Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ordered attacks on Russian oil refineries to resume in a spiraling confrontation with Donald Trump over restrictions on U.S. intelligence assistance.

Zelenskyy said he’s ending a three-day pause on strikes in response to the U.S. president’s call on Sunday for an “energy ceasefire” after he ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Former Gov. Matt Bevin was not present for a court hearing in his child support and divorce case Thursday, the first one since his arrest for contempt of court, but his attorneys appeared to make arguments on his behalf.

The case could reach a resolution soon, but the judge in the case is requesting more information before ...Read more

Two women have filed a federal civil lawsuit accusing former Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz and two others of participating in an alleged sex trafficking scheme involving young women, drugs and traveling across state lines.

The allegations are the latest chapter in Gaetz’s high-profile sex scandal that ultimately derailed his nomination by ...Read more

MIAMI — A U.S. Coast Guard cutter crew offloaded tens of thousands of pounds of cocaine and almost 4,000 pounds of marijuana Wednesday that were seized during an anti-smuggling tour off South and Central America.

The Cutter Tampa’s crew returned to Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale ferrying 29,600 pounds of cocaine and 2,355 pounds of ...Read more

MIAMI — As Miami’s mayor uses her political war chest to urge voters to approve new borrowing for city police and fire stations, those dollars are coming from developers, city vendors and Airbnb.

The Miami Herald tallied PAC donations for Mayor Eileen Higgins since she took office in December. She’s raised about $525,000 in nine months ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — This year's state test scores provided a mixed send-off for the education legacy of Gov. Gavin Newsom, with incremental gains in English and math, but results that continue to fall short of prepandemic achievement levels.

A clear marker of this mixed picture is English language arts: The percent of students scoring proficient or...Read more

The United Nations Security Council has renewed travel bans, asset freezes and arms embargo measures for Haiti for another year, but added no new names to its sanctions blacklist, despite a damning report detailing allegations of political figures’ involvement in fueling the country’s deadly gang crisis.

The council also extended the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County voters are concerned about a host of voter fraud issues that could disrupt the Nov. 3 general election, even though they have a high degree of confidence in local elections officials, according to a new poll funded by the nonprofit California Community Foundation.

Nearly three-quarters of respondents expressed...Read more

Nearly 50 million Americans ages 18 to 29 are eligible to vote in the upcoming midterm elections, and about 60% say they plan to. If they follow through, it would break midterm turnout records for voters under 30.

Gun control is an issue these young voters care about more than the public at large does, and it’s easy to understand ...Read more

With Election Day 2026 just weeks away and control of Congress hanging in the balance, the results will almost certainly hinge on voter turnout, just as they did in 2024.

Given that genuinely undecided voters are scarce — as little as 5% to 7% of the electorate, according to major polls — both Democrats and Republicans must look ...Read more

Former Cornell student Jane Doe, who filed a civil lawsuit in September 2026 alleging that seven fraternity members raped her at a party, said the young men who assaulted her pressured her into taking the drug ketamine.

As an emergency room physician, medical toxicologist and the head of student health services at the University of ...Read more

Americans who trust science and reason more than their churches’ teachings, but still believe in God or attend services, are also more likely to believe in magic than those who prioritize religious teachings.

This was the central finding of a study my co-authors and I published in the journal Social Forces in July 2026. We analyzed ...Read more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has ordered attacks on Russian oil refineries to resume in a spiraling confrontation with Donald Trump over restrictions on U.S. intelligence assistance.

Zelenskyy said he’s ending a three-day pause on strikes in response to the U.S. president’s call on Sunday for an “energy ceasefire” after he ...Read more

JOSHUA TREE, Calif. — Rescue dogs Merlin and Siska are readying for an important mission out in the Mojave Desert: find animal poop.

As the fall brings cooler temperatures, the pups will trot among the Joshua trees wearing orange vests, “doggles” to shield their eyes from the sun and booties to protect them from the prickly cholla cacti....Read more

The pitch behind California’s billionaire tax proposal is simple: Tax the richest residents in the nation’s wealthiest state to offset steep federal cuts to healthcare, food assistance, and education.

But if approved by voters in November, it’s unclear how much money the ballot initiative would raise, how quickly the funding would become ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — When a county judge put the brakes on what would be the largest data center in California, ruling the whole project needed extensive environmental review, Kristian Salgado was relieved.

The community organizer lives in Imperial County, where the nearly one-million-square-foot facility was proposed. The rural county near the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The woman didn’t have much time to talk.

Speaking in Mandarin, she told a police dispatcher she was being held against her will in a Sun Valley home. She pleaded for officers to arrive quickly. If her captors caught her using a phone, she said she’d be beaten.

The call for help in 2024 ended up pulling back the curtain on ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In 2019, two years before Guojun Xuan and Silvia Zhang began amassing a family of more than 20 surrogate children, Zhang was accused of misdemeanor child abuse after leaving her then-8-year-old daughter in a hot car for hours.

That case — detailed in a recent motion by prosecutors opposing bail for the couple and a ...Read more