SAN DIEGO — In the moments that gunmen opened fire at the Islamic Center of San Diego, the actions of three men staved off an even more extensive tragedy.

Authorities say that, before they were killed, they slowed the shooters, sent out a warning and alerted police, allowing dozens of schoolchildren inside the mosque to scramble for safety. ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — Federico Crespo was tired of President Donald Trump’s bullying. Of his punishing tariffs, his threat to bomb cartels in Mexico and his ruthless campaign against immigrants in the United States.

Crespo was also tired of the American tourists and remote workers who had flooded his native Mexico City, driving up rents, ...Read more

Rice feeds more than half the world. From terraced paddies in Southeast Asia to irrigated fields in China and India, it underpins daily meals for billions of people.

But the same flooded soils that help rice thrive also create ideal conditions for microbes that release climate-warming gases.

In a new study, our team of ...Read more

SANTA ANA, Calif. — Researchers at the University of California, Irvine believe a new public health study they’re helping to run – the first of its size to focus solely on Asian Americans – will help unravel some mysterious and troubling new trends linking race and cancer.

Over the next four years, UCI researchers hope to recruit 1,800 ...Read more

BORREGO SPRINGS, Calif. — A planned high-voltage power line in the San Diego County desert has sparked outrage over its proposed path through the heart of California’s largest state park.

At nearly 650,000 acres, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park is known for its sprawling solitude: miles of lunar rock faces and sandy washes frame spindly ...Read more

When the World Wide Web launched into the public domain in 1993, it came with the great promise of a so-called global village, where people could come together over niche interests and earnest observations. Now, we get algorithms that bombard us with anger-inducing slop.

Hans Lehmann, who is 94 and lives in the artsy little town of Carmel-by-...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Sandy fire is burning near a toxic waste area in the Simi Valley where a partial nuclear meltdown once took place, sparking concerns about the potential for contaminants to be released should the area catch fire.

The Ventura County Fire Department announced Wednesday evening that air quality monitoring is being conducted ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — More than 1,000 Los Angeles school workers are expected to lose their jobs after the Board of Education on Thursday approved layoffs and, separately, after district management quietly terminated the employment of workers without tenure or other union job protections.

The termination of the workers who lack due process job ...Read more

Thousands of people came together to offer traditional Islamic funeral prayers for three men killed by teenage gunmen at the Islamic Center of San Diego on Monday, while a smaller group gathered later in the day to bury them in a National City cemetery.

Such a large crowd of mourners showed up for the Janazah prayer service at a park next to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Sandy fire is burning near a toxic waste area in the Simi Valley where a partial nuclear meltdown once took place, sparking concerns about the potential for contaminants to be released should the area catch fire.

The Ventura County Fire Department announced Wednesday evening that air quality monitoring is being conducted ...Read more

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said she’ll call a referendum on whether the energy-rich province should stay in Canada or start a legal process that could eventually lead to its independence.

The vote will be held Oct. 19 and is a response to a bid by separatist activists to break away from Canada.

A group called Stay Free Alberta tried to...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles City Council signed off on a $15 billion budget for 2026-27 on Thursday, preserving Mayor Karen Bass’ police hiring plan while socking away more money for potential emergencies.

The council voted 12 to 1 to approve Bass’s spending plan, which called for the hiring of 510 Los Angeles Police Department officers...Read more

In hopes of passing new congressional districts in the state before South Carolinians start going to the polls, senators are planning a key procedural vote to accelerate debate.

But that vote to invoke cloture early on a White House-backed congressional map requires a two-thirds majority, as questions remain on whether enough senators in the ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani is moving forward with an expansion of New York City’s curriculum reforms started under ex-Mayor Eric Adams, including changes to how math is taught in elementary schools and reading in high schools, he said Thursday.

Mamdani and his schools chancellor, Kamar Samuels, announced the next phase of the two ...Read more

Iran said the latest proposal from the United States partly bridged the gap between the warring sides but comments from the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader about keeping Tehran’s uranium stockpile and a dispute over tolls in the Strait of Hormuz clouded the outlook for a breakthrough.

Tehran is in the process of responding to a text ...Read more

DETROIT — A University of Michigan student claimed in a lawsuit that school officials, police and private security contractors retaliated against and surveilled him after he took part in "pro-Palestinian speech and advocacy" on campus.

The lawsuit, filed Thursday in the U.S. Eastern District of Michigan, detailed how Josiah Walker, a Black ...Read more

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — A Newport News judge on Thursday granted a motion to strike the criminal case against a former Richneck Elementary School assistant principal — tossing all eight felony charges against her before the jury got the case.

Circuit Court Judge Rebecca M. Robinson ruled that prosecutors failed to prove that Ebony J. Parker’s...Read more

One of the teenagers accused of carrying out a deadly shooting at a California mosque was flagged by the FBI as a potential threat last year, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Caleb Vazquez was the subject of a 2025 FBI eGuardian alert. Authorities say Vazquez, 18, and Cain Clark, 17, on Monday killed three men, including a ...Read more