FRESNO, Calif. — Asian food sellers were notified last week they can no longer sell at River Park’s two farmers markets.

The vendors — selling everything from Lao sticky rice with steak to Filipino chicken adobo — were told they could no longer do business at the Fresno shopping center’s farmers markets on Tuesday evenings and ...Read more

HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Harrisburg man charged with the attempted homicide of Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family arrived at the governor’s mansion early Sunday armed with a hammer and gasoline-filled beer bottles. After walking for more than an hour in the middle of the night from his home to the estate in downtown Harrisburg, he was able to ...Read more

OAKLAND, Calif. — A mistrial was declared Monday in the trial of an FCI Dublin women’s prison guard accused of sexually preying on inmates at the now-shuttered facility, after jurors couldn’t agree on a verdict.

Deliberations were called off a week after the jurors began deliberating the fate of Darrell Smith, who faced 15 counts of ...Read more

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Monday that she temporarily hid her face from photographers in President Donald Trump's Oval Office last week simply because she didn't want her picture taken.

Whitmer, a second-term Democrat, made the comment at a meeting of the Detroit Economic Club after The New York Times published a photo Saturday of her...Read more

President Donald Trump’s tariff exclusions for smartphones and other tech products have added to a growing set of confusing signals for companies and trading partners digesting how to engage a White House still promising to negotiate dozens of new deals in America’s favor.

The dizzying weekend saw Trump exclude popular consumer electronics ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — An Idaho teenager with autism who was hospitalized for a week after being shot by police died over the weekend.

The Bannock County Coroner’s Office confirmed to the Idaho Statesman that Victor Perez, who was physically impaired, died after four officers from the Pocatello Police Department shot him several times outside his ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will ask lawmakers to cut more than $9 billion in funding for the Public Broadcasting Service, National Public Radio and foreign aid in the current fiscal year, an attempt to employ a little-used legislative tactic for reducing spending already approved by Congress.

The proposal — known as a rescission ...Read more

Monday’s magnitude 5.2 temblor marked another success for California’s earthquake early warning system, with users in some areas saying they received alerts on their phones before they felt shaking.

The alerts in some cases provided pivotal seconds of lead time — a heads-up that could be critical in the event of a major earthquake.

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said that he asked his counterpart Nayib Bukele if El Salvador could build more prisons to jail as many American criminals as possible — U.S. citizens included.

Seated next to President Bukele in the Oval Office on Monday, Trump said the U.S. could help the Central American nation add more prisons, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — American technology companies hoping for relief from President Trump's trade war with China grappled with further uncertainty Monday, left to decipher whether a government policy exempting businesses that are core to the U.S. economy from crippling tariffs could be relied upon.

An industry that plans product launches and ...Read more

NEW YORK — Former Alaska governor and Republican firebrand Sarah Palin was back in court Monday for a do-over in her defamation case against The New York Times.

A jury was selected to hear the case in Manhattan Federal Court, with opening statements set to begin Tuesday. After Palin initially lost her case in February 2022, a federal appeals ...Read more

BOSTON — Norfolk DA prosecutors plan to use Karen Read’s statements from several TV interviews against her in the upcoming retrial.

The DA’s Office on Monday said it intends to “introduce extrajudicial statements of the defendant” when the Read retrial finally gets going.

Prosecutors allege that Read struck John O’Keefe, a Boston ...Read more

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto aims to cut taxes for Nevadans with two pieces of legislation she co-introduced last week.

The Tax Cut for Workers Act — introduced alongside Colorado Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet — will triple the Earned Income Tax Credit, known as the “Worker Tax Cut,” and will expand eligibility to workers who are under ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A magnitude 5.2 earthquake ruptured in San Diego County on Monday — jolting Southern California and providing a reminder of the power of the Elsinore fault, which is capable of spawning even more potent shaking across densely populated swaths of the region.

The epicenter of Monday’s earthquake, which hit at 10:08 a.m. ...Read more

CHICAGO — Members of the Chicago Teachers Union voted to ratify a new contract with Chicago Public Schools, marking the first time in 15 years that the union settled its contract without a strike or a strike vote.

It has been far from easy to get the tentative agreement across the finish line, despite the union’s ally, Mayor Brandon Johnson...Read more

A Georgia man is accused of threatening to harm Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and her family, prosecutors said Monday.

Aliakbar Mohammad Amin, 25, of Lilburn, was arrested Friday and charged with transmitting interstate threats after he allegedly sent text messages that stated how Gabbard and her family are “going to die ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — A magnitude- 5.2 earthquake near Julian rattled much of Southern California just after 10 a.m. Monday, prompting brief evacuations in downtown San Diego and shaking cities as far away as Oxnard and Palm Springs.

The temblor, with an epicenter 3 miles south of Julian, caused especially hard shaking there and in Ramona, San Diego ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — It has been nearly six years since federal prosecutors here revealed the first of two massive prosecutions aimed at moving incarcerated Aryan Brotherhood members out of the state prison system for the stated goal of keeping the public safe.

But two jury trials and three guilty pleas later, none of the nine Aryan ...Read more