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

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is expressing “deep concern” over a wave of U.S. air and naval strikes in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific that have killed more than 80 people since early September, as the first formal complaint tied to one of those attacks lands before the organization.

Earlier this week, the family of a...Read more

ATLANTA – A federal judge on Wednesday considered whether to dismiss a lawsuit challenging provisions of a 2024 state elections law that changed where homeless voters could receive election mail and strengthened the ability of activists to challenge the eligibility of voters.

The consolidated suit seeks to overturn that voter eligibility ...Read more

BARDSTOWN, Ky. — During next year’s legislative session, the Kentucky Republican supermajority will craft a budget aimed at incentivizing housing and supporting public education. Policy will closely follow recommendations from experts who testified in Frankfort during the summer months on health, artificial intelligence, aviation and more, ...Read more

President Vladimir Putin arrived in New Delhi for his first state visit to India since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, showcasing warming ties that have angered the U.S. and led to hefty trade tariffs.

Putin was welcomed at the airport by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who embraced the Russian leader after he disembarked from his ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Local officials are warning that more than 14,500 L.A. County formerly homeless households in subsidized, permanent housing could be forced back onto the streets or into shelters over the next year, mostly because of a loss of federal funding.

The predicted displacement would wipe away the slight reduction in the local homeless ...Read more

President Vladimir Putin arrived in New Delhi for his first state visit to India since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, showcasing warming ties that have angered the U.S. and led to hefty trade tariffs.

Putin was welcomed at the airport by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who embraced the Russian leader after he disembarked from his ...Read more

Ukrainian negotiators will join a new round of talks in Florida as Russian President Vladimir Putin said some of the points in a U.S.-backed peace plan were unacceptable to him, the latest sign an agreement likely remains distant.

The negotiations are difficult, and Moscow disagrees with some of what’s been suggested by the U.S., Putin said ...Read more

China continued to voice its frustration with Japan after new comments from Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi reaffirming Tokyo’s long-held position that it understands and respects Beijing’s view on Taiwan.

At a regular press briefing on Thursday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian questioned Takaichi’s remarks. “Now that Prime ...Read more

India will pay about $2 billion to lease a nuclear-powered submarine from Russia, according to people familiar with the matter, finalizing delivery of the vessel after roughly a decade of talks just as President Vladimir Putin makes a visit to New Delhi this week.

Talks for leasing the attack submarine from Russia had stalled over the years ...Read more

MIAMI — A former administrator at a South Florida nursing school was found guilty Wednesday on charges of collaborating with the owner and recruiters in selling about 1,000 fake diplomas for millions of dollars to students recruited from Texas.

Stephanie Dorisca, the ex-director of nursing at Techni-Pro Institute in Boca Raton, was convicted ...Read more

WARRENTON, Mo. — Distributing food stamps soon could get even harder for Missouri’s food aid system, which a federal judge has already called “broken and inaccessible.”

States depend heavily on federal funds to operate their food stamp programs, which help feed about 42 million people nationwide. But a new federal law has restructured ...Read more