NASA and Boeing need more time to make sure a helium leak on its CST-100 Starliner is low enough risk to send humans into space.

So the launch of NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams has now been pushed to May 25 targeting a 3:09 p.m. liftoff atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Fish and Game Commission voted this week to ban salmon fishing in the Sacramento, American, Feather and Mokelumne rivers.

This is the second consecutive year the commission has voted to ban in-river salmon sport fishing in the Klamath River Basin and Central Valley rivers, according to a news release from ...Read more

The union representing 48,000 academic workers across the University of California said Friday that its members at UC Santa Cruz will go on strike Monday over alleged worker rights and free speech violations, potentially dealing a blow to campus operations at a critical time during the final weeks of the spring quarter.

The decision to target ...Read more

BALTIMORE — A Baltimore detention facility was without running water and functioning toilets for days this week, according to the Office of the Public Defender, which alleges the conditions were unconstitutional.

While the water was out at the Maryland Reception Diagnostic and Classification Center in Baltimore, people were unable to clean ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Wednesday directed a stakeholder task force to address “unintended consequences” of significant changes to the military survivor and dependent tuition waiver that he approved when he signed the biennial budget bill into law.

Youngkin approved changes Monday to Virginia’s Military Survivors and ...Read more

A New Mexico judge is weighing whether to dismiss involuntary manslaughter charges against Alec Baldwin for his alleged role in the 2021 shooting death of the "Rust" movie cinematographer.

Baldwin's attorneys argued during a court hearing Friday that special prosecutor Kari T. Morrissey had abused her power by allegedly withholding "significant...Read more

ATLANTA — A South Carolina man accused of breaching the gate at the FBI Atlanta offices in April was granted bond in federal court Friday with conditions that he be released to a local halfway house as soon as possible.

Ervin Lee Bolling, 48, has been detained by federal law enforcement for about six weeks since his arrest April 1. He was ...Read more

DENVER — A 20-year-old man pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder Friday for starting a house fire that killed five people in Denver’s Green Valley Ranch neighborhood nearly four years ago.

Kevin Bui agreed to serve 60 years in prison as part of his plea agreement, though he will not be sentenced until July 2. Sixty other ...Read more

CHICAGO — Six people have been charged in federal court in Chicago with conspiring to stage armed robberies across the city and suburbs to qualify for U.S. immigration visas reserved for crime victims.

The indictment made public Friday alleged that from July 2022 until January the conspirators paid actors to play the “robbers” and set up ...Read more

NEW YORK — Migrants staying in New York City shelters will be forced out starting as early as next week if they haven’t been able to prove they’ve experienced extenuating circumstances around finding new housing, a top official in Mayor Eric Adams’ administration said Friday.

The new approach marks a tightening of existing rules. Under ...Read more

ATLANTA — Bird flu continues to pose a low risk to the general public according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

It is rare for humans to get bird flu and currently, most cases of bird flu in people around the globe are linked to direct contact with an infected animal ― mostly birds.

But scientists are paying close ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Enrollment at California's public schools continued to decline this year, but by only .25%, or 15,000 students, state data showed, a much slower pace than the steep declines experienced during difficult pandemic years when classes were forced online.

A total of 5,837,690 students were enrolled in the 2023-24 school year, ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge on Friday sentenced David DePape to 30 years in prison, six months after a jury found him guilty of attempting to kidnap former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and using a hammer to bludgeon her husband in a bloody October 2022 assault.

Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley delivered her decision during a hearing at ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The crew and pilots aboard the massive container ship that destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge weren’t under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

Nor was the ship running on contaminated fuel, which some experts postulated as a cause for the 984-foot Dali losing power twice as it approached the span in the early morning of ...Read more

MIAMI — President Donald Trump made it to his youngest son’s graduation on Friday morning, after all.

Trump, who is still in the midst of his hush money trial in New York, arrived to Oxbridge Academy in West Palm Beach with just minutes to spare, the Daily Beast reports.

The 77-year-old presumptive Republican presidential nominee sat in ...Read more

It’s been nearly two years since Blue Origin flew humans to space on its New Shepard rocket, but the next six passengers are set to go Sunday as the Jeff Bezos company gets back to the business of space tourism.

The six passengers include former Air Force Capt. Ed Dwight, the first Black astronaut candidate in the 1960s. Others flying are ...Read more