BOSTON — As white sharks return to the Cape, researchers are helping the public chomp on shark hotspot data from last summer and fall.

The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s “White Shark Logbook” has been updated with last year’s acoustic detection data of tagged apex predators.

More than 100 individual sharks were detected along the...Read more

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — Navajo Nation leaders took turns talking with the U.S. government’s top health official as they hiked along a sandstone ridge overlooking their rural, high-desert town before the morning sun grew too hot.

Buu Nygren, president of the Navajo Nation, paused at the edge with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. ...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to block a California law from taking effect next year that will require nursing homes to have a 96-hour backup power supply, potentially giving the industry a reprieve from having to spend over $1 billion in capital investments.

The Democratic governor tucked the suspension into his budget update to address a projected ...Read more

The Republican budget bill the U.S. House approved last month includes a surprise for the 40 states that have expanded Medicaid: penalties for providing health care to some immigrants who are here legally.

Along with punishing the 14 states that use their own funds to cover immigrants who are here illegally, analysts say last-minute changes to ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s administration is planning to rename a U.S. Navy ship. Is this a common practice?

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is set to rebrand the USNS Harvey Milk, a fleet replenishment oiler named after the California politician and Navy veteran, according to CBS News. Other news outlets have confirmed the report.

Milk ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — ICE agents have arrested nearly 20 immigrants in Norristown, Pa., during the last two weeks, according to advocates who described an aggressive and ongoing enforcement campaign in the seat of Montgomery County.

“Every day, every day,” said Denisse Agurto, executive director of Unides Para Servir Norristown. “As many as ...Read more

DENVER — A federal judge in Denver issued an order Wednesday to prevent the deportation of the wife and five children of the Egyptian man suspected in the firebombing attack on demonstrators in Boulder who were calling for the release of Israeli hostages.

U.S. District Judge Gordon P. Gallagher granted a request from the family of Mohammed ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive action that prevents foreign nationals from entering the U.S. to study at Harvard University, accusing the school of failing to implement discipline on campus and fostering a dramatic rise in crime.

Trump said the university had responded to a federal government request on violent, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed a proclamation late Wednesday that effectively banned travel to the U.S. from 12 countries, citing risks related to public safety and national security in a move immigration advocates likely will challenge in court.

The proclamation banned from entry nationals from Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, the ...Read more

NEW YORK — ICE agents detained multiple migrants who were doing mandatory check-ins at a lower Manhattan office steps away from City Hall on Wednesday afternoon, sources said.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested the migrants after they checked in at an Intensive Supervision Appearance Program office hearing on Elk Street, ...Read more

President Trump’s private golf club in Bedminster, N.J. was hit with a remarkable 18 health code violations, nine of them considered “critical,” according to a recent report by the Somerset County Department of Health.

The health department’s grade of 32 out of 100 points made Trump National Golf Course the most poorly rated ...Read more

BOSTON — ICE’s bid to move an 18-year-old Milford High School student from the Bay State to another location just a day before he’s due to be in a Massachusetts immigration court has been blocked by a federal judge.

According to court filings, lawyers for the government asked U.S. District Judge George O’Toole if they could transfer ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Michael G. Sullivan, who last was interim chief of the Phoenix Police Department, has been tapped to lead the U.S. Capitol Police, the department announced Wednesday.

Sullivan will succeed J. Thomas Manger, who served nearly four years in the role before retiring last week. He brings more than 30 years of law enforcement ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a proclamation that bans individuals from 12 countries from entering the United States, reinstating one of the most controversial and defining measures from his first term in the wake of an attack in Boulder, Colorado, that targeted a march in support of Israeli hostages.

The second-term...Read more

NEW YORK — All New York City public schools will receive at least as much funding for the upcoming school year as their initial budgets last fall, Mayor Eric Adams announced Wednesday evening as his Democratic challengers took the stage for the first mayoral debate.

The funding is guaranteed to all principals, even those who are projected to ...Read more

NEW YORK — Manhattan prosecutors said that when Luigi Mangione was arrested on a murder charge last year he was carrying a diary that referenced “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski and claimed UnitedHealth Group Inc. executive Brian Thompson “had it coming.”

Mangione, 27, faces a state murder charge for the fatal shooting of Thompson outside a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Leaders on the Senate Judiciary Committee sparred Wednesday about the American Bar Association’s role in reviewing judicial nominations, as the panel held its first judicial confirmation hearing of the new Trump administration.

Before senators questioned the nominees, Sen. Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the top Democrat on the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump directed aides to investigate whether former President Joe Biden’s staff conspired to hide information about his health from the public and enacted any executive actions without his predecessor’s knowledge.

The memorandum, published Wednesday, orders an inquiry by the counsel to the president in ...Read more

NEW YORK — A friend of Casandra “Cassie” Ventura testified in Manhattan Federal Court on Wednesday, alleging she was held over the edge of a Los Angeles high-rise by an unhinged Sean “Diddy” Combs.

Bryana Bongolan, 33, a creative and marketing director, said the disturbing incident occurred in September 2016. She said she and a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A U.S. judge ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration violated the due-process rights of more than 100 Venezuelans deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador, and they must now get a chance to challenge their removal.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in Washington found that the purported gang members never got a chance...Read more