The Transportation Department’s new restrictions that would severely limit which immigrants can get commercial driver’s licenses to drive a semitrailer truck or bus have been put on hold by a federal appeals court.

The Marine Mammal Center has rescued a sea otter pup in Morro Bay, California, after it was separated from its mother.

John Force, a 16-time Funny Car champion and the face of NHRA drag racing for nearly four decades, has formally retired.

California state officials say they plan to revoke 17,000 commercial driver’s licenses given to immigrants after discovering the expiration dates went past when the drivers were legally allowed to be in the U.S. The announcement follows harsh criticism from the Trump administration about California and other states granting licenses to people in the country illegally.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is criticizing the United States for missing key United Nations climate talks, calling it doubling down on stupid.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is warning that eight senators' decision to break with Democrats and end the government shutdown shows they aren't alarmed enough about President Donald Trump's impact on political norms.

U.S. college students who receive federal food aid are looking to their campuses for support because the program known as SNAP is in limbo during the government shutdown.

Voter anger over rising electricity costs is shaping next year's midterm elections.

The Federal Aviation Administration is forcing airlines to cut 10% of their flights at 40 of the busiest airports across the nation to reduce pressure on air traffic controllers during the ongoing government shutdown and ensure that flying remains safe.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will hold a news conference Thursday morning in Palm Beach County.

Economic worries were the dominant concern as voters cast ballots for Tuesday’s elections, according to preliminary findings from the AP Voter Poll.

California Republicans have filed a lawsuit to block a new U.S. House map that voters just approved.

Most California voters didn’t like redrawing their congressional districts to favor Democrats, according to the AP Voter Poll.

The new congressional map approved by California voters marked a victory for Democrats in the national redistricting battle playing out ahead of the 2026 midterm election.

President Donald Trump wasn’t on the ballot in Tuesday’s elections, but many voters in key races made their choice in opposition to him or considered him to be irrelevant, according to the AP Voter Poll.

Economic worries were the dominant concern as voters cast ballots for Tuesday’s elections, according to preliminary findings from the AP Voter Poll.

Bomb threats to New Jersey polling stations, a voter roll mishap in Pennsylvania potentially affecting thousands of voters and warnings by President Donald Trump against California’s mail balloting system are marking the final day of voting in an off-year election with several nationally prominent races.

Apple delivered financial results during its summertime quarter that exceeded analyst projections, despite being caught in the crosshairs of a global trade war at the same time the trendsetting company is scrambling to catch up to its Big Tech peers in the artificial intelligence race.

NASA and Lockheed Martin have successfully tested a supersonic jet designed to minimize noise.

President Donald Trump is turning his attention to the voting process for Tuesday's elections.

California voters head to the polls on Tuesday with just one yes-or-no question on the ballot.

Halloween is a festive holiday for most, but it can also be dangerous if you aren’t careful. Each year, about 3,200 people go to the emergency room on Halloween for injuries. So how can you stay safe?

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is warning that he is about make good on a threat to revoke millions in federal funds for California because he says the state is illegally issuing commercial driver’s licenses to noncitizens.

In a story published Oct. 23, 2025, about state rules regarding driver’s licenses, The Associated Press erroneously reported about state rules for driver’s licenses.

President Donald Trump says he’s backing off a planned surge of federal agents into San Francisco after speaking to the mayor, as protesters gathered outside a U.S. Coast Guard base where they were located.

The U.S. Coast Guard has announced it is providing a base for U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents in the San Francisco area.

Less than two weeks from Election Day, a potentially decisive edge in California's fight over new U.S. House districts has emerged: advertising.

Meta Platforms is cutting roughly 600 artificial intelligence jobs even as it continues to hire more workers for its superintelligence lab, the company confirmed on Wednesday.

A California man has agreed to plead guilty to acting as an illegal agent for the Chinese government in Southern California while working as a campaign advisor to for a local politician.

A planned five-day strike by thousands of registered nurses and other Kaiser Permanente health care workers in California, Hawaii and Oregon has ended.

A U.S. Marine says his parents were detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials after they visited a California military base and one of them was later deported.

