LOS ANGELES — The winter season has brought cold and wet conditions that are perfect for fungi like death cap mushrooms, or Amanita phalloides, to grow in California, experts say, but with that has come a rash of people mistakenly eating them thinking they're safe.

So far this year, at least 23 people have been sickened by eating death cap ...Read more

Madison County, tucked in the mountains of western North Carolina, has no hospital and just three ambulances serving its roughly 22,000 people.

The ambulances frequently travel back and forth to Mission Hospital in Asheville, the largest and most central hospital in the region. Trips can take more than two hours, according to Mark Snelson, ...Read more

Five months after joining the U.S. Senate, Adam Schiff delivered a floor speech on what he called "the top 10 deals for Donald Trump and the worst deals for the American people."

Schiff spoke of Trump and his family getting rich off cryptocurrency and cutting new development deals across the Middle East, and of the president accepting a free ...Read more

Kamala Harris’ team is shooting down speculation that the former vice president is again considering a run for California governor next year, after she announced in July that she would not.

Fueled by polls showing a weak Democratic field of gubernatorial candidates, political circles were abuzz this week that Harris, the former Democratic ...Read more

Minneapolis leaders stood in silence as they watched footage of Mubashir, a Somali American, getting slammed against a metal door and put in a chokehold in the snow by federal immigration agents.

The security and bystander video of the arrest in the city’s Cedar Riverside neighborhood was shown at a Wednesday press conference, where Mayor ...Read more

Two prominent California higher education institutions said Wednesday they have reached settlement agreements with Jewish groups or individuals who filed complaints about alleged antisemitism stemming from pro-Palestinian campus protests in 2023 and 2024.

UC Berkeley said it agreed to pay an Israeli sociologist and dance researcher $60,000 for...Read more

Eight students on the Anaheim High School track team have been transported to a hospital after a man plowed into the group while they were on a practice run, authorities said.

The car veered off the road and hit the students while they were waiting for a light to change at the southwestern corner of Harbor Boulevard and North Street in Anaheim ...Read more

Eight students on the Anaheim High School track team have been transported to a hospital after a man plowed into the group while they were on a practice run, authorities said.

The car veered off the road and hit the students while they were waiting for a light to change at the southwestern corner of Harbor Boulevard and North Street in Anaheim ...Read more

CAMP MURRAY, Wash. — Gov. Bob Ferguson declared a state of emergency Wednesday, called in the National Guard and said he is requesting assistance from the federal government following historic flooding that continues in Western Washington this week.

The governor made the announcement during a news conference at the state emergency operations ...Read more

Eight students on the Anaheim High School track team have been transported to a hospital after a man plowed into the group while they were on a practice run, authorities said.

The car veered off the road and hit the students while they were waiting for a light to change at the southwestern corner of Harbor Boulevard and North Street in Anaheim ...Read more

Nearly eight years later, President Trump has finally confirmed reports that he referred to Haiti and African nations as “s–thole countries” during a private 2018 meeting with lawmakers.

Trump adamantly claimed at the time that he hadn’t used the vulgar phrase. Republican surrogates, including former Georgia Sen. David Perdue and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Almost 400 people pardoned or granted clemency by President Donald Trump in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol are now seeking millions of dollars in payouts from the federal government, according to their lawyer.

Attorney Mark McCloskey on Wednesday delivered hundreds of claims in person, wheeling a ...Read more

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Three hundred Illinois National Guard troops remain under Republican President Donald Trump’s control roughly a week after an initial 60-day federal activation order expired, continuing a clash over his unprecedented decision to seize authority over state soldiers who have spent almost their entire time confined to a base...Read more

An Idaho man who died of rabies passed the virus to another man through a kidney transplant, marking the fourth known instance in the country in nearly half a century where rabies was transmitted from an organ donor to a recipient.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday, Dec. 4, that the Idaho man was in an outbuilding...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signaled he’ll oppose a Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. deal that doesn’t include new ownership of CNN, a potential wrinkle for the bid from Netflix Inc.

“I think any deal should — it should be guaranteed and certain that CNN is part of it or sold separately,” Trump said during a meeting with business...Read more

CHICAGO — Aldermen officially threw their budget cards on the table Wednesday by introducing their own 2026 package to the City Council, the clearest sign yet they believe they don’t need Mayor Brandon Johnson to solve the current impasse on next year’s spending plan.

The high-stakes game of chicken between the freshman mayor and his ...Read more

U.S. forces seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, President Donald Trump said Wednesday, in the latest escalation in a widening U.S. campaign of military and law-enforcement pressure on the Nicolás Maduro regime.

Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump described the vessel as “a large tanker, very large, largest one ever ...Read more

NEW YORK — Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Kaz Daughtry, who had a meteoric rise in city government under Mayor Adams but attracted his share of criticism, as well, put in his papers Wednesday to retire from the Police Department, with an effective date of Jan. 8, police records show.

Daughtry, who was still technically a detective on loan ...Read more