BOISE, Idaho — A federal judge in Idaho dismissed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging the constitutionality of new voter registration requirements that bar the use of student IDs to register to vote and cast a ballot.

Two groups — March for Our Lives Idaho, which aims to reduce gun violence, and the Idaho Alliance for Retired Americans — sued...Read more

The body of a man accused of shooting five people in vehicles on Interstate 75 earlier this month in Southern Kentucky, setting off a massive manhunt, was found Wednesday afternoon near the crime scene.

Joseph Couch, 32, was found near Exit 49 on the interstate, about nine miles north of London, near where he shot 12 vehicles on Sept. 7. It’s...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Nearly two years after Sheriff Robert Luna took office and promised to eradicate deputy gangs, and three years after state lawmakers greenlit a measure requiring police agencies to ban the groups, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department unveiled a much-awaited anti-gang policy Wednesday to comply with the law.

The ...Read more

Princess Catherine's cancer treatment is over, and so is her time working fully from home.

The 42-year-old British royal held a meeting Tuesday at Windsor Castle about her early childhood project, according to the Court Circular, which lists royal engagements. There are no details or photographs of the gathering, but she is understood to have ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Huntington Beach is suing California over a new state law that prohibits school districts from implementing forced gender identity disclosure policies.

The city has taken a defiant stance against AB 1955, known as the SAFETY Act, which was signed into law in July by Gov. Gavin Newsom, making California the first state to prevent...Read more

A body was found Wednesday afternoon in Laurel County, Kentucky, near where a man is accused of shooting five people on Interstate 75 this month.

Authorities have not yet identified the body. It was found “in the vicinity” of Exit 49, the same area where Joseph Couch, 32, is accused of opening fire on vehicles Sept. 7, Kentucky State Police...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House rejected Speaker Mike Johnson’s combo six-month stopgap spending extension and election security measure Wednesday, sending leadership back to the drawing board on a plan to stave off a partial government shutdown next month.

The 202-220 vote marked a predictable defeat for Johnson, R-La., on a bill that alienated ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Former President Donald Trump endorsed Nick Begich in Alaska's congressional race on Tuesday, three months after he put out a statement accusing Begich of costing Republicans the seat in 2022.

Trump originally endorsed Republican Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom in Alaska's U.S. House race. Both Begich and Dahlstrom sought to ...Read more

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant ushered in what he called a “new phase” in the war with regional Islamist groups and said troops would be diverted to the Lebanese border, an indication that long-held fears of a wider conflict may soon be realized.

More military resources will be deployed to the north of the country, where Israel has ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Mayor Karen Bass said she would conduct a nationwide search for the next chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, but in the end it seems she found three finalists close to home.

Deputy Chief Emada Tingirides and Robert “Bobby” Arcos, a former LAPD assistant chief who works in the L.A. County district attorney’s office,...Read more

Severe rains bucketed down on central Europe, Africa, Shanghai and the U.S. Carolinas this week, underscoring the extreme ways in which climate change is altering the weather.

Different meteorological phenomena are behind the series of storms, according to climate scientists, though they agree an underlying factor for the supercharged rainfall ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has dismissed allegations from his country’s disgraced ex-security chief — jailed in the United States and facing a possible life sentence for corruption — that he has links to drug cartels.

“It’s very simple,” López Obrador told reporters Wednesday at his regular ...Read more

In a small but likely welcome win for Sean “Diddy” Combs, a Michigan judge has set aside a $100 million default judgment against the rapper in a case in which he’s accused of sexually assaulting a now-inmate.

The judgment was originally handed down last week after Combs, 54, did not respond to Michigan inmate Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith’...Read more

BALTIMORE — A grand jury indicted the 16-year-old accused of fatally shooting a fellow Joppatowne High School student on charges including first-degree murder on Tuesday, the Harford County State’s Attorney’s office said.

The charges stemming from the Sept. 7 shooting in a school bathroom that killed Warren Curtis Grant, 15, and rattled ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Two people in Los Angeles County are sick with a rare parasitic infection known as "raccoon roundworm," according to officials.

The parasite, called Baylisascaris procyonis, was found in the South Bay area of L.A., according to a Los Angeles County Department of Public Health news release. The parasite can infect the brain, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The second apparent attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life in as many months has brought renewed focus on the threat of political violence and its potential impact on American institutions. And again, Rep. Derek Kilmer is sounding the alarm: The House is not prepared.

“In this role, I often ask my constituents, ‘...Read more

ATLANTA — Federal prosecutors are urging an Atlanta judge to again impose a seven-year prison sentence on former reality television star Julie Chrisley when she appears in court next week to be resentenced on bank fraud and tax evasion charges.

Chrisley, 51, is in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service ahead of her Sept. 25 resentencing ...Read more

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres says he’s prepared to do what is necessary to address the disastrous gang and humanitarian crisis unfolding in Haiti once there is agreement between the Haitian government and the U.N. Security Council on the next steps to take.

But he still doesn’t understand why there is no money to ...Read more