One woman was killed and another person injured in a San Bernardino, California, park after the two were mauled in an attack involving more than a dozen stray dogs on Thursday, police said.

San Bernardino police converged on Perris Hill Park in the 1100 block of East Highland Avenue after receiving a call that someone was being attacked by dogs...Read more

WASHINGTON — Voters are increasingly souring on President Donald Trump’s handling of the U.S. economy, according to a raft of new polling, but that disapproval still isn’t translating into a political windfall for Democrats.

Just 37% of voters approve of Trump’s approach to the economy as of July, according to Gallup polling, down from...Read more

WASHINGTON — Beyond the $221 million that Columbia University will pay as part of its settlement with the White House, the school also accepted new requirements that threaten to sour its relationship with a crucial source of talent and revenue: foreign students.

Under the terms of last week’s agreement, Columbia will take on new duties to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said the U.S. is moving two nuclear submarines to respond to what he called “highly provocative statements” from former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

“I have ordered two Nuclear Submarines to be positioned in the appropriate regions, just in case these foolish and inflammatory statements are more...Read more

CHICAGO — Gov. JB Pritzker signed into law on Friday a measure that will provide some Chicago police officers and firefighters with higher pensions, an adjustment that will eventually cost the city’s taxpayers billions of dollars.

The new law aims to bring parity between Chicago and downstate first responders and help bridge a shortfall in ...Read more

Alaska lawmakers are set to convene in Juneau for a special session Saturday at 10 a.m., after Gov. Mike Dunleavy asked them to create a state agriculture department and adopt a slate of education policies.

Legislators in the House and Senate majorities say they likely will not consider Dunleavy’s proposals during the special session — ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Authorities confiscated items including gun paraphernalia and pill bottles from a Las Vegas apartment tied to a gunman who used an AR-15-style rifle to kill four people in Manhattan, according to records made public Friday.

New York police have said that Shane Tamura, a 27-year-old surveillance department employee at the Horseshoe...Read more

The founder of the Punjabi Devils, a San Francisco Bay Area motorcycle club with ties to the Hells Angels, was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury on a slew of weapons-related charges after investigators found a small arsenal of guns and explosives in his home, officials said.

Jashanpreet Singh, a 26-year-old Lodi, California, resident, ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A federal judge denied a request to cut short the probation term for former Minneapolis police officer J. Alexander Kueng, who knelt on George Floyd’s back as he died under the knee of ex-cop Derek Chauvin in 2020.

U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson on Friday denied Kueng’s request to terminate his supervision months before ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Jerome Powell should follow in the footsteps of Federal Reserve Gov. Adriana Kugler and resign from the central bank, ratcheting up his feud with the central bank chair.

“‘Too Late’ Powell should resign, just like Adriana Kugler, a Biden Appointee, resigned. She knew he was doing the wrong thing ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court indicated it will consider outlawing the use of race in drawing voting maps, setting up a blockbuster showdown with implications for dozens of congressional districts with predominantly minority populations.

Expanding a Louisiana case already on their docket, the justices on Friday said they will consider ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — On the hard days, when it seemed like no good could possibly come out of the Minnesota Legislature in 2025, survivors and their allies would repeat the words.

Never doubt.

They had survived sexual violence. They had an idea that could help other survivors. If they had to push that idea uphill through a divided legislature in a ...Read more

A year ago, Paul Whelan stepped foot on American soil for the first time in 51/2 years and joined a small but "distinguished" club of returned detainees who, like Whelan, were held abroad against their will.

That club is growing with 71 Americans brought home just since President Donald Trump took office in January, according to State ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is doubling down on its trade war against much of the world despite increasingly harrowing economic numbers emerging at home, with stock markets and Treasury yields tumbling Friday on news of the most significant slowdown in job growth since the pandemic.

Government data showed the U.S. economy added 73,...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Friday he had ordered the firing of Erika McEntarfer, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics who was appointed by his predecessor Joe Biden, hours after her office released data showing sluggish job growth over the past four months.

The bureau’s latest report put job growth for July at 73,000, ...Read more

About 10 times each day, giant freight trains pass along a narrow section of track along the Sacramento River in far Northern California where engineers on the locomotives regularly tense up with stress.

"Every single time, it's a near miss" of a train hitting a person, said Ryan Snow, the California State Chairman of the Brotherhood of ...Read more

NEW YORK — Queens Councilwoman Tiffany Caban and Queens Assemblywoman Claire Valdez were among dozens of protesters arrested Friday at a pro-Palestine demonstration at the Manhattan offices of New York Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, according to city and police officials.

The demonstration, organized by the Jewish Voice for Peace...Read more

Ghislaine Maxwell has reportedly been moved from a low-security federal prison in Florida to the minimum-security Federal Prison Camp Bryan in southeast Texas.

The move, first reported by The New York Sun on Friday, comes a week after Maxwell’s meetings with U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche — President Donald Trump’s former ...Read more