LOS ANGELES — Paul Pelosi, husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has been barred from driving for six months after a hit-and-run crash into a parked car, prosecutors said.

Paul Pelosi, 86, pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of hit-and-run and a traffic infraction of making an unlawful turn in connection with the July crash in...Read more

Harmeet Dhillon, the conservative California lawyer who became the face of the Trump administration’s use of the legal system to advance its aims in the culture wars, resigned Thursday as head of the U.S. Department of Justice’s civil rights division.

Dhillon’s resignation marked the first high-profile departure from the Justice ...Read more

A NASA rocket launch for a lunar mission may have punched a hole in Earth’s atmosphere, potentially disrupting GPS signals, a new study found.

The Artemis II mission launched April 1 from Florida, carrying astronauts around the moon on humanity’s first lunar mission since the Apollo program ended in 1972, NASA said.

Atmospheric ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The head of a South Los Angeles nonprofit gang intervention program has been arrested by LAPD homicide detectives on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder, along with four others accused in the killing.

Skipp Townsend, 62, executive director of 2nd Call, was taken into custody by Los Angeles Police Department Robbery Homicide...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom told the California Supreme Court on Thursday that he will commute the death sentences of all 548 state prisoners awaiting execution, reducing their punishments to life in prison without parole.

Newsom can commute about 40% of the death sentences with the stroke of a pen, but the rest will require the ...Read more

The lawsuit is the latest legal challenge over California’s social media restrictions.

Technology companies Google, Meta and Tik Tok sued the state of California on Wednesday to block a new law that restricts companies from targeting children younger than 16 with “addictive” social media content that can keep them scrolling for hours.

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State officials have approved the final key permit needed to build the largest new reservoir in California in 50 years, a project supporters say will supply water to millions of Californians from the East Bay and Silicon Valley to Los Angeles to reduce the impacts of droughts, but which opponents worry will harm the environment.

On Wednesday ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom is preparing to spare the lives of the more than 550 people serving death sentences in California prisons, according to a letter obtained by The Sacramento Bee.

The New York Times reported last month that Newsom was considering the possibility of commuting the sentences of California’s 548 death row ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom told the California Supreme Court on Thursday that he will commute the death sentences of all 548 state prisoners awaiting execution, reducing their punishments to life in prison without parole.

Newsom can commute about 40% of the death sentences with the stroke of a pen, but the rest will require the ...Read more

Meghan Markle’s half-brother is a “person of interest” in an investigation into sexual exploitation possibly involving their father.

However, authorities are not calling Thomas Markle Jr. a suspect in Thomas Markle Sr.’s alleged possession of child sexual exploitation material, according to the Telegraph.

“There are indications ...Read more

NEW YORK — Six people were killed when a massive fire tore through a Brooklyn home early Thursday, officials said.

Two lithium-ion batteries were found in the burned out home but it is not yet clear if they sparked the blaze that broke out on the top floor of the two-story house in Sunset Park at 1:39 a.m., officials said.

Four adults were ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Manny Welsh, principal deputy chief of staff and chief administrative officer for Gov. Wes Moore, is replacing Lester Davis as Moore’s chief of staff effective immediately, the governor’s office announced Thursday.

The announcement comes days after Moore was reelected for a second term.

Davis was appointed interim CEO of the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Jurors have convicted a self-described anarchist from St. Paul who was accused of posting on TikTok a bounty on the life of Pam Bondi while she was U.S. attorney general.

A federal court jury on Wednesday found Tyler M. Avalos, 30, guilty of making an interstate transmission of threat with the intent to injure in connection with...Read more

CHICAGO — A lawsuit was filed Wednesday against Encore Memory Care at South Barrington after workers allegedly took and shared nude videos of residents earlier this year. Meanwhile, a second employee has been charged with a crime.

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Kristen Fisher, the widow of 73-year-old Bernard “Skip” Fisher, who ...Read more

Cuban State Security agents detained Yoani Sánchez, the award-winning founder and director of the independent news outlet 14ymedio, in Havana on Thursday morning amid the latest government crackdown on independent journalists.

It was the third detention of an independent journalist in the Cuban capital this week.

“Yoani Sánchez has been ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Despite a nationwide blue wave in the midterm election, California’s much-debated billionaire tax didn’t get the support many expected in one of the country’s most liberal states.

Since the Golden State’s powerful healthcare union proposed the new tax, supporters of Proposition 40 have faced a fierce, expensive battle ...Read more

A former treasurer for the Kentucky Fraternal Order of Police has been federally charged with fraud after he allegedly stole more than $25,000 from state funds, a new court filing claims.

Bryan Bogard was indicted Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky for one count of fraud by wire, radio and television, ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS – In his final push to lead the Minneapolis Police Department, interim Chief Bill Peterson promised elected officials he would act as a responsible steward of its budget, be transparent in his decision-making and demonstrate results.

The 31-year department veteran, nominated by Mayor Jacob Frey, acknowledged that his long tenure �...Read more