Nick Reiner is still fighting to get access to his family trust from behind bars.

“Nick still has not been able to access even $5 from his trust to buy basic subsistence items from the jail commissary,” Reiner’s attorneys Anita Wu and Geoffrey Neri wrote in court filings, obtained by PEOPLE. They further noted that Reiner’s efforts to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A 34-year-old man was arrested this week after he pepper-sprayed another moviegoer at a Burbank AMC theater for using a cellphone during a film, police said.

Lt. Brent Fekety, a Burbank Police spokesman, said officers were summoned about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday to the AMC 16 theater, which is nestled in the middle of the bustling ...Read more

Oil and liquefied natural gas shipments through the Strait of Hormuz in the past two weeks reached the highest level in six months, signaling that U.S. naval protection and mine clearance efforts are “paying off,” a regional U.S. commander said.

“Clearly, momentum is building,” Admiral Brad Cooper, head of U.S. Central Command, said in ...Read more

A federal judge in California has sentenced a former Syrian prison warden to 60 years for torturing inmates and lying to immigration officials to get into the United States.

A jury convicted Samir Ousman Alsheikh, 74, in March of conspiracy to commit torture, three counts of torture, one count of visa fraud and one count of attempted ...Read more

A Tesla’s driver was pulled over for apparently sleeping at the wheel on Interstate 80 in Solano County, the California Highway Patrol said.

Because California’s vehicle code has no specific law against that, he was cited for “unsafe speed.”

“What’s the safe speed for being asleep? Zero miles per hour,” said Scott Heitman, an ...Read more

Washington's public-sector unions are throwing down millions of dollars to keep the state's new high-earners income tax in place and fight an initiative seeking to repeal it.

The Washington Education Association plopped $2 million last week into the campaign against Initiative 645, bringing its total to $3 million and making the teachers union ...Read more

Dan Walters describes working for The Sacramento Bee several decades ago as "like living in Sweden."

The newspaper had a bustling office in California's capital replete with a cafeteria, a gas station, a credit union, and a medical clinic, where staff could get their vaccinations and seek care for typing-related hand injuries, recalls the ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — For months, a sizable group of University of California professors has been demanding the reinstatement of standardized test requirements in the undergraduate admissions policy. Their main reason? A widening gap in mathematics ability among students in their classrooms.

New data presented at the UC Board of Regents ...Read more

Voting by mail remains an option for the upcoming November elections, but recent efforts by the Trump administration to tighten mail-in requirements have left questions among some voters, particularly U.S. military and overseas citizens who rely on the method.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday blocked a new U.S. Postal Service rule that would ...Read more

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and China’s Vice Premier He Lifeng will lead talks on trade and other pressure points Sunday in New York ahead of next week’s summit between the leaders of the world’s two biggest economies.

The negotiators will lay the groundwork for a high-profile meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he would name an artificial intelligence czar as he continued to push tech companies to race ahead with development despite growing fears safety.

He rejected concerns that the quickly evolving technology may pose risks to humans as a hoax, comparing it to the alarm over climate change and the scandals that led to his...Read more

Carrot Top, the mop-topped prop comedian who has entertained audiences since the early 1990s, was taken to a Las Vegas hospital after an apparent suicide attempt, according to a report by TMZ.

In a statement to the entertainment website, a representative for the 61-year-old entertainer — whose real name is Scott Thompson — said that he was ...Read more

Carrot Top has been hospitalized following an alleged suicide attempt, according to a report.

The comedian, whose real name is Scott Thompson, was rushed to the hospital ahead of his performance at the Luxor Hotel & Casino on Friday night, TMZ reported, citing sources. His show, part of his long-running Vegas residency, was canceled as a result...Read more

WASHINGTON — MS NOW, CNN and Politico said their journalists were denied access to the White House grounds on Saturday after President Donald Trump said he would bar the outlets.

CNN called the move “an illegal assault” on the constitutional rights of news organizations to report without hindrance from government and all three outlets ...Read more

In a conservative win, campus members of an education advocacy organization may refer to transgender people using names and pronouns that are not consistent with that individual's gender identity, according to a federal court ruling that restricts University of California anti-harassment policies.

The ruling issued by U.S. District Judge Fred W...Read more

Tropical Depression Six formed in the far eastern Atlantic on Saturday, according to the National Hurricane Center.

As of the NHC’s initial 11 a.m. advisory, the center of the storm was located about 525 miles southwest of the Azores, moving north at 2 mph with maximum sustained winds of 35 mph.

“This system is expected to generally move ...Read more

Public health officials are sounding the alarm after an unvaccinated Amtrak passenger who traveled across the U.S., including a stop at Union Station last weekend, was hospitalized with measles.

The person traversed the state on trains and thruway buses with transfers in six counties: Alameda, Butte, Kern, Los Angeles, Sacramento and San ...Read more

Vice President JD Vance plans to visit Greensboro on Monday for a midterm rally as Republicans seek to hold control of the state’s open U.S. Senate seat.

Senate candidate Michael Whatley welcomed Vance’s visit in a social media post on Friday, writing “North Carolina needs a fighter in the Senate who will stand with VP Vance and President...Read more

Oil and liquefied natural gas shipments through the Strait of Hormuz in the past two weeks reached the highest level in six months, signaling that U.S. naval protection and mine clearance efforts are “paying off,” a regional U.S. commander said.

“Clearly, momentum is building,” Admiral Brad Cooper, head of U.S. Central Command, said in ...Read more

The U.S., Denmark and Greenland struck a security deal that expands Washington’s role on the Arctic island, ending for now a long-running diplomatic spat without ceding land to the U.S.

President Donald Trump said Friday that his administration had reached an agreement handing the U.S. “permanent control over security” in Greenland. ...Read more