LOS ANGELES — The national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have altered their website on autism and vaccines, removing unequivocal statements that immunizations don’t cause the neurodevelopmental disorder and replacing them with inaccurate and misleading information about the links between the shots and autism.

Until Wednesday, ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Thursday denounced as “traitors” a group of Democratic lawmakers who have called on military service members to defy orders that are illegal or violate the Constitution.

In a string of posts on his social media site, Trump derided the six Democrats, all of whom are military veterans, for their recent video message ...Read more

The Trump administration on Thursday announced plans to open federal waters in the Pacific Ocean to new oil and gas leases for the first time in more than four decades.

The draft plan released by the U.S. Department of the Interior confirms rumors that have been swirling for weeks. The proposal would see as many as 34 offshore lease sales ...Read more

The National Transportation Safety Board detailed in a preliminary report Thursday how the UPS cargo plane that crashed in Louisville, Kentucky, earlier this month didn’t get higher than about 30 feet above the ground, based on data from a flight data recorder.

The Nov. 4 crash near UPS’ cargo hub at Louisville Muhammad Ali International ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate Agriculture Committee on Thursday advanced, along party lines, the nomination of Michael Selig to be chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

The panel approved Selig’s confirmation to replace CFTC acting Chairman Caroline Pham, 12-11. Thursday’s vote comes on the heels of his Wednesday nomination ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday called for Michigan U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin and other Democratic lawmakers to be arrested and possibly executed over their remarks in a recent video urging members of the U.S. military and intelligence community to refuse unspecified illegal orders.

In a remarkable message on social media, ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A student who claims they were sexually assaulted at a football camp this summer is suing the McCreary County School District, superintendent and high school football coach.

The suit, filed Nov. 19 in federal court, accuses Superintendent Clint Taylor, football coach Sam Marple and the district of negligence, negligent ...Read more

Gov. Maura Healey is calling on President Donald Trump to release Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) funding as cold weather begins settling in New England.

Healey urged the president to release the funds in remarks Thursday after the Trump administration announced that LIHEAP funding will not be restored until the end of the ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said he isn’t worried that President Donald Trump might try to embarrass him during their high-stakes White House meeting on Friday.

“I’m not concerned about this meeting, I view this meeting as an opportunity for me to make my case,” Mamdani told reporters Thursday when asked if he’s concerned ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Parts of the left wing on the UPS airplane that crashed in Louisville Nov. 4, killing 14 people, had fatigue cracks and signs of overstress, according to a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board.

The NTSB’s report was released Thursday, a little more than two weeks after the plane crashed near ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sen. Thom Tillis called for oversight of the use of the U.S. Border Patrol in Charlotte during a Senate hearing Thursday.

Border Patrol agents began appearing throughout Charlotte Saturday near places like grocery stores, schools and churches, rounding up Hispanic residents, often forcefully, and with little information about ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday called for Michigan Democratic U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin and other Democratic lawmakers to be arrested and put on trial over their remarks in a recent video urging members of the U.S. military and intelligence community to refuse unspecified illegal orders.

In a remarkable message on social media...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republicans won a significant political victory this month when moderate Senate Democrats joined them to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, relenting from a showdown over the rising costs of health care.

But the fight is already back on, with mere weeks to spare before the Trump administration faces a potential...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Eaton fire was marching toward western Altadena even earlier than previously believed, a state-commissioned report confirmed this week, raising further questions about why it took L.A. County officials so long to order evacuations in the neighborhood where 18 people died.

The fire erupted Jan. 7 at 6:18 p.m. fueled by ...Read more

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson on Thursday sought to head off concerns about public transit safety in the wake of a man accused of lighting a woman on fire on the CTA Blue Line.

Asked at an unrelated West Side news conference whether the alleged attacker should have been out on the street, Johnson did not say directly but maintained the act ...Read more

CHICAGO — A federal appeals court has temporarily halted the release on bond of hundreds of immigrants whose arrests during Operation Midway Blitz are being challenged under a consent decree that limits so-called warrantless arrests that occur without a prior warrant or probable cause.

U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings had allowed their ...Read more