LOS ANGELES — Angelenos who miss P-22, a beloved mountain lion who lived in the heart of Los Angeles for more than a decade, will be able to see him again — in bronze — as a statue is set to be unveiled at Griffith Park.

The statue, which was created by Los Angeles-based artist Adam Matano, will live at the Griffith Park Visitors Center, ...Read more

BOSTON — A two-day recount found state Sen. William Brownsberger defeated Daniel Lander, a former senior aide to Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, by 35 votes, and fended off Wu’s bid to oust him from the Senate for killing her tax bill.

Brownsberger, the President pro tempore of the state Senate and a Belmont Democrat who represents parts of ...Read more

OAKLAND, Calif. — Two Oakland Police Department officers with the agency’s helicopter unit were arraigned Thursday on several federal charges, including conspiring to defraud the Federal Aviation Administration.

Brandon Mart and David Mac pleaded not guilty during their first appearance in an Oakland federal courtroom on the charges, which ...Read more

Thousands of Salvadoran immigrants nationwide faced uncertainty after the federal government failed to decide by a Wednesday deadline whether to extend or terminate their longtime temporary protections against deportation.

Those protections, known as temporary protected status, or TPS, allow immigrants to obtain work permits and by Thursday ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — President Donald Trump wants to change mail-in voting procedures before November’s general election, and federal judges deemed a South Carolina absentee voting rule to be unconstitutional and age-discriminatory.

At this point, neither means absentee voting policies will change in South Carolina ahead of the general election...Read more

Haitian officials tasked with receiving migrants deported from the United States were forced to scramble Thursday after what was supposed to be a routine Immigration and Customs Enforcement charter flight turned chaotic.

GlobalX Flight 6122 flight left Alexandria, Louisiana, for South Florida at 7:34 a.m. and was initially supposed to arrive in...Read more

The Trump administration is seeking to revise a federal climate report published three years ago to recast worst-case climate scenarios as implausible and limit their use in federal decision-making.

The White House has proposed an “amendment and clarification” to the findings of the National Climate Assessment 5, published in 2023. National...Read more

Gov. Mike Kehoe remains hopeful that the state can use the gerrymandered map he helped usher in last year, even after other top Republicans conceded that the state must use older maps.

At a ceremonial bill signing in Kansas City on Thursday, Kehoe said he would monitor the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to see whether it restores the ...Read more

Democratic leaders in New Jersey learned Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell was under investigation for alleged inappropriate behavior with women at the same time the public did — from a news report just before Labor Day weekend.

And still it took nearly a week before Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill finally took questions from reporters Wednesday on what ...Read more

California beach communities are expected to see rising sea levels in the coming weeks as El Niño continues to strengthen, with more sand erosion and damage possible, according to new data.

Another El Niño-influenced phenomenon — a "coastally trapped Kelvin wave" — is moving up the coast of Mexico and will soon hit the U.S. West Coast.

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WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court has denied the Trump administration’s request to let the U.S. Postal Service enforce new restrictions for mail-in ballots, handing the Justice Department another setback as it urges the Supreme Court to intervene ahead of the November midterm elections.

The order on Thursday from the 1st U.S. Circuit ...Read more

Hayden Panettiere’s polarizing boyfriend Brian Hickerson is talking with narcotics agents searching for the drug dealer who may have contributed to the 36-year-old star’s death last month.

Hickerson was in the South Carolina apartment where the “Heroes” actor died on Aug. 18. He’s since communicated with the Drug Enforcement Agency, ...Read more

The state’s Legislative Ethics Commission agreed Thursday to a Sept. 30 retirement date for Michael McCuskey as the legislature’s top ethics watchdog and said it plans to move quickly to appoint an acting legislative inspector general who could end up serving the nearly two years remaining in McCuskey’s term.

The commission — made up of...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — A Virginia Beach sailor was pardoned by President Donald Trump last week after spending four years in federal prison for possessing and selling unregistered weapons.

Patrick Tate Adamiak, a former Navy master at arms, was convicted in federal court and sentenced to 20 years in prison.

According to federal prosecutors, a ...Read more

CHICAGO — A federal judge on Thursday denied disability rights advocates’ request to block an Illinois law going into effect this weekend that lets terminally ill patients obtain prescription medication to end their lives.

The ruling came in a federal lawsuit filed earlier this year by two disabled patients, a doctor and several disability ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Lineage, the company that operates a massive cold-storage warehouse in Boyle Heights that recently burned down, says in a new lawsuit that the company operating a solar array on the building’s roof is to blame for the fire.

The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, comes nearly three months after the ...Read more

Amid an oppressive stretch of extreme heat and Florida-esque humidity that has been punishing much of California, consider, for a moment, the Ice Age.

For millions of years, Pacific mastodons — huge, hairy relatives of modern elephants — roamed a vast and lush range that included California, Oregon, the northern Rocky Mountains and parts of...Read more

President Donald Trump on Thursday promised to send $500 rebate checks to an estimated 1 million enrollees in Affordable Care Act health insurance plans, who he says were overcharged when former President Joe Biden was in the White House.

Trump claimed the money would compensate Obamacare enrollees in 30 mostly Republican states for what he ...Read more

BOSTON — Massachusetts’ highest court has issued a public reprimand of state district court Judge Shelley Joseph for her part in the escape from the courthouse of a suspect wanted by ICE in 2018.

“We also acknowledge that the respondent’s conduct here was less severe than other judicial conduct for which we have issued a public ...Read more