LOS ANGELES — Communities have used loud sirens to warn people about approaching storms, tsunamis and tornadoes, but now some activists in Los Angeles are using sirens to warn about immigration agents.

Since President Donald Trump took office, Los Angeles communities have seen a stark increase in the number of U.S. Immigration and Customs ...Read more

Nearly three times as many Pennsylvania adults gamble online today than just a few years ago.

And as online platforms make gambling easier and more convenient, some Pennsylvanians are gambling more often and may be more prone to developing problems.

We are researchers at Penn State’s Criminal Justice Research Center and the ...Read more

The past three years have been the world’s hottest on record by far, with 2025 almost tied with 2023 for second place. With that energy came extreme weather, from flash flooding to powerful hurricanes and severe droughts. Yet, by most indicators, the planet should have been cooler in 2025 than it was.

So, what happened, and what ...Read more

Northeast Park Hill, a Denver neighborhood, has a long history of violence. During Denver’s summer of violence in the early 1990s, it was considered ground zero for gang conflict.

From the late 1990s through 2014, violent crime in Northeast Park Hill declined from its peak in the early ’90s but remained persistently higher than ...Read more

As the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran, American citizens living in or visiting the Middle East found themselves stranded in countries facing bombing attacks by Iran. The State Department on March 2, 2026, urged Americans in 14 Middle Eastern countries to leave via “available commercial transportation, due to serious safety risks.�...Read more

In Greek mythology, King Sisyphus was condemned by the god Zeus to spend eternity rolling a boulder up a hill only to have it roll back down, having to start anew every day.

His story captured our attention as researchers studying neglected tropical diseases – a collection of conditions that primarily affect poor people in low-...Read more

NEW YORK — The Mamdani administration appointed three new upper-level staffers at the city’s Department of Transportation Thursday.

“I am honored to welcome Tiffany-Ann Taylor as chief strategy officer, Madeline Labadie as chief of staff, and Sindhu Bharadwaj as director of strategic initiatives — three exceptional leaders whose policy ...Read more

OLYMPIA — A day after the Senate passed a revised income tax bill, Gov. Bob Ferguson on Tuesday called it a “good start” and for the first time detailed his conditions for signing it, including $1 billion in small business-tax relief and a major expansion of the state’s Working Families Tax Credit.

Ferguson's stipulations come two weeks...Read more

The Washington Legislature passed a bill Tuesday requiring landlords to disclose if a rental property is at risk for flooding and recommend tenants consider buying flood insurance.

The bill now heads to the governor’s desk. If signed, the requirement would only apply to leases entered into after Dec. 31, 2026.

The legislation is in direct ...Read more

The Golden State’s taxpayers could fund a $23 billion bond to replace federal grants that once supercharged scientific research in California under a proposal making its way through the statehouse.

That’s the idea behind a new bill, Senate Bill 895, which would create a state-level taxpayer-funded institute similar to the National ...Read more

For years, Europe has endured President Donald Trump’s complaints that it is a complacent continent hiding under America’s security umbrella. Now, as he launches the first open-ended military campaign of his presidency, its leaders find themselves holding something he still needs: their bases, airspace and strategic geography.

Trump this ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen said Thursday he is seeking Republican Senate support for legislation he considers critical to ensuring Americans aren’t paying the tab for massive amounts of energy required by new data centers.

Van Hollen and Maryland Reps. Johnny Olszewski Jr., Kweisi Mfume and Andy Harris said at a news ...Read more

The Pentagon said it has formally notified Anthropic PBC that it’s determined the company and its products pose a risk to the U.S. supply chain, according to a senior defense official, escalating a dispute over artificial intelligence safeguards.

“DOW officially informed Anthropic leadership the company and its products are deemed a supply ...Read more

SEATTLE — Prosecutors charged 33 members of a pro-Palestinian protest group with first-degree criminal trespassing in connection with the May 2025 occupation of a University of Washington engineering building, as the protesters called for the school to sever ties with Boeing.

The King County District Court charges were filed nearly 10 months ...Read more

President Donald Trump sounded confident Thursday that change might come to Cuba in as little as two weeks, and said the country’s leadership is intent in cutting a deal with the United States.

As he welcomed Inter Miami players, the 2025 Major League Soccer champions, to the White House, Trump told one of the club’s owners, Cuban-American ...Read more

The U.S. and Venezuela agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations, the State Department said, signaling President Donald Trump’s willingness to work with the country’s current leadership now that he’s ousted Nicolás Maduro.

“This step will facilitate our joint efforts to promote stability, support economic recovery, and advance ...Read more

A Chicago federal appeals court on Thursday vacated a lower court’s injunction placing use-of-force restrictions on immigration agents during Operation Midway Blitz, calling it “constitutionally suspect” and questioning the manner in which the district judge dismissed the underlying suit.

The three-judge panel of the 7th Circuit U.S. ...Read more

OAKLAND, Calif. — A federal judge signaled Thursday she is unlikely to grant a key defense request from former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and her co-defendants to challenge the FBI search warrants that led agents to raid their homes and businesses in June 2024.

“I would not stop preparing for trial if I were you,” U.S. District Court of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The attorney representing the man accused of starting the Lachman fire before it turned into the deadly Palisades fire is demanding the immediate release of his client following a sworn deposition by a Los Angeles city firefighter who testified that he told co-workers and a captain that the first fire was not fully out as they ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota’s top federal prosecutor acknowledged “mistakes that have been made” during another contempt hearing Thursday over the U.S. government’s failure to abide by court orders to return detained immigrants’ belongings upon their release from custody.

U.S. District Judge John Tunheim ordered the hearing to hear from...Read more