LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County has purchased $750,000 worth of baby formula that it will soon start handing out at food distribution sites and through outreach programs for new mothers, officials said.

The county purchased the formula to help feed babies as the nation grapples with a severe infant formula shortage, Supervisor Hilda L. Solis...Read more

ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigeria’s main opposition Peoples Democratic Party has elected Atiku Abubakar as its presidential candidate for next year’s national election in Africa’s largest economy.

Abubakar, a former vice president, emerged as the PDP’s flag-bearer with 371 votes at the party’s primaries in Abuja, the nation’s capital, on ...Read more

Blame it on Rio.

Travelers passing through Brazil’s Santos Dumont Airport got an eyeful Friday when monitors throughout the building seemingly started showing pornographic films.

French outlet Agence France-Presse reports that the the unexpected skin flicks played on advertising screens airport operators said are controlled by an independent...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — In a triple shooting that left one man dead Saturday morning in East Germantown, two women leaving a church service were also hit by gunfire, according to police.

It was the second homicide of the morning in Philadelphia and one of three for the day.

Police said the triple shooting occurred around 10:15 a.m. at North 21st ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Nearly two years after a massive wildfire tore through Big Basin Redwoods State Park in the Santa Cruz Mountains, parts of the park are set to reopen this summer, allowing visitors the opportunity to return to its ancient coast redwood forests.

About 97% of California's oldest state park was burned in August 2020 when the CZU ...Read more

A New Jersey man with alleged ties to Nazism was convicted for his actions during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol after claiming he was unaware that Congress meets under that big dome.

Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, a former Army reservist, got eye-rolls from jurors in Washington D.C. when he claimed that he had some familiarity with the ...Read more

SUNRISE, Fla. — As Florida State Sen. Shevrin Jones stood onstage in Sunrise, reading aloud the names of 31 victims gunned down May 14 at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and Tuesday at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, he burst into tears. He blamed the influence of gun lobbies. He blamed “ineffective leaders.” He blamed the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The son of rapper DJ Quik who works as a liaison to Compton City Councilman Isaac Galvan has been arrested on suspicion of murder, according to police and media reports.

Police arrested David Blake Jr., 27, in Porter Ranch early Thursday. He was being held in the Inmate Reception Center of the Twin Towers Correctional Facility ...Read more

A former Virginia Tech football player accused of killing a man who gave him oral sex has been set free by a Virginia jury.

The Roanoake Times reports that Isimemen Etute — who claimed he’d been duped into thinking the man he later killed was a woman —was acquitted of second-degree murder after a trial that lasted three days. Jurors were ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — The Texas Senate Democratic Caucus is asking Gov. Greg Abbot to call a special session of the Texas Legislature to discuss laws to prevent future mass shootings in the wake of a Tuesday attack on an elementary school in Uvalde.

According to a letter sent by the group to the governor, they want the session to focus on the ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom tested positive for COVID-19 Saturday morning after exhibiting mild symptoms, according to a statement from his press office.

“The governor will continue to work remotely. In accordance with local and state health guidelines, Gov. Newsom will remain in isolation at least through Thursday, ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The fatal shooting of a 20-year-old man by Osceola County deputies ignited community members to hold a candlelight vigil Friday night, amid heightened scrutiny of the lack of transparency coming from Osceola County Sheriff’s Office and what activists said was a growing reputation of excessive force.

Friday evening, a couple ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — As Florida and much of the U.S. impose major restrictions on access to abortion, Florida residents don’t like the trend.

The overwhelming majority of Florida residents — including more than half of Republicans — want abortion legal in most or all cases, a statewide poll shows.

The May poll from Florida Atlantic ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Floridians are roughly evenly divided over the new state law restricting lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity, according to results of a Florida Atlantic University poll.

Debate over the law, formally called “Parental Rights in Education” and branded “Don’t Say Gay” by opponents, has been fierce ...Read more

The European Union proposed banning seaborne oil from Russia while delaying restrictions on imports from a key pipeline in an effort to satisfy Hungarian objections and clinch an agreement on a stalled sanctions package that would target Moscow for its war in Ukraine.

The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, sent a revised proposal ...Read more

MIAMI — For a decade, Florida lawmakers have refused to expand eligibility for the public health insurance program, Medicaid, to all low-income adults as prescribed under the Affordable Care Act.

But this week, Florida received approval from federal regulators to extend Medicaid benefits for one group of residents for whom state legislators ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — Mark Barden said that all week he’s been keeping track of the timeline the families in Uvalde, Texas, are on.

“My wife Jackie and I have been kind of tracking along, moment to moment, what these families have been going through,” he said.

On Tuesday night, the couple went for a drive to clear their heads. They wound ...Read more

The United Nation’s top human rights official said any actions by China’s government to address alleged terrorism and reverse what Beijing terms radicalism must not come at the expense of human rights.

Michelle Bachelet spoke at a press briefing at the end of her six-day trip to China, which she’s repeatedly said wasn’t an “...Read more

President Joe Biden decried U.S. gun violence after two mass shootings in less than two weeks, telling university graduates in his home state of Delaware “we must stand stronger” to make the country safer, including for children.

Biden addressed the University of Delaware commencement ceremony a day before he’s due to visit Uvalde, Texas,...Read more