Facebook is on trial in New Mexico over privacy violations linked to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, with opening statements beginning Wednesday in Santa Fe. New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez s…
The Transportation Security Administration and airport security procedures in the U.S. were built layer by layer after attacks such as the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackings and the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Fli…
Stanford scientists reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that a photovoltaic retina implant smaller than a sesame seed restored form vision to people with age-related macular degeneration, …
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against Kansas City, Kansas, school system over its policies on transgender students, marking the first use of the Family Education Right…
California lawmakers passed a series of bills in the final days of the legislative session, including measures that increase public pension costs, expand antitrust liability, restrict data center wate…
California's wildfire liability reform bill SB 492 died in the Assembly on Tuesday after investor-owned utilities Edison International and Pacific Gas & Electric pushed back, with Assembly Speaker Rob…
Former Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino retired while under internal investigation for his conduct during immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis and Chicago, records released by Customs a…
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported Tuesday that Syria failed to declare nuclear material, facilities, and activities under the NPT Safeguards Agreement, including a nuclear reactor…
A federal judge struck down New York's law that would have charged fossil-fuel producers $75 billion for climate change damages, ruling that the law conflicts with federal authority under the Clean Ai…
The German government on Tuesday blamed Russia for an attempted drone attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport on Aug. 4, when an explosives-laden drone was found near a Ukrainian plane and defused. Interior M…
The FDA approved daraxonrasib (Rasonque), a once-daily pill from Revolution Medicines for stage 4 pancreatic cancer, which nearly doubled median survival to 13.2 months from 6.7 months with chemothera…
A whistleblower statement released Tuesday by Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal contends that the U.S. Postal Service is rushing to build an error-riddled computer system to comply with President Don…
Two California bills, AB 1642 and AB 1795, set for a final vote Monday, Aug. 31, would create the first scientific testing standards in the nation for post-wildfire homes and compel insurers to follow…
Edison International and PG&E executives warned California lawmakers that wildfire liability bill SB 492 would raise utility bills and hurt investment, citing a combined $20 billion loss in market val…
California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton announced a plan on Monday, Aug. 31, in Irvine to require schools and state-funded youth organizations to promote the Wait Until 8th campaign, which enc…
President Trump warned Americans not to reject unpopular data centers, saying the facilities bring more tax revenue and lower unemployment and that communities opposing them risk becoming 'backwards a…
A Stateline analysis of ICE data from Jan. 20, 2025, to March 10, 2026, found that states with strict non-cooperation policies—Oregon, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, and Washington—have the low…
The federal government has begun approving Workforce Pell grants, a new program expanding Pell grants to short-term job training programs, with the first approvals going to an emergency medical techni…
Kalshi, an online prediction market platform, permanently banned former U.S. Rep. George Santos after concluding he likely engaged in insider trading by betting against his attendance at the State of …
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) has launched an investigation into a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) tactic that allowed large quantities of fentanyl to reach U.S. str…