DENVER — Denver city leaders are considering giving significant raises — including one 44% boost — to 12 of Mayor Mike Johnston’s appointees, with the proposals clearing a City Council committee Tuesday.

The positions are executive director jobs, or the equivalents, across city departments that are set out in the city charter, and they ...Read more

Pakistan said it reserves the right to retaliate after India launched targeted strikes, signaling a potential further escalation in hostilities between the nuclear-armed rivals following last month’s deadly Kashmir attacks.

Just hours after India hit nine targets in its neighbor, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s office said in a...Read more

Russia and Ukraine continued air strikes against each other’s capitals overnight, including an attack that killed two people in Kyiv, as Moscow prepared to host the leaders of China, Brazil and other states to commemorate the end of World War II.

Russia launched four ballistic missiles and 142 drones targeting Kyiv and other regional centers,...Read more

New German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron pledged to reset ties between their nations and join forces to help strengthen the European Union’s defensive capabilities and competitiveness.

“As we face war on our continent, fierce global competition, accelerating climate and technological change, and threats of a...Read more

LOS ANGELES — By more than 2 to 1, California registered voters believe that Gov. Gavin Newsom is more focused on boosting his presidential prospects than on fixing the problems in his own state, according to a new poll.

A survey by UC Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies, co-sponsored by The Times, found that 54% of voters said ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County reported another measles case involving a resident or traveler this week, prompting officials to renew their call for all residents to make sure they are up to date on their vaccinations.

The latest case — the fourth so far this year — involves a visitor who recently arrived in L.A. County from another ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House could soon be closed to the public and lose its designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site if budget cuts proposed by Mayor Karen Bass are passed by the City Council.

The architectural landmark, perched atop Barnsdall Art Park in East Hollywood, is managed by the city's Department of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Five Mexican citizens have been charged with participating in human smuggling after a small boat carrying migrants capsized off San Diego on Monday, killing four people including two children, authorities said.

Tragic new details about the deadly smuggling incident came to light Tuesday.

The body of a 14-year-old boy from India...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republicans will have to come up with alternative savings to make up for hundreds of billions of dollars in potential Medicaid cuts that GOP leaders appeared to rule out after meeting with moderates in Speaker Mike Johnson’s office Tuesday evening.

Johnson, R-La., said leadership had ruled out tXwo Medicaid policies that could ...Read more

CHICAGO — When President Donald Trump took office and declared Chicago “ground zero” for the largest deportation operation in U.S. history, Alma Duran, 43, said her 10-year-old twins asked why their classes at an elementary school in Pilsen were deserted.

She told them some kids and parents were scared to come in for fear of getting ...Read more

A historic Kentucky site has joined the National Park Service’s National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program, which commemorates the stories of people who freed themselves or were helped by others to escape enslavement.

The site, located in rural Greenup County near the present-day community of Lynn, is the place where, on Aug. 14...Read more

LUMPKIN, Ga. — Just 2 miles away from a sprawling South Georgia immigrant jail sits El Refugio, a hospitality house where the loved ones of immigrant detainees can find free meals and lodging.

People come from across the South, and beyond, to visit their loved ones in this remote area of the state that is home to the Stewart Detention Center ...Read more

The FDA is quietly steering the U.S. food system toward replacing synthetic food dyes with “natural” alternatives. At first glance, this seems like progress — cleaner labels and better public perception.

But beneath this health halo lies a serious risk: replacing domestically produced synthetic dyes with colorants sourced from ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Eshele Williams always believed she'd eventually own the home she rented in Altadena's historic Janes Village neighborhood.

The 1920s cottage was where she brought her son Brayden home from the hospital and where she held backyard parties for birthdays or whatever anniversary family and friends wanted to celebrate. Her mom lived ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In the last year, the Gabrieleño Band of Mission Indians – Kizh Nation has worked to protect its cultural sites from more than 850 land development projects around the Los Angeles Basin, thanks to a 2014 state law that allows tribes to give input during projects’ environmental review processes.

Now, its chief fears that a ...Read more

Faced with potential federal spending cuts that threaten health coverage and falling childhood vaccination rates, Monica Soni, the chief medical officer of Covered California, has a lot on her plate — and on her mind.

California’s Affordable Care Act health insurance exchange covers nearly 2 million residents and 89% of them receive federal...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — The day the flag bill came up for a vote in the Idaho Senate this spring, state Sen. Melissa Wintrow had no plans to speak against it. As the top Democratic leader in her chamber, she had already spent the legislative session in constant, vocal opposition to the Republican-dominated legislative agenda.

“I thought: ‘Oh, this...Read more

The North Carolina House on Tuesday passed a bill expanding the powers of the state auditor, a typically low-profile office that Republican lawmakers have repeatedly sought to embolden since November, when it was won by a Republican for the first time in 16 years.

“It ensures the state auditor can do the job the voters elected him to do: ...Read more