The official government residence of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro in Harrisburg faced a fiery attack that forced the governor and his family to flee their home early Sunday morning.

The fire, allegedly ignited by Pennsylvania resident Cody Balmer, who admitted to “harboring hatred” toward the Democratic governor and told police he would ...Read more

RIO DE JANEIRO — Donald Trump is pulling his nation’s closest neighbors into the center of his trade war with China as he seeks to elbow the Asian giant out of a region the U.S. has long considered its own backyard.

The president last week dispatched Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to Panama as part of his ongoing effort to reassert American...Read more

BOSTON — The Trump administration is freezing more than $2 billion in grants to Harvard after the university said it was rejecting a list of demands from the feds.

The Trump admin has been pressuring the Cambridge school to end DEI programs and “audit” the viewpoints of its student body, faculty, and staff. This comes as the feds threaten...Read more

Thousands of Cambodian and ethnic Khmer people from the Bay Area and beyond made their way to Stockton’s Wat Dhammararam Buddhist Temple, the largest in the state, for a three-day New Year celebration over the weekend. This year, a certain gravity accompanied the joy in one of the state’s biggest Cambodian communities.

Amid the Chaul Chnam ...Read more

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a new law on Monday that allocates $180 million for wildfire prevention projects, such as prescribed burns and vegetation management, throughout the state.

It’s the latest funding for fire prevention after the Los Angeles firestorm in January, and just a sliver of the billions of dollars allocated in ...Read more

Nevada canceled more than 162,000 voter registrations and inactivated almost 38,000 others in a post-general election voter roll cleanup, the Secretary of State’s office reported Monday.

“The Secretary of State’s Office takes the transparency, security and accessibility of our elections very seriously, and is focused on supporting the ...Read more

FRESNO, Calif. — Asian food sellers were notified last week they can no longer sell at River Park’s two farmers markets.

The vendors — selling everything from Lao sticky rice with steak to Filipino chicken adobo — were told they could no longer do business at the Fresno shopping center’s farmers markets on Tuesday evenings and ...Read more

HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Harrisburg man charged with the attempted homicide of Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family arrived at the governor’s mansion early Sunday armed with a hammer and gasoline-filled beer bottles. After walking for more than an hour in the middle of the night from his home to the estate in downtown Harrisburg, he was able to ...Read more

OAKLAND, Calif. — A mistrial was declared Monday in the trial of an FCI Dublin women’s prison guard accused of sexually preying on inmates at the now-shuttered facility, after jurors couldn’t agree on a verdict.

Deliberations were called off a week after the jurors began deliberating the fate of Darrell Smith, who faced 15 counts of ...Read more

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Monday that she temporarily hid her face from photographers in President Donald Trump's Oval Office last week simply because she didn't want her picture taken.

Whitmer, a second-term Democrat, made the comment at a meeting of the Detroit Economic Club after The New York Times published a photo Saturday of her...Read more

President Donald Trump’s tariff exclusions for smartphones and other tech products have added to a growing set of confusing signals for companies and trading partners digesting how to engage a White House still promising to negotiate dozens of new deals in America’s favor.

The dizzying weekend saw Trump exclude popular consumer electronics ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — An Idaho teenager with autism who was hospitalized for a week after being shot by police died over the weekend.

The Bannock County Coroner’s Office confirmed to the Idaho Statesman that Victor Perez, who was physically impaired, died after four officers from the Pocatello Police Department shot him several times outside his ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will ask lawmakers to cut more than $9 billion in funding for the Public Broadcasting Service, National Public Radio and foreign aid in the current fiscal year, an attempt to employ a little-used legislative tactic for reducing spending already approved by Congress.

The proposal — known as a rescission ...Read more

Monday’s magnitude 5.2 temblor marked another success for California’s earthquake early warning system, with users in some areas saying they received alerts on their phones before they felt shaking.

The alerts in some cases provided pivotal seconds of lead time — a heads-up that could be critical in the event of a major earthquake.

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said that he asked his counterpart Nayib Bukele if El Salvador could build more prisons to jail as many American criminals as possible — U.S. citizens included.

Seated next to President Bukele in the Oval Office on Monday, Trump said the U.S. could help the Central American nation add more prisons, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — American technology companies hoping for relief from President Trump's trade war with China grappled with further uncertainty Monday, left to decipher whether a government policy exempting businesses that are core to the U.S. economy from crippling tariffs could be relied upon.

An industry that plans product launches and ...Read more

NEW YORK — Former Alaska governor and Republican firebrand Sarah Palin was back in court Monday for a do-over in her defamation case against The New York Times.

A jury was selected to hear the case in Manhattan Federal Court, with opening statements set to begin Tuesday. After Palin initially lost her case in February 2022, a federal appeals ...Read more

BOSTON — Norfolk DA prosecutors plan to use Karen Read’s statements from several TV interviews against her in the upcoming retrial.

The DA’s Office on Monday said it intends to “introduce extrajudicial statements of the defendant” when the Read retrial finally gets going.

Prosecutors allege that Read struck John O’Keefe, a Boston ...Read more

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto aims to cut taxes for Nevadans with two pieces of legislation she co-introduced last week.

The Tax Cut for Workers Act — introduced alongside Colorado Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet — will triple the Earned Income Tax Credit, known as the “Worker Tax Cut,” and will expand eligibility to workers who are under ...Read more