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

MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- Five people were killed and dozens injured on Tuesday when Nicaraguan police and paramilitary gunmen took control of the protester stronghold of Masaya, attacking barricades erected by demonstrators, a human rights activist said.

"This has been a real massacre," Alvaro Leiva, director of the rights group Asociacion ...Read more

MEXICO CITY -- The Mexican government on Tuesday condemned as "cruel and inhuman" the Trump administration policy of separating immigrant families detained on U.S. soil.

Only 1 percent of all cases of children separated from their families -- 21 cases -- involve Mexican nationals, said Luis Videgaray, Mexico's foreign secretary, in the country'...Read more

Trump campaign ex-staffer asks judge to keep NDA suit public

NEW YORK -- A former manager on President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign who claims she was harassed on the job and is seeking to nullify a non-disclosure agreement is pressing to have her claims heard in public.

Jessica Denson asked a New York judge on Monday to deny the campaign's ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Tens of thousands of immigrants will be barred from entering the country under the compromise plan the House is about to consider.

About 560,000 total immigrant visas were issued in 2017, according to State Department statistics.

The House plan would switch 78,400 spots, currently reserved for visas for adult siblings and married...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The Republican House compromise bill on immigration would end the family separation issue at the border -- but Democrats won't support it.

The bill mandates that the Department of Homeland Security hold any adult only charged with a misdemeanor who crossed the border with a child under age 18 with their child, at specific family ...Read more