A Ryanair Boeing 737 NG plane flying from Greece to Germany turned back for an emergency landing after an issue with its right engine, a cabin decompression event and a broken passenger window, according to safety regulators and the airline.

The Ryanair flight from Thessaloniki, Greece, to Memmingen, Germany, made an emergency landing Friday ...Read more

A new rule proposed by the White House Office of Management and Budget would fundamentally overhaul the way federal grants are awarded and overseen — a sweeping change that one scientific society said "would all but end the use of scientific merit in the selection of grants and programs across the government."

Proposed in late May, the rule ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A year before a massive fire at a Boyle Heights cold storage building sent polluted smoke into surrounding communities, the operator of the facility came to Los Angeles City Hall with a request.

Lineage asked about removing an emergency shutdown switch from the solar panels on the roof of the structure, according to the Los ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday night removed the remaining members of a federal commission intended to assist with federal elections, amid his broader effort to control voting procedures and election administration.

Trump fired Chair Thomas Hicks and Benjamin Hovland from the Election Assistance Commission, while Republican ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — A woman who authorities say married more than a dozen men in Las Vegas to fund her gambling has agreed to plead guilty to two felonies.

Jiaying Chen, 33, waived her right to a preliminary hearing during an appearance before Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Rebecca Saxe on Tuesday.

Chen’s attorney, Thomas Wells, said she plans to ...Read more

The 2026 midterms are here, and negative campaign messaging is flooding screens across the U.S. In Texas’ Senate race, Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton’s comments about Democratic Texas Rep. James Talarico have gone viral.

Rather than simply suggesting Talarico is weak on border security or inflation economics, Paxton’s ...Read more

Andy Burnham will replace Keir Starmer as Britain’s next prime minister, after securing the support of enough Labour MPs to prevent a rival challenger.

Burnham received a formal nomination from 322 of 403 members of Parliament on Thursday, technically one short of the number needed to avoid a contest. On Friday, Housing Secretary Steve Reed ...Read more

Talks between the U.S. and Iran over a permanent peace deal are continuing, according to a American official, despite two days of clashes that threatened to shatter an already fragile ceasefire.

The U.S. is still committed to finding a diplomatic solution with Iran, the official said Thursday, declining to be named discussing sensitive matters....Read more

LOS ANGELES — The debate over whether the University of California should restore the SAT in admissions, expected to surface next week before regents, is emerging as one of its most closely watched and consequential issues as leaders assess how the nation's premier public university decides who gets a coveted seat.

There are early signs that ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Tensions in Boyle Heights reached a fever pitch Thursday evening as residents — fed up with exposure to toxic smoke, the smell of rotting food, and a lack of answers after the Lineage warehouse fire — made their frustrations known at a feisty town hall meeting.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass struggled to open the meeting over ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump fired two Democratic members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, an agency charged with helping states facilitate accurate elections, and the Republican member resigned, a White House official said Thursday night.

The departures mark the latest move by the president to put his stamp on how U.S. ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — After Daniel Flores secretly recorded his LAPD colleagues making racist, sexist and homophobic comments on the job, he turned the evidence over to his superiors, according to an internal affairs complaint he filed with the department last year, which said he hoped the evidence would be used against those responsible.

But now, ...Read more

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed rolling back emission standards for new heavy-duty trucks, including buses, garbage trucks and semis.

Under the proposal, EPA is looking to scale back future warranty mandates from 10 years to 5 and to delay requirements to extend the period in which the vehicles are subject to ...Read more

California’s first storms of the monsoon season are expected to arrive this weekend, raising concerns about heightened wildfire risk.

The storms could reach Central California as early as Sunday, bringing gusty winds across the Sierra Nevada and a 10% chance of lightning but producing very little rain, said Carlos Molina, meteorologist with ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — George J. Cotliar, who served as managing editor of the L.A. Times for 19 years during a 40-year career at the paper, has died.

Cotliar's daughter, Sharon Cotliar-Zweifach, confirmed that Cotliar died in his sleep early Monday at his home in Newport Beach. He was 94.

"Our dad's first love was journalism, and as much as he was ...Read more

NEW YORK — Thanks to a young union member who spotted shockingly buckled support beams in the Midtown East high-rise that suffered a partial collapse Tuesday, a major catastrophe may have been averted. His union is now hailing the hard hat as “The Hero of 42nd Street.” Meanwhile, slamming the project’s developers as reckless, the union ...Read more

CHICAGO — For lawyer Brian Orozco, it’s personal. When federal agents deployed tear gas at protesters in Brighton Park on Oct. 4, after they had shot a woman, the gas hit Orozco’s face as he stood on a sidewalk. Orozco said it was like he couldn’t breathe.

“My eyes were burning, but my lungs were burning more,” Orozco said.

Now, he...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Thousands of formerly homeless people whose housing subsidies will expire in December are no longer at risk of eviction, local housing officials announced Thursday.

An infusion of new funds approved by Congress this year and a waiver of eligibility procedures have staved off a potential crisis that would have left 4,200 back on ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — State employees reported asbestos, bedbugs, waterborne bacteria and other “hazardous conditions” in government workplaces after returning to offices under Gov. Gavin Newsom’s mandate.

In a press release Thursday, Service Employees International Union Local 1000 said that workers reported “unsafe, or potentially ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — The USS Nimitz docked Thursday at Naval Station Norfolk, one of the last steps in its 51 years of commission.

The aircraft carrier will remain in Hampton Roads to train Navy sailors and aviators for a year or two before it is officially retired. But its captain said he isn’t convinced this is the finale for the Nimitz.

“As...Read more