LOS ANGELES — A record-breaking season of tropical storms and hurricanes in the Pacific Ocean is battering the Southern California coastline.

Researchers at Colorado State University confirmed Monday that storms this summer have generated a higher accumulated cyclone energy, which measures the total wind energy, intensity and duration of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said his administration was scrutinizing U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle following allegations of unethical conduct and reports that he was considering removing her from the post.

“Well, we’re looking at it. Yeah, we’re not happy,” Trump told reporters on Monday when asked if he would ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho has a state flower. A state amphibian. Even a state fossil.

But — perhaps surprisingly for a state where so many people own guns — it doesn’t yet have a state gun.

That could soon change. In November, Idaho residents will vote on a nonbinding “advisory question”: What should the state gun be?

There are six ...Read more

A federal grand jury indicted three Dominican men who crewed an overloaded migrant boat that capsized late last month, killing at least three people and leaving 10 missing and presumed dead, according to court records.

The boat capsized late Sunday night, Sept. 27, after one of the defendants, Danny De La Rosa, who was a crewman, attacked ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Mamdani on Monday announced a sweeping review of the NYPD’s use-of-force policies while also announcing changes he says will improve police accountability.

The changes include the implementation of a new system that would make sure officers complete any ongoing disciplinary processes before they retire — a change that ...Read more

RJ Mitte, the actor who played the son of drug lord Walter White in "Breaking Bad," has died at 34.

Mitte, who, like his character Walter "Flynn" White Jr., had cerebral palsy, played an integral supporting role on the AMC series, which premiered in 2008 and lasted five seasons. The character was considered by many fans to be the heart and ...Read more

NEW YORK — The 5-year-old boy who witnessed his father get shot in their car by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on a New York City street was left traumatized by the experience and has stopped talking, his mother told officials.

An ICE agent fired seven rounds into the silver Honda Civic, while the boy sat in the backseat, striking...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A 39-year-old woman in Franklin County died after contracting measles, the county’s coroner reported Monday, the sixth report of a death linked to Pennsylvania’s worst measles outbreak in decades.

The woman had “several underlying conditions, including a past diagnosis of measles with treatment,” Coroner Jordan Conner ...Read more

DETROIT — A woman who said she was recorded by Michigan Department of Corrections officers while giving birth has filed a lawsuit against the department, alleging the recordings of her in labor and undressed violated state law.

Seventeen days before Natalie Forrest, who was an inmate at the Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility, gave ...Read more

LONDON — UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham said Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was “almost certainly” responsible for an alleged terror plot at a British airbase used by the U.S.

Burnham leveled the formal accusation against Iran on Monday during his first appearance in Parliament since the incident late last month at RAF ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s deal with Moscow on its diesel exports and his praise for Vladimir Putin are just the latest in a string of Russia-related news that has sparked public criticisms from Republicans weeks ahead of a midterm election that increasingly favors Democrats.

Trump has said he is working with the Russian ...Read more

European officials warned that President Donald Trump’s deal to increase Russia’s diesel sales will boost Moscow’s war effort in Ukraine, pressing for more U.S. sanctions instead.

“We would call on U.S. to put the sanctions in place so that actually we could finish this war, so that all the effects of these attacks on refineries would ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Nearly a year after last-minute efforts to save the ship and two years since it departed Philadelphia waters, the SS United States is about to set sail on its final voyage.

The 990-foot retired ocean liner that stayed docked for three decades at Pier 82 will become the world’s largest artificial reef. Officials in Okaloosa ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Private businesses risk an onslaught of congressional investigations if Democrats prevail in midterm elections as the opposition party prepares to concentrate sweeping oversight powers on allegations of Trump administration corruption and public anger over the cost of living.

Companies including Amazon.com Inc. and Nvidia Corp. ...Read more

U.S. companies exported $231.7 million in fuel to private companies in Cuba from January through August 2026, making the United States the main fuel supplier to Cuba as the Trump administration continues to block oil shipments to the island’s government.

The Trump administration cut off Cuba’s oil supply this year, stopping shipments from ...Read more

WASHINGTON — On the first full day on Capitol Hill last month after senators returned from an extended recess, John Fetterman did not show up for his first scheduled committee meeting.

Like dozens of times before, it was not clear where the Pennsylvania senator was while the top Democrat on the Senate Commerce Committee voted on his behalf ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX is set to launch a cargo mission to the International Space Station before dawn Tuesday that could bring a sonic boom to Central Florida.

A Falcon 9 rocket on the CRS-35 mission topped with a crew Dragon spacecraft is set to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 6:33 a.m. ...Read more

Sean "Diddy" Combs' stay in federal prison has taken yet another turn. The disgraced music and alcohol mogul has been hospitalized after suffering a head injury, the Los Angeles Times has learned.

Combs, 56, is receiving treatment for the head injury, sources say. A representative for the fallen Bad Boy Records founder said in a statement to ...Read more

MIAMI — Colombian businessman Alvaro Pulido, accused of helping orchestrate massive corruption and money-laundering schemes involving billions of dollars in Venezuelan government contracts, is expected to make his first appearance in Miami federal court Tuesday after reportedly being handed over to U.S. authorities by the government of acting ...Read more