ATLANTA — If you felt your house in north Georgia shake Saturday morning, you’re not going crazy.

A 4.1 magnitude earthquake that originated in Greenback, Tennessee, was felt all the way into metro Atlanta. The United States Geological Survey confirmed the quake occurred at 9:04 a.m. EST.

The tremor was about 15 miles deep, which is ...Read more

NEW YORK — In the days before President Donald Trump’s administration moved to drop Mayor Eric Adams’ corruption indictment, federal authorities raided the upstate New York home of Dwayne Montgomery, a former New York City Police Department inspector friendly with Adams, as part of an expanding investigation into alleged crimes linked to ...Read more

The Trump administration must temporarily cease from engaging in widespread layoffs and firings for government workers, a California federal court ruled Friday.

President Donald Trump’s February executive order calling for a radical reorganization of the federal workforce likely violates the Constitution, Judge Susan Illston of the U.S. ...Read more

MIAMI — With hurricane season only weeks away, federal budget cuts have left key Florida weather offices understaffed, and former employees worry that additional proposed reductions to staff and research could compromise not only accurate forecasts but potentially public safety.

A suggested federal budget from the Donald Trump administration ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — While California voters are sharply divided along partisan lines when it comes to election integrity and voter fraud, they broadly support a politically-charged proposal from President Donald Trump and other Republicans to require first-time voters to provide government-issued identification proving their citizenship in order to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California public health officials have announced a quarantine on mussels that aren't commercially harvested, cautioning that naturally occurring toxins make the species potentially poisonous to humans this time of year.

The order from the state Department of Public Health, which is issued annually, runs through Oct. 31 and ...Read more

A man who was jailed and paroled after a series of violent road rage attacks in Southern California was arrested in Hawaii on allegations of similar crimes, according to authorities.

On Wednesday, Nathaniel Radimak, 39, was speeding in a gray Tesla and exchanged words with an 18-year-old woman, who had parked her car on Halekauwila Street in ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House Ways and Means Committee on Friday night released a partial version of President Donald Trump’s tax proposal that calls for increasing the maximum child tax credit to $2,500 and raising the estate tax exemption to $15 million.

“Ways and Means Republicans have spent two years preparing for this moment, and we will ...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. forces have struck more than 1,000 targets in President Donald Trump’s campaign against Houthi militants in Yemen, the Pentagon said, offering rare insight into a stepped-up offensive that’s been conducted largely in secret.

Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell disclosed the latest figure in an email that touted the Pentagon�...Read more

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — South Africa’s government is engaging U.S. authorities about the Trump administration’s plan to resettle white Afrikaners to ensure the program doesn’t provide an opportunity for fugitives to flee.

A group of about 100 Afrikaners, an ethnic group descended mainly from Dutch and French settlers, are scheduled...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Tap water is now safe to drink in areas served by all nine water systems where damage from the firestorms in Altadena and Pacific Palisades had prompted “do not drink” notices, state regulators said Friday.

The last water utility with such a notice, the Las Flores Water Co. in Altadena, was cleared to resume delivering ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Jonathan McKernan has become a White House favorite for financial regulatory positions.

The Senate has yet to act on McKernan’s nomination to become director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but the Treasury Department said Friday that President Donald Trump intends to tap him to serve as undersecretary for domestic...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s abrupt firing of Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden has reignited an effort in Congress to wrest back power from the executive branch and assert more control over legislative branch agency heads.

Democratic lawmakers blasted Trump’s decision, and some are vowing to change the way positions like the librarian of...Read more

WASHINGTON — As he prepares to jet off Monday on his first working foreign trip of a breakneck second term, President Donald Trump will be met head-on with the uncertain future of war-torn Gaza and its beleaguered residents — as congressional Democrats remain flummoxed by his emerging foreign policy approach.

Trump chose Saudi Arabia and ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania’s Board of Pardons on Friday voted to recommend commuting the life sentence of Marie Scott, a 71-year-old woman with cancer who has spent more than a half-century incarcerated for murder and who a community of advocates in Philadelphia have said should be released.

The board voted unanimously to recommend that ...Read more

SEATTLE — Washington is leading 14 other states in a new lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring a “national energy emergency” and seeking to shortcut environmental reviews for oil drilling, pipelines and other fossil fuel projects.

The lawsuit, announced by Attorney General Nick Brown at a news conference...Read more