The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search for 10 people who remain missing after a migrant boat capsized between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic on Sunday, the service said.

The Coast Guard said in a statement Thursday night that crews searched by air and sea for almost 80 hours in an area covering nearly 2,650 miles for the people. ...Read more

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado intends to make another attempt to return to her country after a series of failed efforts that have included a secret maritime operation from Panama, attempts to charter aircraft and trying to get on commercial flights, according to sources within her camp with firsthand knowledge of the ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — San Diego County is preparing for the impacts of a climate phenomenon known as El Niño, a result of warmer water in the Pacific Ocean that could lead to anything from heavy rainfall and flooding to mudslides and power outages.

The region has already seen some of these effects with recent heat, big waves and coastal erosion.

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BALTIMORE — Maryland regulators have ended a pilot program that allowed utilities to set rates over multiple years, concluding that the approach produced few measurable benefits for customers while adding complexity to the ratemaking process.

The Maryland Public Service Commission voted to sunset the Multi-Year Rate Plan pilot and launch a ...Read more

The pilots who fought in the cockpit of a FlyDubai jet during an apparent murder-suicide mission were moved to the United Arab Emirates for further questioning while investigators seek additional information from the plane’s voice and data recorders to replay the fateful final hour of the flight.

“Following medical clearance, both pilots ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Maryland transportation officials are rolling out a new public dashboard to help visualize the progress of the Francis Scott Key Bridge rebuild.

The dashboard, available at KeyBridgeRebuild.com, will be updated monthly to show the status of ongoing construction efforts, including the installation of permanent pile foundations for ...Read more

NEW YORK — As Mayor Zohran Mamdani expands New York City’s free childcare programs, he will need to significantly grow its workforce.

On Friday morning, the city’s Office of Talent and Workforce Development, or NYC Talent for short, will announce a key component of its strategy to do so: The expansions of two apprenticeship programs — ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — UCLA's law school discriminated against white and Asian applicants by illegally using race in admissions, the Department of Justice alleged Thursday.

The finding adds to a series of federal actions against University of California admissions that have focused on highly selective law and medical schools. The department issued a ...Read more

A white peacock affectionately known as Sugar, who was seen on video being struck by a postal worker, has made a full recovery and was relocated to a private ranch in Northern California this week, according to the Pasadena Humane Society.

The nonprofit organization said in a Facebook post that the bird had been in the care of its veterinary ...Read more

The pilots who fought in the cockpit of a FlyDubai jet during an apparent murder-suicide mission were moved to the United Arab Emirates for further questioning while investigators seek additional information from the plane’s voice and data recorders to replay the fateful final hour of the flight.

“Following medical clearance, both pilots ...Read more

Russia is preparing for the war in Ukraine to continue for years by planning record war spending, abandoning plans to rein in military outlays.

The shift offers one of the clearest indications yet of how deeply embedded conflict has become in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s priorities, even as strain on the economy and public finances ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court begins its new term Monday facing cases on Americans’ civil rights, federalist struggles between states and the federal government, and the looming specter of more last-second litigation over the coming midterm elections.

The court, currently controlled by six conservative appointees, has stocked its docket ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — On the shores of Playa del Rey sits L.A.'s last line of defense against sewage streaming into the Santa Monica Bay — and a jacked El Niño this winter threatens to be more than a match for it.

Built in 1950, the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant handles roughly 95% of the city's sewage on any given day — up to 800 million ...Read more

BEIRUT — For decades, the relationship between Saudi Arabia and the U.S. has centered on an often-mentioned but rarely tested supposition: If the kingdom were attacked, America would come to its rescue.

But recent events have shown that much-vaunted security umbrella to be a leaky one.

Last month, Iran-aligned Yemeni rebels blitzed through ...Read more

California’s newest laws could change how your utility spends your money, whether an employer can rely on AI to fire you and what your children encounter on social media.

Gov. Gavin Newsom finished reviewing bills from his final regular legislative session Wednesday, the deadline to sign or veto measures awaiting his decision. His office said...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Opponents of abortion have pounced on a recent influx of out-of-state donations to a campaign to expand access to the procedure in Idaho.

In late September, Idahoans United for Women and Families — the political committee leading the campaign for Proposition 1, a citizens initiative to expand abortion access — received ...Read more

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — The Space Coast saw only one launch in all of September, but weather held Thursday and SpaceX knocked out two in just one day.

Under a half moon and skeins of streaking clouds over the launch site, a SpaceX Falcon Heavy lifted off from KSC’s Launch Complex 39-A following the flight earlier in the day of the Crew-13 ...Read more

Go ahead New Jersey, drink up and wash the cars: After 300 days, the governor's office on Thursday officially lifted the statewide drought warning.

The decree comes after three months that have featured an assortment of downpours and general rainfalls, with a bonus early-season nor'easter, throughout the Garden State and the Philadelphia region...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Supporters of a high-profile Nov. 3 ballot measure that would require Californians to show identification when they vote accused state Democratic leaders of falsely stating that President Donald Trump has endorsed the initiative.

Republican Assembly member Carl DeMaio of San Diego, one of the measure’s authors, on ...Read more