Red, white and blue balloons swayed in the breeze as a brass band played and performers showed off traditional cultural attire, music and dance. Around 1,000 people were gathered to celebrate the city's newest U.S. citizens the same day the country celebrated its 250th birthday.

Seattle Center hosted 252 people from 55 countries as they were ...Read more

A Fourth of July celebration erupted into chaos in Newport Beach, leading to over 400 arrests by local law enforcement.

Officers were dispatched to the Newport Peninsula about 7 p.m. Saturday following reports that large crowds were lighting fireworks and fighting, per City News Service.

Digital footage obtained by The Times showed large ...Read more

More than 50,000 Baltimore Gas and Electric customers remained without power Sunday morning after severe storms rolled through the Baltimore area on Saturday.

BGE said crews are working to restore service to all customers by Tuesday at the latest but warned that additional storms and Sunday’s high heat could cause more outages. Roughly half ...Read more

Paul Pelosi, the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has apologized to the owner of an unoccupied vehicle he’s accused of hitting, the family said in a statement.

The Napa County Sheriff’s Office said Paul Pelosi, 86, drove away after the crash Friday and admitted hitting something, The Sacramento Bee said. He could face a ...Read more

President Donald Trump will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at a NATO summit in Turkey on Wednesday that will be charged with tension over the U.S. leader’s views on Greenland, European defense spending and the Iran war.

Trump arrives in Turkey on Tuesday, when he will meet with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan before a summit...Read more

Power is not expected to be restored until late Wednesday for some Michigan victims of the extreme weather that left as many as 500,000 without electricity over the July 4 holiday weekend.

DTE Energy, the provider for most of eastern Michigan, estimates that 85% of customers will be restored by end of day Sunday and 95% by the end of Monday. ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE — Florida is expanding the role of artificial intelligence to help local police track down immigrants, and one well-connected technology firm is getting most of that business from the Republican-run state.

Peregrine Technologies of San Francisco, whose lobbyists have close ties to Gov. Ron DeSantis, has an agreement with the ...Read more

A lawsuit that some say could cripple the state’s top water regulator is headed to trial in a Las Vegas courtroom next week.

Decades of back-and-forth between developers and the state has effectively ruined any chance of establishing Coyote Springs as an outpost of Las Vegas akin to Scottsdale, Arizona. Not one home stands in Coyote Springs ...Read more

Questions about political conflicts of interest have surfaced days ahead of a civil trial that experts say could hamstring the state’s top water regulator and cost taxpayers billions of dollars.

The trial over water rights at Coyote Springs, what was once a proposed satellite city northeast of Las Vegas, is the final act of a long saga ...Read more

Summer means more time outdoors — but it also means a greater chance of encountering ticks, according to pest experts.

California ranks among the nation’s worst states for ticks in 2025, according to a new report from pest control company Terminix.

The Golden State — particularly the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas — is one of the ...Read more

New mandatory evacuations were ordered Sunday morning for a nearly 4,000-acre wildfire burning near Leadville in Lake County, and a large swath of residents was placed on pre-evacuation.

The Willow fire is one of four active fires in Colorado that together have consumed more than 160,000 acres, forced thousands of evacuations and destroyed ...Read more

The loudest person in U.K. politics has suddenly gone quiet.

Rather than exploiting the interregnum between Keir Starmer and his likely successor as prime minister, Andy Burnham, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage appears to have taken an unusual break from public appearances.

It follows a string of election bruises for Farage, and some ...Read more

Eight people were shot and wounded, four of them children, by a gunman in a ski mask at a Coney Island family barbecue as the city grappled with a wave of overnight Fourth of July gun violence, police said Sunday.

A crowd was gathered for the cookout on W. 31st Street near Surf Avenue, just a block from the Brooklyn neighborhood’s famed ...Read more

Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump discussed Ukraine and the upcoming NATO summit in Turkey in a phone call Saturday, while Trump also spoke with his Ukrainian counterpart.

Putin congratulated Trump on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in the call that lasted 85 minutes, Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri ...Read more

Hours after savoring that perfectly grilled steak on a beautiful summer evening, your body turns traitor, declaring war on the very meal you just enjoyed. You begin to feel excruciating itchiness, pain or even swelling that can escalate to the point of requiring emergency care.

The culprit isn’t food poisoning – it’s the fallout...Read more

Popping up in some Pittsburgh neighborhoods are flyers with black-and-pink block print and an urgent message: "The AIDS crisis is not over. ADAP cuts are killing us.”

The flyers, referring to AIDS Drug Assistance Programs, are part of a larger campaign by the revitalized nonprofit Act Up Pittsburgh to raise awareness about state funding cuts ...Read more