Hailey Allred and Jessica Perigo don’t know each other, but last year they were both financially insecure and living in abortion-ban states, where reproductive health clinics and maternity wards have closed in recent years, when they unexpectedly became pregnant.

Both found a local crisis pregnancy center offering free ultrasounds to confirm ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police are rolling out a new siren, and you don't just hear it. It rattles your bones.

When the New York Police Department started using the Rumbler in 2009, one opponent called it an "acoustic assault" on citizens. But L.A. Police Cmdr. Blake Chow says the new low-frequency siren is the solution to a dangerous ...Read more

BALTIMORE — In March in a McDonald’s parking lot off a busy street, mental health clinician Michala Williams met a 38-year-old woman in a car.

“So, you called the police for help?” Williams asked the woman, who was sobbing uncontrollably and said she sometimes thinks about harming herself.

She told Williams she has children ranging ...Read more

AMHERST, Mass. — For the last 30 years, whenever pediatrician John Snyder wanted to find the most up-to-date research on treating young patients, he would turn to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

If he wanted to learn more about an outbreak of measles or hantavirus, he would pore over the weekly CDC report that came by email. ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — An eclectic group of people gathered at the Regional Justice Center on Monday as the murder trial of a man accused of orchestrating the slaying of rapper Tupac Shakur began with jury selection.

Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 63, is now on trial in connection with the death of Shakur, who was 25 when he was shot near the Strip in ...Read more

A fast-growing wildfire ignited in Big Sur, California, burning more than 1,700 acres and spurring evacuation orders that encompass some of the area’s iconic destinations such as Nepenthe restaurant, the Henry Miller Memorial Library and the Alila Ventana resort.

The fire began Sunday morning in the Los Padres National Forest southeast of the...Read more

NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s social media company posted steeper losses as it careened from a big cryptocurrency bet into a controversial new line of business selling faster access to market-moving posts from the U.S. president.

Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. reported a second-quarter loss of $238 million, driven by plummeting prices of...Read more

The California Department of Pesticide Regulation announced Monday that the pesticide paraquat-dichloride is being phased out, as all the pesticide’s manufacturers have voluntarily canceled their product registrations in the state.

Exposure to the pesticide, which is more commonly referred to simply as paraquat, has been tied to potential ...Read more

SEATTLE — Washington's school requirements around childhood vaccines have not changed, state health officials said Monday in response to President Donald Trump's latest efforts to revamp immunization practices in the country.

In a new executive order, Trump calls for scaling back the number of childhood shots recommended by the federal ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democratic U.S. Sen. Gary Peters has five months to go on the job working for Michigan citizens, but he's already begun talks with a potential future employer about his next gig.

Peters, 67, of Michigan, notified the Senate Ethics Committee this summer that he had entered talks with a private employer, the University of Southern ...Read more

ISTANBUL — Turkish lawmakers adopted legislation laying out the dissolution of a Kurdish separatist group and paving the way for one of the world’s longest insurgencies to come to an end.

The law, which parliament passed late Monday, calls for the full disarmament of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, commonly known as the PKK, and allows for ...Read more

North Carolina GOP senators did not confirm his nominee to lead the state’s public safety department, so Democratic Gov. Josh Stein has appointed that official to another role.

This comes as lawmakers in the GOP-led legislature have passed a bill making corrections and changes to the budget that became law in July. Among the new bill’s ...Read more

Local law enforcement leaders are providing guidance to Minnesota voters as the Trump administration sends seven teams from the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division to monitor polling locations during Tuesday’s primary.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said in a statement that “out of an abundance of caution” his office ...Read more

NEW YORK — Monday was deadline day for John Gotti’s grandson Carmine Agnello to donate a kidney to his mom, Victoria Gotti, or go to prison — and a federal judge rejected the “Growing Up Gotti” star’s last-minute request to push back his date to surrender on fraud charges.

Agnello, 40, was given an ultimatum last week after his ...Read more

U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., joined Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Monday to reintroduce legislation that would require employers to provide full-time workers with at least two weeks of paid vacation.

The Guaranteed Paid Vacation Act would allow workers to earn one hour of paid leave for every 25 hours worked. Full-time employees would ...Read more

The family of “Revenge of the Nerds” standout Robert Carradine is suing the Los Angeles hospital where the actor died for elder abuse and wrongful death.

The 71-year-old star, who known as nerd-leader Lewis Skolnick long before playing the title character’s dad on “Lizzie McGuire,” died by hanging in February while being treated for ...Read more

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday to drastically change the childhood vaccine schedule by recommending shots be administered in separate visits to the doctor’s office.

The executive order acts on Trump’s long-held belief that splitting up routine childhood vaccinations across multiple visits lessens the risk of ...Read more

Faced with federal cuts that slashed billions annually from public healthcare, state legislators touted $250 million Monday in funding to help salvage California’s public hospital system. But Santa Clara County expects only $20 million to $30 million from this funding against a projected $1 billion loss, while other counties continue to ...Read more

In a news conference loaded with “Back to the Future” and “The Jetsons” references, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Monday that Florida would become a national hub for testing ultralight electric aircraft, generally considered the next frontier of electric vehicles.

Although many people call them “flying cars,” without wheels or landing...Read more