Electronic devices belonging to Meghan Markle’s embattled father are being examined by authorities investigating Thomas Markle Sr. for possessing child exploitation material.

Police in the Philippines have obtained a warrant to look into the 82-year-old suspect’s digital equipment including computers, phones and hard drives, according to ...Read more

Iran received a letter sent by U.S. Vice President JD Vance to its top security official, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported, with one of the country’s top negotiators later suggesting Tehran’s positions on ending the war will not be compromised.

Tasnim didn’t disclose the contents of the letter addressed to Mohsen Rezaee, the...Read more

Early into his tenure this summer, Florida Education Commissioner Henry Mack took to social media to talk about the limits of artificial intelligence.

His office had just rolled out a sweeping set of regulations meant to safeguard against the possible harms of AI in schools, including the outsourcing of critical thinking and work to the ...Read more

SANTA ANA, Calif. — Orange County’s election officials cannot comply with the U.S. Department of Justice’s request to check the citizenship status of more than 1,700 people, the county told the federal government Wednesday evening.

Citing state and federal law, the county denied the federal government’s request, saying it may revisit ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department announced the capture and extradition of a Southern California man Wednesday, more than two months after he was accused of beating an elderly woman with a bat and fleeing the state.

Erik Navarro, 26, was taken into custody in Oklahoma on unrelated traffic charges. Detectives from ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — Five detention officers at a North Carolina jail have been indicted on misdemeanor charges after allegedly allowing and facilitating a fight between two female inmates, according to court documents and interviews.

The five officers face the class-one misdemeanor charge of willfully failing to discharge duties by arranging a ...Read more

MIAMI — The Florida Department of Education reported a hack into the state’s student financial aid portal Thursday, potentially compromising millions of Floridians’ personal information such as Social Security numbers.

The department wrote in a release that the website FloridaStudentFinancialAidSG.org was the subject of the hack, referred...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The chief executive of the California's High Speed Rail Authority abruptly resigned late Wednesday amid intensifying scrutiny over cost overruns, project delays and wasteful expenses.

In a letter to authority executives Ian Choudri cited "personal and family priorities" for his decision to step down. Board chair Steve Kawa ...Read more

MIAMI — A man who gunned down a Colorado tourist inside a South Beach restaurant in front of his wife and baby will spend decades in a Florida prison, a judge said Thursday.

After hearing three days of testimony and argument, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Laura Stuzin sentenced Tamarius Blair Davis, 27, to 50 years in prison followed by 20 years ...Read more

The final stages of a decadeslong battle over contaminated drinking water at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune are taking shape this week in a North Carolina federal court, where the first trial has begun and a mass settlement plan is in the works.

It’s been four years since Congress passed and President Joe Biden signed into law legislation ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Southern California coastal communities are bracing for more flooding Thursday and Friday as El Niño conditions keep water levels very high.

Unusually high tides that have brought flooding to low-lying areas in Southern California including Newport Beach and Long Beach may linger longer than initially predicted.

The National ...Read more

PAGE, Ariz. — Doug Herrera still lives in the house his father built, though his dad died some time ago from cancer. Herrera wonders if that illness could have been linked to pollutants from nearby uranium mining. Now, he worries that a possible new neighbor — a proposed $10 billion mega data center— could imperil his health.

“I’m a ...Read more

DENVER — Two college students who vanished in Colorado’s mountains over the weekend were found dead on Wednesday, sheriff’s officials said.

The bodies of Colorado Mountain College students Kaden Matsuda, 19, and Jackson Donlon, 20, were recovered from a basin of West Apostle Mountain at about 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, the Chaffee County ...Read more

DENVER — The man who killed one woman and injured more than a dozen others in a firebombing on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall last year pleaded guilty to federal crimes Thursday.

Mohamed Soliman, 46, is already serving a life prison sentence after pleading guilty to more than 100 state crimes in connection with the June 1, 2025, attack. He ...Read more

CREVE COEUR, Mo. — Reneé Luckfield tries not to knock like a cop.

In fact, the 29-year-old spends a lot of time thinking about how to make strangers comfortable when she shows up at their door to talk about transgender healthcare. A syncopated “tap — tap-tap-tap” sounds friendly even when she knocks loudly. In each encounter, she masks...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A federal judge barred immigration agents in Southern California from stopping people simply because they are Latino or appear to be and are working class, finding evidence of an unwritten, “officially sanctioned” policy of racial profiling.

In her order granting a preliminary injunction, U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Vice President JD Vance is scheduled to appear Friday in St. Cloud to hold a news conference related to the White House’s fraud task force.

The White House said Vance “will be making an announcement on the administration’s war on Fraud.”

Vance last visited Minnesota in the aftermath of the school shooting at ...Read more

MERIDIAN, Idaho — It didn’t take long for doctors to see that something was amiss with Rebecca Crozier’s pregnancy.

At her eight-week ultrasound in 2025, they mentioned a possible neural tube defect, she said, but after some research, she thought it was something that could be managed or treated.

“If it was a fixable problem, I was ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The chief executive of the state's high-speed rail authority abruptly resigned late Wednesday ahead of a critical board vote over a key portion of the route.

Ian Choudri took over in 2024 as scrutiny over the project intensified. Under Choudri, the project lost billions of dollars in federal funding. And recently, the authority'...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As a teen in Sri Lanka, Ray Jayawardhana wrote to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory asking about its Voyager and Viking missions. In response, he received a booklet with pictures of Jupiter and Saturn.

On Thursday, the astrophysicist who studies distant planets and writes about alien life will be installed as the California ...Read more