MINNEAPOLIS — Air quality alerts remain in effect for yet another day for the entire state of Minnesota with concentrations of wildfire smoke so thick the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) has issued a rare hazardous warning.

The MPCA uses a color-coded scale when issuing alerts, with purple and maroon signaling when the air is the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County is poised to pay nearly $2.7 million to a teenager whose violent beating at a juvenile hall launched a sprawling criminal investigation into so-called "gladiator fights" inside the troubled facility.

Video of the December 2023 beating, captured on CCTV, showed Jose Rivas Barillas, then 16, being pummeled by ...Read more

DENVER – A woman attacked Sunday by a moose in Steamboat Springs was airlifted to a Front Range hospital with serious injuries, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife.

She was walking her two dogs at River Creek Park when she was attacked, agency officials said in a news release. Both dogs were leashed.

A man passing by on a paddleboard ...Read more

PARIS — Donald Trump’s combative trade policies have tipped the world economy into a downturn, with the U.S. among the hardest hit, the OECD said.

The Paris-based organization slashed its global forecasts for the second time this year, citing the impact of the American president’s tariff onslaught. The combination of trade barriers and ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — In a few days, three environmental groups — including one from San Diego — get their chance to try to persuade the California Supreme Court to overturn a controversial rooftop solar policy issued by the California Public Utilities Commission nearly three years ago.

“We’ve been working on this for a long time and we hope ...Read more

Earlier this year, as President Donald Trump was beginning to reshape the American government, Michael, an emergency room doctor who was born, raised and trained in the United States, packed up his family and got out.

Michael now works in a small-town hospital in Canada. KFF Health News and NPR granted him anonymity because of fears he might ...Read more

VALLEY CENTER, Calif. — Norman Kachuck stood on a loamy ridge overlooking his inheritance.

Avocado trees blanketed the hillsides of ACA Groves in three directions, just a portion of a 372-acre spread studded with 16,000 specimens, many of them dense with branches weighed down by that quintessential California fruit.

The serene San Diego ...Read more

You’re pregnant, healthy and hearing mixed messages: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is not a scientist or doctor, says you don’t need the COVID vaccine, but experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Protection still put you in a high-risk group of people who ought to receive boosters. The science is on ...Read more

BENA, Minn. -- The pomp and circumstance of graduation carried somber tones for the Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School class of 2025.

A dozen seniors graduated last Thursday, and two classmates received honorary diplomas — their absence marked with a pair of empty chairs on center stage in the school gymnasium.

As the students walked into the gym, ...Read more

BOSTON — The ICE agents who arrested a Milford High School student over the weekend were looking for the teen’s father, a detail that emerged Monday as students at the town’s high school walked out of class in protest of the federal arrest.

Marcelo Gomes, an 18-year-old honors student and member of the school’s volleyball team and band,...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. will not allow any uranium enrichment as part of any deal with Iran under any deal the countries reach, President Donald Trump said.

Trump made the comment in a social media post Monday evening, without elaborating. The U.S. president has regularly signaled that he thinks a deal may be near, and said Iran could face ...Read more

DENVER — The defamation trial against MyPillow CEO and prominent election denier Mike Lindell began in Denver on Monday with the selection of a jury to hear a case over whether Lindell made “false allegations of criminal conduct on a scale unprecedented in American history.”

That is how his conduct is characterized in a lawsuit brought by...Read more