LAS VEGAS — A Las Vegas judge set a $1 million bail on Monday for the suspect in an alleged home invasion that led to police shooting and killing the homeowner.

Alejandra Boudreaux, 31, is charged with home invasion, assault constituting domestic violence, child abuse and disregarding the safety of a person resulting in death or substantial ...Read more

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly on Monday called for no new tax cuts in 2025, setting the Democrat on a collision path with Republicans who have vowed to take action on property taxes after voters bolstered the party’s supermajority in the Legislature.

The conflict’s outcome will influence how much Kansas homeowners pay in future property taxes, ...Read more

ATLANTA — Georgia officials will begin the upcoming budget season with plenty of cash on hand and no shortage of ways to spend it.

The state closed the fiscal year that ended in July with nearly $16.5 billion in “rainy day” and undesignated reserves, according to a recent state report. That’s enough to pay for nearly half a year’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department has moved to end its pursuit of criminal charges against Donald Trump, signaling a conclusion to the extraordinary federal prosecution of a former president whose reelection ensured he’d be shielded from charges in the White House.

Special Counsel Jack Smith, who charged Trump with illegally ...Read more

WASHINGTON — For someone who has made winning a key part of his personal, professional and political brand, Donald Trump is set to rely on a large stable of losers in his second term. The president-elect has tapped more than a dozen people who previously lost elections to join his administration next year.

Even though both parties love to ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — State public health official are warning the public of raw milk — one particular batch, at least.

On Sunday, the Fresno County-based Raw Farm dairy voluntarily recalled a batch of its cream top, whole raw milk after a sample tested positive for the avian flu.

The affected product is tagged with the lot code 20241109 ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Hawaii woman’s father who flew to Los Angeles looking for her after she was reported missing has been found dead near Los Angeles International Airport.

The body of Ryan Kobayashi, 58, was found in a parking lot on Sunday, according to the Los Angeles County medical examiner. Los Angeles Police Department officials said they...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Another private company will soon try its hand at sticking a landing on the moon for NASA.

Cedar Park, Texas-based Firefly Aerospace was one of several companies that won contracts under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, which aims to pay companies to provide a ride to the moon for its experiments.

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Liam Payne allegedly was attempting to escape his hotel room at CasaSur Palermo in Argentina when he fell to his death.

New security footage from the Buenos Aires hotel shows Payne being carried by three hotel workers to his room shortly before his death. After hearing the One Direction artist had threatened to use the balcony as a way to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Peach and Blossom, a pair of fluffy, white American turkeys, were “pardoned” Monday by President Joe Biden as he participated in the White House’s most offbeat tradition for the final time.

Any worries about the fowls’ collective fate were relieved late in the morning when Biden, in a tongue-in-cheek ceremony on a sun-...Read more

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson announced Monday he will restore the critical positions in the Chicago police department responsible for enforcing the department’s federal consent decree after weeks of backlash that cutting those roles would endanger reform efforts.

The mayor’s office released a statement that he would introduce a budget...Read more

NEW YORK — Manhattan U.S. Attorney Damian Williams announced Monday that he would resign in December, ahead of President-elect Donald Trump taking over the White House.

Trump said earlier this month that he plans to nominate Jay Clayton as the new U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.

“Today is a bittersweet day for me, as I...Read more

Republican state Sen. Randy Fine, best known in Central Florida for his threats against UCF and Special Olympics, hinted at a congressional run Monday after President-elect Trump endorsed him to succeed Michael Waltz.

Trump last week tapped U.S. Rep. Waltz, R-St. Augustine Beach, to be his national security advisor and this week called Fine an ...Read more

NEW YORK — Microsoft is experiencing a global software outage affecting Outlook, Word, Teams and other apps.

The company said on social media early Monday the issue was being investigated.

“We’ve identified a recent change which we believe has resulted in impact,” the company added later. “We’ve started to revert the change and are...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For all attention focused on Erik and Lyle Menendez — the TikTok freedom campaign, the multiple documentaries and docudramas — one fact gets easily lost: While their lives and actions have been chronicled exhaustively up to their trials for violently killing their parents, much less is known about their 34 years behind bars. ...Read more

CHICAGO — Jurors in the Michael Madigan corruption trial on Monday got their first look at a secretly recorded video of the then-powerful House speaker soliciting business for his law firm from the developer of a Chinatown hotel project.

“We’re not looking for a quick killing here,” Madigan said near the end of the August 2014 meeting, ...Read more

Haiti’s armed-gang crisis just got worse — and even more complicated.

A new report by the United Nations’ leading child welfare agency, UNICEF, says the number of children being recruited by the country’s violent gangs has soared by 70% in the last year.

The unprecedented spike, registered between the second quarter of 2023 and this ...Read more

Israel is potentially days away from a cease-fire agreement with Lebanon’s Hezbollah, following a new round of shuttle diplomacy by a senior envoy for the outgoing Biden administration.

“We are close to a deal,” the Israeli ambassador to the U.S., Michael Herzog, told Israel’s Army Radio on Monday, adding that some final points still ...Read more