US REGIONS

Enbridge scores victory on Minnesota's Line 3 pipeline project

Despite Tuesday's ruling, Line 3 opponents are holding a series of events at the state Capitol in St. Paul this week, including a march and rally on Wednesday to call on President Joe Biden to order the Army Corps of Engineers to cancel the project's federal permits.

Bay Area booze distributor pleads guilty in college admission scandal

A Bay Area booze distributor accused of paying a $500,000 bribe to get her son into the University of Southern California — and then bragging that it was “worth every cent” — has agreed to plead guilty in the college admissions scandal, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

'Tunnels to Towers' Siller: 'Shame on those in charge' for Afghanistan catastrophe

Tunnels To Towers Foundation CEO Frank Siller condemned the Biden administration for how it is orchestrating the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, lamenting the crisis gripping the country as Westerners are now trapped behind Taliban checkpoints, while Afghans who helped the U.S. are being hunted by the militants.

OSHA proposes $1.3M in penalties over worker deaths

Federal workplace safety regulators on Wednesday proposed $1.3 million in penalties for the construction company that employed two men who died when they were struck by a dump truck and pushed into a 9-foot deep trench at a sewer project in Boston in February.

California drought takes toll on world's top almond producer

As temperatures recently reached triple digits, farmer Joe Del Bosque inspected the almonds in his parched orchard in California’s agriculture-rich San Joaquin Valley, where a deepening drought threatens one of the state's most profitable crops.