SAN DIEGO — Strong Santa Ana winds pushed a wildfire across 80 acres of dry terrain in Bonsall early Tuesday, rousing people from their beds to heed evacuation orders before firefighters gained control of the blaze.

The Lilac fire — which began north of West Lilac Road, just west of Interstate 15 — was burning in an area where the ...Read more

DENVER — The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a national civil rights organization’s ninth attempt to declare animals legal persons in court and secure them the right to challenge their confinement and custody.

Activists with the Nonhuman Rights Project sued the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo last summer on behalf of the facility’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump ordered the attorney general to hunt for instances of campaigns during the Biden administration against perceived political opponents, as the White House on Monday outlined misleading or unproven arguments over government “weaponization.”

The language of the order dovetails with long-standing ...Read more

President Donald Trump was angered Tuesday when the bishop of the National Cathedral asked him to have compassion towards “scared” immigrants and LGBTQ people.

The new president sat grimly in the front row of the pews as Rev. Mariann Budde called on him to “have mercy” on undocumented immigrants and sexual minorities who were targeted ...Read more

A legendary fashion brand is feeling the heat.

Oscar de la Renta, which was founded by the late Dominican designer who died in 2014, is a hot topic on the Internet, and not for the right reasons.

The esteemed label, which has dressed the likes of former first lady Jill Biden, posted that it was responsible for a sparkly creation Ivanka Trump ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump plans to visit Western North Carolina on Friday in one of the first trips of his second term, The New York Post first reported.

The western part of the state is still grappling with the devastation of Helene, which left 104 people in North Carolina dead and was a point of criticism against Democrats for ...Read more

President Donald Trump was poised to enact hefty tariffs against Mexico and Canada as early as the end of next week as he continued a blitz of right-wing policy priorities on day two of his historic second term.

After signing a first-day blizzard of executive orders cracking down on immigration and transgender rights and granting pardons to ...Read more

NEW YORK — Amid sharp debate over President Donald Trump’s executive orders on immigration, gender identity and other issues, Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday he has made a deal to not publicly criticize President Trump and has been assured he’ll have a direct line to him.

Adams said they made that agreement while he met privately with Trump...Read more

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson has left the building, and while President Donald Trump’s nominee awaits a confirmation hearing, the head of Kennedy Space Center will keep things afloat.

Nelson, who flew to space on board Space Shuttle Columbia while a member of the House of Representatives, later served in the U.S. Senate for Florida. He was ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — For years, Floridians have used the ballot initiative process to pass popular measures that have been otherwise stymied by the state’s political leaders.

That process is how Florida got its $15 minimum wage, medical marijuana and felon voter rights restoration. It’s the reason why Florida’s governor and lawmakers ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Eleven months after Idaho failed to execute a prisoner for the first time in state history using lethal injection, Republican lawmakers have their targets set on adopting a firing squad as the primary execution method.

Rep. Bruce Skaug, R-Nampa, introduced the bill Tuesday, which would make Idaho the only U.S. state to give ...Read more

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey filed a $2.5 billion borrowing bill Tuesday that would dump cash into Massachusetts’ public higher education system to update aging infrastructure that the first-term Democrat argued has suffered from years of neglect.

Healey pitched her plan only days before she was expected to file her fiscal year 2026 budget ...Read more

NEW YORK — Donald Trump has replaced the acting U.S. attorneys in Manhattan and Brooklyn with temps as his nominees for the prestigious posts await Senate confirmation — after a cadre of House Republicans last month urged the president to fill top federal prosecutor jobs with loyalists quickly.

The Trump administration tapped Danielle ...Read more

The Taliban won’t return any of the military equipment left behind by the U.S. troops while exiting Afghanistan in 2021, a person familiar with the matter said, as relations between Kabul and the Donald Trump administration start on a wobbly note.

Instead of taking back the weapons, the U.S. should provide Taliban with more advanced weapons ...Read more

Word began to spread quickly in the Tijuana migrant shelter Monday, even as President Donald Trump continued to deliver his inauguration speech.

Nidia Montenegro, an asylum seeker from Venezuela, checked her cellphone to see if the asylum screening appointment she’d waited so long to secure was still good for Wednesday morning. Those around ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — In hearings this week that will likely set the table for his summer murder trial, Bryan Kohberger and his attorneys will return to the courtroom for the first time in more than two months to argue for excluding a host of evidence.

Since November, the defense and prosecution have traded legal briefs over the disputed evidence ...Read more

President Donald Trump signed an executive order seeking to halt federal recognition of transgender individuals late Monday as part of broader executive actions rolling back efforts to promote diversity and combat discrimination enacted during the Biden administration.

The order specifies that the federal government would recognize only two, ...Read more

BRUNSWICK, Ga. — The long-awaited trial of former district attorney Jackie Johnson officially began Tuesday morning as hundreds of Glynn County residents showed up for the start of jury selection.

But prospective jurors in the high-profile case were sent home at lunchtime and instructed not to return until Thursday as Coastal Georgia braces ...Read more