NEW YORK — The shocking cancellation of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” is a sign that time is running out for one of TV’s most beloved formats.

The late-night talk show was invented in the 1950s as a way for networks to own their own programming rather than have it provided by sponsors. Now, amid shrinking audiences and a ...Read more

FRESNO, Calif. — A new study from the University of California, Merced Community and Labor Center reports a disruptive decline in private sector work in California since the start of federal immigration enforcement activity.

The data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey for the weeks of May 11 and June 8 shows that the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — After almost two years of unprecedented landslide movement that has upended life across much of the picturesque Portuguese Bend area of the Palos Verdes Peninsula, officials want to permanently ban new construction in the landslide zone.

The proposed ordinance, which has drawn backlash from some property owners, would prohibit ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Three deputies were killed Friday in an explosion at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Biscailuz Center Training Academy in East L.A., the deadliest incident for the agency in more than 160 years.

Deputies with the arson explosives detail, an elite unit within the Sheriff’s Department, were moving ordnance in ...Read more

Earlier this week, President Donald Trump was diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, or CVI, after he noted mild swelling in his lower legs. White House physician Dr. Sean P. Barbabella in a memo July 17 said the swelling prompted a full medical evaluation, including ultrasound tests and blood work.

Those confirmed CVI, a condition the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Three deputies were killed Friday in an explosion at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Biscailuz Center Training Academy in East L.A., the deadliest incident for the agency in more than 160 years.

Deputies with the arson explosives detail, an elite unit within the Sheriff’s Department, were moving ordnance in ...Read more

California's workplace safety agency doesn't have enough people to protect the state's workers, said a recent state audit.

A review from the California state auditor's office released Thursday said that the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, known as Cal/OSHA, has displayed "critical weakness" in its ability to properly ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The head of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said it’s too soon to draw conclusions about what caused the deadly crash of an Air India jetliner following reports that the captain of the plane likely moved switches that control the flow of fuel to the engines.

“Investigations of this magnitude take time,” NTSB ...Read more

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing a bill to streamline permitting for new oil wells that environmental groups say would wipe out scrutiny of the industry.

The bill would establish “plug-to-drill” permitting until 2036 where two wells would have to be plugged and abandoned before a new one is drilled. In addition, drillers no longer ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration asked a federal court to unseal grand jury transcripts related to the case of late, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein following claims that government officials were hiding documents and information related to his sex-trafficking case.

Justice Department lawyers made the requests Friday to two judge’s...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump sued Dow Jones and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, for libel on Friday, striking back against the publication of a bombshell story in The Wall Street Journal alleging the president sent a sordid letter to notorious sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein in the early 2000s.

The Journal, a Dow Jones publication, reported...Read more

President Donald Trump’s administration intends to house immigration detainees at a South Jersey military base, naming it as one of two sites now certified to assist in the president’s plan for mass deportations.

Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, which spreads through Burlington and Ocean Counties, was approved to confine immigrants by U.S....Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump sued Dow Jones and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, on Friday, striking back against the publication of a bombshell story in The Wall Street Journal alleging the president sent a sordid letter to notorious sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein in the early 2000s.

The Journal, a Dow Jones publication, reported Thursday ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s proposed cuts at the National Institutes of Health and Food and Drug Administration could lower the number of new drugs that come to market in the next three decades, according to an analysis released Friday by the Congressional Budget Office.

Under hypothetical scenarios of a permanent 10 percent ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Three suspects in the death of Kansas City sports reporter Adan Manzano pleaded not guilty to manslaughter and racketeering charges after the Jefferson Parish District Attorney’s Office formally filed charges against a New Orleans woman and two men accused of drugging and stealing from tourists for more than a decade.

On ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York state on Friday agreed to pay $450,000 to Brittany Commisso, a former aide to Andrew Cuomo who accused him of groping and subjecting her to persistent sexual harassment on the job at the governor’s office.

Lawyers for Commisso called the settlement by Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office “a complete vindication” of her ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas District Court Judge has again sided with the city of Leavenworth, dashing CoreCivic’s hopes of a reversal that would allow the company to begin housing immigrant detainees at its prison on the outskirts of town.

In a ruling published Friday, Judge John J. Bryant upheld the temporary restraining order he granted ...Read more

DETROIT LAKES, Minn. — Following three days of emotional testimony, a group of 12 jurors found Minnesota state Sen. Nicole Mitchell guilty of first-degree burglary and felony possession of burglary tools.

The jurors went into deliberations shortly after 12:30 p.m. Friday and reached a verdict roughly three hours later.

Mitchell, the first-...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Manhattan has dismissed a lawsuit brought by President Donald Trump against journalist Bob Woodward and a publishing house over the release of interview recordings from his first term in office.

US District Judge Paul Gardephe ruled on Friday that Trump failed to “plausibly” claim that he and Woodward ...Read more