Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a package of bills Saturday that increases protections for LGBTQ people in California, saying the legislation was needed because of recent moves by the Trump administration that threaten that support.

One of the six bills would provide housing, employment and other help to service members discharged from the U.S. ...Read more

A paddleboarding excursion in the Pacific Ocean off California turned terrifying for one woman when a sea lion yanked her into the water, according to news reports.

“I was like, ‘what, what’s happening,’ it was like a horror movie,” Heather Gray told KNTV.

Gray, of Capitola, was paddleboarding between Capitola Wharf and Privates ...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday signed bills that create new rules for the state's industrial companies following a massive fire at a cold storage facility in Los Angeles' Boyle Heights neighborhood in June.

Business groups and some Republican lawmakers opposed the bills, arguing that it could drive up prices for companies and, ultimately, ...Read more

Some Dallas-Fort Worth voters are optimistic about Democrat Gina Hinojosa’s odds of winning her bid for governor against incumbent Greg Abbott, despite the Republicans’ decades-long grip on the state.

The state representative from Austin was in Arlington on Sunday as part of a North Texas swing in the lead up to Election Day on Nov. 3. ...Read more

Russian airstrikes overnight and early Sunday killed at least six people across Ukraine and targeted a number of major data centers in Kyiv, officials said.

Three people were killed in the Zaporizhzhia region and a man died in Kyiv as a result of strikes, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on X. Civilian infrastructure, including ...Read more

After a soggy weekend, the Boston region can expect more wind and rain but less intense conditions as the nor’easter lingers through Monday before conditions begin to dry out Tuesday, according to National Weather Service forecasts.

“The nor’easter is actually sitting off the coast of New Jersey right now,” said NWS meteorologist Torry ...Read more

As President Donald Trump mused about “taking Cuba” earlier this year, the question that has hovered over the exile community for decades — what happens the day after Cuba’s communist regime falls — suddenly gained urgency, sparking an intense planning effort in Miami for a future transition whose contours are still unclear.

Prominent...Read more

When I first met my husband, I was astounded that he could glimpse a bird flitting among trees 50 yards away and identify it with the confidence of someone looking at a field guide. “Cardinal,” he’d say, as we flew down the highway, after a flash of red appeared for a split second.

It seemed impossible. Was he making these identifications...Read more

SAN DIEGO — No one can know what happened inside the house on Boulder Lake Avenue in the hours before the Voight family was found dead earlier this month.

San Diego police are still investigating the shootings, and suspect a decorated war veteran shot and killed his wife and daughter, then turned the gun on himself.

Relatives say Amy Voight ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he expects talks with Iran to resume this week, even after rejecting the latest Iranian proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, Axios reported, citing a phone interview with the president.

Trump said the deal Iran wants is something that the U.S. might have agreed to about a year ago, adding that Iran has overplayed...Read more

To visit Bab el-Mandeb is to understand that old adage about looks being deceiving. For this humble fishing village in Yemen, a tumbledown grouping of barely-there huts nestled between the water and an imposing mountain range, stands sentinel over one of the world's most vital waterways.

The village shares its name with the Bab el-Mandeb Strait...Read more

The powerful nor’easter that has flooded streets across New York City and multiple states and sent trees crashing to the ground is expected to continue Sunday, with strong winds and heavy rains continuing through the day.

The storm is expected to bring heavy winds until noon Sunday and a coastal flooding warning remains in effect in New York ...Read more

U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham displayed a willingness to take on one of the toughest policy traps in British policies by pledging to overhaul care for the elderly. He also indicated he may introduce new taxes to pay for it.

For years successive British prime ministers have tried and failed to improve the means-tested adult social-care ...Read more

A 25-year-old Philadelphia woman won the $300,000 first prize in a NASA competition to design food systems to improve how astronauts eat in space, and eventually how they will eat on Mars, the space agency announced Thursday.

Chinyere “Chichi” Ukeje, a native of Bowie, Md., now living with her husband in Northeast Philadelphia, submitted a ...Read more

The once simple message "Get out the vote" now has a corollary: "Protect the vote."

That message was hammered home Saturday for dozens of voting rights groups, community organizations and unions attending a rally to recruit and train poll watchers for the November election.

Organizers for several groups brought together under the banner of ...Read more

U.K. police were investigating a potential terrorism incident after five men were arrested near an air base used in U.S. strikes on Iran, with President Donald Trump saying the suspects were “looking to do big damage” to the facility.

Trump credited British authorities with foiling the incident early Sunday at RAF Fairford, a key launching ...Read more

Iran stuck to its seven-day proposal for reopening the crucial Strait of Hormuz, saying it won’t soften its conditions, while President Donald Trump sent mixed signals about his willingness to reach a deal.

The conditions Iran wants are something Washington might have agreed to about a year ago, Trump told Axios in an interview on Sunday, ...Read more

The one-two punch of a higher-than-usual tide and weeks of heavy rain submerged South Florida streets this weekend and put the region under a coastal flood advisory.

Starting Saturday evening and continuing into Sunday morning’s high tide, the ocean poured into urban cities up and down the coast, breaking a recent record for flooding in Fort ...Read more