SACRAMENTO, Calif. — It’s not COVID-19 or the flu, but a respiratory virus has been hammering Northern California cities including Sacramento and Davis, testing shows.

WastewaterSCAN data shows “high concentrations” of human metapneumovirus, or HMPV, in Sacramento and Davis, along with San Francisco, Marin, Vallejo, Napa, Novato and ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania had 12 confirmed cases of measles among state residents and another two involving visitors to the state as of Tuesday, the state Department of Health said.

Eight cases are associated with an outbreak in Lancaster County, where the state declared an outbreak involving five cases a month ago.

The latest case was ...Read more

NASA announced it had found the source of a helium flow blockage that forced it to roll the Artemis II rocket back from the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center and delay its lunar fly-by mission until at least April.

In an update to its website Tuesday, NASA stated that technicians had gained access to the launch vehicle stage adapter next to ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani called right-wing radio host Sid Rosenberg’s remarks bigoted and “dehumanizing” on Tuesday, after the personality called him a “Jew-hating cockroach” a day earlier.

Rosenberg is a mainstay of the Republican political scene in New York despite his track record of making racist and Islamophobic remarks....Read more

The Arizona sheriff leading the search for Nancy Guthrie, mother of “Today” show co-host Savannah Guthrie, is confident his investigators are making progress more than a month after her disappearance

In an interview Monday with NBC News correspondent Liz Kreutz, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said he believes officers “are definitely ...Read more

NEW YORK — Sean “Diddy” Combs is scheduled to be released from prison earlier than previously believed.

The Bureau of Prisons’ inmate locator shows that the music mogul convicted of transportation for prostitution is expected to be sprung from New Jersey’s FCI Fort Dix on April 25, 2028. He was previously expected to come home on June...Read more

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — William & Mary has joined a growing list of universities that have been rebuked by military leadership in a recent Pentagon effort to divert federal resources from institutions deemed “woke” and “anti-American.”

After saying in mid-February it was cutting ties with Harvard University, the Pentagon announced Friday ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the manslaughter conviction of the captain of the Conception dive boat who was in charge when 34 people died in a fire while trapped below deck over Labor Day weekend in 2019 off the Channel Islands.

Jerry Boylan, 72, was sentenced to four years in federal prison in May 2024 for his role...Read more

Members of the Iranian Graduate Student Association at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), said they have mixed emotions about the ongoing conflict between the U.S. and Iran, calling the situation “tragic” but also a potential path toward regime change.

Nearly 800 people have died in Iran and 11 in Israel as of Tuesday ...Read more

TAMPA BAY, Fla. — One week after a shoot-out between 10 men on a Florida-registered boat and Cuban authorities north of the island, the families of three Tampa Bay men involved — two dead, one detained — are still looking for answers.

They want to know what happened, whether they can bring their loved ones’ remains home and the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Minnesota sued the Trump administration late Monday for withholding $243 million in payments to the state over allegations of fraud within the state’s Medicaid program.

In the lawsuit, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison argues that the Trump administration’s actions violate the Fifth Amendment’s right to due process ...Read more

MIAMI — As Florida continues to press the Trump administration in federal court to cover $608 million in spending on its controversial “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention center, newly released records show Washington voiced concerns about the state’s budget proposals for reimbursement of the Everglades facility months ago.

The ...Read more

DETROIT — Two siblings who died last year of carbon monoxide poisoning in a Detroit casino parking garage during a cold winter night were not dressed for the weather, and the mother hadn't sought social service help from her children's school district or the state, found a recently released Detroit Police Department report on the deaths.

The ...Read more

MIAMI — At the center of Cuba’s story that its coast guard last week thwarted a counterrevolutionary invasion of the island is a 24-foot fishing boat reported stolen from the Florida Keys.

As the Cuban government tells it, 10 men took off from Marathon aboard two vessels and then piled everyone and everything onto one boat after the other ...Read more

Monroe Davids, 79, and his wife, Donna, 81, of Germantown, Maryland, were sitting in the living area of a Puerto Vallarta condominium last Sunday, each reading a novel when their quiet routine was shattered by a series of explosions outside.

The Davids left their one-bedroom condo to find out what was happening, but maintenance workers at his ...Read more

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey is deflecting blame for a whopping $364 million in SNAP payment errors in Fiscal Year 2024, while also explaining a letter from the Biden administration’s USDA urging her to clean up the food stamp program in Massachusetts and get its numbers back to “acceptable” levels.

“The Biden administration sent ...Read more

MIAMI — Mike Hammer, a career U.S. ambassador and currently the highest diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Havana, said he believes a change in government in Cuba will happen this year, adding to the string of voices predicting regime change on the island.

“We believe change is coming. It is coming in 2026,” Hammer said in remarks in English...Read more

NEW YORK — New York City Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels has pumped the breaks on a plan to close an Upper West Side middle school after a Black student fighting to save her school was interrupted by racist remarks in a controversial comment caught on a hot mic during an online meeting.

The proposal, if approved, would have phased out the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Four siblings who were part of Michael Jackson's secret "second family" have filed a lawsuit revealing the depths of the alleged sexual abuse they suffered as children, including claims that the singer molested one of the boys at the homes of Elton John and Elizabeth Taylor.

The lawsuit, filed against Jackson's estate in ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday offered a much different explanation for how the United States and Israel opted to launch a surprise war with Iran, contending he pushed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into the conflict.

The U.S. commander in chief offered a brief update on the war’s status, telling reporters in the Oval ...Read more