An estimated 31,000 Kaiser Permanente health care workers have gone on strike to demand better wages and staffing.

Barack Obama is entering the fight for U.S. House control.

A California engineer and gardening enthusiast has won the top prize at a pumpkin-weighing contest in Northern California.

A new law signed by California's governor attempts to shield the identities of sidewalk vendors from federal immigration enforcement officers.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law phasing out certain ultraprocessed foods from school meals.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law aimed at combating antisemitism at schools.

Democratic governors from California and Illinois are threatening to leave the National Governors Association unless it denounces President Donald Trump's troop deployments to states.

A California fire department captain says he yelled for bystanders on a California highway to help lift the wreckage of a downed medical helicopter off a paramedic pinned underneath after determining additional rescue crews would take too long to get to the scene.

Federal health officials have issued a public health alert for certain Hello Fresh subscription meals containing spinach that may be contaminated with listeria.

An Associated Press tally shows U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is spending millions of dollars on TV recruitment ads targeting officers frustrated by local restrictions on immigration enforcement.

The fight for control of the U.S. House is underway in California.

Lithium-ion batteries are increasingly being used to store power for electrical grids, but some localities are concerned about fire risks.

Fire crews have extinguished flames at a Chevron refinery just outside of Los Angeles.

Devin Lloyd was named the AFC Defensive Player of the Month on Thursday afternoon, an excellent honor for the former first-round draft pick.

The Trump administration has announced the cancellation of $7.6 billion intended for clean energy projects across 16 states.

The owners of a giant Northern California corn maze once crowned the world’s largest want visitors to remember that there is fun in getting lost.

LeBron James sat out of the Los Angeles Lakers’ first practice of training camp with a minor injury.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is throwing his weight behind the Vatican’s environmental initiative.

Sean Feucht, a conservative Christian worship leader, gained attention in 2020 by defying COVID-19 restrictions with protest concerts.

Google’s YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit by President Donald Trump over his 2021 account suspension following the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed into law legislation aiming to increase transparency and prevent AI models from being used to cause catastrophic harms.

Kawhi Leonard said he didn’t receive all of the money he was owed from a company he had an endorsement deal with in a business relationship that is under investigation by the NBA, but he insisted there was no wrongdoing.

Louisiana has issued a warrant to arrest a California doctor accused of mailing abortion pills.

Federal prosecutors say three activists opposed to President Donald Trump’s immigration raids in Los Angeles have been indicted on charges of illegally “doxing” a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.

New Mexico lawmakers are convening in a special session this week to boost funding for food assistance and rural health care.

News4JAX sports reporter Jamal St. Cyr's analysis after Sunday's 26-21 Jacksonville win over San Francisco.

After spending this season in California’s capital city without acknowledging that on their uniforms, the Athletics have announced they will have “Sacramento” written on gold alternate jerseys in 2026.

It is now significantly harder for non-U.S. citizens to obtain a commercial driver’s license under new rules the Transportation Department has imposed.

President Donald Trump's transportation department has been reversing grants for recreational trails and bicycle lanes.

The Transportation Department has tightened requirements for noncitizens to get commercial driver's licenses after fatal crashes that officials say were caused by immigrant truck drivers.

A federal jury has deadlocked for the second time in a trial of a former correctional officer charged with sexually abusing four inmates at a now-closed federal women’s prison in California.

The Trump administration wants to redistribute $2.4 billion it pulled from California’s high-speed rail project to other uses as part of a new $5 billion program to fund rail projects that boost U.S. rail passenger traffic.

A judge has temporarily stopped the federal government from collecting personal information about residents in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, in 21 states and Washington, D.

The Federal Trade Commission and a bipartisan group of state attorneys general sued Ticketmaster and its parent company Thursday, saying they are forcing consumers to pay more to see live events through a variety of illegal tactics.

New federal court documents reveal new details about the dozens of people who are now owed restitution money by a Palm Coast man headed to federal prison for cybercrimes.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will hold a news conference Wednesday morning in Apalachicola.

