BEIJING -- U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross will head a trade delegation on a trip to China on June 2-4, Chinese state media reported Friday.

Ross confirmed the visit in a phone call Friday with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, Xinhua news agency said.

This will be the latest in a series of trips by Chinese and U.S. officials meant to resolve ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo.--It was supposed to just be a senior prank. But Truman High School officials weren't laughing when they banned the student from his graduation.

As a joke, Kylan Scheele, 18, listed Truman High for sale on Craigslist at the bargain basement price of $12,275.

"I wanted to list it really low because people search low to high and ...Read more

Facebook and other social media companies should turn over users' public communications to criminal defendants in response to subpoenas, the California Supreme Court decided unanimously Thursday.

The ruling, a victory for the criminal defense bar, overturned an appeals court decision that said the defense lawyers could not force media companies...Read more

MIAMI -- It was supposed to be a simple procedure.

Royalty, a 12-year-old American Bulldog, was set to get neutered. His owner, Omarnestor Delrio, made an appointment and was ready to pay.

The problem: Police say the veterinary clinic wasn't actually a clinic, and the vet was a fraud.

Now, Jose Alvarez-Marrero, 58, and his girlfriend Sophia ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- The University of Southern California's large and powerful Board of Trustees is coming under growing pressure to provide a stronger hand as the university faces a crisis over misconduct allegations against the campus' longtime gynecologist that has prompted calls for President C.L. Max Nikias to step down.

Allegations that Dr. ...Read more

Moderate Republicans pushing for immigration vote give leaders a deadline

WASHINGTON -- Moderate Republicans are giving their colleagues until June 7 to find a legislative fix for the legal status of people brought to the country illegally as children, or they will try to use a special process to force a vote over the GOP leaders' objections, ...Read more

When plans for the North Korea summit were still on, the White House Gift Shop made sure to include a commemorative North Korean summit coin on the shelves.

But the moment President Donald Trump canceled that summit, the gift shop was eager to put them on clearance, reported the Daily Beast.

The item -- listed as the "Deal of the Day" -- seems...Read more

BALTIMORE -- Four Glenelg High School students have been charged with hate crimes after swastikas and racial epithets, including one that police said targeted the central Howard County school's African-American principal, were found painted on campus sidewalks, outside walls and parking lot at dawn.

Howard County Police said they used video ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The high cost of housing seemed to sap Americans' taste for coastal cities last year as cities in Texas and Arizona gained more population than New York City or Los Angeles for the first time in a decade, according to census population estimates released Thursday.

"What started as a promising decade for big cities is starting to ...Read more

A Guantanamo detainee awaiting a war-crimes trial as an alleged al-Qaida commander in post 9/11 Afghanistan has undergone his fifth emergency spine surgery at the U.S. Navy base in southeast Cuba, his lawyer said Thursday.

The military declined to discuss the condition of the prisoner known as Abd al Hadi al-Iraqi, citing "patient ...Read more

Pfizer will pay the government nearly $24 million as part of a settlement to resolve allegations that it funneled money through a foundation resulting in illegal kickbacks.

The company is not admitting wrongdoing or liability as part of its settlement with the Department of Justice. According to the settlement agreement, from 2012 through 2016,...Read more

WASHINGTON -- As recently as Wednesday afternoon, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo insisted that "all across the administration" preparations were steaming along for a historic summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Less than 24 hours later, Trump abruptly canceled the meeting, citing the "tremendous anger and ...Read more