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Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath will endorse Nithya Raman’s bid for mayor on Tuesday, giving the City Council member a boost in the battle for votes on the Westside and in the San Fernando Valley. The endorsement also gives Raman newfound clout in an area where her campaign has struggled: securing support from her fellow elected officials. Thirteen of her council colleagues have endorsed her opponent, Mayor Karen Bass, while a fourteenth — Councilmember Traci Park — said she is voting for the incumbent despite reservations. Horvath, whose district takes in 2 million people, said Raman will shake up the status quo, bringing a new approach to homelessness, housing affordability, emergency preparedness and other issues. “It’s been said that she doesn’t have many friends at City Hall, and I know what that feels like,” Horvath told The Times. “When you take on institutional inertia and decades of refusal to change, that kind of shake-up can feel disruptive to people.

Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy, and give us feedback. DALLAS — When the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge opened more than a decade ago, it connected downtown Dallas to West Dallas, one of the poorest parts of the city. With the new bridge came a spike of new development interest in the predominantly Hispanic neighborhood, once largely cut off from the city’s urban core.

The 5-0 Vikings return from their bye week to face a Colts team reeling from consecutive losses and the firing of its general manager.

Republican Ammie Akin is running for Alabama’s 7th Congressional District, a district that stretches from part of Birmingham, across portions of Tuscaloosa County to the state’s western Black Belt. Since 2011 it’s been represented by Democrat Terri Sewell, who is running for reelection. Property and voting records show, and Akin’s campaign confirmed, that she lives in the 6th Congressional District. Her home is in unincorporated Jefferson County near the intersection of Interstate 459 and U. S. Highway 280. It is not illegal to run outside of one’s congressional district. The U. S. Constitution requires members of the House to be inhabitants of the state they represent but not the specific district. Still, it is not typical. “District 7 is the only district I want to run in and the reason for that is because that's the district I'm most equipped to run in because of my background and my resume,” Akin said. Akin has spent her career in educational settings. According to her LinkedIn profile, she began her career as a teacher at Hoover High School before spending about eight years with the Trussville City Schools.

Nearly 10% of the 4 million ballots mailed to eligible voters have been returned.

The gains of scientific advancements in treatment are shadowed by the cuts coming in Medicaid coverage at rare disease fair.

It will also expand mobile integrated health, a style of care delivery that provides health care in out-of-hospital environments, such as emergency response contexts or community events. Officials said it will bring five new mobile integrated health programs, including in the Concord area and the North Country. “The amount of impact that that’s going to have is significant,” Mark Wholey, director of New Hampshire Fire Standards and Training and EMS, said, adding that the biggest goal is to relieve strain on emergency rooms from patients who, because they lack primary care, become repeat patients. “Our hope is that the folks that enter back into the EMS system and end up at our emergency rooms, which plague the emergency rooms and slow down the care with their acute need, can get that need met, as the secretary said, out-of-hospital. That’s our goal.”Get N. H. Morning ReportA weekday newsletter delivering the N. H. news you need to know right to your inbox. Enter EmailThe project will be funded by money the federal government has already committed to New Hampshire.

In what may be one of the most comical self-owns in recent politics, the esteemed attorneys of the U. S. Department of Justice announced Monday that despite the extravagant and terrifying misuse of their investigative power under the Trump administration, they have so far been able to identify only 28 people in all of California who may have voted illegally. “The announcement today by the United States DOJ makes the point that there is no widespread voter fraud,” California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta said after the news conference announcing the results of “Operation Protect the Vote.” Twenty-eight people out of about 23 million registered voters in the state — and not all of them even tried to vote, according to the feds. That’s about 1 in 820,000 folks allegedly registering or voting illegally, a rate that roughly matches how often people in the United States get struck by lightning in a given year. So much for Trump’s endless claims that there is a vast, organized conspiracy between Democrats and undocumented people to have them vote in large numbers to steal elections.

As housing, health care and other costs rise, Minnesotans question what makes a good job, and whether it still pays enough to be comfortable.

Few cities in California last week felt the full brunt of the climate crisis more than the small coastal town of San Clemente. The beach city at the southern end of Orange County for months has been dealing with widespread coastal erosion from El Niño-related Pacific storms that has threatened a crucial rail line and reshaped swaths of its beaches. Then, as the waves were still pounding, a fire broke out in the city’s bushy foothills Friday, quickly burning toward hillside neighborhoods and destroying homes in nearby San Juan Capistrano. San Clemente’s challenges demonstrate what more of California will probably face as the twin dangers of fire and coastal erosion converge this winter. Southern California is just entering its traditional fire season, and forecasters are predicting more coastal flooding and erosion from what is expected to be a severe El Niño winter. “We’re in a crisis,” said Cameron Cosgrove, a 14-year San Clemente resident and a planning commissioner. “Our beaches are eroding and our wildfire risk is very high, especially during Santa Ana wind conditions.

In a packed auditorium in Wisconsin Rapids, speaker after speaker berated the local elected officials over their actions — or lack of actions — on the latest community issue: data centers. “Now it is time to write the strongest ordinance that Wisconsin has seen on the data center, and you go into the moratorium to do that,” Kaitlyn Federwitz said at the podium of the Aug. 10 meeting, almost drowned out by applause from the crowd.

The Nov. 3 election will say much about rural Minnesotans’ tolerance for deteriorating economic conditions ― and who they hold responsible.

The funding will help filter toxic chemicals in the water that city officials said come from bigger communities upstream.

“Larry didn’t start his life by saying he wanted to be a sports executive. He started his life thinking about how does he go out and have a bigger impact on the world,” said David Lucchino, son of Larry Lucchino’s older brother, Frank. “He found his way into sports through having a really keen mind, a deep intellectual curiosity, and a tremendous work ethic, plus a competitive nature that could also make him intimidating.”Get 108 StitchesReceive the Globe's best reporting and commentary on the Red Sox every weekday. Enter EmailLucchino, who died in 2024 at 78, did not reserve his feisty and, at times, challenging personality for the workplace. As a second-grader, his nephew remembers that when Uncle Larry was helping him with homework, David’s answer of “North Dakota” prompted a succession of “Are you sure?” queries. “Even at that tender age, he had a certain way of trying to make you better. And, for the most part, it worked,” David said. “He was not your typical sports executive. He wasn’t going to slap you on the back and go have a beer with you. He wanted to be challenged, he was going to challenge you, and he viewed that as a rite of passage.

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This election cycle, Rhode Island has an opportunity to strengthen its economy, support local businesses, and position itself for growth in industries that will shape the future. Businesses deciding where to invest are looking for the infrastructure and development-ready sites that will allow them to turn expansion plans into reality. If Rhode Island wants to compete for that investment, we need to be proactive. The economic development bond, which is Question 3 on this year’s ballot, presents an opportunity to make that preparation a priority. The proposed $100 million investment would support site development and infrastructure for the state’s fastest-growing industries, including the life sciences, the ocean economy, and defense manufacturing. It’s a chance to build on Rhode Island’s existing strengths while preparing for new opportunities across the state. Site readiness can make a meaningful difference when companies are choosing where to open or expand their business. Environmental remediation, utility installation, and infrastructure upgrades require time and resources, which, for many growing businesses, are often in short supply.

This storm has even caught the eye of the National Hurricane Center, which has put a 40% chance of development into a subtropical storm in the next few days. Sydney Welch is talking about possible gusty winds and a stray shower or two.