WASHINGTON — In a blow to the Trump administration’s deregulatory agenda, a federal appeals court on Friday rejected the Environmental Protection Agency’s attempt to roll back soot pollution standards set in 2024.

The decision upholds the tightened National Ambient Air Quality Standards for small particulates, called PM2.5, set by former ...Read more

BOSTON — Fired Trooper Michael Proctor sat for at least the beginning of his deposition, but many more depositions are — tentatively — lined up in the wrongful death suit against Karen Read and a couple of Canton bars.

“Sounds like we’re trying but we’re not getting very far,” Judge Mark Gildea said in the middle of a short ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Areas of San Bernardino, Kern, Inyo and Tulare counties are under a red flag warning until 11 p.m. Saturday as forecasters warn that strong winds and critically low humidity are generating dangerous fire weather conditions.

The warning went into effect at 11 a.m. Friday and covers Death Valley National Park, the Mojave Desert, ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Rep. Ro Khanna slammed Gov. Gavin Newsom’s national tax proposal on Friday, accusing the fellow Democrat of being a “cheerleader for the billionaire class” by refusing to back a proposed wealth tax on California’s billionaires.

The two California Democrats and rumored 2028 presidential hopefuls are on opposite ...Read more

CARACAS, Venezuela — The death toll from twin earthquakes in Venezuela was approaching 1,000 Friday as relief workers from across the globe arrived to search for survivors trapped in the rubble and provide desperately needed assistance to a reeling nation.

“Time is the enemy,” said Los Angeles County Fire Chief Anthony C. Marrone. “We ...Read more

TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel, Lebanon and the United States reached an initial trilateral framework agreement aimed at paving the way for ending the conflict between the two countries and ultimately reaching a peace settlement, a senior Israeli official said Friday.

Israel will maintain a “security zone” along the boundaries of the yellow ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Homicide rates and other serious crime in Kentucky have dropped statewide, according to a new crime data report from Kentucky State Police.

Released Thursday, the 2025 Crime in Kentucky Report details crimes in Kentucky, the occurrence by county, and the rate compared to previous years’ reports.

For the last four years, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The United States attacked Iran one day after Tehran struck a commercial ship in the Strait of Hormuz, an exchange that threatened to break the fragile ceasefire between the two countries.

U.S. Central Command said that American aircraft on Friday hit Iranian missile and drone storage sites as well as coastal radar installations...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A mistrial was declared Friday in the federal trial of a 30-year-old former Uber driver accused of setting what would become the most destructive wildfire in Los Angeles history.

Jonathan Rinderknecht was on trial for destruction of property by means of fire, arson affecting property used in interstate commerce and timber set ...Read more

NEW YORK — A vandal carved a swastika onto the hood of a woman’s Tesla parked on NYC’s Upper East Side — and cops suspect an Israeli flag in the car’s back seat prompted the attack.

The victim parked the car on East 85th Street near First Avenue around 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, only to return around 9 a.m. the following morning to find ...Read more

The European Union is one of the few foreign donors that provides direct budget support to Haiti’s government. Now after years of relying on that traditional model of assistance, European countries are seeking to redefine the relationship by introducing the bloc’s flagship global investment initiative to Haiti and its entrepreneurs.

“Here...Read more

NEW YORK — A vandal carved a swastika onto the hood of a woman’s Tesla parked on NYC’s Upper East Side — and cops suspect an Israeli flag in the car’s back seat prompted the attack.

The victim parked the car on East 85th Street near First Avenue around 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, only to return around 9 a.m. the following morning to find ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Idling trucks, sandbag piles and large metal trailers stationed around a massive cold storage facility that burned for days in Boyle Heights signaled that the work to clean up millions of pounds of spoiled food and burned debris had begun Friday morning.

The smells that have wafted through the neighborhood since June 17 — fire...Read more

MIAMI — Last summer, environmental groups and advocates protested as construction trucks brought in generators, chain-link fences and fuel tanks for the construction of Alligator Alcatraz.

On Friday, they gathered again outside the gates of the now-closed, controversial Everglades detention center. This time, the trucks left with white ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — By all accounts, Mossbrae Falls, the forbidden waterfall of Northern California, is exquisite.

Fed by snowmelt from the slopes of nearby Mount Shasta, it cascades from lava tubes and porous, moss-covered volcanic cliffs, plunging into the Sacramento River and forming a curtain of mist that generates its own rainbows.

The ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Trump administration has initiated a new review of the California Coastal Commission and other powerful coastal watchdogs — a move that several state leaders and environmental activists worry could undermine the state's authority to protect its treasured coastline.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick recently ordered ...Read more

Two Supreme Court rulings in June 2026 reinforced the trend toward broad gun rights under the Second Amendment, overriding attempts to limit concealed carry and to punish the ownership of guns by drug users.

The ruling in the concealed carry case, Wolford v. Lopez, was no surprise. It followed the expected 6-3 division of the ...Read more

The earthquakes that struck Venezuela Wednesday have become the first major political test for acting President Delcy Rodríguez, with the disaster quickly evolving into a contest over competence.

By Friday afternoon, the official death toll had risen to nearly 1,000, and authorities reported nearly 3,400 injured people. More than 200 ...Read more