The first human case of West Nile virus in Illinois has been confirmed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health.

The state agency announced Tuesday evening that a southern Illinois resident tested positive for the virus after being hospitalized. This is the earliest in the year that a human ...Read more

FRESNO, Calif. — Five of the eight people who died after their boat flipped Saturday in Lake Tahoe were from Northern California, and three were from upstate New York, according to the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office.

The Sheriff’s Office Coroner’s Division identified the eight people who died in a suddenly intensified thunderstorm ...Read more

A statement by Kentucky GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell that people will “get over” proposed Medicaid cuts drew strong reaction on social media Tuesday night, particularly among Democrats.

McConnell was speaking at a private lunch meeting among Republican Senators Tuesday when he said: “I know a lot of us are hearing from people back home about ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As Los Angeles became the epicenter of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants, Department of Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem flew to the city and held a news conference, saying the government’s objective was to “bring in criminals that have been out on our street far too long.”

But data from the...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — The Fort Worth City Council voted Tuesday, June 24, to delay a vote on whether to suspend city programs that promote diversity, equity and inclusion and instead instructed city staff to create a plan to sustain such programs.

After a two-hour discussion, the council voted 9-2 to find a way to sustain DEI programs such as ...Read more

DETROIT — Muslim groups in Michigan on Tuesday condemned the U.S. and Israeli bombing of three nuclear facilities over the weekend in Iran and Israel’s continuing war against Hamas in Gaza as President Donald Trump declared a ceasefire was in effect between Israel and Iran.

The Imams Council of Michigan and the Michigan chapter of the ...Read more

An early assessment of damage done to the Iranian nuclear facilities struck by U.S. bombers on Saturday reportedly indicates those sites were not “fully obliterated” as President Donald Trump has claimed.

Multiple sources briefed on the condition of the core components of Iran’s atomic program told The Associated Press and CNN that while ...Read more

After galvanizing an industry, sparking death threats for state lawmakers and creating a divide between the House and Senate, a bill prohibiting shrimp trawling in North Carolina’s sounds was the topic of the day on Tuesday when hundreds of shrimpers flooded the Legislative Building to oppose what they called “Shrimpgate.”

House Bill 442 ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Citing successes other police departments across the country have seen using drones, the Los Angeles Police Commission said it would allow the LAPD to deploy unmanned aircraft on routine emergency calls.

The civilian oversight body approved an updated policy Tuesday allowing drones to be used in more situations, including "...Read more

CHICAGO — Despite his persistent claims of innocence, Chester Weger lived six decades in prison after confessing to the haunting 1960 Starved Rock State Park murders of three suburban Chicago women who were attacked during a hike in broad daylight.

Dubbed the infamous “Starved Rock Killer,” Weger finally won his freedom more than five ...Read more

The North Carolina House and Senate continue to clash on the state budget and Helene funding for recovery efforts.

House lawmakers voted unanimously on Tuesday not to approve changes made by the Senate to a Helene recovery bill initially filed by the House but later overhauled by the Senate.

Still, a top lawmaker involved in negotiations on ...Read more

The North Carolina state Senate has approved a bill that expands the rights of parents to object to school library books and assignments that clash with their beliefs.

House Bill 805, which has gone through substantial changes since its inception, also bans the use of state funding to pay for health care for transgender prison inmates, among ...Read more

Columbia University is investigating whether a widespread system outage Tuesday was the result of a cyberattack on the Ivy League school, according to people familiar with the situation.

The university said in a statement that it’s working with law enforcement after experiencing an outage affecting its IT systems on its Upper West Side campus...Read more

The Public Utilities Commission of Nevada has approved an investigation into NV Energy for overcharging “tens of thousands” of customers.

On Monday, PUC voted to approve a formal investigation into the utility to identify “the full extent of misclassifications of customers and how such misclassifications occurred, whether NV Energy ...Read more

BEIRUT — An initial damage assessment by the Pentagon said U.S. military strikes over the weekend failed to fully destroy Iranian nuclear sites, and that Iran’s nuclear program had suffered a setback that amounted to a few months.

The Defense Intelligence Agency’s classified report, which was first reported by CNN, casts doubt on the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday appeared to undermine years of U.S. sanctions on Iran, giving its biggest customer China the green light to carry on buying its oil as he seeks to bolster a ceasefire with Israel.

The announcement on social media — which surprised both oil traders and officials in his own government — could ...Read more