Serbia President Aleksandar Vucic says he’ll quit his post within weeks to help his political party win early elections expected later this year, a move that would enable him to stay in power as prime minister if the party prevails in the ballot.

“I’ll be the president for just several weeks. Then I’ll resign,” Vucic said at a large ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he will nominate Lance Schroyer as director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, his first pick to hold the job permanently in his second term.

Trump said in a social-media post on Saturday that Schroyer is a former Oklahoma state trooper and U.S. Marine.

“He is a PATRIOT with real operational experience, ...Read more

The U.S. and Mexico took a major step in the battle against New World screwworm, opening a facility to produce sterile flies that authorities believe is the best method for stopping the flesh-eating parasite from spreading through cattle herds.

The production facility in Metapa, near Mexico’s southern border, is expected to produce up to 100...Read more

WASHINGTON — Richard Pazdur, an oncologist who spent 26 years at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration before his abrupt exit in December, is under consideration to return to the agency, people familiar with the matter said.

Pazdur left the FDA just weeks after he was promoted to be the agency’s top drug regulator. The drug industry and its...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Orange County officials will start removing chemicals this week from two storage tanks at a Garden Grove aerospace company that prompted thousands to evacuate their homes in late May.

Sometime between Monday and Thursday, workers are expected to start removing the neutralized methyl methacrylate, or MMA, from two of three tanks ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — All the water unleashed onto the warehouse fire in Boyle Heights — some of it 480 gallons at a time by helicopter — had to end up somewhere.

That somewhere is the Los Angeles River.

Los Angeles Fire Department crews ripped through 50-foot walls filled with foam insulation to get to the building’s steel skeleton and its ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Saturday began projecting a system could form in the Atlantic off the coast of Florida next week.

As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. tropical outlook, the forecast calls for a low pressure area to form along the western end of a frontal system early next week and threaten the southeastern United States. ...Read more

CARACAS, Venezuela — For years, engineers analyzing Venezuela’s construction patterns have voiced a major concern: That the country’s precarious combination of soft ground soil and tall concrete structures — many lacking sufficient seismic reinforcement — could result in catastrophic destruction when a major earthquake struck.

That ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Two new wildfires have emerged in Lincoln County as firefighters continue to fight blazes in eastern Nevada.

The Dry Canyon fire and Parsnip Peak fire, near Spring Valley State Park in Pioche, were reported Friday, the Bureau of Land Management said in a Saturday release.

“Both incidents are burning in timber and brush under ...Read more

Bahrain said it had been targeted by Iranian drones and a ship in the Strait of Hormuz was struck on Saturday, adding fresh tension to the detente established in the wake of an interim U.S.-Iran peace deal signed earlier this month.

Bahrain’s foreign ministry said a number of Iranian drones targeted the country, home to the U.S. Navy’s 5th...Read more

As U.S. officials hammered out an agreement weeks ago to end the war in Iran, President Donald Trump faced a dilemma: How to sell a provision that unlocked billions of dollars in frozen funds for Tehran to the American public.

Trump had lambasted President Barack Obama for a 2015 deal that gave cash to Iran and sought to avoid criticism that he...Read more

Two weeks before the board of a Southern California environmental agency was to vote on a pair of landmark climate initiatives last May, staff raised an alarm. “An aggressive campaign” from an “AI powered platform,” they told executives, was flooding their servers with thousands of emails from the public opposing the proposals to phase ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The body lay unsecured for more than 10 hours while burglars twice picked through the dead man's room.

So goes the the story circulating among veterans living on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs campus in West Los Angeles.

Residents say their reports of the theft — like their complaints of other crimes — go unheeded ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — While control of Congress and the race to succeed Gov. Gavin Newsom will draw much of the attention, California voters also will decide the fate of 14 ballot measures in November, the most in any statewide election since 2016.

Thursday evening was the deadline for measures to be certified. Early voting starts a little more than ...Read more