LOS ANGELES — Jose Argumedo's nickname is "Humble," but authorities say his approach to collecting money was anything but.

When a Pomona business owner balked at paying for protection, Argumedo showed up with a gun and loaded the business' property into a U-Haul truck, prosecutors wrote in a complaint filed earlier this year. In a second ...Read more

President Donald Trump is establishing a committee to investigate mortgage fraud allegations against Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook and is forcing her to appear at a White House hearing to defend herself, a dramatic escalation in his efforts to oust her from her role.

The White House shared a memorandum dated Wednesday from Trump to ...Read more

NEW YORK -- Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were “not aware” there was a 5-year-old child in the backseat of an SUV when they opened fire at the vehicle, striking the child’s father in the neck during an enforcement operation in the Marble Hill section of the Bronx and sparking outrage across the city, Homeland Security ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. -- Hurricane Isaias, on a path to become the first Atlantic hurricane to strike the U.S. this year, muscled up to major hurricane strength Friday morning as it churned closer to the Florida Panhandle, according to the National Hurricane Center.

As of 11 a.m. Friday, Isaias was about 195 miles south of Pensacola and had sustained ...Read more

The State Controller’s Office violated teleworking and salary overpayment laws, according to a new audit, providing fresh fodder for critics of Controller Malia Cohen, who is running for a second term in the Nov. 3 election.

Two employees at the controller’s office teleworked from Idaho, Tennessee and Alabama in violation of state law, the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The blistering heat that has baked Southern California for days is coming to an end, with rain on tap for the weekend and early next week, along with a risk of potentially damaging coastal flooding.

Tropical Storm Rachel, which has been moving northwest across the Pacific Ocean, is expected to make a sharp right turn toward Baja...Read more

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to judge and human rights lawyer Navi Pillay, at a time when the committee said international law faces “tremendous pressure” and its institutions are “under attack.”

Pillay, 85, has “held states and national leaders accountable and brought hope to victims of violence and conflict,” the Norwegian ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. -- Hurricane Isaias, on a path to become the first Atlantic hurricane to strike the U.S. this year, muscled up to major hurricane strength Friday morning as it churned closer to the Florida Panhandle, according to the National Hurricane Center.

As of 8:20 a.m. Friday, Isaias was about 240 miles south of Pensacola and had sustained ...Read more

WASHINGTON – More than a year has passed since permanent authority for cybersecurity information-sharing protections expired, and there’s little sign that a standoff in the Senate over the law will end this Congress.

A long-term extension of the law, titled the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015, has bipartisan backing. If ...Read more

Mayor Zohran Mamdani called for an end to federal immigration enforcement in New York City after an ICE officer shot and wounded a man in front of a child, escalating tensions over the Trump administration’s crackdown.

Mamdani said late Thursday he had urged Donald Trump to halt all Immigration and Customs Enforcement enforcement actions in ...Read more

Hurricane Isaias shattered the peace of one of the quietest Atlantic hurricane seasons on record as it grew into 2026’s first Atlantic hurricane and headed for the northern Gulf Coast, with landfall expected late on Oct. 9 or early Oct. 10.

Coastal residents and store owners in Alabama and the Florida Panhandle quickly began ...Read more

If a person’s story changes in the weeks following an alleged sexual assault, are they not telling the truth?

It’s a criticism I’ve seen on social media and heard in the public conversation surrounding the lawsuit filed in September 2026 by a plaintiff known as Jane Doe, a former student at Cornell University, accusing seven ...Read more

Drugmakers are pushing to develop effective defenses against Lyme disease as intensifying tick seasons continue to put more people at risk, with trials focused on vaccines and on drugs designed to block the pests’ ability to infect.

Companies including Pfizer Inc. and Moderna Inc. have stepped up efforts 24 years after the only Lyme vaccine ...Read more

The famed railroad line along the San Clemente coast has found itself on the endangered list amid a relentless assault from rising seas and punishing surf.

Transportation experts have long spoken about the possibility of relocating the tracks in the area, but the California State Transportation Agency is expected to launch a study before year's...Read more

The child gasped for air, sitting alone in front of an upstairs television, near death inside her Northeast Philadelphia home.

As a measles outbreak ravaged the city, Philadelphia’s deputy health commissioner, Robert Ross, used the home phone to call a judge for a court order to treat the girl. Her family worshiped at Faith Tabernacle ...Read more

After President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act more than a year ago, enrollment in the federal food assistance program dropped rapidly across the nation as states enforced new restrictions and prepared to take on more of the costs.

Nationally, an estimated 5 million, or 13%, fewer people were enrolled in the Supplemental ...Read more

With voter registration lagging and political parties complaining that eligibility requirements for fielding candidates are too burdensome, Haiti’s transitional authorities have revised the country’s electoral rules for the third time in four months, but stopped short of formally postponing the Dec. 13 vote.

The revised electoral decree ...Read more

President Donald Trump made another round of comments attacking Minnesota’s Somali community and Gov. Tim Walz on social media Thursday.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump broadly accused the immigrant community of violence and said the group was taking over Minnesota. He said Walz wants to get “out of town with as much as he can steal, and ...Read more

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot and wounded a man in an SUV on a bustling New York City street Thursday afternoon, as a 5-year-old boy sat in the vehicle’s back seat, sparking a heated confrontation between the feds and outraged citizens, officials said.

ICE agents opened fire on the silver Honda Civic at about 4 p.m. on ...Read more