ATLANTA — Now the nation gets its chance to say goodbye to the 39th president, a Renaissance man from Georgia who championed peace, human rights and the eradication of diseases long after he left the White House.

During a brief ceremony this afternoon, former President Jimmy Carter’s flag-draped casket was brought aboard “Special Air ...Read more

ATLANTA — With the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump likely to scale back federal efforts to limit climate change, Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens has been tabbed to help lead a bipartisan coalition of U.S. mayors focused on addressing the global problem at the local level.

On Monday, Dickens was named the vice chair of ...Read more

The California Supreme Court overturned a Central Valley woman's murder conviction in the 2018 killing of her 2-month-old son, ruling Monday that the law often holds victims of domestic violence to an unfair double standard in the deaths of their children.

The court ordered the woman, Brittney Collins, to be resentenced, and family violence ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump refused to rule out using military force to grab the Panama Canal and Greenland on Tuesday, saying U.S. national security depends on winning control of the two territories.

In a free-wheeling press conference, Trump also vowed he would change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America” and proclaimed...Read more

A nasty stomach bug has been spreading across the country, including California, in recent months — leaving people feeling nauseous, achy or worse.

There were 91 outbreaks of norovirus reported across the country during the week of Dec. 5, up from 69 outbreaks the final week of November, according to the most recent numbers from the U.S. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump and the spending-skeptical House may be on a path that could end in a collision over federal spending. Just consider his pricey idea of the U.S. purchasing Greenland.

A group of conservative House Republicans last month demanded deep spending cuts as Congress struggled to pass an extension of ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Phillip Talbert, a veteran prosecutor who rose to lead nearly 100 federal lawyers as the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Sacramento, will resign from his post effective Saturday.

Talbert, a Democrat appointed by President Joe Biden in 2022, said in a wide-ranging interview with The Sacramento Bee that he was leaving to make ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — An Idaho House committee will consider a formal statement asking the U.S. Supreme Court to end same-sex marriage nationwide and allow the state to restore its ban on such unions.

State Rep. Heather Scott, R-Blanchard, proposed the measure that calls the 2015 decision from the nation’s highest court to legalize same-sex ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — At least two fires started in the Los Angeles area Tuesday morning amid a “ life-threatening and destructive” windstorm that officials have warned could rapidly transform a spark into a fast-moving wildfire.

In the Pacific Palisades, more than 100 firefighters were battling a 200-acre brush fire that started at 10:30 a.m. ...Read more

BOSTON — An undocumented immigrant who was arrested at a state-run shelter in Revere last month allegedly with an AR-15 and $1 million worth of fentanyl was not officially part of the emergency assistance program but was staying with someone who was, Gov. Maura Healey said Tuesday

A day after ordering an inspection of all emergency shelter ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Attorney General Dana Nessel said her office is working with the Oakland County prosecutor to better define the parameters of her office's investigation into the 2021 Oxford High School shooting.

But Nessel noted her office had been hoping for additional funding from the Legislature to conduct the investigation and was unable...Read more

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen rebuffed President-elect Donald Trump’s wish to buy Greenland but welcomed U.S. investment in the self-ruling territory.

The U.S. is “absolutely our closest ally” and Denmark is open to more collaboration in the North Atlantic region, Frederiksen told local broadcasters on Tuesday. “We have a ...Read more

A hotel worker accused of supplying pop star Liam Payne with drugs before his death has reportedly turned himself in to Argentine officials.

Nearly three months after the former One Direction star plunged to his death in Buenos Aires, 21-year-old hotel employee Ezequiel Pereyra reportedly gave himself up to police Monday evening. Pereyra ...Read more

NEW YORK — Federal prosecutors who indicted Mayor Eric Adams on corruption charges last year in a probe of connections to Turkey allege they have uncovered “additional criminal conduct” in which the mayor and others engaged.

The prosecutors from the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office wrote in a court filing late Monday they unearthed ...Read more

Two people were found dead hidden in the landing gear compartment of a JetBlue plane following a flight from New York to Florida, airline officials confirmed Tuesday.

The Airbus A320 departed from John F. Kennedy Airport on Monday night at 8:20 p.m. and arrived at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport just after 11 p.m., CBS News ...Read more

CHICAGO — In a stunning and risky move, ex-House Speaker Michael Madigan is planning to take the stand in his own public corruption trial, his lawyers said in court Tuesday.

After a morning break, Madigan’s lead attorney, Dan Collins, told the judge that Madigan would be the next witness. But there is one sticking point: whether Madigan ...Read more

NEW YORK — Sebastian Zapeta, the migrant accused of fatally setting homeless woman Debrina Kawam on fire on a Coney Island subway train, pleaded not guilty Tuesday — even as court papers revealed he said, “Oh, damn, that’s me,” when shown the horrific video of the attack that shocked the city.

Zapeta, a 33-year-old Guatemalan migrant ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The University of California enrolled a record number of Californians in Fall 2024, while UC Berkeley joined UCLA in bucking national trends at elite institutions that saw declines in new Black and Latino students in the first class since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down affirmative action.

The data, made public Tuesday, came ...Read more

NEW YORK — Lawyers for Donald Trump petitioned a New York appeals court on Tuesday to throw out the guilty verdicts against him before his sentencing later this week in a last-ditch attempt to close the book on his criminal hush money case before he takes office.

The filing to the First Department, Appellate Division appeals court came a day ...Read more