LOS ANGELES — Since the Eaton and Palisades fires, there has been report after report documenting how woefully unprepared city, county and fire officials were. This week’s upcoming Santa Ana winds will provide one of the first major tests of whether Los Angeles has applied those painful lessons.

A red flag alert is in place across most of ...Read more

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals nixed a trailblazing California law on Wednesday, permanently barring the state's efforts to force federal immigration agents to display identification while on duty.

"As before, we conclude ... the No Vigilantes Act attempts to directly regulate the United States in its performance of governmental functions," ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Federal authorities are investigating a second medical evacuation helicopter incident near Catalina Island that occurred just moments before a separate fatal crash claimed the lives of three on board.

The Federal Aviation Administration is seeking to determine what led to the incident with a Mercy Air Eurocopter bound for Harbor...Read more

BALTIMORE — Former Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby can keep a Florida vacation home at the center of her criminal case after the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Maryland decided not to pursue a retrial on a count of mortgage fraud, according to court documents filed Wednesday.

Mosby was previously sentenced in May 2024 to three years ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court in an unsigned decision Wednesday sided with Republicans in a dispute over expanding discounted television advertising rates beyond political candidates ahead of the midterms.

The unsigned order from a majority of the court paused a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals from the 4th Circuit that could have ...Read more

NEW YORK — Lawyers for Oscar Belgal, the undocumented Dominican immigrant shot by ICE agents in New York City last week, are asking for his immediate release, calling his arrest illegal and saying that, six days later, he still hasn’t been allowed to undergo surgery despite having a bullet lodged in his neck.

The Legal Aid Society, which ...Read more

Kimberly Guilfoyle may have announced her resignation Tuesday as U.S. ambassador to Greece over an expanding corruption scandal. But so far she hasn’t left.

The disgraced, short-lived diplomat has yet to vacate the elegant, official ambassador’s residence in Athens, the Daily Mail reported. Guilfoyle is “gripped by the mounting paranoia�...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court sided with Republicans on Wednesday and gave political parties and their fundraising committees lower rates for broadcast campaign ads.

Over two dissents, the justices granted a fast-track appeal from the Trump administration and the National Republican Congressional Committee and upheld the use of the GOP-...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Waving signs and chanting, more than 100 Temple University students and employees rallied Wednesday to protest cuts across the university and health system.

“Who makes Temple work? We make Temple work!” they shouted.

Temple laid off 300 workers and raised tuition 3.4% this year. President John Fry said at the time the ...Read more

NEW YORK — Fewer than 9,000 New York City homeowners will be subject to the pied-à-terre surcharge on pricey second homes as the city continues to sift through applications for exemption from the tax, City Hall numbers show.

The number is lower than the 13,000 homeowners initially estimated by the state, but city officials said they were ...Read more

The feds and her rival are blasting Gov. Maura Healey for deflecting blame for letting now twice-charged, fired aide LaMar Cook collect SNAP benefits.

Cook, Healey’s former $113,400 deputy director for Western Massachusetts, was charged with SNAP fraud and wire fraud in federal court Wednesday. A judge found probable cause and released Cook ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Justice has ratcheted up its pressure campaign on California election officials to ferret out alleged voter fraud ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm election, demanding that officials statewide prove the U.S. citizenship of thousands of voters flagged by the federal government as potential noncitizens, or withhold or set aside ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with how far a law Congress passed to cover video rentals in the 1980s should stretch to cover the modern advertising-supported internet.

The case turns on the justices’ interpretation of the Video Privacy Protection Act, first passed in 1988 and last amended in 2013, and the protection ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will send a “disease detective” to Pennsylvania this week to help address an ongoing measles outbreak that has now sickened more than 1,200 people across the state, an HHS official said.

The state requested the assistance of the CDC’s Epi-Aid program, part of the Epidemic ...Read more

The UK’s Princess Anne has edged past Prince William and Kate Middleton, to become the most popular British royal, according to new royal approval ratings in the U.K.

The Prince and Princess of Wales are usually perched atop the favorite royals list in the periodic poll taken by the respected YouGov Ratings agency. But for the third quarter ...Read more

In the days before Haitian President Jovenel Moise was gunned down inside his second-floor bedroom, tensions were mounting in South Florida among the men involved in the plot to overthrow him.

Investors were pulling out, leaving the group short of cash. Thousands of dollars for a hotel bill in Port-au-Prince was going unpaid, as were the ...Read more

Sean “Diddy” Combs got a beatdown from a fellow inmate, who is also a notorious Jamaican drug lord, resulting in the head injury that landed him in the hospital over the weekend, according to multiple media reports.

The disgraced music mogul was involved in a fight with Christopher Coke, a kingpin also known as “Dudus,” on Friday at ...Read more

Across California’s Central Valley, a reported surge in Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations that began last week has disrupted agricultural communities, sparked confrontations and left families scrambling to locate detained relatives.

In the city of Kerman, Mayor Maria Pacheco confronted ICE agents last Thursday as they detained ...Read more