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The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday moved to potentially delay a contentious $30 hourly minimum wage for hotel and airport workers, saying the action may be needed to stave off a business-backed ballot initiative to ...Read more

Rainfall across much of California and the West has become more clustered in heavier storms, with longer dry spells in between.

The net effect is a drying out, researchers found in a new study. It isn’t just the western...Read more

DENVER — The end of the Colorado legislative session often is raucous and tense. But on Wednesday, the 2026 session’s conclusion was more muted — with no major last-minute deals and no major standoffs on pivotal ...Read more

MIAMI — Marly Metayer, the mother of slain Coral Springs Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Bowen, has filed to run for her daughter’s city commission seat, records show.

Her campaign manager David Metellus said she filed to ...Read more

NEW YORK — The NYPD crushed 200 dirt bikes, mopeds and scooters beneath the treads of two bulldozers outside a Sanitation Department garage on Staten Island Wednesday.

The demolished motorbikes were among more than 5,...Read more

Chadwick Boseman once lavished praise on Colman Domingo at a celebrity party.

The Black Panther star - who died in August 2020, aged 43 - heaped praise on Colman, 56, during a chance meeting at the Motion Picture and ...Read more

Hayden Panettiere "couldn't figure out" why she didn't make friends with her Nashville co-stars.

The 36-year-old actress played Juliette Barnes in Nashville, the musical drama series between 2012 and 2018, but Hayden didn...Read more

Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift recently enjoyed a "fun" trip to London.

The 36-year-old sports star and Taylor were spotted together in London earlier this month, and Travis has now shared some details of their visit to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Federal efforts to accelerate nuclear energy development are starting to pay off, government and industry experts say, as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission works through mandated updates to licensing ...Read more

Spirit Airlines’ abrupt shutdown this month was too abrupt under the law, a group of terminated employees allege in a proposed class-action lawsuit.

Their complaint, filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern ...Read more

TORONTO — The western Canadian province of Alberta will appeal a court ruling that blocks a potential vote on separation from the country, after a judge found the government failed to meet its obligation to consult with ...Read more

The University of California is bracing for a massive strike Thursday that would disrupt services at all campuses, hospitals and medical centers as more than 40,000 workers — patient transport staff, nursing aides, ...Read more

There’s a new name in Chicago sports stadiums.

Fast-food giant McDonald’s has inked a long-term deal with the Chicago Fire to add its name — and a massive flagship restaurant — to the team’s new $750 million ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In the days after she killed two boys in a Westlake Village crosswalk with her SUV, Rebecca Grossman never admitted culpability in the crash to her lover Scott Erickson, despite testimony from another ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Supreme Court sent shock waves across the Palmetto State and beyond Wednesday when it announced it was overturning Alex Murdaugh’s double murder conviction in the 2021 deaths of his ...Read more

Poor weather conditions Wednesday forced another scrub of a launch attempt by SpaceX on its latest resupply run for NASA to International Space Station, which will have to wait until at least Friday for a backup attempt ...Read more

United Launch Alliance is running short on usable hardware this year, having to rely on its dwindling supply of Atlas V rockets while it continues an investigation into what went wrong on the last launch of its successor ...Read more

U.S. Vice President JD Vance said Wednesday morning the federal government will withhold $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments to California.

The announcement came at a news conference about the government’s ongoing efforts...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Prosecutors will move “aggressively” to retry Alex Murdaugh on murder charges by the end of the year, South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson told a news conference Wednesday.

Wilson and ...Read more

Days after the state of Florida and federal government engaged in talks to shut down Alligator Alcatraz, officials told vendors the Everglades detention center is closing and detainees are expected to be moved out by early...Read more