SAN DIEGO -- Inadequate medical care probably contributed to the majority of deaths of detainees at U.S. immigration facilities between December 2015 and April 2017, according to a new report issued by a coalition of advocacy organizations.

Substandard medical care contributed or led to eight of the 15 deaths reviewed, according to doctors ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump announced he will "cancel and postpone" Thursday evening's congressional picnic at the White House because "we're all so busy."

"I was just walking over to the Oval Office and thinking, you know, it just doesn't feel right to have a picnic for Congress when we're working on doing something so important."

He...Read more

WASHINGTON -- EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's longtime friend and political ally on Capitol Hill is walking back his criticism of the embattled agency leader after the two met Tuesday evening.

Sen. Jim Inhofe, a Republican from Pruitt's home state of Oklahoma, said he's "a little embarrassed" over telling conservative political commentator ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The Republican and Democratic senators leading an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 elections joined in criticism of President Barack Obama's administration for failing to do more to stop the meddling.

Republican Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr said at a hearing Wednesday that Obama administration ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Park rangers have found four furry cougar kittens living with their mother in the Simi Hills -- the first den authorities have found in a small patch of terrain between the Santa Susana and Santa Monica mountain ranges, officials said.

The female blue-eyed kittens, now known as P-66, P-67, P-68 and P-69, were found on June 11 ...Read more

Researchers have long looked upon wars, famines and mass migrations as grim but important opportunities to understand how adversity affects children's health.

They've culled the experiences of orphans warehoused in government facilities, Jewish children dispatched to foreign families ahead of a Nazi invasion, and young refugees fleeing ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- A boisterous crowd gathered in Los Angeles Tuesday night for a memorial for the slain rapper XXXTentacion, with some people climbing onto rooftops and swarming moving cars as police ordered them to disperse.

Between 300 and 500 people gathered in the street on Melrose and Spaulding avenues in the Fairfax area, blocking traffic in...Read more

In 2011, Kansas passed a law that Republicans said was aimed at ending voter fraud by requiring people to show proof of citizenship to register to vote.

But opponents argued that it was really an attempt to reduce registration by blacks and Latinos -- who tend to vote Democratic -- and challenged the law with a barrage of lawsuits.

On Monday, ...Read more

NEW YORK -- Alexander Malkevich is an information warrior for Russia.

Over the weekend, he sat in an oyster bar in the basement of Grand Central Station in New York City and related to McClatchy the endless difficulties facing his English-language website, USA Really, which is financed by unnamed pro-Kremlin Russians.

USA Really has all the ...Read more

INDUSTRY, Ill. -- After snacking on fried pretzels at the Lunch Box Cafe earlier this month, Jay Smith sat in the narrow shade of his patio and started scanning video footage on a laptop.

There they were again: the mysterious, wolflike creatures.

For several years, Smith has captured trail-cam footage of the curious canines that inhabit land ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Since the earliest days of the Trump presidency, the administration has been preparing to erect tent cities to house immigrants who had come to the country illegally.

The Department of Homeland Security asked Congress for $95 million to erect tent cities in two locations in Texas to "detain all immigration violators," according to...Read more

BEIJING -- Kim Jong Un doesn't appear to be in a rush to dump his nuclear weapons.

In talks with China President Xi Jinping on Tuesday, the North Korean leader reiterated his call for a gradual process to carry out the results of last week's summit with U.S. President Donald Trump. Chinese state media cited Kim saying that denuclearization will...Read more