It's a little after 9:30 a.m. on a recent weekday, and hair-netted workers at the Alhambra Unified School District's central production kitchen are boxing up the last of 350 handmade sushi rolls for the city's three high schools.

The spicy tuna rolls, redolent of cooked fish blended with sriracha and mayonnaise, are a popular lunch offering ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A fresh round of criticism last year that the California Coastal Commission was an impediment to home building prompted state Sen. John Laird to push back.

The Santa Cruz Democrat set out to introduce a bill that would show it is possible to build more affordable housing in the state’s coastal areas.

“People were ...Read more

NEW YORK — Chief Michael LiPetri has been promoted to interim chief of department – the NYPD’s highest uniformed post – following the retirement of John Chell, the Daily News has learned.

LiPetri’s appointment was disclosed Wednesday in an NYPD personnel order obtained by The News, and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch confirmed it in...Read more

WASHINGTON — Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is openly criticizing Republican leaders in Congress over their handling of the government shutdown and health care funding.

Greene’s social media posts and public statements are part of a trend in recent months of her taking positions that are populist but which conflict with public...Read more

TRENTON, Mich. — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and a bipartisan group of lawmakers crowded into a Downriver diner Wednesday morning to celebrate a new law that next year will exempt tips, certain overtime pay and Social Security income from the state’s 4.25% income tax.

The elimination of state income taxes on tips and overtime pay is intended to ...Read more

President Donald Trump said both Israel and Hamas had agreed to terms for the release of all hostages held by the Palestinian militant group in Gaza, a major breakthrough in the U.S.-brokered negotiations to end their two-year war.

“I am very proud to announce that Israel and Hamas have both signed off on the first Phase of our Peace Plan,”...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will undergo a physical exam on Friday following mounting questions about his health prompted by noticeable bruising and swelling in recent months.

“On Friday morning, President Trump will visit Walter Reed Medical Center for a planned meeting and remarks with the troops. While there, President Trump will...Read more

WASHINGTON — Chicago is emerging as the latest testing ground for President Trump’s domestic deployment of military force as hundreds of National Guard troops were expected to descend on the city.

The president said Wednesday that Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson should be jailed for failing to support federal ...Read more

The IRS will furlough just under half of its staff and pause most of the agency’s taxpayer services as gridlock in Congress pushes the government shutdown into its second week.

The plan released Wednesday, which calls for about 34,000 workers to be furloughed, represents a sharp departure from the first week of the shutdown. That outline ...Read more

The federal government logged a $1.8 trillion budget deficit for the 2025 fiscal year, little changed from 2024 despite a surge in tariff revenues, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

The shortfall for the year that ended Sept. 30 was just $8 billion less than 2024, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said in a release on ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Semiquincentennial birthday bash kicks off Thursday, complete with a grand parade of ships, a televised concert, and a picnic with a celebrity chef.

Officials have said they expect more than 1,800 service members and 300,000 visitors to descend on Philadelphia throughout the festivities. The ...Read more

Another Republican Florida lawmaker has filed a bill to rename several roadways after the late Charlie Kirk, the right-wing political activist and influencer who was fatally shot in September.

State Rep. Kevin Steele, R-Dade City, filed House Bill 113 Tuesday, which would require all of Florida’s public state universities and colleges to ...Read more

JERUSALEM — U.S. President Donald Trump said a peace deal in the Middle East is “very close,” after officials from Israel and Hamas were cautiously positive about the prospects talks underway in Egypt would bring an end to the two-year war in Gaza.

“It seems to be going well,” Trump told reporters at the White House, suggesting he’s...Read more

BOSTON — Supporters of the pro-Palestinian protester charged with punching a Boston Police officer and breaking his nose cursed at reporters, shielding themselves with keffiyehs, after their companion was taken from the courtroom in handcuffs.

Judge James M. Stanton ordered Roder Atwood, 21, of Somerville, held on $10,000 bail, drawing gasps ...Read more

An attorney for veteran downstate Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Bost told the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday that Illinois’ post-election mail-in ballot-counting law created the potential for reputational and financial harm to the congressman and he should be allowed to sue to try to overturn it.

But a lawyer for the state of Illinois argued ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — He’s the son of Baptist missionaries who loved soccer as a child.

In the Hollywood neighborhood where he lived and worked as an Uber driver, one acquaintance described him as “a really nice guy.” Yet he was embroiled in an ugly legal conflict with a neighbor in his apartment complex that included accusations of abuse and ...Read more

The courtroom battle over whether the Trump administration can force the deployment of California National Guard troops to Oregon will test the limits of presidential power as well as the legal guardrails meant to protect civilians from unwarranted use of the military in domestic situations, experts say.

A panel of three federal appeals judges,...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of Anton “Tony” Lazzaro, the formerly well-connected Republican donor convicted of giving teenage girls gifts, alcohol and money in exchange for sex.

On Monday, the high court turned away Lazzaro with no comment. In February, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also denied his appeal.

In ...Read more