Singer Helen Reddy, whose best-known song "I Am Woman" served as a feminist anthem during the 1970s, has died at the age of 78.

Reddy had reportedly been fighting dementia.

She died Tuesday, according to a social media post by her children.

"It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved mother, Helen Reddy ... in Los ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California is suing the federal government over its definition of a firearm in attempt to make it easier to track and confiscate so-called "ghost guns" that are often bought online and built at home without a background check.

Attorney General Xavier Becerra said at a news conference it's critical the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Tuesday that seeks to protect mountain lions and other wildlife from being poisoned by a popular form of pesticide.

The move raises questions about how the state will manage its growing urban rat population, which some experts say is surging due to the spread of homeless camps ...Read more

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump offered Judge Amy Coney Barrett the nomination to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Sept. 21, three days after Ginsburg's death, according to a questionnaire prepared for Senate confirmation hearings.

Trump said publicly he was still selecting his nominee from a pool of "five women" up until the ...Read more

SAN DIEGO - San Diego created a new city department Tuesday focused on eliminating systemic racism and other barriers to the fair distribution of resources like parks, libraries and lucrative city contracts.

The City Council unanimously approved creating an Office of Race and Equity that council members said would be significantly more powerful...Read more

A federal judge's ruling that allows Wisconsin election officials to accept mail-in ballots for six days after Election Day in the battleground state can be implemented, a U.S. appeals court said.

The Chicago-based appeals court on Tuesday lifted a hold that it had imposed yesterday. The court said the Republican National Committee, the ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - After SWAT officers tackled Brad Parscale in front of his Fort Lauderdale home Sunday, police seized all his guns. Now, city officials have filed a request to keep his guns away from him for at least two weeks under Florida's so-called "red flag law," saying President Donald Trump's former campaign manager posed a danger ...Read more

The Trump administration has yet to announce how many refugees will be admitted into the United States during the upcoming fiscal year, which starts Thursday.

Without a "presidential determination," which dictates how many refugees can come to the United States each fiscal year, refugees cannot be resettled in the country, except for a few ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA - In what gun control advocates described Tuesday as a historic victory, a Pennsylvania appellate court has declared unconstitutional a federal law that protects firearms manufacturers from almost any lawsuits brought by victims of gun violence.

The decision by a three-judge panel of Superior Court is the first in the nation to ...Read more

The Wisconsin Supreme Court probably won't decide before Election Day whether the swing state must purge more than 200,000 names from voter rolls, according to Gillian Drummond, a spokeswoman for the Wisconsin Justice Department.

On Tuesday, the state's top court heard oral arguments in a lawsuit by the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty ...Read more

ATLANTA - Two Fulton County sheriff's deputies were killed Tuesday in a crash involving a tractor-trailer on I-20 in east Georgia, officials said.

The fatal crash happened shortly after 11 a.m. Eastern time at Exit 190 near Grovetown, Georgia State Patrol spokeswoman Lt. Stephanie Stallings said.

The Columbia County Sheriff's Office found the ...Read more

CHICAGO - The Chicago Police Department will strip patrol districts of officers and limit the use of some district officers during daytime shifts in favor of a "highly visible" presence downtown, according to memos obtained by the Chicago Tribune.

The move reduces the number of officers available in at least some of the city's 22 patrol ...Read more

LOS ANGELES - The new freshman class at the University of Southern California is the largest and most diverse in its history, reflecting similar trends in the University of California system and coming as overall college enrollment numbers across the U.S. have declined amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

In fall 2020, students who are first in their ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Three weeks after it made its horrific run into Butte County, killing 15 people and destroying hundreds of homes, fire activity on the West Zone of the North Complex has essentially halted.

Although there are problem areas remaining on the two other zones of the North Complex, the once-devastating West Zone is almost fully ...Read more

WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats are calling for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett to pledge to recuse herself from future cases related to the 2020 election, after President Donald Trump said the court might decide the outcome and he expects her to break a tie.

While there is virtually nothing Congress can do to force a Supreme Court ...Read more

Pandemic-fatigued Americans are drinking about 14% more alcohol this year than they did in 2019, an alarming increase that's even more pronounced among women, researchers said Tuesday.

The new study, published in the journal JAMA Network Open, found a 17% increase in alcohol consumption among women and 19% among people ages 30 to 59. They also ...Read more

LOS ANGELES - Ten more counties progressed through the state's reopening blueprint Tuesday, but no place in Southern California was allowed to change tiers.

Butte, Contra Costa, Fresno, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Santa Barbara and Yolo counties moved from Tier 1, also known as the purple tier, to Tier 2, also known as the red tier. The changes ...Read more

NEW YORK - A "nut job" looking to free disgraced R&B star R. Kelly filed twin motions in federal court in Brooklyn and Chicago in the past two weeks, arguing that the singer should be released from jail because he was never indicted.

While the seven-page motion filed on behalf of Robert Sylvester Kelly seems to be signed at the bottom by one of...Read more

NEW YORK - Eric Trump, the president's third child, erroneously said he's part of the LGBT community Tuesday in a Fox News interview and suffered a terrible fate: getting made fun of on the internet.

Trump, who has been married to his wife, Lara, since 2014, said later Tuesday that he is not actually a part of the LGBT community and that he ...Read more