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LOS ANGELES — The deadline to apply for the government-run debris clearance program for the Eaton and Palisades fires has been extended by two weeks, and owners of some multiunit properties are now eligible, officials ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Maryland state senators have amended an energy bill to ease the burden on ratepayers struggling with pricey utility bills during the hottest and coldest months of the year.

The Senate Education, Energy and ...Read more

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey signed legislation Friday that allows local public bodies to continue meeting in hybrid or remote formats, an extension of COVID-era policies that Beacon Hill Democrats have routinely signed ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s snowpack made a solid rebound ahead of the summer months, thanks to a string of cold and wet storms that pounded the Sierra Nevada in February and March. But even with the late-season ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — To stave off a looming deficit, Minnesota Senate Democrats released a budget framework Friday that includes nearly $2.5 billion in spending cuts over the next four years and pullbacks on inflationary ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Offices, courthouses, a jail and a psychiatric facility throughout Maryland — most in downtown Baltimore — all found Legionella bacteria in their water systems last year, but state law doesn’t have any ...Read more

WATERBURY, Conn. — Kimberly Sullivan pleaded not guilty to allegations she held her stepson captive for 20 years in abusive conditions in a small storage room during a hearing Friday where a judge ordered that she be put...Read more

NEW YORK — A Rockefeller Center law firm representing Voice of America and its affiliates is claiming victory after winning a temporary restraining order against the Trump administration, which hopes to silence the ...Read more

MIAMI — A Miami-Dade County city has become the first to sue Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida’s attorney general in a legal challenge that could determine whether local governments are required to let their police ...Read more

A physical altercation inside the Kansas Statehouse on Friday ended with Capitol Police arresting Satanic church leader Michael Stewart, capping off a morning of inflammatory religious demonstration.

Stewart punched a man...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin, who has now spent nearly five months challenging his narrow loss in the November election, wore Confederate military attire as part of a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Two decades ago, the Bush administration said its “war on terror” prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay were off-limits to the federal courts, but the Supreme Court disagreed.

“A state of war is not a ...Read more

Vice President JD Vance jetted to Greenland on Friday as President Donald Trump continues to push for a U.S. takeover of the strategically important overseas Arctic territory of Denmark.

Vance and his wife Usha visited an...Read more

MIAMI — Hundreds of people swept up in the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration are being kept at an overcrowded detention center in Miami, sleeping on cement floors amid the stench of body odor and raw ...Read more

NEW YORK — Accused serial killer Rex Heuermann and his estranged wife, Asa Ellerup, have reached a divorce settlement, some two years after he was arrested for a string of slayings known as the Gilgo Beach murders.

The ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Ali, a UCLA student who joined pro-Palestinian protests last year, avoided arrest when riot police dismantled the school’s encampment last May. An international student who took part in a surge of campus ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Levels of lead and other heavy metals spiked in the coastal waters off Los Angeles after January's fires, raising serious concerns for the long-term health of fish, marine mammals and the marine food chain,...Read more

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Gov. JB Pritzker, in a text exchange with Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza, expressed concerns about Mayor Brandon Johnson’s ability to keep United Airlines’ headquarters in Chicago, another ...Read more