LOS ANGELES — The organization that has been the front line of the Los Angeles city and county response to homelessness for more than 30 years is fighting for its survival in a U.S. court battle over a Trump administration attempt to cut its access to hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funds.

The Los Angeles Homeless Services ...Read more

MIAMI — There have been 15 child drownings so far this year in South Florida and data shows that 2026 is set to become the deadliest for child drownings in the Florida’s history.

In Florida, 119 children drowned in 2025, 80% of whom were under the age of three, according to the Florida Department of Children and Families. This year already,...Read more

Franck Audemard knew that it was only a matter of time before a major earthquake hit Venezuela.

So when two jolts shook his bed and walls in his Caracas apartment, just as he was about to watch Brazil face off against Scotland in Miami during the World Cup, it made sense. He watched the water in a pitcher on his table oscillate, and fled with ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump said he’s considering a “massive attack” on Iran to push the nation to negotiate a peace deal, raising the prospect of even higher energy prices that have already rattled economies.

Trump told Axios in an interview that he was “close to making a decision” on attacks that would be “bigger than ever before....Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. will collect duties of between 10% and 12.5% on imports from most major trading partners, its biggest move yet to reconstruct President Donald Trump’s tariff wall that was struck down by the Supreme Court.

The new levies follow an investigation into the alleged failure of around 60 economies to prevent forced labor in ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Mayor Karen Bass' press relations office communicates through WhatsApp messages that auto-delete every 24 hours, potentially shielding the messages from public records requests, according to three sources familiar with the office.

The press office is under scrutiny over its use of an unpaid consultant as a spokesperson for the ...Read more

The Trump administration has a new plan for teenagers learning about pregnancy: Beginning this summer, it will steer millions of dollars toward organizations that focus on anatomy, fertility tracking, hormonal production and “reproductive goals counseling.”

The plan will also emphasize abstinence from sex and the importance of marriage.

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LOS ANGELES — In 1936, there were no video games keeping children inside. Most households didn't have televisions.

Amid concern that kids playing in the streets would get hit by cars, Los Angeles made it a misdemeanor to play baseball, basketball, soccer or any other ball game on a street or sidewalk.

Nearly a century later, when kids spend ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Federal lawmakers are considering whether to expand the government’s authority to kill more sea lions and seals to bolster salmon recovery efforts in the Pacific Northwest.

The region’s critical salmon runs are on life support: Fourteen species and populations of salmon and steelhead trout in Washington State are deemed at ...Read more

Measles cases have doubled in California so far this year compared to last year — and 2026 is barely half over.

California has confirmed 52 measles cases in the first 6½ months of the year; that's more than double the 25 cases reported in all of 2025. If this pace continues, the number of cases will pass California's high from 2015, when ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- It lurks ominously beneath California’s many natural wonders, a reminder that nothing in this landscape is truly permanent.

It’s been described as “the mother of all earthquake faults,” the source of both our geological birth and, perhaps, our ultimate undoing.

But the most unnerving thing about the San Andreas fault ...Read more

SIKESTON, Mo. — Not everyone at Lloyd Gilmore's funeral knew him well. One woman, who had ironed her clothes two days in advance, said she just wanted to be there for his family. School-age children, guided by their parents, approached his open casket in the sanctuary of Cornerstone Baptist Church and peeked inside. Other people looked away.

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The pause on Paramount Skydance Corp.’s $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. has been extended two weeks to Aug. 17 by the federal judge in California overseeing multiple challenges to the deal.

U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín issued the extension Thursday. She’s still scheduled to hold a hearing Aug. 3 on ...Read more

For months, mystery swirled around a 37-year-old Carlsbad woman found dead in the backcountry of Big Sur with a cut on her forehead and markings around her neck.

Hikers came across Joanna Ruth Shields' body in a pool of water near Sykes Hot Springs on April 9, and rescue teams recovered her from the remote area of the Los Padres National Forest...Read more

SAN DIEGO — With three water-dropping helicopters and 300 firefighters assigned for Thursday, crews were making steady progress against the Creelman fire in Ramona, and by mid-morning the more than 1,500 people who had evacuated a day before were allowed to return home.

Fire officials reported that forward progress of the fire was halted ...Read more

Gov. JB Pritzker’s administration is significantly reducing staffing at a long-troubled downstate center for people with mental health issues and developmental disabilities, state and union officials said Thursday.

A statement from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 31, which represents employees at the ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump assured Philippine leader Ferdinand Marcos Jr. that he would take up Manila’s concerns when he meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the Southeast Asian nation said.

Trump gave the assurance during a phone call with Marcos on Thursday evening, where they discussed the current global, economic and security ...Read more

Tropical Storm Bertha made its second landfall in two days after skirting Louisiana’s Gulf Coast and coming ashore near the border with Texas on Thursday, then weakened to a tropical depression, according to the National Hurricane Center.

The system made its first landfall Wednesday at 3 p.m. EDT with 45 mph sustained winds in St. Bernard ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump threatened to step up strikes on Iran and said he’d hold the country responsible for any further attacks by the Yemen-based Houthis on Red Sea ships, as the widening Middle East war puts new strain on global energy supplies.

Trump told Axios in an interview that he’s considering a “massive attack” ...Read more

NEW YORK — An armed man screaming “Allahu Akbar” wounded two strangers, one a Jewish man, in a wild stabbing spree on Manhattan’s Upper West Side before cops arrested him at a nearby building Thursday, police said.

Cops were trying to determine why the suspect, identified as 51-year-old Raul Morales, targeted his two victims and if the ...Read more