After issuing an executive order last week to speed the establishment of guardrails on artificial intelligence, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that he had tapped four experts to advise the state on AI oversight.

Rob Reich, Jason Goldman, Gillian Hadfield and Alondra Nelson will advise the Government Operations Agency and Governor’s Office of ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — A whistleblower alleged that Department of Homeland Security agents may have illegally accessed Virginia voter records.

On Sep. 8, a whistleblower made a protected disclosure to the Senate alleging that agents working on the Unlawful Voter Initiative — the department’s name for its investigation — had used Virginia’s ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Two men were charged with hate crimes for allegedly shouting anti-gay slurs while attacking a San Jose State University student on campus last week, prosecutors said.

Josue Medina Flores, a 19-year-old resident of Sunnyvale, and Christian Gabriel Nunez Petty, a 20-year-old resident of Fremont, were each charged with felony ...Read more

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson proposed a data center moratorium ordinance Wednesday aimed at blocking the controversial developments from popping up in Chicago for one year.

He described the ordinance, now in aldermen’s hands, as a temporary pause that would give the city time to develop long-term policies regulating concerns around ...Read more

DETROIT — The American Civil Liberties Union and Amnesty International detailed how six colleges and universities violated the rights of "pro-Palestinian" student protesters and allowed campus and local law enforcement to arrest and use "unlawful and unnecessary" force against them in a report released Wednesday.

The University of Michigan, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California is moving forward with plans to link its signature climate program, cap-and-invest, to that of Washington state, a major step officials say will cut more pollution and increase revenue for key state programs.

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the move at Climate Week in New York City, where he is meeting with international ...Read more

NEW YORK — Miramax founder Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to another 15 years in prison Wednesday for sexually assaulting a production assistant in the heyday of his Hollywood career, the latest conviction for the disgraced mogul.

The term handed down by Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Curtis Farber followed a yearslong legal saga for the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The pilot of a military training jet was rescued by the U.S. Navy on Tuesday evening after the aircraft plunged into the Pacific Ocean about six miles northwest of Morro Bay.

“Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! I have lost thrust in my engine,” the pilot of the single-seat Mk.58 Hawker Hunter fighter jet communicated to an air traffic ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Detectives are trying to trace back the supplier of the drugs that Cindy Crawford's son, Persley Gerber, fatally overdosed on in Santa Monica rehab last weekend, according to law enforcement sources.

Gerber, 27, died at a luxury rehab center in Santa Monica on Sunday.

The investigation

The Santa Monica Police Department said ...Read more

Oil rose as traders factored dislocations in global fuel markets against fresh attacks in the Strait of Hormuz.

Brent moved back above $100 a barrel in a choppy session, snapping five days of declines. European diesel futures surged Wednesday after President Donald Trump said a day earlier that he’s pushed for a ban on American exports of the...Read more

NEW YORK — Three people were seen early Wednesday emerging from a Park Avenue manhole near the Upper East Side hotel where Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be staying during the United Nations General Assembly, police said.

The trio fled in two vehicles uptown on Park Avenue and have not been caught, cops said.

There was no ...Read more

The United States has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to the G20 summit, a gathering of global powers that will be held in Florida in December, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters in New York.

Asked whether President Donald Trump would meet Putin for talks about the war in Ukraine, Rubio said the president is willing to ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — John Dougherty was for years an unparalleled kingmaker in Philadelphia’s Democratic Party — a charismatic labor leader and fundraiser who helped anoint a generation of future mayors, City Council members, state and federal legislators, judges, and governors.

But this year, while Dougherty was imprisoned for bribery and ...Read more

Iran President Masoud Pezeshkian said his country won’t allow freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz while sanctions and a U.S. blockade remain in place, underscoring the difficulty in reaching a peace deal with Washington despite efforts to revive talks this week.

The Islamic Republic “cannot accept that everyone benefits from ...Read more

President Donald Trump and Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, met face to face for the first time Tuesday evening, publicly cementing a rapidly expanding relationship between Washington and Caracas that recent polling suggests is deeply unpopular among Venezuelans.

Trump received Rodríguez at the Lotte New York Palace during a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The University of California, San Francisco's medical school illegally used race in admissions, discriminating against white and Asian applicants in favor of Black and Latino ones, the Department of Justice alleged Tuesday.

The allegations expand the Trump administration's scrutiny of University of California admissions after ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Months after an unsuccessful run in the gubernatorial primary, Katie Porter is stepping into a new role. Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed Porter to the California Community Colleges Board of Governors on Friday.

The 18-member board sets policy and provides guidance for the 73 districts and 116 colleges that make up the ...Read more