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Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law Thursday evening to ban oil drilling along the Apalachicola River in northwest Florida, delivering a win for both environmentalists and fishermen who said the ban was essential to ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey on Thursday filed a federal lawsuit to strike down portions of a Jackson County firearm ordinance enacted in the wake of a mass shooting at the 2024 Kansas City ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Actor Rick Hurst, best known as dim-witted Deputy Cletus Hogg on the TV show “The Dukes of Hazzard,” has died unexpectedly in Los Angeles. He was 79.

“It doesn’t seem right that Rick Hurst passed ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is pressing ahead with plans to slash staff at the top U.S. spy agency, determined to act at a time when he has openly challenged its director and rejected intelligence findings that ...Read more

OAKLAND, Calif. — A new study has found that Black residents in Alameda County and people living in poorer neighborhoods are more likely to die from shootings, while proposed cuts to prevention programs may reverse the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday delayed a decision on the constitutionality of Louisiana’s congressional districts, announcing in a brief order it wanted more information and the case would be reargued in the ...Read more

Top Florida Republicans seem to be relishing their moment in the swamp.

On Friday, Gov. Ron DeSantis continued his publicity blitz around the “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention facility the state is building ...Read more

The writer-director Sarah Friedland makes little mystery of her main character’s circumstances in the first few minutes of “Familiar Touch,” a plaintive triumph now in theaters.

In a sunny Los Angeles apartment, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a national preventive care coverage mandate in a decision that could allow the Health and Human Services secretary more control over the task force that issues ...Read more

The Trump administration is putting an end to Haiti’s temporary protected status designation, dealing yet another devastating blow to roughly a half-million Haitian nationals, some of whom have lived in the United States...Read more

As the decades-long debate over the role of religion in public school education continues to spark legislation and legal challenges in the United States, a new poll reveals the nuanced views held among the general public. ...Read more

To judge from the reaction among the AI crowd, a federal judge's Monday ruling in a copyright infringement case was a clear win for all the AI firms that use published material to "train" their chatbots.

"We are pleased ...Read more

A proposal to pause a planned tax hike on retail cannabis has set off alarm bells among child safety advocates whose substance use prevention and treatment work depends on funds generated by sales of cannabis products. ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A Yolo County judge declared a mistrial Friday in the case against former University of California, Davis student Carlos Reales Dominguez after jurors acquitted him of one murder charge and failed to...Read more

California lawmakers are poised to delay the state’s much-ballyhooed new law mandating in vitro fertilization insurance coverage for millions, set to take effect July 1. Gov. Gavin Newsom has asked lawmakers to push the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Citing the explosion of online porn, the Supreme Court ruled Friday that states may enforce age verification laws in hopes of screening out children and young teens.

By a 6-3 vote, the justices rejected a ...Read more

As fired and retired scientists rallied outside in the Atlanta heat, an advisory panel that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. handpicked to replace experts he’d fired earlier met inside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...Read more

NEW YORK — A lawyer for Sean “Diddy” Combs on Friday told a Manhattan jury that federal prosecutors trying him on sex trafficking and RICO charges had made felonies out of his sexual fetishes and an innocent “...Read more

DETROIT — Authorities seized more than 400 pounds of suspected cocaine this month on the Canadian side of the Blue Water Bridge.

The Canada Border Services Agency said the suspected drugs have an estimated street value ...Read more