SEATTLE — As Western Washington reels from catastrophic flooding that swept the areas along major river valleys, another plume of moisture will arrive on Sunday, according to the National Weather Service.

An atmospheric river rolled into the region Monday, bringing devastating floods to several areas and hitting communities along the Nooksack...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Frigid ocean water off Sonoma County wasn't the only thing sending a chill down the spine of a surfer riding the waves on Friday.

The surfer was paddling in the water off North Salmon Creek, roughly 300 yards from shore, about 8 a.m. when a shark bit his hand. The surfer's injuries were not considered life threatening, according...Read more

European officials are growing concerned that an emerging U.S.-brokered peace deal in Ukraine could be exploited by Russia, paving the way for a reinvasion of territory in the war-battered nation’s eastern Donbas region.

The fear, a main sticking point in recent talks, is that the U.S. plan for a demilitarized zone would give the Kremlin ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York City is poised for a wintry glow-up overnight, with several inches of snow forecast to fall across the five boroughs as Christmas draws ever near.

While Saturday started off unseasonably warm — with highs hitting the low 40s — temperatures are expected to dip just enough by late evening, setting the stage for a snowy ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado criminal justice advocates are viewing the U.S. Department of Justice investigation into the state’s adult prisons and juvenile detention centers with a healthy dose of skepticism, hoping the Trump administration will conduct a thorough probe while wondering whether the entire announcement amounts to little more than a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Towering granite spires whiz by in the background, and Joseph Brambila howls with delight, in a YouTube video he shot of himself sliding on his butt down a steep, snowy slope on the upper reaches of Mount Whitney.

When he loses control and wipes out — repeatedly — it looks like he’s tumbling inside a snow globe.

He has ...Read more

A group of 19 states sued the Trump administration to block a $100,000 fee for any new applications for H-1B visas, which allow employers in the U.S. to hire skilled foreign workers.

The mostly Democrat-led states argue in the suit filed Friday that the fee creates a costly and illegal barrier for employers to use the popular visa program, ...Read more

Almost a half-mile below the surface of Monterey Bay, California, scientists recently recorded rare footage of a seven-arm octopus— only the fourth time the same research team has spotted the species in about four decades.

In a new video posted online, scientists with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute shared footage of the giant ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis residents noticed a new strategy in the ongoing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, OR ICE, operation in the Twin Cities this week: helicopters flying overhead.

In an emailed statement, a Customs and Border Protection spokesperson confirmed the agency’s aircraft are “supporting federal law enforcement partners ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Months of tension between Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and members of the City Council burst into public view Friday when the council rebuffed the mayor's request to significantly increase police hiring.

The face-off between the mayor and some council members has been brewing since the council voted in May as part of the city ...Read more

Public speakers at Maryland’s final redistricting hearing overwhelmingly backed Democratic efforts to redraw the state’s congressional map, but written testimony submitted to the state tells a sharply different story.

Gov. Wes Moore’s redistricting commission held its last virtual public listening session Friday, where Maryland voters ...Read more

U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff is headed to Europe to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders this weekend in Berlin, according to The Wall Street Journal, as part of President Donald Trump’s push for a peace deal.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and other European leaders, including U.K Prime Minister Keir Starmer, had ...Read more

SpaceX has authorized an insider share sale that values Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite maker at about $800 billion, according to a company message seen by Bloomberg on Friday.

The company also said it’s preparing for a possible public offering in 2026, a deal aimed at funding an “insane flight rate” for its developmental Starship ...Read more

MIAMI — Radio Mambí — the iconic Miami station long considered a pillar of the Cuban exile community — will go off the air as we know it on Friday at 11:59 p.m. For more than four decades, it served as a gathering place for news about Miami and Cuba, and as a forum where listeners called in to share their problems, complaints, sorrows and...Read more

The Trump administration is ending the family-reunification parole programs for Cuba, Haiti and six other Latin American countries in another blow to legal migration from the region.

The Department of Homeland Security “is terminating all categorical family reunification parole programs for aliens from Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, ...Read more

OAKLAND, Calif. — The Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland proposed a new $242 million settlement with hundreds of parishioners who claim they were sexually abused for years at the hands of local clergy, a plan that drew immediate pushback from the victims’ attorneys, who say it doesn’t go far enough.

The proposal, filed Thursday in U.S. ...Read more