FORT WORTH, Texas — A McKinney teen has been arrested after allegedly planning to assassinate U.S. Rep. Keith Self and conduct a terrorist attack in North Texas on behalf of ISIS, federal officials said.

“I am grateful to the FBI and law enforcement for stopping this threat,” Self said on social media Wednesday. My family and I are safe, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California Attorney General Rob Bonta and First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli traded barbs at dueling healthcare fraud news conferences in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday morning, sniping at each other over billions lost to benefits schemes and the increasingly politicized efforts to stop them.

“California has a fraud ...Read more

DENVER — The U.S. Department of Justice plans to send federal election observers to Adams and Douglas counties on Election Day, according to letters confirmed by the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office and the state clerks association.

The DOJ characterized the monitoring as routine, but it quickly drew concerns from election officials ...Read more

Plain old water could be responsible for making plastics harmful to people, according to a new study that portends significant consequences for human health.

The study, published Thursday in the prominent scientific journal Nature, found chemical reactions between water and six types of fossil fuel-based plastic created particles that damaged ...Read more

Clavicular, the manosphere influencer known for his looksmaxxing content, pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges that he raped a teenager at his family home in Massachusetts.

The controversial internet personality, whose real name is Braden Peters, is accused of giving a 17-year-old girl alcohol until she was drunk, then sexually assaulting her...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visited Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale Thursday to announce the 2026 update to the National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias.

Joined by CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz, Acting FDA Commissioner Dr. Kyle Diamantes,...Read more

CHICAGO — A federal judge has allowed the U.S. Department of Justice to join a lawsuit that seeks to halt and dismantle the City of Evanston’s historic reparations program, which awards grants to Black residents whose ancestors lived in Evanston during decades of housing discrimination.

Judge John F. Kness of the U.S. District Court for the...Read more

NEW YORK — All fare enforcement teams will be pulled off of city buses until the MTA can investigate two allegations of improper use of force, MTA Chairman Janno Lieber said Thursday.

“I’m not willing to keep our teams in the field until I know that all protocols are being followed,” Lieber said, reading from a prepared statement at an ...Read more

PISMO BEACH, Calif. — Pismo Beach is moving forward with an ordinance to prohibit the hanging of dead sharks and other fresh-caught fish from the Pier, among other restrictions on fishing — and more rules may still be to come.

On Tuesday, the Pismo Beach City Council heard the first reading of a draft ordinance that would prohibit hanging ...Read more

Calley Means, a top adviser to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., resigned Thursday, dealing a setback to the administration’s efforts to overhaul the U.S. food system.

Means’ departure is likely to come as a relief to big food companies, who had fought against his efforts to create a federal definition of ultra-processed food. He ...Read more

CHICAGO — A federal judge has sentenced the leader of a brazen scheme to stage armed robberies to qualify for U.S. immigration visas to two years in prison.

U.S. District Judge Mary Rowland sentenced Parth Nayi on Thursday to a year longer than the term recommended by prosecutors. Nayi’s attorney, George Gomez, had asked for probation. The ...Read more

Donald Trump and World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency venture he co-founded with his sons, were sued by a shareholder in a rival crypto firm over claims the president illegally profited from his office in violation of the U.S. Constitution.

Benjamin Greenberg, a shareholder in Circle Internet Group Inc., claims illegal competition from ...Read more

NEW YORK — The NYC City Council voted Thursday to ban Central Park’s storied horse-drawn carriages, a NYC tradition cherished by many but under increasing fire over the last several months over issues ranging from the safety of passengers and pedestrians to the well-being of the horses.

The vote to ban, which was expected, is likely to ...Read more

UNC-Chapel Hill’s new deal with the Trump administration — which protects UNC’s federal funding and closes federal investigations into the school — focuses heavily on measures UNC must take to combat antisemitism on campus.

Many of its provisions also touch on how UNC should respond to campus protests.

These requirements are “...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — A GOP operative and key player in the 2020 “ghost” candidate scandal is attempting again to deceive left-leaning voters, this time sending text messages suggesting Democrat Jose Javier Rodríguez, who is running for Florida attorney general, won’t “defend reproductive freedom.”

Alex Alvarado’s political action ...Read more

Pennsylvania lawmakers this week passed a bill banning cellphones in schools, joining states across the country amid mounting backlash to technology in classrooms and social media addiction.

Gov. Josh Shapiro, who previously called for a so-called bell-to-bell ban, is expected to sign the measure into law soon.

“It’s time to get back to ...Read more

Widespread screenings are underway at Lakewood Health System’s hospital and clinics in north-central Minnesota to try to prevent a measles cluster from spreading.

Concerns about the outbreak have increased among residents of Todd County, where one additional measles case was publicly disclosed Thursday by the Minnesota Department of Health. ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — The reproductive healthcare ballot measure before Idaho voters in this general election has been a topic of intense discussion, primarily over how it would change access to abortion. But if Idaho voters approve Proposition 1, also called the Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act, it would enshrine protections for other aspects of...Read more

The deaths of Canadian geese in South Carolina has prompted an investigation, but people are not suspected as killers. Rather, avian influenza — or bird flu — is suspected, according to the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources.

That suspicion has prompted an investigation, South Carolina DNR said Thursday in a news release.

What ...Read more