LOS ANGELES —The fire may be out, but Boyle Heights is now dealing with massive amounts of rotting meat and a foul smell as the cleanup phase from a weeklong fire at a massive cold-storage warehouse begins.

Outside the Lineage warehouse Thursday morning, the smell of heavy smoke was already being replaced with that of spoiling food and filthy...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A West Philadelphia man who was convicted last year of seeking to build bombs in support of Islamic extremist groups was sentenced Thursday to 20 to 40 months in prison and six years of probation.

Muhyyee-Ud-din Abdul-Rahman, 20, was found guilty in September of charges including attempting to possess weapons of mass ...Read more

More than half of the population struggles every day to find food. Nearly 1.5 million have been displaced by terrorizing gangs and hundreds have taken to the sea, just in the first six months of this year, only to be intercepted and forcibly returned to Haiti.

Conditions inside Haiti have deteriorated to such an extent that observers say the ...Read more

NEW YORK — Manhattan prosecutors moved to dismiss their rape case against Harvey Weinstein on Thursday after Jessica Mann — among the first women to come forward against the once-powerful Hollywood producer — said she could not bear the brutality of taking the stand a fourth time.

The move announced at a Manhattan Supreme Court hearing ...Read more

CARACAS, Venezuela — Rescue workers and civilians scrambled to pull survivors from the rubble Thursday as Venezuela struggled to recover from a pair of earthquakes that toppled scores of buildings, leaving at least 188 people dead and thousands homeless, resulting in widespread panic.

The casualty numbers seemed certain to rise as officials ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A proposed 5% tax on billionaires will appear on Californians’ ballots this November after negotiations to sideline the measure failed.

That outcome is likely to drive hundreds of millions of dollars in spending from billionaires, business groups and some unions who are aligned against it, as well as the major ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Days before Twin Cities Pride weekend, the Minneapolis City Council voted to repeal the city’s 38-year ban on gay bathhouses Thursday. But that doesn’t mean they can open tomorrow.

The issue now goes to Mayor Jacob Frey, who said he will sign it. Then the council would have to set up regulations that would govern adult ...Read more

WASHINGTON — California's two Democratic senators on Thursday criticized the Trump administration after it requested $87.6 billion from Congress to address some of the nation's most "urgent needs" but omitted funding for victims of last year's Los Angeles wildfires.

"Donald Trump's desire to punish Los Angeles and the state of California for ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The United States wants to reach a deal with Iran to end the war but won’t do so “at any price,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday, as he reiterated that tolls in the Strait of Hormuz were unacceptable.

“You can call it a toll, you can call it a fee, whatever you want to call it — it’s a game of ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — California, joined by Santa Clara County, is asking the U.S. District Court in San Jose to block work on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility outside of Gilroy in a legal motion filed Wednesday.

The court’s decision will determine whether work on the ICE facility can continue as the lawsuit against the facility...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — State lawmakers have advanced a bill that would ban homeless encampments across North Carolina.

Currently, encampments in the state are regulated through local laws. The City of Raleigh, for example, has banned homeless encampments on public property and has removed a few encampments over the past couple of years.

The bill, ...Read more

The Trump administration is reportedly ordering staff not to confirm deaths or details about severe injuries at U.S. national parks — but officials are adamant the policy is not meant to conceal information from the public.

In a statement to the Los Angeles Times, an Interior Department spokesperson said the "narrative" that the agency is ...Read more

The heat wave baking western Europe broke records in the U.K. and France, as the region faced another day of soaring temperatures.

The U.K. recorded its hottest June day on Thursday, with daytime highs hitting 36.7C (98F) in Merryfield in southern England, according to the Met Office. France’s average daily temperature reached an all-time ...Read more

BOSTON — Michael Proctor, the since-fired lead investigator in the John O’Keefe murder investigation, finally sat down for a deposition by Karen Read’s lawyers for the wrongful death suit against her, according to a source familiar with the matter.

The O’Keefe family filed a wrongful death suit against Read even before her second trial,...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The jury is deadlocked in the Palisade fire trial, in which 30-year-old ex-rideshare driver Jonathan Rinderknecht is accused of setting what eventually became the most destructive wildfire in Los Angeles city history.

More details on the jury’s note to the judge, and her response, are expected momentarily. The U.S. Attorney’...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court backed the Trump administration’s efforts to end temporary protected status, or TPS, for Haitian and Syrian immigrants on Thursday over objections that the countries remain unstable and too dangerous for immigrants to return to.

The ramifications could impact thousands of immigrants living in Minnesota under TPS.

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Illinoisans will soon see fewer unexpected “junk fees” and greater protections from robots snatching up concert tickets, lawmakers and Gov. JB Pritzker said at a signing for a handful of consumer protection bills Thursday.

“Corporations have become more and more creative in finding ways to charge consumers more while telling them less ...Read more

As the artificial intelligence industry continues to grow, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday announced a first-in-the-nation tracker to monitor AI-related job losses, with the initial released data showing no statewide surge in unemployment in at-risk fields.

The tool stems from a May executive order by Newsom to prepare California for “economic ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A federal jury hearing the arson case against Jonathan Rinderknecht, a 30-year-old former Uber driver, accused of setting what would become the deadliest wildfire in Los Angeles history, said on Thursday they were “at a standstill” and “unsure how to proceed” after more than 13 hours of deliberations.

The jury sent a ...Read more