LEXINGTON, Ky. — A Kentucky Republican legislator wants to limit eligibility for local offices to only natural-born U.S. citizens.

State Rep. Shane Baker, R-Somerset, filed a bill Wednesday that would block anyone not born in the U.S. or who has citizenship in another country from holding the offices of mayor, city council, county fiscal ...Read more

A federal judge weighing one of several court challenges to the Trump administration’s decision to revoke temporary legal protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitians in the U.S. is questioning how a dozen countries with the same benefit suddenly arrived at the same fate.

Judge Ana C. Reyes of the Federal District Court in Washington ...Read more

NEW YORK — Jocelyn Strauber is stepping down as commissioner of the city’s Department of Investigation after being told her status at the agency was uncertain, the New York Daily News has leaned.

Strauber decided to resign after the Mamdani administration had initiated a hiring process that included reviewing other candidates for the ...Read more

NASA announced a single crew member suffered a medical situation Wednesday on board the International Space Station that forced the postponement of a planned spacewalk. It has since said the crew member is stable, but that the Crew-11 mission may need to leave earlier than planned.

“Safely conducting our missions is our highest priority, and ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday unveiled a sweeping proposal to overhaul how California's education system is governed, calling for structural changes that he said would shift oversight of the Department of Education and redefine the role of the state's elected schools chief.

The proposal, which is part of Newsom's state ...Read more

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez decried the killing of an unarmed Minneapolis mom by a federal immigration agent as “murder” and accused President Donald Trump of lying about the shocking incident.

The progressive lawmaker said videos of the killing of motorist Renee Nicole Good show that the unidentified Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...Read more

NEW YORK — Gov. Kathy Hochul is set to announce a universal child care program for 2-year-olds along with Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday, a boon to one of the mayor’s signature campaign promises.

The governor was expected to details those plans, which would start rolling out this fall and be fully phased in by the 2029-30 school year, in...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The fatal shooting Wednesday of a 37-year-old woman by a federal immigration agent during an operation in Minneapolis has sparked public outrage and protests across the country, including in California, where agents have been involved in some shootings.

California lawmakers and immigrant rights groups condemned the killing of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The University of California enrolled a record number of Californians in fall 2025, according to data released Thursday, touting the vitality and popularity of a system under attack by the Trump administration and grappling with federal funding cuts and state budget belt-tightening.

More than 301,000 students attended one of UC'...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In his final State of the State address, Gov. Gavin Newsom will look to define his legacy by touting California's economic and policy achievements while casting the state as a counterweight to dysfunction in Washington.

The speech, which he will deliver Thursday morning to lawmakers in the Capitol, highlights economic strength, ...Read more

Israel pushed back against Lebanon’s assertion that militias in the south of the Arab country had been disarmed, saying efforts to force Hezbollah to lay down its weapons were “far from sufficient.”

In a statement on Thursday, the Lebanese army said it achieved the first phase of a larger strategy to disarm all militias on its soil. The ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — There were no stars in the October sky. No moon that 64-year-old Masuma Khan could see from the narrow window of the California City Immigration Processing Center.

"No planes," she said, recalling her confinement.

Once a prison, the facility in the Mojave Desert, located 67 miles east of Bakersfield, reopened in April to hold ...Read more

Lenia Watson-Burton, a 37-year-old U.S. Navy administrator, expected that cosmetic surgery would get rid of stubborn fat quickly and easily — just as the web advertising promised.

Instead, she died three days after a liposuction-like procedure called AirSculpt at the San Diego office of Elite Body Sculpture, a cosmetic surgery chain with more...Read more

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — It’s hemmed in by Israel’s tanks and troops. U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened it with annihilation. But Hamas, defiant in the ruins of less than half of Gaza, is clawing its way back to a semblance of pre-war governance.

Surviving civil servants have returned to work. Taxes are being collected, including...Read more

MIAMI — Venezuelan artist Pedro Martín didn’t waste any time celebrating Nicolás Maduro’s capture in the way he knows best. So on Saturday, with cans of spray paint, he headed to Wynwood, the Miami neighborhood famous for its murals.

When Martín saw the photo of Maduro in handcuffs, he knew that would be the subject of his mural. So he...Read more

In 2013, before the Affordable Care Act helped millions get health insurance, California’s Placer County provided limited health care to some 3,400 uninsured residents who couldn’t afford to see a doctor.

For several years, that number has been zero in the predominantly white, largely rural county stretching from Sacramento’s eastern ...Read more