The U.S. and Iran exchanged limited strikes as the latest round of hostilities passed the two-week mark, after President Donald Trump warned of a potential “massive attack” to try and force through a peace deal.

U.S. Central Command said it launched a 13th consecutive night of strikes intended to degrade Iran’s ability to attack ...Read more

BOSTON — Hold on tight to your wallets as state lawmakers look to claw back even more of your money.

Fiscal watchdogs and politicians are reacting to an amendment passed by the Massachusetts Senate that would put an end to a longstanding law requiring any tax surplus to be returned to taxpayers as a rebate.

Amendment 14 to a joint economic ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy is set to meet with President Donald Trump early next week, according to a White House official, amid efforts to revive diplomatic talks to end the war with Russia.

The two leaders are scheduled to meet Tuesday, said the official, who asked not to be identified discussing the president’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. extended a 10% tariff baseline hitting most major trading partners, prompting pushback from countries around the world while shoring up a protectionist wall that’s been a top priority for President Donald Trump despite its unpopularity at home.

In a 431-page filing in the Federal Register, the U.S. Trade Representative...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The organization that has been the front line of the Los Angeles city and county response to homelessness for more than 30 years is fighting for its survival in a U.S. court battle over a Trump administration attempt to cut its access to hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funds.

The Los Angeles Homeless Services ...Read more

MIAMI — There have been 15 child drownings so far this year in South Florida and data shows that 2026 is set to become the deadliest for child drownings in the Florida’s history.

In Florida, 119 children drowned in 2025, 80% of whom were under the age of three, according to the Florida Department of Children and Families. This year already,...Read more

Franck Audemard knew that it was only a matter of time before a major earthquake hit Venezuela.

So when two jolts shook his bed and walls in his Caracas apartment, just as he was about to watch Brazil face off against Scotland in Miami during the World Cup, it made sense. He watched the water in a pitcher on his table oscillate, and fled with ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump said he’s considering a “massive attack” on Iran to push the nation to negotiate a peace deal, raising the prospect of even higher energy prices that have already rattled economies.

Trump told Axios in an interview that he was “close to making a decision” on attacks that would be “bigger than ever before....Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. will collect duties of between 10% and 12.5% on imports from most major trading partners, its biggest move yet to reconstruct President Donald Trump’s tariff wall that was struck down by the Supreme Court.

The new levies follow an investigation into the alleged failure of around 60 economies to prevent forced labor in ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Mayor Karen Bass' press relations office communicates through WhatsApp messages that auto-delete every 24 hours, potentially shielding the messages from public records requests, according to three sources familiar with the office.

The press office is under scrutiny over its use of an unpaid consultant as a spokesperson for the ...Read more

The Trump administration has a new plan for teenagers learning about pregnancy: Beginning this summer, it will steer millions of dollars toward organizations that focus on anatomy, fertility tracking, hormonal production and “reproductive goals counseling.”

The plan will also emphasize abstinence from sex and the importance of marriage.

In...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In 1936, there were no video games keeping children inside. Most households didn't have televisions.

Amid concern that kids playing in the streets would get hit by cars, Los Angeles made it a misdemeanor to play baseball, basketball, soccer or any other ball game on a street or sidewalk.

Nearly a century later, when kids spend ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Federal lawmakers are considering whether to expand the government’s authority to kill more sea lions and seals to bolster salmon recovery efforts in the Pacific Northwest.

The region’s critical salmon runs are on life support: Fourteen species and populations of salmon and steelhead trout in Washington State are deemed at ...Read more

Measles cases have doubled in California so far this year compared to last year — and 2026 is barely half over.

California has confirmed 52 measles cases in the first 6½ months of the year; that's more than double the 25 cases reported in all of 2025. If this pace continues, the number of cases will pass California's high from 2015, when ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- It lurks ominously beneath California’s many natural wonders, a reminder that nothing in this landscape is truly permanent.

It’s been described as “the mother of all earthquake faults,” the source of both our geological birth and, perhaps, our ultimate undoing.

But the most unnerving thing about the San Andreas fault ...Read more

SIKESTON, Mo. — Not everyone at Lloyd Gilmore's funeral knew him well. One woman, who had ironed her clothes two days in advance, said she just wanted to be there for his family. School-age children, guided by their parents, approached his open casket in the sanctuary of Cornerstone Baptist Church and peeked inside. Other people looked away.

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The pause on Paramount Skydance Corp.’s $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. has been extended two weeks to Aug. 17 by the federal judge in California overseeing multiple challenges to the deal.

U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín issued the extension Thursday. She’s still scheduled to hold a hearing Aug. 3 on ...Read more

For months, mystery swirled around a 37-year-old Carlsbad woman found dead in the backcountry of Big Sur with a cut on her forehead and markings around her neck.

Hikers came across Joanna Ruth Shields' body in a pool of water near Sykes Hot Springs on April 9, and rescue teams recovered her from the remote area of the Los Padres National Forest...Read more

SAN DIEGO — With three water-dropping helicopters and 300 firefighters assigned for Thursday, crews were making steady progress against the Creelman fire in Ramona, and by mid-morning the more than 1,500 people who had evacuated a day before were allowed to return home.

Fire officials reported that forward progress of the fire was halted ...Read more