ANAHEIM, California — Nine more couples have filed lawsuits against a Newport Beach fertility clinic, claiming their embryos were destroyed when an employee used hydrogen peroxide in an incubator instead of a sterile solution.

The couples join two others who filed lawsuits against Ovation Fertility last week, with one couple claiming they ...Read more

DENVER — Vice President Kamala Harris will speak at the Air Force Academy’s graduation ceremony May 30 at Falcon Stadium, officials announced in a news release Tuesday.

Harris, the first woman to be elected vice president of the United States, is the ceremony’s commencement speaker.

A limited number of tickets will be available to the ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The attorney for Duane Davis, a reputed gang member accused of orchestrating the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur, said his client is not to be believed.

Defense attorney Carl Arnold said that he has yet to see proof of the murder weapon, the car involved in the drive-by shooting, or evidence that Davis was even in Las Vegas when ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — George Donnini, a lawyer for one of the 16 Republican electors who signed a certificate falsely claiming Donald Trump won Michigan's 2020 election, said in court Tuesday his client felt misled by the Trump campaign and tied the document to a campaign staffer.

Donnini's comments came at the end of a lengthy day of testimony in...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX sent up the 30th launch from the Space Coast for the year on Tuesday evening, a mission that also featured the company’s 300th successful booster recovery.

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 of SpaceX’s Starlink internet satellites blasted off at 6:17 p.m. Eastern time from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space ...Read more

The Republican-led U.S. House Judiciary Committee has a new target in its probe into whether efforts by major companies and advertising agencies to combat online misinformation and harmful content suppresses conservative speech and media.

The committee on Tuesday wrote Coca-Cola’s chairman and chief executive, James Quincey, demanding the ...Read more

Two Arab anti-discrimination groups on Tuesday lodged a federal civil rights complaint against Rutgers University, claiming a “pattern of bigotry” against Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims, especially since October.

The move comes as campuses nationwide, including Columbia and NYU in New York City, explode with protests against Israel’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Abandoning efforts to reach a deal on amendment votes, Senate leaders decided to power through opponents’ speechifying in hopes of clearing a $95.3 billion emergency aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan by Tuesday night.

The outcome has never been in doubt, especially after the Senate voted 80-19 to limit debate on the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The man who broke into Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’ home on Sunday, making it to the second floor, arrived at a moment when there were no security officers on the premises, Interim Police Chief Dominic Choi said Tuesday.

Choi said the early morning break-in took place during a shift change, when “the officers that are there...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom and lawmakers are busy working this week to stitch together the language of a bill that would provide a pathway for Arizona abortion providers who serve Arizona clients in California.

The bill would be another foray by the governor in a series of reproductive health measures that he has signed...Read more

ATLANTA — President Joe Biden could receive a mixed reception when he delivers the commencement address at Morehouse College’s graduation ceremony next month.

Social media was buzzing with calls for students and faculty to stage a walk out in protest of the Democrats' support for Israel in its ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza after the ...Read more

Closing the women’s federal prison in Dublin, California, was supposed to put a swift end to the abuse and dysfunction of the troubled facility. But inmates say the chaotic and hurried transfer of 600 inmates this past week to prisons as far as Minnesota and Miami has wrought suffering all its own.

Prisoners have been sent on grueling cross-...Read more

For weeks, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene promised that if the House approved a package of military aid for Ukraine, she would rally fellow Republicans to get rid of House Speaker Mike Johnson.

But as $95 billion in aid for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan was receiving strong bipartisan support Tuesday in the Senate, the congresswoman from Georgia...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in Naples on Tuesday blamed congressional Republicans for failing to get a bill passed on the U.S. southern border, saying they’d lost all their leverage with President Joe Biden.

DeSantis was referring to how the U.S. House on Saturday failed to pass H.R. 3602 while separately passing $95 ...Read more

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — In a series of photos shown in a New Haven courtroom on Tuesday afternoon, graduate student Kevin Jiang posed proudly outside Yale University, beaming toward the camera against the backdrop of the historic buildings on campus not far from where he would be gunned down in 2021 by Qinxuan Pan.

Pan, an MIT researcher, was ...Read more

MIAMI — Lawyers for a former high-ranking Ecuador official accused of taking more than $10 million in bribes and laundering the money in Miami tried to stir up doubt in the minds of federal jurors during his federal trial.

They argued that Carlos Ramon Polit didn’t touch a single dollar of the alleged bribes that prosecutors say were ...Read more

ATLANTA — The city of Atlanta has outlined fixes for its largest wastewater treatment plant, after it was slapped with dozens of violations last month for releasing potentially dangerous levels of bacteria into the Chattahoochee River.

While the situation has improved, local environmental groups are still urging the public to use caution when...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A Miami man accused of helping rapper YNW Melly tamper with witnesses in his murder trial was found guilty Tuesday of committing an unrelated murder a year earlier.

Terrence Mathis, 40, was convicted of second-degree murder in the 2017 shooting death of liquor store owner Karl Wolfer in a botched robbery outside the ...Read more

Curtailment has a special meaning in electric power systems. It describes any action that reduces the amount of electricity generated to maintain the balance between supply and demand – which is critical for avoiding blackouts.

Recently, curtailment has made news in states like California and Texas that are adding a lot of wind and ...Read more