LOS ANGELES -- The wealthy parents accused in the sweeping college admissions cheating scandal have been pilloried, and some have lost jobs.

They face prison time if convicted in the massive fraud scheme.

Now, sources say some of them are under pressure to cooperate with federal prosecutors, who are looking to expand the case. Prosecutors got ...Read more

LONDON -- British Prime Minister Theresa May wrote to European Council President Donald Tusk on Wednesday to request a delay in Britain leaving the European Union until June 30, but the bloc's executive immediately warned of serious "risks."

May told Parliament she did not want a longer extension that could involve Britain taking part in ...Read more

MCALLEN, Texas -- The Border Patrol released 50 recently apprehended migrants here Tuesday, the first of several hundred border-crossers who officials say will soon be freed because there is no room to hold them.

Normally, the Border Patrol would transfer the migrants to Immigration and Customs Enforcement to be "processed" and in many cases ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- With several patients in local hospitals struggling to recover, public health officials are warning San Diego doctors to be on the lookout for signs of a deadly infection linked to weight-loss surgeries performed in Tijuana.

The county Health and Human Services Agency this week alerted the medical community that four patients have ...Read more

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -- A brawl on the beach, a young woman knocked unconscious near Ocean Drive, police officers injured, a driver on the MacArthur Causeway serving alcohol to passengers in another vehicle, and a tourist flying out of the car window and getting run over on her way to the airport.

These are some of the incidents that prompted ...Read more

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is headed to Haiti, where he plans to spend the day on Wednesday urging dialogue between the country's embattled president and opposition parties calling for his resignation.

The Florida Republican senator is visiting as chairman of the Senate's Western Hemisphere subcommittee, said Laura Ortiz, who handles foreign policy ...Read more

HONG KONG -- Out of the darkness appeared a snout.

"Fei zhu! Fat pig!" 8-year-old Shino Chen shouted to her younger brother as she jumped up and down and pointed at a wild boar.

The hairy black pig, which must have weighed at least 150 pounds, grunted and snuffled through a flimsy, old fence along the sidewalk. The children tiptoed toward the ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The war on drugs had erupted, apartheid was raging, Jesse Jackson would soon make the campus a staging ground for his inaugural presidential bid. Running for student office in 1982 at Howard University -- the school that nurtured Thurgood Marshall, Toni Morrison and Stokely Carmichael -- was no joke.

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump named former airline executive Stephen Dickson to run the Federal Aviation Administration as the agency faces scrutiny for its role in approving the Boeing Co. 737 Max for service before two fatal crashes of the jetliner.

The FAA administrator job has been vacant since Michael Huerta, who had been appointed ...Read more

The daily use of high-potency marijuana may strongly increase the likelihood of developing a psychotic disorder, according to a new study.

Those who used cannabis every day were three times more likely to have a diagnosis of first-episode psychosis compared with people who had never used cannabis, according to the study, published Tuesday in ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas -- A retired University of Texas professor has become the first woman to receive the world's top prize in mathematics, granted for her pioneering work in geometric analysis, which studies curved shapes and surfaces.

Karen Uhlenbeck, who taught mathematics at UT from 1987 to 2014, has been awarded the 2019 Abel Prize, which ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- The sister of accused double murderer Lois Riess ran over her 37-year-old son purposely with a full-size SUV in the family's driveway and inflicted serious injuries, authorities said Tuesday.

Cynthia Grund, 58, was arrested late Monday afternoon at the scene in Salem Township and remains jailed ahead of a court appearance ...Read more

Judge says Trump is jumping the gun on military transgender ban

NEW YORK -- The U.S. government is "incorrect" in claiming that there are no further impediments to President Donald Trump's promised ban on transgender Americans serving in the military, a federal judge said.

The administration said on March 8 that it would issue a memorandum ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Some U.S. negotiators are concerned that China is pushing back against American demands in trade talks as progress slows toward a deal that could give President Donald Trump a boost for his 2020 re-election bid, according to people familiar with the talks.

Chinese officials have shifted their stance with the view that while they ...Read more