LOS ANGELES — It's a sweltering hot Thursday morning at the Central Avenue Farmers Market. Out of school for the summer, some kids chase each other around vendor booths while others snore in strollers next to their parents. Spirits seem high as laughter and conversations in Spanish and English mingle in the air. Today marks a new beginning for...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles Superior Court judge found Monday that enough evidence exists for the singer D4vd to stand trial for the sexual abuse and murder of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez.

D4vd, whose legal name is David Anthony Burke, is charged with fatally stabbing Hernandez twice on April 23, 2025, then using a chainsaw to ...Read more

Two residents of Santa Clara County were infected by West Nile virus and are recovering at home after medical care, public health officials said Wednesday, the first confirmed human cases of the mosquito-borne virus this year in the Bay Area.

The two new cases in Santa Clara County were unrelated, and officials have not determined if either ...Read more

Since President Donald Trump has gutted much of the federal government’s consumer protection work, state attorneys general are increasingly left to fight high prices and investigate businesses themselves.

Consumer protection work, long a growing focus of state AGs from both parties, has ramped up considerably more in the past two years, legal...Read more

Championed as one of the most consequential and bipartisan federal housing laws in decades, the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act enacted this month makes significant changes across federal housing policy.

Included in the 139-page law are a host of provisions that will restrict some institutional investors from buying homes, ease rules for ...Read more

The U.S. launched a new wave of strikes against Iran that targeted its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in response to attacks on American military bases in the Middle East, escalating a conflict that has spread across the region.

The U.S. struck dozens of IRGC targets “including military command centers, missile and drone facilities, ...Read more

Gov. Greg Abbott said the Texas Legislature will hold hearings this week to discuss data centers.

Abbott said during a press conference Wednesday afternoon in Fort Worth that those discussions will include the financing of data centers. He said they will be working on eliminating the exemption on sales taxes that data centers have, something ...Read more

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has halted construction at the Brandon Road Lock and Dam complex, a state-federal project in Joliet, Illinois, meant to block invasive carp from reaching the Great Lakes.

"The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued the stop work order," Army Corps Public Affairs Officer Gene Pawlik said Wednesday. "The project is ...Read more

St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her said Wednesday she has no intentions to leave office amid an investigation of claims that she directed inappropriate sexual comments toward Police Chief Axel Henry and other city employees, but acknowledged that what she intended as a joke was misguided.

“As Mayor, I take my responsibility to treat every employee ...Read more

Three months after a federal appeals court upheld the sweeping corruption conviction of Michael Madigan, the ex-House speaker is now taking his case to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Madigan, through his lawyers, petitioned the high court on Wednesday to review the long-running corruption case.

Last year, after a trial that stretched nearly four ...Read more

The U.S. launched a new wave of strikes against Iran in response to attacks on military bases in the Middle East, escalating a conflict that has spread across the region.

“U.S. forces began launching strikes against Iran at 8 p.m. ET today,” U.S. Central Command said in a post on X. “The strikes are a powerful response to yesterday’s ...Read more

Hoover Dam remained closed to visitors Wednesday after federal officials first confirmed the closure Monday evening.

Federal officials have not announced a reopening date for the popular tourist site, and a spokesperson for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation declined to say when the dam may reopen. A post on the Hoover Dam Facebook page said the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Eugene "Big U" Henley, a Los Angeles Crips leader turned gang interventionist, allegedly solicited fellow jail inmates to kill or harm a federal witness to prevent them from testifying at trial against him and his associates, according to a new indictment returned Wednesday.

The second superseding indictment against Henley, ...Read more

The Senate Judiciary Committee will punt its vote on Todd Blanche’s bid to permanently head the Justice Department, after GOP holdouts on the panel said they weren’t satisfied.

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, wants to nail down changes to a controversial settlement that created a $1.8 billion “weaponization” compensation fund before moving ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to revive his failed lawsuit accusing Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee and others of conspiring to tarnish his 2016 campaign with bogus claims of collusion with Russia.

In a Supreme Court filing made public Tuesday, the president requested an ...Read more

Sean “Diddy” Combs will be sprung from New Jersey’s FCI Fort Dix a month ahead of schedule, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

The 56-year-old music mogul is slated to be set free on Jan. 24, 2028, according to the bureau’s inmate locator. An earlier listing stated he’d be held until Feb. 23, 2028.

Before that, prison ...Read more

The dismissal of Prince Harry’s lawsuit against U.K. news outlets could leave him and several other British celebs collectively on the hook for as much as $45 million in their opponents’ legal fees, according to reports.

The Duke of Sussex wasn’t the only one accusing Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL), which publishes the Daily Mail and...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate on Wednesday evening took another step closer to advancing a bill that would impose long-stalled sanctions on Russia over its war on Ukraine and extend for five more years sanctions on Iran.

The Senate voted 84-12 in favor of a motion to proceed to consideration of the legislative vehicle for the measure, which would ...Read more