Gov. Gavin Newsom sent an urgent appeal to the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Saturday, imploring the department to reverse the abrupt cancellation of a Biden-era program that feeds millions of California families and has served as a lifeline for hundreds of small farmers since its inception in 2021.

"The irrational and malicious slashing of...Read more

Minnesota must conduct a preapproval lottery for cannabis business licenses that it abandoned late last year, a Ramsey County judge ruled Friday, saying social equity applicants who qualified for the drawing suffered a “public wrong” because of its cancellation.

“Canceling the lottery effectively casts aside the significant time and ...Read more

China’s objections to new U.S. tariffs stalled a deal to sell off TikTok and keep it operating in the U.S., President Donald Trump said Sunday.

“We had a deal pretty much for TikTok — not a deal but pretty close — and then China changed the deal because of tariffs,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One as he returned to Washington ...Read more

Malaysia will lead efforts to coordinate a regional response in Southeast Asia toward U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs, the country’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said.

“Malaysia, as Asean chair, will lead efforts to present a united regional front, maintain open and resilient supply chains, and ensure Asean’s collective voice is ...Read more

With cannabis and hallucinogen use on the rise, the Michigan Society of Anesthesiologists is trying to educate the public on the importance of disclosing the use of the substances to physicians, particularly before going into surgery.

Use of cannabis and hallucinogens remains at an all time high in recent years, according to a University of ...Read more

Stay in LA, the grassroots campaign aimed at boosting film and television production in Los Angeles, held a rally in Sun Valley on Sunday to draw attention to the struggling local entertainment industry.

The rally at SirReel Studio Services featured a series of speakers from across the entertainment industry as well as state and national ...Read more

Massachusetts universities including UMass Amherst, Northeastern University and Harvard are all reporting that numerous students have seen their visas revoked in recent weeks, joining colleges across the country as the federal government moves to expel foreign students.

Harvard reported three students and two recent graduates, UMass Amherst ...Read more

A line of strong storms is slowly progressing through Georgia on Sunday with risk of damaging winds, flash flooding and a brief tornado threat.

Storms entered the northwest part of Georgia by midmorning and will advance throughout the region before exiting Monday afternoon. About 6,000 Georgia Power customers were without power at approximately...Read more

A mountain lion cub left with a skull fracture and severe head and eye trauma after being struck by a car in Orange County earlier this year has made a sharp recovery and could soon return to the wild, the San Diego Humane Society announced on Saturday, Apr. 5.

The male cub was roughly four months old when he was found on the side of an Orange ...Read more

Members of Washington’s state-employees union are planning to march on the state Capitol next Wednesday to urge state lawmakers to adopt a budget free from furloughs, cuts and closures.

The group is also demanding that the state Legislature refrain from stripping away any of workers’ legal rights.

The April 9 rally comes as state leaders ...Read more

Brenda Morgan didn’t think she had the heart to take another assignment as a Tri-Cities home health care provider after she lost her client of 17 years in December.

But then she saw a message from the family of a young, autistic adult.

Sam has a heart condition, uses a feeding tube for meals and medication, and thrives on structure to help ...Read more

A rain-swollen stream left about 50 hikers stranded overnight at a Kauai waterfall, Hawaii rescuers reported.

The hikers called for help from the Kalalau Trail at about 11:55 a.m. Thursday, April 3, the Kaua‘i Fire Department said in a news release.

“When they got up to the waterfall, they turned around and this one guy tells me he stepped...Read more

Two GOP Congress members, including Westchester Rep. Mike Lawler, are going to bat for a former NYPD cop convicted of acting as an agent of China — writing on Congressional letterhead that they believe a federal jury got his landmark conviction wrong.

Lawler and Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas), both China hawks who have taken strong stances ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s top economic officials dismissed investors’ fears of inflation and recession, offering no apologies for the market turmoil sparked by sweeping global tariffs and defiantly insisting a boom is on the horizon.

On the heels of huge global stock market falls, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s top economic officials dismissed investors’ fears of inflation and recession, offering no apologies for the market turmoil sparked by sweeping global tariffs and defiantly insisting a boom is on the horizon.

On the heels of huge global stock market falls, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard ...Read more

CHICAGO — The Trump administration’s decision to close a regional Head Start office in Chicago this week has raised questions about how the program, which serves more than 28,000 children and low-income families in Illinois, will continue to operate in coming weeks and months.

The federal government shut down the Chicago office Tuesday, ...Read more

The budget proposal North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein unveiled last month renews his request, now for the third year in a row, for a special unit of state prosecutors and law enforcement agents focused on combating fentanyl trafficking.

Stein first called on the General Assembly to create a fentanyl control unit within the N.C. Department of ...Read more

Iran warned against any military aggression while reiterating its commitment to regional peace and a civilian nuclear program in its official response to a recent letter by U.S. President Donald Trump, a senior Iranian military official said.

Trump last month told Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a letter that his country had two months...Read more

The Trump administration has issued an order demanding that all national parks remain open amid severe staffing shortages — an action that one conservation group called "reckless and out of touch" as park personnel brace for millions of visitors this summer.

"This order is intended to ensure that all national parks and national historic sites...Read more