The relationship between the United States and Israel has been a tight embrace almost ever since the founding of the Jewish-led state 76 years ago.

Israel has relied on U.S. money, weapons and global diplomatic defense to survive and thrive. Until recently, the support was unflagging from a bipartisan core of Congress and American politicians, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- When he got home from work early on a Sunday afternoon in March, Alex Gutierrez called for his youngest daughter and smiled as she popped out of her room to greet him.

She was usually buoyant and effusive, but this time she really hammed it up, hugging and kissing the case of Propel Fitness Water he'd brought home from the store....Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s abortion rate rose last year to its highest level in a decade as state legislation made it easier to get an abortion and thousands of people from states with abortion bans sought medical care here, new data show.

California health care professionals provided about 178,400 legal abortions in 2023, up by ...Read more

For two years, Serhii and Yulia Marchenko tried to ride out the war in Ukraine. Along with their six children — the youngest now only 7 months old — they hoped to stay in the home they built in central Ukraine. Before the war, Serhii had planted grapes in their front yard, and a large garden and greenhouse full of potatoes and other ...Read more

When doctors began using the drug sotorasib in 2021 with high expectations for its innovative approach to attacking lung cancer, retired medical technician Don Crosslin was an early beneficiary. Crosslin started the drug that July. His tumors shrank, then stabilized.

But while the drug has helped keep him alive, its side effects have gradually ...Read more

Preventing people who are not United States citizens from casting a ballot has reemerged as a focal point in the ongoing Republican drive to safeguard “election integrity,” even though noncitizens are rarely involved in voter fraud.

Ahead of November’s presidential election, congressional and state Republican lawmakers are aiming to keep ...Read more

President Joe Biden spent his Earth Day in a national forest this year with an explicit pitch to young people: a climate jobs corps intended to excite Gen Z the way John F. Kennedy's Peace Corps inspired their grandparents.

Biden took a selfie with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the progressive New York Democrat, to remind voters that he was ...Read more

One of the most iconic buildings in Key West, built by Cuban exiles in the 19th century as they fought for independence from Spain and now a Cuban heritage center, is in the midst of a legal battle over its ownership.

The surprising question at the heart of the litigation: Whether the San Carlos Institute, on Key West’s storied Duval Street, ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — A former Nevada congressional candidate pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to a murder charge in connection with the death of an Idaho man he is accused of fatally injuring in a Strip hotel room.

Late last month, a grand jury indicted Daniel Rodimer, 45, a former pro wrestler who ran for Nevada’s 3rd congressional district in 2020....Read more

ATLANTA — Emory University’s undergraduate students voted in favor of a no confidence resolution of its president, Gregory L. Fenves, the school’s student government association announced Wednesday.

About 3,400 of Emory’s 8,100 undergraduate students voted on the referendum. Of those who voted, 2,499 voted in favor of the motion, 844 ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The body that represents the University of Southern California's faculty voted on Wednesday to censure the university’s president, Carol Folt, and provost, Andrew Guzman, citing both leaders’ mishandling of events around commencement.

In the USC Academic Senate’s vote, 21 members favored censuring the president and provost...Read more

LAS VEGAS — A California high roller who says he was drugged while playing blackjack in a private Las Vegas Strip gaming salon has doubled a reward to $1 million for information leading to an arrest.

Dwight Manley, a California real estate executive and sports agent with high-roller status at MGM Resorts International, sued the company after ...Read more

WASHINGTON — An overwhelmingly bipartisan coalition put a stop to U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s effort Wednesday to remove Mike Johnson as House speaker.

The vote to table the Rome Republican’s motion to vacate was 359 in favor and 43 opposed. Greene and 10 other Republicans voted against the motion to table. So did 32 Democrats, ...Read more

BOSTON — The state Republican Party is calling for an investigation into Democratic Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s “clear-cut violation” of public finance rules in mixing campaign funds and City Hall resources for a private “electeds of color” holiday party.

The mayor’s office, however, vehemently denied assertions of wrongdoing in ...Read more

The Boston City Council duked it out over two resolutions that sought to show its support for the local Jewish community and denounce antisemitism, but only one was ultimately approved over the objections of a councilor forced to withdraw his.

The resolution adopted Wednesday, via a 12-0 vote, recognizes Jewish American Heritage Month, and ...Read more

NEW YORK — Cops on Wednesday released images of one of the protesters they say vandalized a 121-year-old statue in Central Park.

A group splintered off from a large demonstration near the Metropolitan Museum of Art during the Met Gala on Monday evening and headed south down Fifth Ave., the Daily News previously reported.

At 59th St., members...Read more

LOS ANGELES — City and law enforcement officials in San Bernardino County say they are outraged after dozens of death row inmates were transferred from San Quentin State Prison to Chino.

In a series of press conferences and public statements over the last two weeks, San Bernardino County and Chino officials have called for Gov. Gavin Newsom's...Read more

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the U.S. has paused the supply of “high-payload” munitions to Israel over concerns about a potential military offensive on the Gazan city of Rafah.

The delivery was supposed to contain 3,500 bombs, split roughly evenly between 2,000-pound (907-kilogram) and 500-pound explosives, according to a senior ...Read more

NEW YORK — A man identified as a cousin of Rabbi Meir Kahane — the controversial founder of the Jewish Defense League assassinated in a Manhattan hotel — has been arrested for ramming his car into a pro-Palestinian protester on the Upper East Side.

Reuven Kahane, a 57-year-old real estate developer, was arrested at Park Ave. and E. 72nd ...Read more