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Late-night bull run ends with a little cowboy know-how on busy California highway

A loose bull ran along Highway 35 for hours before Half Moon Bay ranch foreman Samuel Ramos Palomino answered the late-night call for help.

Pentagon Fires Editor and Publisher of Independent Military Publication

MINHO KIM

The firings at Stars and Stripes also claimed a Middle East correspondent. They are the latest effort by the Pentagon to diminish the news outlet’s editorial independence.

Massachusetts’ Top Court Bars Statues of Catholic Saints at City Building

CHRISTINA MORALES

The ruling quashes a plan by the mayor of Quincy that had drawn opposition from many religious figures, as well as from residents of the racially diverse city.

Court Slashes Award Alex Jones Was Ordered to Pay Sandy Hook Parents

ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON

An appeals court reduced the award to the parents of one victim to $6 million from $49 million, citing a Texas damages cap. The conspiracy theorist owes over $1 billion in other cases.

U.S. Agreed to Pay Liberia $5 Million in Connection with Deportees, Documents Say

MADELEINE NGO, HAMED ALEAZIZ AND ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS

The Trump administration approved the payment after Liberia said it would consider taking migrants from other countries.

Trump Accounts Get an Unlikely Endorser: Gavin Newsom

LAUREL ROSENHALL

Mr. Newsom, the governor of California, normally has harsh words for President Trump. But he called the new children’s savings accounts “one of the best things” the president has done.

The Local: Drama in the Boundary Waters

JAY GABLER

William Kent Krueger talks about his thriller set in the Boundary Waters, a timely subject.

Small Plane Crashes in Western Alaska, Killing Eight

QASIM NAUMAN, JOHN YOON AND ALENA CERRO

The Cessna aircraft was carrying two pilots, two U.S. Army engineers and four contractors to Cape Newenham from Anchorage when it crashed near a U.S. military site, investigators said.

Desperation Mounts as Thousands in Indiana Endure 10 Days Without Power

JULIE BOSMAN AND ROBERT CHIARITO

Floods from powerful thunderstorms devastated Gary, where a third of residents live below the poverty line and full restoration isn’t expected until next week.

Defense Rests Case in Lindsay Clancy Murder Trial

SEJAL GOVINDARAO AND EMMA SCHARTZ

The two sides focused Friday on whether Ms. Clancy was experiencing psychosis when she strangled her three young children in 2023. Closing arguments could begin on Monday.

Guide Company That Ran Fatal Ski Trip Faces Safety Fine in California

DAVE PHILIPPS

The state levied a $151,300 fine on Blackbird Mountain Guides, which took backcountry skiers into the Sierra Nevada in threatening conditions. Nine died in an avalanche.

Alfalfa Sprouts Linked to Illnesses in 15 States, F.D.A. Says

ISHANI DESAI

Officials are investigating after multiple strains of E. coli and a type of salmonella sickened dozens of people across the United States. Two people were infected with both salmonella and E. coli.

Missing New York grandmother found dead near Las Vegas airport after mysterious Bitcoin texts

Alisa Goods was found dead in a Las Vegas drainage ditch near Harry Reid International Airport after surveillance showed her collapsing on Aug. 8.

What to know about Alex Jones' Texas court win and more than $1 billion in damages he still faces

Alex Jones won a Texas court ruling that reduced one of the defamation lawsuit judgments against him for calling the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting massacre a hoax by more than $40 million

How a sanctuary outside LA has cared for rare, endangered gibbons for a half-century

Over the past 50 years, the Gibbon Conservation Center has become a globally recognized institution dedicated to the care and well-being of gibbons