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

BOISE, Idaho — Mounting a legal defense for Bryan Kohberger on the public dime has cost nearly $5.5 million — and counting — according to an analysis by the Idaho Statesman.

But how Kohberger’s attorneys spent the millions in taxpayer money is still not clear. His public defense team’s invoices and expenses — including information ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Jennifer Siebel Newsom has spent more than a decade cultivating an identity distinct from her husband, Gov. Gavin Newsom, as an active documentary filmmaker and gender equity activist with her own organizations, staff and salary.

The 51-year-old calls herself California’s “first partner,” a title she coined herself to ...Read more

The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta has resumed its search for a new president following the arrival of Kevin Warsh, allowing the new Fed chairman to have a say in the selection of a key official who will vote on interest rates in 2027.

The search to replace former Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic, who stepped down at the end of February, ...Read more

A key figure in the Feeding Our Future fraud investigation who fled the country shortly after his indictment nearly four years ago was arrested overseas this week, federal prosecutors said.

Abdikerm Abdelahi Eidleh, 42, of Burnsville, Minnesota, was taken into custody on Thursday in Mogadishu, Somalia, on numerous federal fraud and money ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom reached an agreement Friday with legislative leaders on a $351.7-billion state budget in his final year as governor, a spending plan that uses a tax windfall to avoid major cuts and lessen California’s chronic deficit in the years ahead.

The deal provides nearly $2 billion in state revenue next year ...Read more

Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said he was recently the victim of a "cruel, politically motivated hoax" that brought police to his Traverse City, Michigan, home and temporarily separated him from his adopted twins.

The one-time presidential candidate and former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, recounted the incident on his ...Read more

As more patients recover from the world’s largest recorded Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak, doctors are beginning to piece together how the rare virus behaves — offering the clearest picture yet of one of the disease’s least-studied strains.

The number of recoveries reported by Congolese health authorities almost doubled in a week, rising to ...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom and California’s Democratic leadership said late Friday afternoon they’ve reached a deal on the state’s $350 billion budget — one they said will ensure there is no deficit this year or next.

Newsom, along with Senate President Pro Tem Monique Limón of Santa Barbara and Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas of Salinas, said ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Juan Carlos Félix Gastelum, a son-in-law of the infamous Sinaloa cartel co-founder Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, pleaded guilty Friday in San Diego federal court to four counts related to drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracies.

Also known as “El Chavo Félix,” the 43-year-old admitted in his plea agreement that he...Read more

CARACAS, Venezuela — The death toll from twin earthquakes in Venezuela was approaching 1,000 Friday as relief workers from across the globe arrived to search for survivors trapped in the rubble and provide desperately needed assistance to a reeling nation.

“Time is the enemy,” said Los Angeles County Fire Chief Anthony C. Marrone. “We ...Read more