Florida DOGE is aiming to find what it deems as wasteful, unnecessary spending by counties and cities across the state. And new details are surfacing about the scrutiny ahead.

Earlier this summer, municipalities received requests from the state Department of Government Efficiency to provide information on all revenue and expenses. In recent ...Read more

Artificial intelligence is primed to disrupt the workplace, and it’s starting to change the way school is taught in Georgia K-12 classrooms, too.

More schools are turning to AI to craft rubrics, design interactive lessons and overhaul curricula, even amid concerns that the technology could cripple students’ critical thinking skills.

Some ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — There were 10,000 instances of book bans at public schools in the 2023-24 school year, according to PEN America. In 2024, 5,813 titles were challenged in public libraries and schools nationwide, says the American Library Assn.

"So many books for young people are being taken off the shelf," said Fritzi Bodenheimer, spokesperson ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A man was hit and killed on the 210 Freeway on Thursday as he tried to flee federal agents raiding a Home Depot in Monrovia.

His death at a hospital was confirmed Thursday afternoon by Monrovia City Manager Dylan Feik. The circumstances surrounding the fatal accident are under investigation by the California Highway Patrol.

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LOS ANGELES — A man was hit and killed on the 210 Freeway on Thursday as he tried to flee federal agents raiding a Home Depot in Monrovia.

His death at an area hospital was confirmed Thursday afternoon by Monrovia City Manager Dylan Feik. Monrovia police received reports at 9:43 a.m. of immigration agents approaching the Home Depot, according...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A quiet Van Nuys neighborhood of manicured lawns, palm trees and single-family homes has been embroiled in a noisy squabble over a train horn that one homeowner has affixed to a tree and used to set off drawn-out blares at irregular intervals.

While the window-rattling blasts over the last two months have drawn complaints and ...Read more

Data centers looking to connect to the largest U.S. grid must bring their power supply, the system’s independent watchdog said.

The warning escalates the watchdog’s position from just a month ago when it said the grid operated by PJM Interconnection LLC, stretching across 13 states from Virginia to Illinois, has no spare supply for new data...Read more

Fire crews rushed to battle two fast-growing brush fires in northern Los Angeles County on Thursday — the King fire, which ignited near Pyramid Lake in the early morning, and the Hawk fire, which erupted in Acton around 3 p.m., threatening structures and prompting evacuation orders.

The wind-whipped Hawk fire began near Treman Drive and Elisa...Read more

BALTIMORE — Baltimore has accepted a $152.3 million award in an opioid lawsuit against drugmakers McKesson and Cencora, boosting the city’s total awards from pharmaceutical companies to $579.8 million.

The city accepted the award Thursday afternoon, after being given a deadline of Aug. 22 by Baltimore Circuit Court Judge Lawrence P. ...Read more

SEATTLE — Washington state has resumed a program to build a network of electric vehicle chargers that the Trump administration had withheld funding for earlier this year.

A federal judge in Seattle in June ordered the Trump administration to restore the funding, in response to a lawsuit brought by Washington and other states.

The state ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A man was hit and killed on the 210 Freeway on Thursday as he tried to flee federal agents raiding a Home Depot in Monrovia.

Monrovia City Manager Dylan Feik confirmed Thursday afternoon that the man died at an area hospital.

At 9:43 a.m., the Monrovia Police Department received reports of immigration agents approaching Home ...Read more

Jackie Bezos, a fierce protector of her son Jeff before he founded Amazon.com Inc. and a deep-pocketed advocate for early childhood education, has died. She was 78.

Bezos died at her home in Miami on Thursday, according the Bezos Family Foundation’s website. In a tribute on social media, Jeff Bezos wrote that his mother passed away “...Read more

More details of the death of Brandon Blackstock, the talent manager and former husband of Kelly Clarkson, have come to light ahead of his Aug. 17 memorial service.

A death certificate, officially filed Thursday in Butte, Montana, confirmed the 48-year-old died of natural causes related to malignant melanoma, an aggressive form of skin cancer.

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Three summers ago, Valentyna Kondratieva fled war in Ukraine for Alaska with her children.

Now Kondratieva lives in a modest duplex in Anchorage, with petunias and tomato plants growing out front. Her children play on local sports teams and attend Anchorage schools. She works as a teaching assistant. But the war is still ever-present in her ...Read more

The call to Beau Disbrow was unlike any the Anchorage realtor had ever received. His short-term rentals typically house tourists bound for glaciers, or business travelers passing through. This time, the request came from the U.S. Secret Service.

“Most of my short-term rentals were booked, but I did manage to put some of them into one home,”...Read more

A federal agency has launched a probe into four Kansas school districts — three in the Kansas City area — over their treatment of transgender students following a letter requesting as much from Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach earlier this summer.

The U.S. Department of Education announced on Thursday an investigation into the four ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia Democratic officials are trying to send a clear message to ICE.

Standing outside the Philadelphia field office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Center City on a hot Thursday morning, state lawmakers, immigration activists, and District Attorney Larry Krasner — flanked by signs that said “No Secret...Read more

More than a decade after he allegedly sexually abused at least three minors, a former gymnastics coach in Key Biscayne, Florida, has reached a deal with state prosecutors to plead guilty to four felony sex charges, including two related to the sexual abuse of a minor.

The agreement was revealed Thursday in a Miami-Dade courtroom days before ...Read more

Buyers beware of the bargain basement brew sold at Dollar General!

The Clover Valley Instant Coffee brand being sold exclusively at the discount retailer is being recalled due to the potential presence of glass.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration confirmed the product — which is sold in 48 states — is a part of a voluntary recall by the...Read more