pair in the Oval Office featuring Trump clutching a fake Daily News front page and smiling ear-to-ear.

“I had a productive meeting with President ...Read more

Idaho Republican U.S. Sen. Jim Risch spoke up for his constituents’ “passionate, unified” support for public lands during the confirmation hearing for proposed Bureau of Land Management chief Steve Pearce on Wednesday.

Risch questioned whether Pearce, a controversial pick for his past sentiments to sell public lands, understood the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Gov. Tim Walz lashed out at the Trump administration for clawing back a quarter-billion dollars in Medicaid funding from Minnesota over its handling of fraud, calling it a “ransom note” and saying it would only hurt the vulnerable.

Speaking at a news conference Feb. 26. Walz said the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...Read more

CHICAGO — Federal prosecutors said Thursday they plan to narrow conspiracy allegations and review “newly unearthed” evidence 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 ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told House lawmakers she did not have information on the past criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and never recalled meeting the now-deceased sex offender, according to remarks prepared as part of a congressional deposition Thursday in New York.

In an opening statement she shared ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the Trump administration on Thursday afternoon was set to release a Columbia University student detained earlier in the day by federal Department of Homeland Security agents, who Columbia acting President Claire Shipman alleged made “misrepresentations” to enter a school residence.

In the ...Read more

Gov. Maura Healey is responding to President Trump naming Massachusetts, along with California, Maine, and Minnesota, as some of the most fraud-ridden states in the country while announcing a new “war on fraud” during his State of the Union address.

“At the end of the day, this is all about the president and the Trump administration ...Read more

DENVER — Denver Mayor Mike Johnston signed an executive order Thursday that’s intended to protect protesters demonstrating against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations if the city becomes the next target for a surge.

His order requires Denver Police Department officers to intervene and detain ICE agents if they see the agents...Read more