DETROIT — Investigators determined a gas leak caused an explosion early Monday at an apartment building on the city's east side that injured 13 people, three of whom remained in critical condition Tuesday.

Corey McIsaac, a spokeswoman for the Detroit Fire Department, said two adults remained in critical condition at Detroit Receiving Hospital...Read more

A 15-year-old girl was attacked during her swim test in Long Beach by a sea lion sickened by a recent toxic algae bloom, according to the girl's family.

On Sunday, Phoebe Beltran was completing her swim test for the cadet junior lifeguard program near 2100 Ocean Boulevard, she told The Times.

When she was swimming back during the 1,000-yard ...Read more

A federal appeals court panel Tuesday affirmed the convictions of the ringleaders of a plot to kidnap and harm Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, calling the crime a "textbook conspiracy."

The panel of three judges from the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, Ohio, issued the opinion in the cases of Barry Croft and Adam Fox more than two years...Read more

A Nevada law that has gone unenforced since it was enacted 40 years ago will go into effect at the end of the month, requiring parents to be notified if their minor daughter seeks an abortion.

A federal judge ruled Monday that since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, which protected a woman’s right to an abortion, there is no longer a legal ...Read more

An influential DFL (Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party) state legislator wants tougher laws on data centers to regulate their water use and require a 65% carbon-free energy supply as the first crop of projects moves into Minnesota to support cloud computing and artificial intelligence.

The bill introduced by Rep. Patty Acomb, DFL-Minnetonka, the top...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers moved forward four housing affordability bills Tuesday, one of their first concrete actions to lower costs for state residents so far this year.

During remarks to members Tuesday, Speaker of the Assembly Robert Rivas, D-Salinas, said the bills would “alter the trajectory of California’s housing ...Read more

WASHINGTON, D.C. — WASHINGTON — As he neared 24 hours of standing on the Senate floor speaking, Sen. Cory Booker held up his pocket Constitution Tuesday, his voice only slightly more strained than when he’d started.

“I keep going back to how this document is being undermined and attacked by this president,” Booker said, repeating a ...Read more

Legal questions and controversy are growing about immigration enforcement against international students after ICE’s arrest of a Turkish MBA student, Doğukan Günaydin, at the University of Minnesota last Friday.

The Department of Homeland Security told The Associated Press that the arrest followed the revocation of the student’s visa due ...Read more

BOSTON — First responders in Boston rushed four people to local hospitals after a driver of a Penske rental truck drove onto a Chinatown sidewalk during lunchtime on Tuesday, according to authorities.

Two of the victims taken to the hospital suffered serious injuries, Boston EMS posted on social media. Emergency responders treated two other ...Read more

DENVER — How passengers, some with their carry-on luggage in hand, evacuated an American Airlines plane that caught fire at Denver International Airport will be part of the federal investigation into the incident, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.

Photos showed passengers scrambling out on a wing above the smoke as ground...Read more

State lawmakers want to slash in half funding for Advanced Placement, dual enrollment and other college-level high school classes, a move that would cost Florida’s public schools millions of dollars.

Orange County Public Schools alone estimates it would lose nearly $17 million, while the Palm Beach County school district said it could lose ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams declined to say Tuesday how he plans to address a potential billion-dollar budget hole in the upcoming fiscal year as Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office again made clear the city would not be getting migrant funding that it’s seeking.

Hochul, now in the final stages of negotiating a state budget in Albany, has ...Read more

Nearly the entire staff of the federal agency funding museums and libraries was ordered to stop work Tuesday and employees were sent home, a White House official confirmed.

The official, speaking on background, said that roughly 80% of the 70 employees of the Institute of Museum and Library Services were placed immediately on administrative ...Read more

Miami-Dade must halt decades of adding fluoride to its drinking water under legislation that county commissioners approved Tuesday to end the anti-cavity program. But Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said she supports keeping fluoride in tap water and may veto the legislation, setting up a potential showdown over a national conservative movement ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Matt Cutler had been a longtime employee of the Administration for Community Living. But as of 5 a.m. Tuesday, he became one of thousands of Health and Human Services employees to lose their jobs in the latest sweeping round of cuts at the agency.

A few hours after he received a “reduction in force” email, Cutler was part of ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A pair of proposed ballot measures filed in Missouri would ask voters to force Tesla to close its Kansas City and St. Louis showrooms as the car company’s billionaire CEO Elon Musk faces blowback over federal layoffs.

Brad Ketcher, a St. Louis attorney who previously worked in the Missouri Governor’s Office under former...Read more

Survivors of the Pulse nightclub shooting and families of victims will be able to step inside the club ahead of its eventual demolition, a city spokesperson said Tuesday.

Such a visit was requested by some of the families since the city gained control over the building in Oct. 2023, and is now being planned for the week of June 9, the same week...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared open to upholding a federal law that allows lawsuits against the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian Liberation Organization seeking damages from terror attacks.

During oral arguments in two cases, justices repeatedly suggested that they owed deference to Congress’ decision in 2019 to ...Read more

WASHIINGTON — Republican allies of President Donald Trump said during a stormy House hearing Tuesday that they expect to pass legislation this week limiting the authority of federal judges to prevent the courts from staging a “judicial coup d′état.”

Leading Trump defenders clashed with Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin and other Democrats ...Read more

The U.S. military on Tuesday identified three of the four soldiers from Georgia’s Fort Stewart who were found dead this week after they were reported missing during a training mission in Lithuania.

They are Sgt. Jose Duenez Jr., 25, of Joliet, Illinois; Sgt. Edvin F. Franco, 25, of Glendale, California; and Pfc. Dante D. Taitano, 21, of ...Read more