DETROIT — Michigan State University broke the law by taking 17 months to notify the state Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs that one of its medical resident physicians was removed from patient care following allegations of sexual assault.

MSU was alerted to allegations of sexual assault when a patient called the university police...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy working as a guard at Twin Towers Correctional Facility used force against inmate Jeffrey Fairchild, allegedly smashing him face-first into a metal window frame and causing him to fall to the concrete floor, according to federal monitors overseeing conduct by deputies in L.A. County jails.

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People have debated the health benefits of wine for years.

Older studies suggested that a glass of red wine could reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, but more recent studies question that conclusion.

One man is trying to add to the debate: He wants consumers to eat wine grapes.

Andrew Cates, co-founder of the Wine RayZyn Co., is ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York City’s teachers union on Friday urged a judge to dismiss Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s legal challenge to $10,000 payments for public school paraprofessionals, citing the tragic death of a 16-year-old autistic student as evidence of a dire need to fix the staffing shortage, according to new court filings.

The City Council ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A fast-moving fire in south Orange County has burned multiple homes in the San Clemente and San Juan Capistrano areas, as fierce Santa Ana winds fueled fire danger from Malibu to Camp Pendleton.

At noon a new blaze ignited in the bushy foothills south of San Juan Capistrano. Dubbed the Norte fire, the conflagration quickly ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Amid reports of a surge in federal immigration raids, Los Angeles leaders and immigration advocates said Friday that the efforts appear aimed at discouraging turnout in the midterm elections, and urged voters not to be intimidated.

"The timing of these actions, just weeks before the midterm elections, is no accident," said ...Read more

A New Mexico judge on Friday ruled in favor of Emmy winner Timothy Busfield, tossing out multiple child sex abuse charges against the actor.

During a hearing, Judge Joseph A. Montano granted Busfield’s motion to dismiss his indictment, citing prosecutorial misconduct and errors that undermined the grand jury process. According to the order, �...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump bypassed his White House chief of staff last week in selecting Katie Zacharia as his press secretary and chief messenger, triggering days of scathing headlines about her credentials and abilities before her ignominious resignation on Friday.

Susie Wiles, that senior-most aide ostensibly in charge of the ...Read more

The FBI has arrested a Connecticut man on charges he threatened to kill members of the Republican Party and a high-ranking public official on social media.

According to a release from David X. Sullivan, U.S. attorney for the District of Connecticut, and P.J. O’Brien, special agent in charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of ...Read more

DENVER — An El Paso County District Court judge on Friday denied bail to Deborah Nicholls, finding there is a “fair likelihood” the woman could be re-convicted of murder after a judge this summer threw out her convictions in the deaths of her three children in a house fire more than 20 years ago.

Judge Catherine Mitchell Helton ordered ...Read more

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — Katie Zacharia, who was fired after serving only five days as White House press secretary, grew up on California’s Central Coast and remembers the town of Cambria as “a liberal cesspool” — boring, not nearly conservative enough for her and suffering from a “huge drug population.”

That was the ...Read more

Since Donald Trump unceremoniously asked Kimberly Guilfoyle to resign from her post as U.S. ambassador to Greece, because her corruption scandal apparently proved too much for even him to ignore, people have felt emboldened to air their grievances against the former first lady of San Francisco-turned conservative firebrand, who brazenly sought ...Read more

In Washington, U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall has criticized colleagues for steering federal tax dollars to local projects without going through the standard appropriations process.

Earmarks, also commonly known as pork-barrel spending, allow lawmakers to advance pet projects in their districts with little oversight. Marshall has described them as ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Katie Zacharia will no longer serve as President Donald Trump’s press secretary after spending less than a week on the job, thrusting the White House’s communications operation back into a state of chaos.

Zacharia was out of the role as of Friday, according to people familiar with the matter who requested anonymity to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Fire crews across Southern California were on full alert Friday as they braced for the most extreme window of Santa Ana winds forecast in the ongoing red flag event.

Crews continued to battle two fires that ignited Thursday. The Bryson fire in Malibu was 146 acres and 17% contained by Friday morning, while at Camp Pendleton in ...Read more

A gunman shot and killed three children and a teacher at a school in Bend, Oregon, on Oct. 15, 2026, the 52nd school shooting this year, according to CNN. The children’s ages were 5, 8 and 11; a 7-year-old and another teacher were taken to the hospital with critical injuries. The 16-year-old shooting suspect was shot and killed by a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The sun-soaked crowd had been listening to President Donald Trump for just over an hour in Arizona on Wednesday. When some often-used lines about congressional Democrats and taxes got virtually no response, the president decided to go to a dark place.

“They want to mutilate — cut — your children. It’s unbelievable what ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Southern California braced for another day of Santa Ana winds as firefighters battled a fire burning in Malibu.

The Bryson fire had burned 200 acres as of Thursday night. It erupted shortly before 5 p.m. and sparked evacuation orders for the Encinal Canyon area near Trancas Canyon. A larger swath of Malibu was under an ...Read more

NEW YORK — Sean “Diddy” Combs has been moved out of New Jersey’s Fort Dix Federal Correctional Institution amid allegations he’d been living a life of luxury behind bars.

The disgraced music mogul is now being held at FCI Allenwood, a low-security prison in Pennsylvania, a Bureau of Prisons spokesperson confirmed to the New York ...Read more