LOS ANGELES — More than 100 University of Southern California students and off-campus supporters erected tents, banners and signs in the center of campus Wednesday, joining a growing national sit-in movement across college campuses as pro-Palestinian activists demand that universities call for a permanent cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war and...Read more

NEW YORK — U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday called on Columbia University President Minouche Shafik to resign over her handling of the Gaza protests and said the national guard may be needed to restore order, as he met with Jewish students feeling unsafe and targeted amid the campus unrest.

“My intention is to call President ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — Trying to regulate the fast-moving world of artificial intelligence, the Connecticut state Senate approved a sweeping bill Wednesday night that creates a framework designed to help consumers and avoid the downsides of AI.

Lawmakers have struggled for months in a balancing act to try to foster regulation at the same time as ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Outside the front steps of the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday morning, anti-abortion groups and abortion rights advocates battled to make their stances known, each wielding signs, stickers and blaring PA systems.

Inside the court’s cool marble walls, the tension over abortion access — specifically whether Idaho can enforce ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Former President Donald Trump and some of his top aides were co-conspirators in the plot to submit a certificate falsely claiming he won Michigan's 2020 election, an investigator for Attorney General Dana Nessel's office testified Wednesday, as new details of the effort to prosecute the alleged scheme took shape in two ...Read more

CHICAGO — The Archdiocese of Chicago is facing a lawsuit in connection with a former priest accused of sexually abusing and exploiting an altar boy at a now-closed elementary school and parish on the city’s Lower West Side.

The lawsuit, filed earlier this month in Cook County Circuit Court, alleges that the Rev. John Keehan repeatedly ...Read more

Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in China on a mission to press Beijing on thorny issues including its support for Russia and industrial overcapacity, with the threat of new U.S. sanctions looming over his visit.

The top U.S. diplomat will hold talks with senior Communist Party officials in the economic hub of Shanghai on Thursday...Read more

CHICAGO — The family of Dexter Reed on Wednesday filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city and five officers involved in the March 21 shooting in Humboldt Park that left Reed dead and a Chicago police officer wounded.

The 81-page, 17-count lawsuit was announced by Reed’s family’s attorneys at a news conference outside the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — An Arizona grand jury has indicted Mark Meadows, former President Donald Trump’s chief of staff and a former congressman, over his involvement in efforts to overturn the 2020 election using a fake slate of electors from the state.

He is among 18 people charged, though his name does not appear in the indictment. Trump is not ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s Latino Caucus gathered Tuesday morning to announce its legislative priorities for 2024 — highlighting a package of bills which concentrates on the state’s undocumented immigrants.

The caucus, consisting of 35 members, is influential in the Legislature and has championed a series of wins over the last ...Read more

The conservative Supreme Court is poised to hear oral arguments on Thursday over former President Donald Trump’s explosive claim that former presidents have blanket immunity from criminal prosecution for acts taken while in office.

The hearing marks a critical milestone as the nation waits to see if Trump will face accountability for the ...Read more

Do great white sharks change their behaviors in different environments, or do the apex predators follow the same routines regardless of location?

Researchers recently set out to solve this shark puzzle, as they reportedly discovered great white behaviors by attaching smart tags and cameras to their fins.

Great whites adapt their movements and ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — A Marine was killed at Camp Pendleton Tuesday evening during what military officials described as "routine military operations."

The Marine was a member of the Marine Light Attack Helicopter Training Squadron 303, Marine Aircraft Group 39, which is part of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing.

The 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing's ...Read more

BOSTON — Harvard students are the latest college kids to set up a tent encampment for Palestine, as they reportedly rushed Harvard Yard to create a “liberated zone” on the Cambridge campus Wednesday.

Meanwhile in Boston, Emerson College officials were warning students of “imminent law enforcement action” because the pro-Palestine ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — A Navy chief was convicted of attempted espionage last week in a San Diego military court after he was accused of providing classified documents to a foreign contact while stationed in Norfolk and Japan.

Chief Fire Controlman Bryce S. Pedicini was found guilty of attempted espionage, failure to obey a lawful order and attempted...Read more

Arizona lawmakers Wednesday voted to repeal an unpopular near-total abortion ban that was enacted in 1864.

The Republican-controlled state house voted 32-28 to approve repealing the draconian, 160-year-old law after a handful of GOP lawmakers defected to join Democrats.

The bill now moves on to the state Senate. The GOP also narrowly controls ...Read more

Since the age of the Romans, a lot has changed.

Aqueducts have been replaced with sewer systems and indoor plumbing. Gladiator battles have been replaced by the National Football League. Even the earliest medical tools, like scalpels and forceps have, thankfully, been updated in the past few millennia.

What hasn’t changed is the desire to ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Bronx man charged with eight random punching attacks on women since February, ranted to cops that he sometimes had to “check” women in order to keep them in line, officials say.

“It’s different with men,” Daquan Armstead, 31, told a detective after he was arrested and charged with assaulting random women in Manhattan, a...Read more