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

Harvard University lawyers urged a federal judge to rule quickly that the Trump administration’s freeze on about $2.6 billion in federal funding is illegal and that it violated the school’s free speech and regulatory rights.

In a court filing Monday, Harvard argued that the U.S. has not produced enough evidence to show that the ...Read more

MIAMI — Hialeah’s former police chief — let go four years ago after a sex scandal rocked his office — was taken into custody without incident outside his home early Monday and has been accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer and drug bust money over a six-month stretch in 2021.

Sergio Velazquez, 61, was charged ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is eager to land more trade deals, but talks with China and Europe continue to languish amid communications breakdowns and fresh tariff threats.

So far there has been few signs of a breakthrough with either of the two biggest American trading partners. In recent days, the path forward has only grown more ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — More than a dozen earthquakes have rattled Central Idaho since Sunday morning in an “unusual flurry” of activity, according to Idaho state geologist Claudio Berti.

Berti, who is the director of the Idaho Geological Survey, told the Idaho Statesman that researchers have been keeping a close eye on the seismic activity, which...Read more

DENVER — The man accused of injuring 12 people on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall with a “makeshift flamethrower” and Molotov cocktails spent more than a year planning the “targeted act of violence” against a group calling for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza, law enforcement officials said Monday.

Mohammed Sabry Soliman, 45, ...Read more

Russia and Ukraine wrapped up a second round of talks in Istanbul that failed to bring the two sides closer to ending the war, but laid the groundwork for a new exchange of prisoners.

The Russian delegation handed over peace proposals that include Kyiv surrendering control of territory it still holds in four partially occupied regions, a ...Read more

As Elon Musk’s brief tenure within President Donald Trump’s administration comes to an end, he leaves with a significantly diminished approval rating, polls show.

On May 30, Musk officially left the Department of Government Efficiency — the organization established by Trump to cut costs across the federal government — after leading it ...Read more

Federal immigration authorities offered few details Monday about the nearly 1,500 people arrested in Massachusetts last month as part of a monthlong “enforcement operation” that targeted individuals accused of living in the United States illegally.

The uptick in immigration arrests led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has sparked...Read more