SAN DIEGO — While emergency crews battled a brushfire in the Otay Wilderness Area, high wind conditions in other parts of San Diego County improved enough Friday to enable San Diego Gas & Electric crews to inspect power lines and restore electricity to an increasing number of customers.

Overnight, as many as 20,000 customers living primarily ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The four most powerful Republicans in Washington addressed the nation’s largest annual anti-abortion rally Friday, vowing to inject new energy into the abortion debate.

“In my second term, we will again stand proudly for families and for life,” President Donald Trump said in a video message to attendees of the March for ...Read more

Record numbers of people in the U.S. enrolled in Affordable Care Act health insurance plans this year, including nearly a half million Pennsylvanians.

And 90% of Pennsylvanians who enrolled — 446,994 — are paying much lower monthly premiums for Obamacare coverage, thanks to enhanced premium tax credits enacted under former President Joe ...Read more

NEW YORK — Fifty years after Puerto Rican terrorist group FALN bombed the historic watering hole Fraunces Tavern in Manhattan’s Financial District, a son of one of the four victims killed in the deadly attack is still seeking justice.

Joseph Connor is urging the new Trump administration to put pressure on the Cuban government to release the...Read more

CHICAGO — A new campaign finance report filed by Mayor Brandon Johnson includes over $200,000 his campaign had discussed but not officially reported.

When asked earlier this month why Johnson raised only $970 in the last quarter of 2024, his political spokesperson Christian Perry told Politico the mayor had actually raked in about $200,000. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced Friday it will hear an Oklahoma case to decide whether the state must authorize a religious school as a public charter.

The new church-state case could yield a potentially momentous decision that could change public schools in much of the nation.

Los Angeles and other large cities have been leaders ...Read more

CHICAGO — Chicago Public Schools prevented federal immigration officers from going into an elementary school on Chicago’s Southwest Side Friday and talking to students, according to school officials.

The agents showed up at 11:15 a.m. to Hamline Elementary School, located at 1548 W. 48th St. in the New City neighborhood, Principal Natasha ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s Denali, the tallest peak in the country, has resulted in lots of discussion. While for some, such renaming might seem less important than the big problems the country faces, there is a formal process in the United States for renaming places, and that ...Read more

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, filed a bill Thursday to block all federal funds from being allocated to the reproductive health care organization Planned Parenthood.

Dubbed the “Defund Planned Parenthood Act,” the bill would simply require that “no federal funds may be made available to Planned Parenthood Federation of ...Read more

A man who burst into flames at a Wawa gas station after deputies tackled and tased him near a fuel pump says a central Florida sheriff’s office has an “agency-wide culture of escalating minor criminal offenses into violent and deadly encounters.”

Osceola County Sheriff Marcos R. Lopez is accused of fostering this culture, which resulted ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — President Donald Trump is expected to visit Los Angeles Friday afternoon to survey the devastation from the firestorms that swept through the county. It will be his first presidential visit since taking office — and a potentially contested one after his repeated threats to withhold federal aid to California.

The trip to Los ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Friday that his administration would examine sweeping changes to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and possibly even terminate it via an executive order.

During a hurricane recovery briefing near Asheville, North Carolina, the president floated an executive order “to begin the process of ...Read more

SEATTLE — Washington State University owed a “duty of care” to Sam Martinez, a student who died in a 2019 fraternity hazing incident, a state appeals court ruled this week.

A 19-year-old freshman from Bellevue and a Newport High graduate, Martinez died of alcohol poisoning while pledging a WSU-recognized fraternity, Alpha Tau Omega.

In a...Read more

CHICAGO — Attorneys for Michael Madigan opened their final bid to persuade jurors of his innocence by hearkening back to a memorable nickname for the former House speaker: the Sphinx.

“The Sphinx is, of course, a mythical creature,” attorney Dan Collins said Friday in closing arguments. “Quiet, mysterious. A myth. In this case, ladies ...Read more

NEW YORK — An off-the-books e-bike battery repair shop in the basement of a Queens home sparked a massive Friday morning blaze that left a firefighter and three building residents hospitalized, FDNY officials said.

The fire broke out on the first floor of the three-story home on 60th Ave. near 146th St. in Flushing just before 5:30 a.m., said...Read more

ATLANTA — A Transportation Security Administration officer was arrested Tuesday at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, police said.

The officer is accused of having a firearm beyond the main security checkpoint. Atlanta police, the investigating agency, did not say if the officer, identified as Matthew Gilbert, was on duty at the time ...Read more

CHICAGO — The city of Evanston is investigating an incident in which four Evanston firefighters wore Donald Trump masks while at work, according to the city’s spokesperson, who also said a photo taken of the incident is genuine. The investigation will look at whether it violated the city’s code of ethics.

The photo of the four employees,...Read more

NEW YORK — Fifty years after Puerto Rican terrorist group FALN bombed the historic watering hole Fraunces Tavern in Manhattan’s Financial District, a son of one of the four victims killed in the deadly attack is still seeking justice.

Joseph Connor is urging the new Trump administration to put pressure on the Cuban government to release ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — A wildfire in the hills near the U.S.-Mexico border exploded early Friday morning over thousands of acres, prompting evacuation orders throughout the Otay Wilderness Area and triggering school closures as well as likely power shutoffs for tens of thousands of people.

The Border 2 fire has so far largely moved north and the ...Read more