The House unanimously passed legislation this week to bar noncitizens involved with the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel from being allowed into the United States or be permitted to remain in this country if already here.

The bill, which now goes to the Senate, was sponsored by Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Elk Grove.

He said the law would “...Read more

In the race for California governor, a new poll shows two Republicans and a recently-announced Democratic candidate topping the field.

The Emerson College survey shows Chad Bianco, the Republican sheriff of Riverside County, with support from 13% of voters. Steve Hilton, a former Fox News host, and Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell, who got into ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida House Republicans appear ready to throw Florida into a mid-decade redistricting battle. But they don’t agree on when to start.

Over the summer, President Donald Trump began pushing for red states to redraw their maps to protect the House Republican majority in the upcoming midterm elections and ...Read more

Alleging human rights abuses in two South Florida immigration detention facilities, Amnesty International released a 61-page report on Thursday describing inhumane conditions at Alligator Alcatraz and Krome North Service Processing Center.

The report, released a day after the organization opened a related art exhibit in Miami Beach, focuses on ...Read more

WINONA, Minn. — It’s hard to overstate how rare and exciting a dinosaur mummy is.

And yes, the fossil called "Medusa” could be a dinosaur mummy — the remains of an Edmontosaurus about 66 million years old that researchers believe contains a significant amount of skin and tendon tissue.

It’s so rare that only about a dozen such ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sen. Bill Cassidy, a physician and Republican health care leader in Congress, on Wednesday offered his harshest criticism yet of the Health and Human Services Department under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s advisory panel considers the childhood vaccine schedule.

The agency�...Read more

The U.S. admiral whose strikes on an alleged drug-running boat have drawn bipartisan scrutiny and prompted accusations of possible war crimes told lawmakers on Thursday he was not ordered to kill everyone on board.

The assurance by Admiral Frank Bradley, confirmed by key lawmakers from both parties, that there was no “kill all” order ...Read more

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel that advises the agency on recommendations for vaccines delayed a planned vote Thursday on changes for the hepatitis B shot long recommended for newborns, putting off a decision with major implications for the Bay Area.

The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has scrutinized ...Read more

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration on Thursday publicly shot down the 2026 budget plan backed by a narrow City Council majority.

A detailed memo from Johnson’s top finance officials, first obtained by the Tribune, generally sought to discredit the proposal floated earlier this week in a letter signed by 26 aldermen. Some ...Read more

A suspect has been arrested and charged with planting twin pipe bombs outside the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the two major parties on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, officials said Thursday.

The arrest marks a stunning breakthrough in the puzzling, long-unsolved case that occurred alongside the violent riot by thousands...Read more

NEW YORK — NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch’s brother called Zohran Mamdani an “enemy” of the Jewish people during a private charity dinner Wednesday night — a slam that comes on the heels of the incoming mayor’s decision to retain Tisch as the city’s top cop, two sources with direct knowledge of the comment told the Daily News.

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A judge on Wednesday denied a pair of motions filed by a former Eastern Kentucky sheriff accused of killing a district judge last year.

Special Judge Christopher T. Cohron declined to dismiss a murder indictment against Shawn Stines, 44, who was captured on video shooting and killing Judge Kevin Mullins on Sept. 19, 2024, inside the judge’s ...Read more

ATLANTA — Catching hepatitis B is wildly more dangerous for babies than adults.

Most adults quickly recover and become immune. But about 90% of newborns with hepatitis B develop a long-haul version of the disease, then are at higher risk of liver cancer or cirrhosis.

Eventually, it kills about one in four people who were infected as newborns...Read more

NEW YORK —The city government’s corruption watchdog is still investigating Mayor Eric Adams over potential violations of local law in connection with his federal indictment — and has secured permission to obtain evidence that the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office used to bring the since-dismissed charges against him.

The ongoing probe by...Read more

The Johnston County district attorney told a judge Thursday he will seek the death penalty for a Zebulon man accused of killing four of his children.

Wellington Dickens III, 29, was arrested at his Springtooth Drive home Oct. 27 after he called 911 and told dispatchers he’d killed four of his children.

Officers found the bodies of 6-year-old...Read more

WASHINGTON — As the economy emerges as a likely defining issue in next year's midterm elections, President Donald Trump has wrestled with Americans' rising cost of living, declaring himself the "affordability president," then soon dismissing the issue as something that "does not mean anything to anybody."

At two White House events this week, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The ShakeAlert computer system that warns about the imminent arrival of shaking from earthquakes sent out a false alarm Thursday morning for a magnitude 5.9 temblor in Carson City, Nev., that did not actually happen.

The ShakeAlert blared on both the MyShake app and the Wireless Emergency Alert system — similar to an Amber ...Read more

The Trump administration’s threat to withhold money that Democratic-run states use to administer the SNAP food aid program unless officials release personal information about individual recipients puts 2 million people in Pennsylvania and more than 800,000 in New Jersey at risk of food insecurity.

On Wednesday, New Jersey Attorney General ...Read more

A Georgia supplier of law-enforcement uniforms was sentenced to eight years in prison on Tuesday after he was found guilty in Miami federal court of conspiring with a former South Florida banker to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to the ex-head of a Honduran government agency to secure a $10 million contract.

Carl Alan Zaglin, 70...Read more