SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California State Sen. Joel Anderson is facing a legislative investigation after a female lobbyist accused him of threatening to "bitch slap" her and harassing her at a Capitol-area bar last week, sources say.

Stephanie Roberson, a lobbyist with the California Nurses Association, filed a complaint with the Senate Rules ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- An Uber ride home from book club turned into a scene out of a horror story for three Sacramento women when their driver allegedly began speeding erratically while telling the women that they were "all going to die," according to passengers.

Sacramento County Sheriff's Department spokesperson Shaun Hampton said the June 15 ...Read more

BERLIN -- Jakiw Palij, who was stripped of his U.S. citizenship because he lied about his collaboration with the Nazis during World War II, was deported to Germany by the U.S.

The U.S. claims the 95-year old was a Nazi guard at the Trawniki camp who helped to prevent the escape of prisoners. Palij played an "indispensable role" in ensuring ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Microsoft announced late Monday that it thwarted a spearphishing attack against the U.S. Senate by a group affiliated with Russian intelligence.

In a statement, the tech giant said its digital crimes unit "executed a court order to disrupt and transfer control of six internet domains created by a group widely associated with the ...Read more

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- Protesters toppled the Silent Sam Confederate statue on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill on Monday night.

The monument was ripped down after 9:15 p.m. Earlier in the evening, protesters covered the statue with tall, gray banners, erecting "an alternative monument" that said, in part, "For a world without white supremacy."

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MIAMI -- With the help of U.S. prosecutors, a young Cuban man accused of shooting a Palm Beach County doctor in the head in 2015 and fleeing to the island to escape the reach of the U.S. law has been convicted by a Cuban court of murder and sentenced to 20 years in prison.

The highly unusual tactic to get a conviction was undertaken because the...Read more

MEXICO CITY -- Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and his once-fierce rival, President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, on Monday pledged cooperation in confronting the nation's challenges despite differences on issues such as education reform and a controversial airport project.

Pena Nieto and Lopez Obrador -- along with many current ...Read more

CANBERRA, Australia -- Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Tuesday survived a party leadership challenge from Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton.

The Liberal Party's whip, Nola Marino, told reporters outside parliament in Canberra that Turnbull beat Dutton in the internal ballot by 48 votes to 35.

Turnbull, 63, had declared the party...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Many unauthorized immigrants who came to the U.S. as children think at least daily about getting deported from the U.S., a new study finds.

The study, published by the Center for American Progress, a progressive think tank, is the third in a series of surveys of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program recipients by ...Read more

CARACAS, Venezuela -- Maria Celeste Molina warily pulled cash from a downtown ATM and stuffed the bolivars in her purse. Come tomorrow, she had no idea what they might buy.

"I need the cash to travel tomorrow," the 24-year-old university student said. "But I don't know if there will be public transport or how much the new fares will be."

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WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh faces a crucial test Tuesday when he sits down for a meeting with Republican Sen. Susan Collins, who plans to ask him about abortion and other topics.

Collins said she intended to talk to Kavanaugh about his praise for the then-Justice William Rehnquist's dissent in Roe v. Wade, the landmark ...Read more

Democrats want to know if Bolton told White House about contact with alleged spy

WASHINGTON -- Top Democrats on the House Oversight Committee want to know if national security adviser John Bolton told the White House about his reported contact with alleged Russian spy Maria Butina before he was appointed by President Donald Trump.

Bolton ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A suspected Iraqi terrorist was ordered Monday to remain in jail as a flight risk and danger to the community while U.S. authorities determine whether he should be extradited to his home country to face a murder charge.

Omar Ameen, who was arrested last week in an FBI raid in Sacramento County, made a brief appearance in ...Read more