With winter only weeks away, San Jose and county water officials are taking advantage of an unseasonably warm stretch of autumn weather to ramp up preparations against potential “Super El Niño” storms.

In a joint session Oct. 13, the San Jose City Council and the Santa Clara Valley Water District hashed out how to prepare for the storm and...Read more

After the third day of squirting an experimental drug up his nose, Dylan Meetze felt horrible.

“It was like I was underwater, like it took the most to do anything,” he said.

Meetze stopped taking the drug but endured fatigue and anxiety for months afterward, and his eyes and muscles twitched, he said.

He had taken BPC-157, a peptide drug ...Read more

Three years ago, members of the civilian board that monitors the Santa Cruz County juvenile hall sought to eliminate potential conflicts of interest by moving the commission from underneath the court and its probation department to the county’s chief administrative office.

“We were getting less and less administrative support,” said the ...Read more

A Miami judge has signed an arrest warrant for Raul Castro, finding probable cause that the former Cuban president in 1996 conspired with spies within the state to commit first-degree murder.

The warrant, signed Friday, was approved by the chief judge on the 11th Judicial Circuit Court following an investigation by the Florida Department of Law...Read more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Donald Trump of trying to pressure Kyiv into surrendering to Russia, escalating a week-long row with the U.S. president.

Zelenskyy also offered a new proposal to accede to Trump’s request to stop targeting Russian refineries, which was aimed at combating high diesel prices, in exchange for ...Read more

A small plane carrying three people, one a child, nosedived into San Jose traffic on Saturday afternoon, according to local news reports.

The crash happened shortly after 3 p.m. near the intersection of Capitol Expressway and Excalibur Drive, according to the San Jose Fire Department.

Two adults and a child were in the plane when it went down,...Read more

Back in July, the resignation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s education minister swiftly ended India’s first major round of student “Cockroach” protests just as they were gaining momentum. This time, he has no easy way out.

Modi’s rivals are now demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, alleging that ...Read more

Violent crimes like murder and assault have steadily declined in Minnesota after reaching a pandemic-era peak in 2021. But that hasn’t stopped public safety from being thrust to the center of elections for top statewide offices in recent weeks.

After a series of suburban shootings and an alleged ISIS terror plot at the Mall of America where ...Read more

The Norte fire was 50% contained as of mid-morning on Sunday, fire officials announced.

A total of 467 firefighters remain assigned to the fire, working to strengthen containment lines and extinguish hot spots, the Orange County Fire Authority said.

Firefighters also plan to remain at the fire in San Clemente and San Juan Capistrano for ...Read more

The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — the ATF — has announced that it would stop enforcing requirements to register and pay tax on gun suppressors, often called silencers, and other items.

Last week, Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador celebrated that announcement, which followed a victory in a lawsuit Idaho ...Read more

When Victoria Bayle was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease at the age of 46, her neurologist gave her a prognosis of 10 years.

She didn’t know anyone in her family with the condition, nor were there medications she could take to slow the disease’s progression.

The resident of Edinboro, in Erie County, went on a road trip with...Read more

St. Paul Police Chief Axel Henry recently filed an amended version of his lawsuit against Mayor Kaohly Her, adding a seventh count and new details, including reference to media coverage of an hour-long interview the mayor conducted on a Hmong-language podcast shortly after his lawsuit was filed.

Henry sued the mayor and the city on Sept. 23 ...Read more

Russia and Ukraine continued to trade attacks overnight as Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he was ready for fresh talks with the U.S. and renewed an appeal for Washington to put pressure on Moscow.

The Ukrainian president said Russian forces hit substations in the Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, and Odesa regions, leaving tens of thousands of ...Read more

The National Hurricane Center continued Sunday to forecast a system could develop off the U.S. East Coast that has the potential to develop into a more dangerous storm.

As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical outlook, a nontropical area of low pressure was expected to form by Sunday night off the coast of the southeastern United States.

“This low ...Read more

A low-pressure area is expected to form within hours that is forecast to bring high winds, coastal flooding and dangerous surf along portions of the U.S. East Coast this week, according to the National Hurricane Center.

The center of the low is expected to impact North Carolina and Virginia, with effects stretching up to coastal New Jersey and ...Read more

The DTA remains embroiled in negative headlines surrounding food stamp fraud, including the recent arrest of Gov. Maura Healey’s jailed former aide on SNAP fraud charges, as hundreds of staffers pull in six-figure salaries with soaring overtime.

A total of 597 Department of Transitional Assistance employees are taking in annual salaries over ...Read more

Two people died when a Saudi Arabian reconnaissance helicopter crashed near the border with war-torn Yemen, the first fatalities of their kind reported by the kingdom since the latest flare-up in its battle against Houthi rebels.

The incident came as missiles were intercepted elsewhere in the country and air-raid alerts sounded overnight in ...Read more

France is grappling with the aftermath of a weekend of widespread protests that descended into clashes between police and demonstrators and sparked some of the country’s worst street violence in years, with looting and landmarks set on fire.

The demonstrations drew more than half a million people to cities across the country on Saturday, but ...Read more

The time is right, but the weather might not cooperate as SpaceX has lined up a predawn launch Monday that could offer viewers another serving of space jellyfish.

SpaceX’s launch last week created the effect of the expanding nebula that was seen among clear skies all the way up to Washington, D.C. Closer to the launch site in Florida, the ...Read more