A 2024 letter reveals that even the President Biden administration urged Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey to clean up the state’s SNAP program, which was recently found by state and federal authorities and a whistleblower report, to be the subject of tens of millions of dollars in public benefits fraud.

Healey claims that allegations of fraud ...Read more

The most wanted man in Mexico was hiding out next to a country club.

When Mexican special forces soldiers attacked the hideout of Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes — the cartel boss known as "El Mencho" — they descended on his luxurious compound in the mountains outside Guadalajara.

A cluster of seven upscale cabins situated on a steep ...Read more

The U.S. and Israel's airstrikes on Iran drew conflicting responses in Western Washington, including among Seattle-area Iranian Americans who praised the military action and others who condemned the strikes as unjustified and foolhardy.

In Bellevue on Saturday morning, a crowd of demonstrators rallied at the Wilburton Park and Ride. Dozens of ...Read more

A man wanted in a fatal November shooting at an Elk Grove, California, restaurant remained beyond the reach of Sacramento-area law enforcement and was awaiting federal sentencing at an ICE detention facility in Texas after admitting he was caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border using a false identity.

Last month, Elk Grove police announced that...Read more

A few months after officials in Norfolk, Va., unsuccessfully tried to oust a controversial electoral board member, state lawmakers are considering several bills that would make it easier to remove registrars and board members who do not perform their duties.

One bill, HB78, would make a board member’s failure to certify an election punishable...Read more

The U.S. said it suffered its first casualties in the war with Iran, which spread to several countries in the Middle East and threatened to upend energy markets.

Three U.S. service members were killed and five “seriously wounded” during operations against the Islamic Republic, U.S. Central Command said on Sunday, without giving further ...Read more

One month before President Xi Jinping and Donald Trump are set to convene at a much-touted summit in China, the U.S. leader’s toppling of another friend of China risks stoking tensions between the world’s biggest economies.

After U.S. and Israeli military strikes on Iran wiped out the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader, Chinese Foreign ...Read more

The U.S. reported the first Americans killed in a war with Iran as each side pledged escalating strikes in the days ahead.

Iran’s retaliation has spread across the region in the wake of massive missile attacks that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other senior officials. President Donald Trump said the U.S. sunk nine Iranian ...Read more

The County of San Diego has hired a Washington, D.C.-based law firm to lobby federal officials on the Tijuana River sewage crisis, a contract worth up to $637,200 over five years, according to county records.

Best Best & Krieger LLP, known as BBK, was selected through a competitive process in which the county received four bids, according to ...Read more

The U.S. and Israel launched coordinated, massive missile attacks on Iran that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The strikes targeted the country’s military and were intended to prevent it from developing a nuclear weapon.

Iran countered with missile strikes at targets across the Mideast. The market impacts, particularly on oil, ...Read more

Donald Trump was done negotiating.

For weeks he assembled an armada of carriers and destroyers in the waters of the Middle East, bolstered by squadrons of F-35 and F-22 jets dispatched to allied bases around the region. It was the largest U.S. buildup since the 2003 Iraq war that toppled Saddam Hussein.

Trump’s goal was to pressure Iran’...Read more

The U.S. said the first Americans have been killed in the war with Iran that’s spread to several countries in the Middle East, while threatening to upend energy markets.

Three U.S. service members were killed and five “seriously wounded” during operations against the Islamic Republic, U.S. Central Command said on Sunday, without giving ...Read more

After the largest buildup of U.S. warships and aircraft in the Middle East in decades, American and Israeli military forces launched a massive assault on Iran on Feb. 28, 2026.

President Donald Trump has called the attacks “major combat operations” and has urged regime change in Tehran. Iranian media reported Supreme Leader ...Read more

When Lisa Bonfield gave birth to daughter Adele in late November, she was thrust into the new world of parenting, and faced an onslaught of challenges and skills to learn: breastfeeding, diapering, sleep routines, colic, crying, and all the little warning signs that something could be wrong with the baby.

But unlike parents in most of the U.S.,...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Irked residents across Southern California have recently complained to their vector control districts about an onslaught of mosquito activity, many sporting ankle bites to prove it. Local mosquito experts blame the unseasonable weather pattern and a thriving invasive species for the surge in itchy bites.

Vector control districts...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. —The University of South Carolina in routinely evaluates its extensive program offerings, observing student demand and acting accordingly.

SC President Michael Amiridis told legislators in January that the school has both added and cut programs over the past several years.

“We pay attention to what is needed, what is needed ...Read more

Thousands of flights have been disrupted in the wake of the escalating conflict engulfing the Middle East, with Dubai’s main airport — the world’s busiest aviation hub — effectively shut down after it was hit by a suspected aerial strike.

There have been more than 2,300 flight cancellations in the region, from Bahrain to Tel Aviv, in ...Read more

TEHRAN, Iran — The U.S. and Israel pummeled Iran early Saturday in an attack aimed at razing the Islamic Republic’s nuclear ambitions and thwarting its efforts to influence the Middle East though proxies such as Hezbollah and Hamas.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in the attack, according to President Donald Trump...Read more