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FRESNO, Calif. — After more than a decade of construction in the Central Valley, the California High-Speed Rail Authority could be fewer than six months from laying the system’s first tracks.

The rail authority’s ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho has one of the highest rates of uninsured children younger than 6 across the country, according to a new report.

The report, released Monday from Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public ...Read more

NEW YORK — City Hall and NYPD officials have yet to have discussions about shifting police responsibilities for issues such as dealing with people having psychiatric emergencies to Mayor Mamdani’s Office of Community ...Read more

President Trump is nominating Florida’s outgoing House speaker to be ambassador to Brazil, the latest Miami Republican named to a prominent diplomatic post.

Speaker Daniel Perez, who is finishing out his final term in ...Read more

McDonald’s Corp. is betting on everything from fancier chicken to new playgrounds as part of a campaign to make fast food feel less like fast food.

New menu items including hand-breaded wings and filets are in testing ...Read more

U.S. Customs and Border Protection named Rosario “Pete” Vasquez as chief of the U.S. Border Patrol on Monday, as the Trump administration seeks to sustain a sharp decline in illegal border crossings.

Vasquez most ...Read more

Four Republicans are vying to face U.S. Sen Cory Booker, despite his popularity in New Jersey and his campaign’s massive bank account.

New Jersey has not elected a Republican to serve in the U.S. Senate since 1972 — ...Read more

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz plans to host European leaders later this month with a goal of crafting a plan to smooth relations with President Donald Trump at a NATO summit in July, according to people familiar with ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered differing accounts of a call about the fighting in Lebanon, as the U.S. struggled to get efforts toward an Iran peace deal back on...Read more

Baltimore’s decline in violent crime continued through May, with homicides down more than 23% compared with the same point last year as city leaders pointed to a combination of focused policing, violence interruption ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is backing away from plans to create a $1.8 billion fund to compensate people who claim the government was weaponized against them, a retreat that comes amid a cascade of legal ...Read more

Reports of proteins in fossilized bones have stirred controversy in the scientific community for decades, as fossilization was thought to destroy organic components, replacing them with minerals over time. Now, a team of ...Read more

Blake Lively is returning to court in the latest chapter of her long-running legal battle with Justin Baldoni.

The 38-year-old Gossip Girl and A Simple Favor actress is due back before a federal judge in Manhattan on ...Read more

Jamie Lee Curtis' sister reportedly died of natural causes.

The actress, 67, revealed on Saturday (30.05.26) her older sibling Kelly Lee Curtis had passed away peacefully at the age of 69, with the star hailing her as her...Read more

Brooke Shields' crazed fans tried to cut pieces of her hair off at the peak of her fame.

The actress, 61, made the admission as she reflected on the extraordinary and unsettling fan reaction that followed the release of ...Read more

Nvidia Corp. is entering the PC market with a new chip aimed at loosening the stranglehold of Intel Corp. technology in that arena and modernizing the machines for the AI era.

Starting this fall, Nvidia’s new RTX Spark ...Read more

BEIRUT — The Israeli infantrymen advanced up to the hilltop in the dead of night, punching their way in a bare-knuckle, eyeball-to-eyeball fight against entrenched defenders until they reached their target: Beaufort ...Read more

Soon after Donald Trump Jr. posted a glossy, heavily produced video of his Bahamas island wedding to Palm Beach socialite Bettina Anderson, many culturally savvy followers noted a number of striking similarities between ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Another Brat summer is upon us.

Charli XCX announced Monday that her new album, “Music, Fashion, Film,” drops July 24, and it already looks iconic.

That’s because the cover art, which Charli shared ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Monday was reportedly planning to scrap his $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund that critics deride as a corrupt slush fund for MAGA allies and Jan. 6 attackers.

With both Democrats and ...Read more