DALY CITY, Calif. – An investigation is underway into the theft of mail, including San Mateo County vote-by-mail ballots from a post office in Daly City, according to officials.

The theft was reported Wednesday to the Registration & Elections Division of the San Mateo County Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder’s Office.

“The number of ballots...Read more

BALTIMORE — A federal judge dismissed Maryland’s lawsuit against federal immigration authorities this week over the agencies’ refusal to provide information about conditions of a downtown Baltimore facility where detainees have been held.

Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown had sued Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The horrific death of a man who flew off a ride at Six Flags Over Georgia this week has intensified focus on one of today’s most popular types of theme park roller coasters, which offers riders the thrill of brief moments of seeming weightlessness.

Experts say so-called hypercoasters — such as the one that Hassan Jihad Ibn...Read more

Rioters attacked French public buildings and looted stores in cities including Paris as protests against the high cost of living drew more than half a million people, underscoring the nation’s challenges ahead of presidential elections next year.

Some 550,000 demonstrators took part in marches across France on Saturday, including 110,000 in ...Read more

American Airlines Group Inc. became the third major airline in as many weeks to cut flights to the Mexican town of Tulum, as plunging tourism to one of the country’s traditionally most popular Caribbean destinations pushes investors to find ways to restore its ultra-elite vibe.

The U.S. carrier will reduce service at Tulum’s airport as part...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Climatologists, oceanographers and meteorologists gathered at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla this month, just steps from the Pacific Ocean, to discuss what the region can expect from possibly the worst El Niño ever recorded.

The University of California, San Diego hosted the event to sound the alarm, yet again, ...Read more

Build a continuous audio recorder. Develop speech-triggered recording. Add Wi-Fi connectivity. Encrypt memory card.

These are some of the prompts an engineer arrested by federal authorities last week is accused of submitting to an artificial intelligence chatbot to program a recording device hidden in an OpenAI conference room.

In a criminal ...Read more

Support for Alberta remaining in Canada gathered pace ahead of a referendum on whether the province should begin a legal process to separate from the country, according to a poll from Abacus Data.

The survey of 1,021 eligible voters, released Saturday, found 68% of Albertans would vote to remain in Canada, up from 64% last month. Support for ...Read more

A private security firm founded by two people close to late country music legend Dolly Parton is at the center of an unusually complex arms deal in Haiti that several sources with knowledge of the matter say was worked out with little due diligence.

The security firm, Fencebridge Strategic Risk, entered into a multimillion-dollar agreement ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Firefighters battling a blaze that destroyed six homes in south Orange County can expect a bit of reprieve Saturday afternoon as Santa Ana winds begin to die down.

The Norte fire, which has burned 570 acres in the area of San Clemente and San Juan Capistrano, was 5% contained as of Saturday morning, according to Orange County ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — German travelers Luis Widmesser and Lukas Holzer, both 19, were heading to a campground in San Diego on the 5 Freeway on Friday afternoon when authorities blocked off the road and diverted traffic.

The pair, on an eight-month road trip from Canada to Argentina, ended up spending the night in their tent atop their Suzuki outside ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Speculation among Malibu High School students began early Thursday morning. Surely school would be canceled, they told parents — perhaps based more on wish than intel. What are the odds the power was cut? What if a fire broke out?

The Santa Ana winds picked up through the afternoon. Gusts slammed into Malibu homes with force. ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Hundreds of protesters, many saying they’re fed up with the current state of the U.S. government, gathered in downtown Los Angeles Saturday afternoon as part of the nationwide “No Kings” demonstrations calling for early voter turnout in the upcoming Nov. 3 midterm elections.

By midday, several hundred people gathered at ...Read more

Three men were sentenced Friday by a Mexican court to more than 158 years in prison each for the 2024 murder of two Australian brothers and their friend from San Diego while they were on a surfing trip south of Ensenada.

Defendants Jesús Gerardo, known as “El Kekas,” Irineo Francisco and Ángel Jesús were found guilty last week of ...Read more

Republican members of Congress blasted President Donald Trump’s decision to waive a tariff law passed last month to restrict Russian energy exports, arguing that the move will help Moscow wage its war on Ukraine.

The Trump administration has cast the waiver as a way to facilitate a deal with Russia on diesel exports — aimed at lowering ...Read more

Rioters attacked French public buildings and looted stores in cities including Paris as protests against the high cost of living drew more than half a million people, underscoring the nation’s challenges ahead of presidential elections next year.

Some 550,000 demonstrators took part in marches across France on Saturday, including 110,000 in ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — First came the letter from acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter — just three weeks before the Nov. 3 election — demanding that Los Angeles County's top elections official launch a sweeping investigation into thousands of voters the Trump administration alleges are "likely noncitizens" and withhold their ballots in ...Read more

Republican members of Congress blasted President Donald Trump’s decision to waive a tariff law passed last month to restrict Russian energy exports, arguing that the move will help Moscow wage its war on Ukraine.

The Trump administration has cast the waiver as a way to facilitate a deal with Russia on diesel exports — aimed at lowering ...Read more