LOS ANGELES — At the federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles late Monday, several green card holders arrested in a crackdown on alleged California voter fraud expressed confusion over the charges — with some saying they had no recollection of registering to vote, as Trump administration officials accuse them of doing.

Among them was Ana ...Read more

PARK CITY, Kan. — President Donald Trump on Monday urged Kansas voters to reelect U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall in a wide-ranging speech that largely attacked Democrats and faced opposition from several protesters.

Trump appeared at a rally supporting Marshall at Heartland Credit Union Arena in Park City, a suburb of Wichita, as Republicans look ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A ban on cellphones in Pennsylvania schools is one step closer to becoming law, after House lawmakers on Monday passed a bill that would require all schools to bar students from using phones throughout the school day.

The bill, which passed the Democratic-led House 141-62, now heads to the Republican-led Senate for final ...Read more

NEW YORK — Cops are looking for a group of vandals who took a drill to a bank of One Metro New York, or OMNY, readers at a Brooklyn subway station, apparently as a political protest.

The subway sabotage took place some time before 11:30 a.m. last Wednesday, cops said, when a transit worker discovered seven mangled OMNY readers at the Church ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As fires and high tides batter Malibu, Nicolas Cage is working to rescue his oceanfront home from a different threat: a sinkhole.

The actor has secured four permits to repair damage caused by a massive, expanding sinkhole the opened up Sept. 8 outside his home on Sea Level Drive, city records show. The repair work calls for ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — A new law inspired by the potential release from prison of Santana High School shooter Charles “Andy” Williams will now give judges more say over whether a former teenager charged with murder as an adult but eligible for resentencing should have their case heard in juvenile or adult court.

Assembly Bill 1959, signed into law ...Read more

DETROIT — All three wildfires burning in Michigan's Upper Peninsula are now at least 50% contained, state officials said Monday.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources also announced that it had lifted the evacuation warning for residents living near one of the blazes.

Since Oct. 11, residents on North Basin Drive in Marquette County ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers in both parties are assailing President Donald Trump for a series of decisions this month that critics say ally the U.S. government with the Kremlin amid its ongoing war on Ukraine, now in its fifth year.

In the last 10 days, the U.S. government:

—Announced a six-month waiver of sanctions on purchases of Russian ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Wildlife officials euthanized a coyote in Atwater Village after a reported attack on a 16-month-old child and months of complaints from residents that the animal had become dangerously comfortable around people.

California Department of Fish and Wildlife officers responded to the 3300 block of Glenhurst Avenue on Friday after ...Read more

Oysters linked to a salmonella outbreak that has reached at least 12 states were distributed to at least 15 states and the District of Columbia, according to Monday’s FDA and CDC update on the outbreak.

Here’s more information on the outbreak and the oysters.

What oysters have been recalled?

Little Wicomico Oyster Company has recalled ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Federal authorities have charged 28 people from across California with illegally registering to vote or casting ballots in federal elections despite not being U.S. citizens — again escalating an election battle between the state and the Trump administration just weeks before the Nov. 3 midterms.

Authorities said 11 of the 28 ...Read more

WICHITA, Kan. — A Kansas man is facing federal charges, accused of making threats on social media to shoot U.S. President Donald Trump under TV news posts about his political rally Monday in Park City.

Federal prosecutors say a Crime Stoppers tip Thursday led authorities to investigate the Facebook posts from 24-year-old Jaden John Read, of ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — A federal judge declined to block North Carolina’s new mail-in ballot rules from taking effect, ruling that it would be “infeasible” to do so since voting has already begun.

U.S. District Judge Thomas Schroeder, an appointee of President George W. Bush, issued the 72-page ruling Monday evening — less than a week after ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Mexico has found a temporary use for a new customs facility in Tijuana that was built as part of the future Otay Mesa East Port of Entry project while the U.S. finishes construction on its side of the border in San Diego.

On Monday, the facility began serving as the access point for certain commercial cargo trucks waiting to cross...Read more

NEW YORK — In a day of emotional testimony, a Brooklyn woman accused of getting military training from ISIS told jurors about how her controlling father spirited her and her family into ISIS-controlled territory in Syria at age 17, and forced her into a subservient arranged marriage at age 18.

Dressed in a blue hijab, her face uncovered, and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he would be willing to meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping but indicated his focus would be on denuclearization efforts rather than ending the war in Ukraine.

“I would do it — not so much for Ukraine, because Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine,” Trump ...Read more

As President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice pushed for sweeping actions on a list of nearly 20,000 alleged noncitizen voters, election experts argued its much more limited prosecutions suggested Trump’s DOJ failed to find anything like the scale of fraud it claimed.

The DOJ sued California Secretary of State Shirley Weber and Los ...Read more