WASHINGTON — A coalition of 23 states and the District of Columbia are suing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services over its termination of $11 billion in public health grants, officials said.

The affected funding includes mental health and substance abuse grants, as well as Centers for Disease Control and Prevention grants intended...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers on Tuesday rejected Republican-sponsored bills to limit trans high school athletes participation in girls’ and women’s sports, the latest clash in a high-octane debate that continues to divide the nation.

Despite hours of passionate testimony, the outcome was never really in question in a ...Read more

A majority of people in most religious traditions support abortion being legal in the U.S., as do most Americans, a new poll found.

However, four major religious groups — Hispanic Protestants, Latter-day Saints, white evangelical Protestants and Jehovah’s Witnesses — for the most part believe abortion should be illegal, according to an ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — In what could be one of the first arrests under a bathroom bill lawmakers passed in 2023, Florida police earlier this month jailed a transgender woman who washed her hands in a women’s restroom at the Capitol.

Marcy Rheintgen, a 20-year-old Illinois resident, was arrested by Capitol police March 19 on a trespassing ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union argued to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday that the Trump administration had not satisfied an “exceedingly high burden” required to override a judge’s temporary order to stop migrant deportations to a notorious Salvadoran mega prison.

In a 42-page filing to the justices, the ...Read more

NEW YORK — One of the many sexual assault lawsuits against Sean “Diddy” Combs was dismissed Monday in Manhattan Federal Court.

The woman who filed the lawsuit as Jane Doe was ordered March 6 to identify herself in court documents, or the case would be dismissed. The woman never refiled, so Manhattan Federal Judge Lewis Liman tossed the ...Read more

DEDHAM, Mass. — The Karen Read retrial officially got underway Tuesday in Norfolk Superior Court with the start of jury selection.

The Read trial has been anything but quiet since Judge Beverly J. Cannone declared a mistrial last summer.

Court Clerk James McDermott opened court Monday at 9:28 a.m., after which Cannone immediately entered ...Read more

DENVER — A passenger aboard the American Airlines flight that caught fire last month after diverting to and landing at Denver International Airport is suing the airline, according to a lawsuit filed in Denver District Court this week.

Jerry Adamson, a Texas man among the 172 passengers and six crew members who were forced to evacuate the ...Read more

Australian officials said there were “no reported injuries” in a car crash believed to have involved Virginia Giuffre, one of the women who accused Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew of sexual abuse.

Giuffre, one of the most prominent victims of the disgraced Hollywood mogul, shared on social media Sunday that she had “gone into kidney ...Read more

DENVER — A second Coloradan suspected of trying to set a Loveland Tesla store on fire was indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with possessing an unregistered firearm and attempted property destruction.

Cooper Jo Frederick, 24, of Fort Collins was arrested in Plano, Texas, after a grand jury indicted him on two felony counts Thursday,...Read more

DENVER — The next two weeks will determine whether a single measles case in Colorado fizzles out or starts an outbreak.

An unvaccinated adult who lives in Pueblo developed measles after visiting a part of Mexico that has an ongoing outbreak, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.

The person could have exposed ...Read more

NEW YORK — A 27-year-old man held on Rikers Island died Monday night, bringing the total number of jail deaths there to five in 2025.

According to the New York City Department of Correction account, staffers saw that Dashawn Jenkins was “visibly ill” at the George R. Vierno Center about 9:18 p.m.

They provided aid and notified medical ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman's move to stymie a bid for freedom from Erik and Lyle Menendez ignores the facts of the case and is motivated by political self-interest, the brothers' attorneys argue in a new court filing.

Hochman's predecessor, George Gascón, sought resentencing for the brothers in the 1989...Read more

LOS ANGELES — When the White House fired a federal prosecutor last week in Los Angeles, it could’ve been dismissed as an isolated case, with the administration targeting a one-time Democratic congressional candidate who had slammed President Donald Trump on the campaign trail.

But in the days since, it’s become clear the dismissal is part...Read more

President Donald Trump sowed confusion Tuesday as he continued to threaten hefty tariffs on imported goods even as White House advisers admitted they don’t know the details.

With what Trump has branded “Liberation Day” looming, the Republican president still had not released details of the potentially extensive new taxes on foriegn-made ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — One person died and another was injured Monday night after falling from a border barrier in San Diego, Border Patrol officials said.

Border Patrol agents found two people “who appeared to have fallen from the border barrier” attempting to enter the United States around 11 p.m., the agency said in a statement.

The San Diego ...Read more

WASHINGTON — First came Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ouster of a top official at the Department of Health and Human Services’ vaccine division. Then, the HHS chief axed the people overseeing new drug reviews and tobacco, while placing on leave Anthony Fauci’s successor at the National Institutes of Health.

The efforts to push out senior ...Read more