MIAMI — A Miami-Dade judge is accusing her challenger of conspiring with politically connected individuals to send out text messages that attack her partiality as a judge — and falsely state she was a communist who hates the United States, according to a recently filed lawsuit.

Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Mavel Ruiz alleges in the ...Read more

The Trump administration again on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene — and fast — to save President Donald Trump’s plan for the U.S. Postal Service to place new nationwide limits on mail voting ahead of the November midterms.

It did so after a lower court judge blocked the Postal Service plan from moving forward for a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Nick Reiner has been indicted in the killings of his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, who were fatally stabbed inside the family’s Brentwood home last December.

Reiner, 32, made a brief appearance Wednesday on the 13th floor of downtown Los Angeles’ criminal courts building on the newly released indictment, which replaces ...Read more

Iran has reorganized its military to be more aggressive abroad as talks on ending the war with the U.S. remain mired in stalemate, a sign that Tehran is preparing for a protracted era of regional conflict.

A raft of top military appointments by Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei marks a shift to an “offensive doctrine,” Mohammad Reza Naqdi, a ...Read more

The death toll from the powerful magnitude 7.4 earthquake that devastated western Colombia has risen to at least 254, according to the latest local and aggregated reports, as rescuers raced against time Wednesday to find people still alive beneath collapsed buildings.

More than 48 hours have passed since the earthquake struck Monday morning, ...Read more

CHICAGO — An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent on Wednesday pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of battery for throwing a protester to the ground while he filmed the agent on his phone.

Adam Saracco, 41, entered the plea during a court appearance in Maywood and was sentenced to one year of supervision.

Saracco is thought to be the ...Read more

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents could soon be equipped with gloves that deliver electric shocks to subdue suspected undocumented immigrants or protesters as they carry out President Donald Trump’s controversial mass deportation campaign.

The Department of Homeland Security plans to buy thousands of the gloves capable of zapping ...Read more

CHICAGO — A politically connected nonprofit at the center of a dispute with Mayor Brandon Johnson’s health department appealed to the mayor while competitively bidding for millions in city anti-violence funding, records show.

Acclivus Inc. CEO LeVon Stone sent then-Chicago Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Olusimbo Ige a “...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The chair of the California Senate's utilities committee said Tuesday that he was "deeply troubled" by electric company executives' recent threats to take action to protect their shareholders if they don't get legislation in Sacramento to limit their wildfire liabilities.

In a letter to Southern California Edison and ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — For over two years, a 16-year-old transgender girl says she was bullied, excluded and discriminated against by her teammates and coaches at the Capital Crew youth rowing program housed at the Sacramento State Aquatic Center.

The alleged discrimination — which she says included segregating her from the rest of the team, ...Read more

Iran has reorganized its military to be more aggressive abroad as talks on ending the war with the U.S. remain mired in stalemate, a sign that Tehran is preparing for a protracted era of regional conflict.

A raft of top military appointments by Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei marks a shift to an “offensive doctrine,” Mohammad Reza Naqdi, a ...Read more

Iran has reorganized its military to be more aggressive abroad as talks on ending the war with the U.S. remain mired in stalemate, a sign that Tehran is preparing for a protracted era of regional conflict.

A raft of top military appointments by Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei marks a shift to an “offensive doctrine,” Mohammad Reza Naqdi, a ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Wednesday was busy keeping track of three systems including one with a high chance to develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical outlook, the most threatening is a tropical wave about 900 miles west-southwest of the Cape Verde Islands in the...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A new LAPD report released Tuesday blamed poor planning and coordination for issues with the department's response to protests that erupted on city streets last summer in opposition to the Trump administration's immigration policies.

But apart from identifying those problems, the report concluded that police officers performed ...Read more

When Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian told state TV last week that he found it “very difficult” to reach the country’s Supreme Leader, it sparked fresh speculation about the whereabouts of Mojtaba Khamenei who hasn’t been seen in public since taking over as the country’s ultimate authority in March. By Monday, Pezeshkian told the ...Read more

Israel’s election in two months may see out Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s religious-rightist government, but a major shift in West Bank policy would be needed for there to be peace in the territory, the top Palestinian diplomat said.

“You can change the faces as much as you want. If the policy remains the same, then the issues ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump claimed the U.S. had “total control over the Hormuz Strait,” as Washington and Tehran hardened their positions in deadlocked negotiations over the critical waterway.

“We own it,” Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington late Tuesday, an assertion Iran has dispelled via ...Read more

For nearly three decades, a onetime Compton gang leader named Duane "Keffe D" Davis has been one of the most vocal theorists about one of the most debated celebrity killings ever.

Rapper Tupac Shakur was at the height of his fame when he was fatally shot Sept. 7, 1996, while riding to a Las Vegas nightclub in a BMW driven by Death Row Records ...Read more

From a mountain of rubble in downtown Pereira, Colombian rescue workers called for silence to listen for sounds of life beneath their feet.

In a plaza full of families who slept outside after Monday’s devastating earthquake, voices dropped to whispers, machinery went silent and the frantic activity of dozens of volunteers paused. Some ...Read more

Political action committees are responsible for nearly two-thirds of all federal election funding, with about US$6.3 billion raised and $4.8 billion spent since January 2025. But their outsized political influence does not just come from their wallets. It’s also generated from their names.

Political strategists are adopting PAC ...Read more