LOS ANGELES — Before Yong Yang was fatally shot by Los Angeles police last week inside his parents' Koreatown home, his mother called mental health officials for assistance.

Her 40-year-old son was experiencing a severe bipolar episode, Myung Sook Yang said, and she specifically reached out to the county Department of Mental Health (DMH) ...Read more

The assault began at dawn. Defenders rushed in reinforcements. Pitched fighting raged.

Ukraine and its allies sought Friday to discern whether Russian forces were opening a major new war front, more than two years after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of its sovereign neighbor.

“There is a fierce battle,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr ...Read more

NEW YORK — Arts and sciences faculty at Columbia University have launched a vote of no confidence in embattled college president Minouche Shafik, after her congressional testimony and response to campus protests angered large swaths of the Columbia community.

Voting is open for a week to around 1,000 faculty from the main part of the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A different kind of storm could complicate this weekend's plans.

For the first time since January 2005, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has issued a severe geomagnetic storm watch for Friday evening.

The category G4 watch from NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center signals the possibility that a ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — At least 200 Northern California residents may have been exposed to measles after a child with the airborne disease came to the UC Davis Medical Center’s emergency department twice during the past week, Sacramento County health officials said Thursday.

A child came to the Oak Park facility on Monday between 10 p.m. to 3...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — For the second straight year, Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed delaying the expansion of the food assistance benefits for undocumented immigrants age 55 and older.

Newsom on Friday unveiled his proposed $288 billion revised state budget which pushes back the expansion until 2027. He held back funding the program as his ...Read more

DELTA TOWNSHIP, Mich. — John Eastman, a lawyer who advised former President Donald Trump's campaign on strategies to overturn the 2020 election, told a crowd in Michigan Thursday the push against voter fraud in the U.S. is "comparable to the fight our founders waged."

About 100 people attended an event inside a Lansing-area Ramada hotel's ...Read more

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol announced this week that he would create a new government ministry to tackle the country's low birth rate, which he called "a national emergency."

The ministry will serve as a specialized "control tower" that will "establish policies that span education, labor and welfare" — one ...Read more

ATLANTA — From Gov. Brian Kemp to former President Jimmy Carter, over 240,000 Georgia voters have already cast their ballots for this month’s primary.

Turnout steadily rose by roughly 25,000 voters each day across Georgia through nearly two weeks of early voting, according to state election data published Friday.

The deadline to request an...Read more

ATLANTA — Most members of Emory University’s Class of 2024 were finishing the sixth grade a decade ago when Georgia congressman and icon of the Civil Rights Movement John Lewis gave the school’s commencement address on campus.

During his speech, Lewis recalled meeting Rosa Parks when he was 17 years old and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr....Read more

LOS ANGELES — Sasha Jane Lowerson just wanted to surf.

But when the Australian longboard surfer attempted to enter an upcoming competition in Huntington Beach, the athlete, who was born intersex, learned that the organizer wasn't going to allow transgender athletes.

Instead, surfers would be required to enter the category of the gender they ...Read more

Meghan Markle was showing off hubby Prince Harry on their first stop of their Nigeria tour — on the heels of him getting snubbed by King Charles, Prince William and Kate Middleton.

The Sussexes spoke Friday at the GEANCO Foundation’s inaugural mental health summit, with the “Suits” alum, 42, praising her 39-year-old husband’s “...Read more

NEW YORK — New York state’s much-maligned Office of Cannabis Management will get new leadership and streamline its torpid permitting process for retailers, Gov. Hochul said Friday, moving to address failures that have allowed a sprawling illegal marijuana market to emerge in the city.

Hochul described the state’s legal cannabis rollout as...Read more

ATLANTA — After the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision in June 2022 allowing states like Georgia to institute abortion bans, states with abortion bans or restrictions started attracting fewer medical residents, the new doctors who work in training at academic hospitals.

Court decisions in 2022 and 2023 including by Georgia’s state ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Faced with a $44.9 billion budget deficit, Gov. Gavin Newsom described a plan to shrink the size of state government and slow his progressive policy agenda by eliminating 10,000 vacant state jobs and pausing an expansion of subsidized childcare, among dozens of other cuts.

Newsom’s revised $288 billion budget proposal, ...Read more

Two new COVID-19 subvariants, collectively nicknamed FLiRT, are increasingly edging out the winter's dominant strain ahead of a possible summer uptick in coronavirus infections.

The new FLiRT subvariants, officially known as KP.2 and KP.1.1, are believed to be roughly 20% more transmissible than their parent, JN.1, the winter's dominant ...Read more

NEW YORK — A bid by Donald Trump’s lawyers to show he was concerned about how his family would take the news of the Stormy Daniels sex tryst allegations fizzled Friday as testimony in the ex-president’s hush money trial resumed.

Former top White House aide Madeleine Westerhout, who famously lost her job after saying she had a better ...Read more

ATLANTA — An inmate who escaped from deputies while in custody at a hospital has been located, the Newton County Sheriff’s Office said Friday.

Kendrick Darnell Hurst, 34, ran from deputies Saturday at Piedmont Newton Hospital. He fled before he could be transported back to the jail, investigators said.

Hurst had been spotted in the days ...Read more

Amid persistent calls from the United States and other countries that Israel needs to make it easier for life-saving aid to reach Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military closed two of the region’s few operating border crossings in Rafah, a southern Gazan city, on May 7, 2024.

Responding to political pressure and alarm, ...Read more

CHICAGO — Wendella engineer Miguel Chavez climbed down a ladder and over a small dock Wednesday to pull up a trap floating in the Chicago River near the Michigan Avenue Bridge. The size of a standard garbage can, the trap is designed to collect trash and can hold up to 44 pounds.

Chavez tapped the bin three times to release the contents into ...Read more