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LOS ANGELES — What began as an act of solidarity ultimately took a bitter turn for a National Park Service biologist.

After helping display a pink, white and blue transgender flag at El Capitan in May 2025, Shannon ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — State Sen. Erin Maye Quade couldn’t sleep after last June 14. She started mistaking the sound of her dishwasher for an intruder or passing headlights for someone at her front door.

Her name was on Vance ...Read more

Chinese authorities said they arrested a Northern California scholar earlier this month, accusing him of espionage and endangering national security.

U Min Zin was taken into custody on June 3 at Kunming Changshui ...Read more

BOSTON — Massachusetts is not participating in the Great American State Fair, a 16‑day festival on the National Mall marking the country’s 250th anniversary that Gov. Maura Healey has ridiculed.

Healey’s office ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Nevada’s November electoral matchups are set after this week’s primaries.

Nevada raised its voter participation rate during the state’s primary elections by about 5 percentage points compared with June...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Florida Legislature has gone from budgeting $229 million to the Florida Forever program two years ago to putting no new money into it next year, something that has rarely happened in the 25-year ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Four people were taken to the hospital Saturday after a helicopter collided with a plane while taking off from North Perry Airport, officials say.

The Robinson R44 helicopter crashed about 11:20 ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — A new launch pad could be constructed at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station — if the military has its way.

The Department of the Air Force, which oversees the facility, is gathering information for an ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Queens pilot about to take off in his seaplane from the East River near the Throgs Neck Bridge had to abandon ship when a large wave smashed into the plane, which began sinking, officials said.

It was the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles has one of the deadest downtowns in the world, according to a new survey.

Out of 75 of the top cities around the world, L.A. ranked among the lowest for vibrancy in Gensler’s 2026 City Pulse ...Read more

DENVER — A proposed settlement that would cut 37% off of the electric rate increase sought by Xcel Energy would still be the highest-ever jump in yearly revenue for a utility in Colorado history, according to the state ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump tapped an experienced white-collar lawyer who helped defend him in a hush money case to be U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, the federal prosecutor whose office ...Read more

Candace Cameron Bure's daughter Natasha Bure Perry has clapped back at critics who have taken issue with her pregnant belly being displayed.

The singer will have her blossoming bump out "until further notice" as she is ...Read more

Anna Faris' podcast was a lifeline after her divorce from Chris Pratt in 2018.

The 49-year-old actress said the breakup with the 46-year-old actor after eight years of marriage made her want to live a life free of public ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — One woman is dead and another is in critical condition after they were swept out to sea by a powerful tide in Santa Cruz this week amid hazardous ocean conditions that forecasters warn will continue across ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — For years, Myreanna Bebe felt guilty celebrating her birthday, which came just one day after her brother, 19-year-old Jason Benjamin Josaphat, was among the 49 killed in the Pulse nightclub attack on June...Read more

LOS ANGELES — First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli — President Donald Trump’s loyalist federal prosecutor in Los Angeles — has not been shy in recent days about his intention to ferret out voter fraud in ...Read more

Anthropic PBC has disabled access to its most advanced artificial intelligence models, including Mythos, following an unprecedented order by the Trump administration to keep the technology out of the hands of all foreign ...Read more

President Donald Trump will meet with U.S. partners in the Middle East at the Group of Seven leaders’ summit in France next week, underscoring the outsized role the war in Iran continues to play as European allies ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Rod Stewart has achieved record success as one of the most popular and acclaimed singers of his generation. Now, he may be setting a new record for making a remarkably swift recovery from laryngitis.

On ...Read more