TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — In the shadow of Florida’s Capitol, a supposedly closed boutique hotel has become an exclusive retreat for Gov. Ron DeSantis’ closest allies and top advisers — with a major supporter of the governor acting as gatekeeper.

Ostensibly closed for renovations, the Governor’s Inn is where DeSantis’ presidential ...Read more

Under a new executive order, prescription drug prices will be reduced “almost immediately.”

President Donald Trump, in a May 11 post on Truth Social

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President Donald Trump expressed high hopes for an executive order to reduce drug prices.

On May 11, the day before he held a White House event to sign the executive order, Trump posted...Read more

ATLANTA — In most states, when someone has been wrongfully convicted, exonerated by a court and freed from prison — often after being incarcerated for decades — the state will compensate them for the years they lost.

Beginning this year, Georgia will join the 38 other states that have a standardized way of compensating those who’ve ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — California has dozens of earthquakes every day. Most are below 3.0 magnitude, so small that they aren’t felt.

But a few, like the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, are massive, capable of widespread destruction. The last significant damaging earthquake in the Bay Area was the 6.0 South Napa Quake on Aug. 24, 2014, which ...Read more

Yosemite National Park's eastern entrance will reopen just in time for Memorial Day, officials announced this week.

Tioga Road — a popular scenic section of Highway 120 — has been closed because of ice and snow since November. It will reopen to all traffic at 8 a.m. Monday, according to the National Park Service.

The road is typically ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — On a Monday night in February, police say, Roberto Martinez took his 14-year-old son in the Pico-Union neighborhood on a graffiti spree.

With a can of yellow spray paint, they marked the facades of a pawn shop, laundromat and furniture store with the names of their gangs, according to a a Los Angeles Police Department detective ...Read more

NEW YORK — One man is dead after an explosion on a boat in the Hudson River on Saturday morning, officials said.

First responders rushed to the site of a small explosion on a docked boat around 10:34 a.m. on the Hudson River near W. 138th St. where a 59-year-old city employee was pronounced dead at the scene.

The incident — next to a West ...Read more

The Cessna 550 was flying into Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport in San Diego early Thursday morning amid dense fog.

For reasons that remain under investigation, the plane slammed into a residential neighborhood, causing multiple fires and leaving a massive debris field.

All six people on the plane were killed.

A spokesperson for Sound ...Read more

Switzerland’s bid for a U.S. trade deal risks sparking a showdown with one political force at least as feisty as President Donald Trump: its own farmers.

A country whose lush Alpine pastures, cowbells and cheese underpin the national identity, and whose agricultural lobby wields outsized influence to match, is in danger of a tough reckoning ...Read more

Billionaire Elon Musk said he needs to be “super focused” on his companies, pointing to issues at X as evidence of a need for “major” improvement at the social network.

“Back to spending 24/7 at work and sleeping in conference/server/factory rooms,” Musk wrote in a post on X on Saturday replying to news of outages on the platform. �...Read more

NEW YORK — The 37-year-old Crypto trader accused of kidnapping a 28-year-old Italian man inside a luxurious SoHo apartment repeatedly shocked his victim with electric wires, held him upside down from the top of a staircase, cut his leg with a saw and threatened to kill the victim’s family — all to get the password to the man’s Bitcoin ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein criticized FEMA’s denial Thursday of the state’s request to extend 100% federal reimbursement of Hurricane Helene debris removal costs.

North Carolina taxpayers will be on the hook for “potentially hundreds of millions of dollars” to clean up Western North Carolina, Stein, a Democrat, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Keith Puckett says he was heading to the gym to help prepare his son for basketball tryouts at El Segundo High School when a police officer passing in the opposite direction flipped a U-turn and stopped him.

Puckett, 47, a senior security program manager at Microsoft, was driving a weathered pickup truck he'd borrowed from a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The man just had his immigration case dismissed and his wife and 8-year-old son were trailing behind him when agents surrounded, then handcuffed him outside the downtown Los Angeles courtroom.

Erick Eduardo Fonseca Solorzano stood speechless. His wife trembled in panic. The federal agents explained in Spanish that he would be ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In November 2022, two men connected to a Metro safety program beat up another man on a station platform. Video footage, which The Times obtained last week, shows one of the workers squaring off before striking the man while the worker's colleague wearing a black shirt that says "security" jumps into the fray throwing fists. The ...Read more

Russia intensified its attacks on Ukraine’s capital, firing drones and missiles overnight after a seven-hour barrage of Kyiv on Saturday that was one of the most sustained in the four-year war.

The airstrikes, which spilled over into early Sunday, followed the second stage of a major prisoner of war swap. Another 307 prisoners on each side ...Read more

WARSAW — Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, who narrowly won the first round of Poland’s presidential election, is pushing back against the far right ahead of his runoff with opposition candidate Karol Nawrocki on June 1.

Trzaskowski, a party ally of Prime Minister Donald Tusk, faced off over Ukraine in a YouTube debate on Saturday with far-...Read more

SEATTLE — In signing Washington's new $78 billion two-year operating budget this week, Gov. Bob Ferguson praised what he called a "balanced" approach to solving a multibillion-dollar shortfall.

The budget, signed by the new governor with minimal changes, mixes major business tax increases with some cuts to agencies, funding pay raises for ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Lawmakers in the Nevada Legislature are staring down a busy final week of the 120-day session.

Friday was the last major deadline for the Silver State’s part-time legislature. But the work is far from over for hundreds of exempt bills, many of which have the biggest potential impacts on Nevadans — and looming uncertainty ...Read more