MIAMI — A former Haitian national police officer pleaded guilty on Tuesday to illegally exporting more than 140 firearms from South Florida to Haiti, including weapons that authorities say he bought without obtaining a license to ship them to the besieged Caribbean country.

Jean Robert Casimir, 53, a naturalized U.S. citizen of Lauderhill, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California Attorney General Rob Bonta said Tuesday that his office has protected more than $200 billion in federal funding for the state, defended core civil rights and removed military forces from Los Angeles streets by suing the Trump administration about once a week.

"Since President Trump returned to office, California has ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The prospect of an interim Iran deal focused on the Strait of Hormuz appeared to be gaining traction Tuesday, with Qatar saying a proposal had been drafted and American officials sounding hopeful for an agreement to reopen the crucial waterway.

Oil reversed earlier gains, and U.S. government bonds rallied, on optimism that ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Out-of-service equipment managed by Southern California Edison started the deadly Eaton fire that killed 19 people and destroyed much of Altadena in January 2025, according to a long-awaited report by state and county fire officials.

The report, released Tuesday by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and ...Read more

SACAMENTO, Calif. — A new analysis from the Senate Committee on Appropriations shows a bill supporting telework for state workers could save California hundreds of millions of dollars, even after accounting for its implementation costs.

Assembly Bill 1729, spearheaded by Assembly member Alex Lee, D-San Jose, would require the Department of ...Read more

DETROIT — Attorneys for a man accused in the murder of Detroit synagogue president Samantha Woll in October 2023 are criticizing new charges against him and say the prosecutor's office is interfering with his release on parole.

A jury deadlocked in July 2024 when determining if Michael Jackson-Bolanos was responsible for killing Woll in her ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday favorably reported Todd Blanche’s bid to be attorney general after some Republican senators delayed the vote over the Trump administration’s controversial “weaponization” fund.

Key GOP holdouts on the committee, Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Thom Tillis, R-N.C., voted in favor ...Read more

More than 900 people in Washtenaw County, Michigan, have been sickened with cyclosporiasis since mid-June. Linda Kim, a public health nurse, has called more than 100 of them. Almost everyone has said the same thing: It’s excruciating, and one of the worst illnesses they’ve experienced.

But on a Wednesday in July, she called one man who said...Read more

NEW YORK — An appellate judge has cleared the way for a man convicted of sexually assaulting and brutally murdering Howard Beach jogger Karina Vetrano to continue pressing forward with his appeal.

More than a decade after Vetrano’s body was found in Spring Creek Park near Howard Beach in Queens, Chanel Lewis, the man serving a life sentence...Read more

SEATTLE — A Spokane man seen near the starting point of a major wildfire was arrested Monday night for investigation of first-degree arson.

The investigation began at the start of the Old Trails wildfire, one of three fires that have devastated the city since Saturday. In total, the fires have burned about 16 square miles, destroyed hundreds ...Read more

SEATTLE — Federal disaster assistance for those affected by the Spokane wildfires was made available Tuesday by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

President Donald Trump approved an emergency declaration for Washington state, authorizing FEMA to coordinate all federal disaster relief efforts and use its resources to “alleviate the ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The property tax proposal initially pushed by Gov. Ron DeSantis can’t appear on the ballot the way his office wrote it, a Tallahassee judge ruled late Monday night.

Judge David Frank said the proposed constitutional amendment uses language “more akin to a political slogan” rather than being clear and neutral, which ...Read more

Two suspects were arrested in Peru in the killing of a 32-year-old American Airlines flight attendant from Texas who went missing during a layover in Colombia in March, officials said.

Eric Fernando Gutierrez Molina was drugged and killed after he disappeared during a routine layover in Medellín, Colombia, the U.S. Embassy in Colombia said in ...Read more

Amanda DeSimone-Shabrack relies on a home healthcare aide to help her high-needs autistic 12-year-old son. Virginia’s Medicaid program covers the assistance, enabling her to work as both an education technology specialist and a professor, run errands, and keep Mason in the home.

That could change. In June, the Department of Justice issued a ...Read more

The Trump administration credits its fraud control efforts for the disappearance of millions of people from Obamacare rolls rather than a sharp rise in premiums — a claim disputed by policy experts that glosses over the reality that many more Americans now find themselves without health insurance.

Enrollment in Affordable Care Act plans fell ...Read more

NEW YORK — NYC sent out more than over 2,000 offers to Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s free childcare program for 2-year-olds on Tuesday out of 5,700 families who applied for sports in the first phase of the program, Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochul announced.

The offers were sent out ahead of 2-K’s launch this fall in select neighborhoods, Families...Read more

Venezuela’s official death toll from the devastating twin earthquakes that struck the country’s north-central region on June 24 has climbed to 6,125, according to a reconstruction bulletin released late Monday, as authorities reported continued progress in evaluating damaged homes while warning that thousands of residences remain unsafe more...Read more

The prospect of a deal between the U.S. and Iran appeared to be gaining traction on Tuesday, after Qatar said a proposal had been drafted and American Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent sounded hopeful on an agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

Oil reversed earlier gains, and U.S. government bonds rallied, on optimism that mediators will be ...Read more