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ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Thursday first said a system in the Atlantic had increased chances, but then rolled those predictions back that it could become the season’s next tropical depression or ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The 36-year-old woman charged with murder in a violent, high-speed crash that killed two people in Chatsworth on Tuesday was under the influence of drugs and had narcotics in the car when she drove the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senators from both parties emerged from a classified briefing with the Pentagon’s policy chief on Thursday morning expressing outrage at what they described as the official’s stonewalling.

The stated ...Read more

SEATTLE — The Washington Supreme Court has ruled the state's natural gas initiative unconstitutional, ending a 2024 effort to turn voters out against policies intended to curb climate change.

Voters passed Initiative ...Read more

CHICAGO — Juan Muñoz is tired of remembering the events of Oct. 3, 2025.

On that day, at the height of Operation Midway Blitz, Muñoz was among hundreds of people protesting the blitz at the Broadview processing center...Read more

Peter Max, the pop artist and hippie icon who helped define the vibrant psychedelic style of the 1960s and whose work graced posters, album covers, T-shirts, dinnerware, postage stamps and beyond, has died. He was 88.

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SAN DIEGO — San Diego County warned doctors at the Otay Mesa Detention Center this week that continued weeks-long delays in reporting suspected tuberculosis cases “may subject health care providers to professional ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Standing handcuffed in an orange jumpsuit behind plexiglass, ICE agent Christian Castro appeared in a Minnesota courtroom Thursday after months of resistance and faced charges that he shot a Venezuelan ...Read more

SEATTLE — Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson joined Democratic Party lawmakers and other allies Thursday in warning voters against an initiative on the November ballot that would modify parents’ and students’ rights in ...Read more

Diplomatic relations between Costa Rica and Cuba are formally severed and will remain so until the Cuban people “recover their freedom,” the Central American nation’s foreign minister, Manuel Tovar Rivera, said ...Read more

DEAR ABBY: A dear friend of 10 years experienced a severe mental health crisis. I did my best to reach out to her, but she pushed me away and flaked on plans and important events at the last minute at least a dozen times. ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Republican gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds said Thursday he supports broadening the uses of hotel taxes in Florida, specifically to allow the levy on room nights and short-term rental stays to be ...Read more

CHICAGO — Veteran U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent Luis Uribe tried to tell a federal jury this week that he was raised to respect women, that “no means no” and “stop means stop.”

“I’ve never raped ...Read more

California’s beleaguered news industry — which has seen its advertising decline steadily over the past 20 years due to competition from online giants like Google and Meta, resulting in layoffs, smaller newsrooms and ...Read more

Former Sen. Jon Kyl, once a key player in Arizona politics and a powerful voice in Republican leadership, has died at the age of 84.

His family announced his death on Thursday of complications from an unspecified ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania is seeking more emergency aid from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to respond to the state’s largest measles outbreak in more than 30 years, but only if the federal agency ...Read more

Minnesota’s streak of almost six months without a new measles case ended this week when an infection was confirmed in an unvaccinated adult in one of the state’s least-vaccinated counties.

The state’s 18th measles ...Read more