LOS ANGELES — A long-running dispute between cemeteries and bike-lane and safe streets advocates in the San Fernando Valley has escalated to become a campaign issue in the Los Angeles mayor's race.

The fight revolves around a one-mile stretch of Forest Lawn Drive — a commuter route linking the Valley and Hollywood — and the main road ...Read more

CHICAGO — Chicago Alderman Byron Sigcho-López’s former wife claimed he spent “incredible” amounts of their money on prostitutes and pornography, according to divorce records that were recently unsealed ahead of his reelection campaign launch.

Sigcho-López denied his ex-wife’s allegations Friday. And he alleged the Coalition Opposing...Read more

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva urged Donald Trump to resume negotiations over U.S. tariffs on Brazil during a Friday phone call, seeking to soothe relations with Washington ahead of the country’s October election.

The leftist Lula pushed back on U.S. allegations of unfair trading practices that led to the imposition of 25% tariffs on ...Read more

Hayden Panettiere’s boyfriend Brian Hickerson administered Narcan to the “Heroes” actor on the day she died, according to his brother.

Zach Hickerson told TMZ that his brother Brian tried to revive the 36-year-old star with the nasal spray meant to counter opioid overdoses on Sunday afternoon. It was Zach who reportedly found Panettiere ...Read more

WASHINGTON — White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said she will return to MAGA Inc., the president’s super political action committee, when she leaves her post later this month.

Leavitt told reporters about her plans on Friday as she traveled with President Donald Trump aboard Air Force One to a rally in South Carolina.

Leavitt ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — After months of contentious debate, California lawmakers voted this week to advance a bill to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk that would protect the confidentiality of immigration service providers.

Assembly Bill 2624, authored by Democrat Assemblymember Mia Bonta, would allow immigration service providers to protect ...Read more

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Law enforcement and first responders here have trained for decades on how to track and approach autistic people who have wandered away from their homes. Federal officials could soon use similar tactics nationwide.

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Friday announced federal officials plan to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is weighing President Donald Trump’s claim that his new White House ballroom is urgently needed to protect him, his staff and guests from attacks by drones, terrorists and snipers.

On Friday, with a lower-court order about to go into effect halting construction on the controversial project, Chief Justice John...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Iryna Zarutska’s family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit blaming the city of Charlotte and its contracted light rail security company for the train stabbing death of the 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee one year ago.

Zarutska and her family were living in Charlotte after fleeing the Ukraine war when DeCarlos Brown, Jr. ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A charter aircraft carrying eight people crashed Thursday as it tried to land near a remote radar site on the Bering Sea coast in Southwest Alaska, killing all on board.

The crash occurred as the plane landed at Cape Newenham Long Range Radar Site Airport, authorities said Friday. The remote radar site, one of 15 across ...Read more

DETROIT — Evidence suggests a wanna-be Islamic State terrorist from Dearborn used artificial intelligence to help plan a mass shooting while helping scout targets that included Cedar Point and a Ferndale dance club, according to federal prosecutors.

The allegations emerged during a Friday detention hearing in federal court in Detroit as ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s new plan to temporarily allow more tariff-free foreign beef into the U.S. in an effort to bring down prices has only ramped up tensions with domestic cattle ranchers, who warn the policy could hurt both U.S. producers and consumers.

The backlash comes as Republicans face mounting pressure over the cost ...Read more

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed a bill Thursday that offers greater protections for reproductive and gender-affirming healthcare — both for patients and for providers in the state — by making it a crime to intervene against such care.

The new law strengthens existing reproductive healthcare protections and also broadens them to now ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — A Mexican state governor — wanted by U.S. authorities on charges of collaborating with the notorious Sinaloa cartel — returned to office Friday, more than three months after going on leave following his stunning federal indictment in New York.

Rubén Rocha Moya, governor of the northwestern state of Sinaloa, resumed his ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A once-dismissed lawsuit claiming Charlotte Latin School pushed “politicized curriculum” after the 2020 death of George Floyd has been renewed by the Republican-led N.C. Supreme Court — despite pushback from its Democrat judges.

Parents Nicole and Doug Turpin filed the lawsuit in 2024 saying the south Charlotte private...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to a Trump administration request to temporarily set aside an appellate court ruling that would have stalled above-ground construction on the planned White House ballroom.

The one-sentence order, signed by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., did not provide any explanation for his decision, which...Read more

The National Hurricane Center on Friday began tracking an area of low pressure that has a chance to develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. EDT advisory, the weak area of low pressure was located over the central subtropical Atlantic a few hundred miles east-southeast of Bermuda and is producing ...Read more