LODGE GRASS, Mont. — Brothers Lonny and Teyon Fritzler walked amid the tall grass and cottonwood trees surrounding their boarded-up childhood home near the Little Bighorn River and daydreamed about ways to rebuild.

The rolling prairie outside the single-story clapboard home is where Lonny learned from their grandfather how to break horses. It...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Since the beginning of the new year, California has implemented a new ingredient to tortillas that is expected to improve the health of generations moving forward.

In an active effort to reduce a gap in healthy births in the Latino community, the state is requiring tortilla producers to add folic acid to corn masa.

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On the same day President Donald Trump’s administration targeted ultra-processed foods in its new federal nutrition guidelines, Penn researcher Alyssa Moran published an academic journal article explaining why they’re hard to regulate.

For starters, there’s no consensus on how policymakers should define the term, she and two co-authors ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Researchers at the University of California, San Diego are among five groups nationwide selected to share $176.8 million in grant funding to explore replicating vital organs, an approach that, if successful, would revolutionize transplant surgery, making organ failure vastly more survivable.

Announced Monday by the Advanced ...Read more

The electricity it makes is expensive, its technology has been superseded, and it’s incinerating thousands of birds mid-flight each year. The Trump administration wants to see this unusual power plant closed, and in a rare instance of alignment, the Biden administration did, too.

But the state of California is insisting the Ivanpah power ...Read more

Nearly a third of Latino adults without home broadband rely on their smartphone for internet access.

A new analysis by the Pew Research Center found that 28% of U.S. Latino adults are smartphone dependent, meaning they rely on their handheld device for internet access as opposed to broadband — also known as high-speed internet.

Smartphone ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Many low-income Californians prescribed wildly popular weight loss drugs lost their coverage for the medications at the start of the new year.

Health officials are recommending diet and exercise as alternatives to heavily advertised weight loss drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound, advice experts say is unrealistic.

“Of ...Read more

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s budget proposal would “put the state on precarious footing” because it does not incorporate the significant risk of a stock market downturn plummeting income tax returns, the California Legislature’s independent and nonpartisan fiscal analyst said Monday.

Citing a $30 billion difference between his agency�...Read more

SPRINGFIELD — Mary Jane Theis became a judge in 1983, a few weeks before the biggest, most sweeping judicial corruption scandal in Cook County history came to a head.

Operation Greylord resulted in about 100 indictments and the conviction of more than a dozen judges. And throughout a career that eventually saw Theis elected to the Illinois ...Read more

Audience members at the all-ages Minneapolis rock venue Pilllar Forum tussled with ICE agents on the street outside the club on Sunday — prompting that night’s show to be canceled.

The owner of Pilllar Forum, Corey Bracken, said several of his customers and musicians were pepper-sprayed by ICE agents and at least two were hit with batons on...Read more

NEW YORK — A New York City Council employee from Venezuela was detained by ICE agents Monday — even though he has status to be in the U.S. legally, according to Council Speaker Julie Menin.

The employee, whose name is being withheld, was whisked away by ICE while at a routine immigration appointment Monday morning in Bethpage, Nassau County...Read more

Australia’s ambassador to the U.S., Kevin Rudd, will step down a year earlier than planned after his tenure was clouded by past criticism of Donald Trump that had drawn the ire of the U.S. president.

A successor has not yet been named, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Tuesday, and will be announced in “due course.” Rudd will leave ...Read more

Two more Caribbean countries have entered into agreements with the Trump administration to accept asylum seekers deported from the United States, with one leader explicitly saying Haitians are not welcome.

St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Terrance Drew said that his government has agreed to accept a very small number of third-country ...Read more

MIAMI — As commuters headed home during Monday evening’s rush hour on U.S. 1 in Coconut Grove, high above them on a pedestrian bridge protesters demonstrating against the Trump administration’s immigration policies held signs and chanted slogans as drivers honked their horns below.

About 20 people gathered on the Vizcaya pedestrian ...Read more

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will seek closer ties with South Korea at a summit Tuesday, as Tokyo moves to contain a deepening diplomatic and trade dispute with China and counter Beijing’s efforts to drive a wedge between key U.S. allies.

Takaichi will meet South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in her home prefecture of Nara in their...Read more

WASHINGTON — Jeanine Pirro didn’t seek sign-off from her bosses at the Justice Department before subpoenaing the Federal Reserve and has no plans to back down from an investigation into Chairman Jerome Powell, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The probe elicited objections from lawmakers and comments from President Donald ...Read more

A Minnesota state representative said two Richfield Target employees detained by U.S. Border Patrol on Jan. 8 were U.S. citizens and were both injured in the incident.

Rep. Michael Howard, a Democrat who represents Wards 10 and 11 in Minneapolis and all of Richfield, said on Jan. 12 that he has been in contact with both employees and that they ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A former executive of a nonprofit camp for children with serious medical conditions is accused of embezzling more than $5 million from the organization and tampering with computer records to hide his crimes, according to prosecutors.

Lake Hughes-based organization the Painted Turtle, co-founded by actor Paul Newman in 1999, is a...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan, who has increasingly waded into statewide issues in recent years, is reconsidering his political future and could be preparing to enter California’s crowded race for governor — a contest that so far lacks a clear front-runner.

None of the declared candidates have offered a “clear and ...Read more