A California judge has rejected a request for a new trial for Erik and Lyle Menendez, shutting down another possible path to freedom for the brothers who have served decades in prison for killing their parents in 1989.

The NBA is not rushing its investigation into whether a business relationship between Kawhi Leonard and a California company was legitimate or a way for the Los Angeles Clippers to bypass salary cap rules.

A federal judge who ruled last week that the Trump administration broke federal law by sending National Guard troops to the Los Angeles area says he will not immediately consider a request to bar the ongoing use of 300 Guard troops.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is calling out President Donald Trump for a “relentless, unhinged California obsession” in his State of the State address.

Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer welcomes the NBA's investigation into alleged salary cap rule violations.

The attorneys general of California and Delaware have expressed serious concerns about the safety of OpenAI's chatbot, ChatGPT, especially for children and teens.

Members of California’s Sikh trucking community say a deadly crash involving one of its own has led to a spike in anti-Sikh rhetoric.

Missouri has become the third state to embrace a mid-decade redesign of its U.S. House districts in a quest for partisan advantage.

Investigators have concluded that two experienced racing pilots deviated from their expected flight paths and never saw each other before a fatal midair collision in 2023 at the National Championship Air Races.

The NBA says it will investigate if a $28 million endorsement contract between Kawhi Leonard and a California-based sustainability services company allowed the Los Angeles Clippers to circumvent league salary cap rules, following a report by journalist Pablo Torre.

The Democratic governors of Washington, Oregon and California have created an alliance to safeguard health policies, believing the Trump administration is putting Americans’ health and safety at risk by politicizing the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Powerball jackpot has jumped to an eye-popping $1.7 billion after yet another drawing passed without a big winner.

A kitten survived a 100-mile California road trip stuck somewhere inside the inner workings of a Range Rover before an autobody shop owner spent hours working to free the tiny kitten.

As parades and other events celebrating the contributions of workers in the U.S. are being held for the Labor Day holiday, experts say President Donald Trump’s stepped-up immigration policies are impacting the nation’s labor force.

Missouri’s Republican governor is calling a special legislative session to redraw the state’s U.S. House districts.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held a news conference on Wednesday afternoon in Orlando.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says California, Washington and New Mexico could lose millions of dollars of federal funding if they continue failing to enforce English language requirements for truckers.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has promised to sign a new congressional voting map designed to help Republicans maintain their slim majority in Congress.

California's long-delayed high-speed rail project is slated to be operating in the Central Valley by 2032, according to a report released Friday by the High Speed Rail Authority.

Gavin Newsom is having a moment.

Moves by Texas Republicans and California Democrats to redraw their U.S. House districts could disrupt a rare partisan balance in American politics.

Lyle and Erik Menendez have both denied parole after serving decades in prison for killing their parents.

Lyle Menendez has been denied parole a day after his younger brother Erik received the same recommendation by a California state board.

Former President Barack Obama has expressed support for California Governor Gavin Newsom's approach to redistricting.

A 20-year-old Palm Coast man linked to a massive cybercriminal gang pleaded guilty in a Jacksonville federal courtroom Friday morning to charges including conspiracy and wire fraud.

Texas’ House of Representatives is approving a new map that creates up to five new, winnable congressional seats for the GOP.

Oklahoma will require applicants for teaching jobs from California and New York to pass an exam that the state’s top education official says is designed to safeguard against “radical leftist ideology.”.

A federal agent fired three shots at a moving vehicle after the driver sped off following an immigration stop in Southern California.

The California Legislature comes back from a summer recess and is slated to vote on a partisan plan to redraw congressional districts ahead of the 2026 midterms.

Coastal communities nationwide are ramping up efforts to restore and protect their shorelines as climate change causes more intense and destructive storms and leads to sea-level rise that puts tens of millions of people at risk.

In California’s Death Valley National Park, one of the hottest places on Earth, summer temperatures can soar into the 130s F.

California is stepping into a national redistricting battle after President Donald Trump urged Texas Republicans to redraw maps to maintain their U.S. House majority.

The Black Freedom Fund plans to expand to a $200 million endowment.