LOS ANGELES — Matilde suffered a heart attack after she was held by immigration agents at a Lowes parking lot and can no longer go to the store without breaking down. Narciso Barranco, a gardener accused of threatening heavily armed agents with a weed whacker, still wakes up with headaches after he was beaten during his arrest. Jaime Alanís ...Read more

MIAMI — This past spring, Faten was on the brink of achieving her lifelong dreams: graduating from college.

Then a junior at Florida Atlantic University, she was on track to graduate in December and was just 10 credits away from a bachelor’s degree. She was also exploring her longtime passion for writing as a reporter for University Press, ...Read more

MIAMI — GOP lawmakers in the 10 states that refused the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion for over a decade have argued their conservative approach to growing government programs would pay off in the long run.

Instead, the Republican-passed budget law that includes many of President Donald Trump’s priorities will pose at least as ...Read more

MIAMI — From the front yards of West Miami-Dade to the waterfront mansions of Fort Lauderdale, artificial turf is appearing more and more.

And with the spread of artificial turf comes a mounting number of questions and criticisms — about everything from how it looks to how it impacts the environment, the climate and even human health. This ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — After January’s wildfires reduced thousands of homes in Altadena and Pacific Palisades to heaps of ash and rubble, wildfire survivors hoped federal disaster workers would give them a fresh start on a rebuild-ready lot.

But many residents say that has not been the reality.

More than 800 complaints were submitted to a U.S. Army...Read more

When Siri Fiske founded the Mysa Microschool in Washington, D.C., in 2016, there wasn’t a widely accepted term for her small, one-room schoolhouse model.

Now, the school is referred to on its website as one of the first microschools in the nation, and Fiske has seen a growing microschool movement since the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the five ...Read more

Federal agents assigned to patrol Washington as part of the federal takeover of the U.S. capital are taking on duties that fall outside their usual jobs, provoking consternation that they’ve been diverted from work they were trained for to tasks they’ve never done.

Some federal officials said agents have been pulled from specialized ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — As word spreads about the discovery of radioactive wasp nests at a South Carolina nuclear weapons complex, some researchers and environmental activists are urging the government to provide more details about the finding.

So far, officials with the Savannah River Site have issued a basic statement saying that four different ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — If the Trump administration succeeds in barring undocumented immigrants from federally funded "public benefit" programs, vulnerable children and families across California would suffer greatly, losing access to emergency shelters, vital health care, early education and life-saving nutritional support, according to state and local...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Authorities arrested 56 people and seized 3,500 birds, as well as firearms and drug paraphernalia, during a multiweek cockfighting investigation in San Bernardino County, officials said.

The operation, dubbed “Crowing Rooster,” ran from June 14 to Aug. 1 and entailed 26 search warrants served at locations throughout the ...Read more

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday to ease regulations for the commercial space industry, including steps to speed the licensing process for rocket launches in a win for the growing sector and onetime ally Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

The executive order directs the secretary of Transportation to review regulatory requirements ...Read more

NEW YORK — An upstate New York man made four calls threatening UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s family in the days after the executive was murdered in Midtown Manhattan, authorities said Wednesday.

Shane Daley, 40, of Galway, was charged with cyberstalking for the nasty calls, the Justice Department said in a press release.

Daley made...Read more

MIAMI — Former Miami-Dade County Judge Jason A. Reding Quiñones was sworn in Wednesday as the new U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida.

But the afternoon ceremony making his appointment by President Donald Trump official didn’t happen in the district’s home base, Miami, according to tradition. Nor was he sworn in by the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he would meet with House and Senate Democratic leaders ahead of a government funding deadline but cast doubt on a deal to avoid a federal shutdown.

Trump has not met with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries or Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, both of New York, since returning ...Read more

More than 131,000 Nevadans could lose food and nutrition benefits because of the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” officials said during a Nevada legislative committee meeting Wednesday.

New work requirements and other changes to eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps, could put those ...Read more

NEW YORK — Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani brought his anti-Trump tour to Staten Island on Wednesday, where he said “despite the caricatures” of the island, he was confident he could make inroads because of his focus on affordability and immigration.

Mamdani won several election precincts in the borough in the June primary, but ...Read more

Nearly one-third of all gambling activity in the United States is conducted with an illegal operator or at an unlawful site, according to the industry’s main lobbying group.

A new analysis from the Washington, D.C.-based American Gaming Association claims that 31.9 percent of the total U.S. gambling market is controlled by illegal operators. ...Read more

BOSTON — The Massachusetts Department of Public Health raised the risk level for West Nile Virus, or WNV, to high in many communities, urging residents to protect against the mosquito-borne disease.

“WNV findings in mosquitoes have accelerated rapidly over the last several weeks,” State Epidemiologist Catherine Brown said. “We are now ...Read more

DENVER — More evacuation orders rolled out across Colorado’s Western Slope on Wednesday as five active wildfires burn across hundreds of square miles.

Colorado’s largest wildfire reached the Garfield County line on Wednesday, prompting officials to scale up evacuation orders for people living northwest of Rifle.

New mandatory evacuation ...Read more