LOS ANGELES — A year ago, on June 6, federal agents descended on Ambiance Apparel, detaining dozens of workers in one of the largest workplace immigration enforcement actions Southern California had seen in years.

By day’s end, more than 40 workers, many of them from Zapotec Indigenous communities, were arrested in an enforcement operation ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — Sailors and Marines aboard the USS Iwo Jima returned Saturday to Naval Station Norfolk from a 10-month deployment spent mostly in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Originally bound for Europe, the Iwo Jima was rerouted after leaving Norfolk in August and was extended twice to support missions, including Operation Southern Spear....Read more

LOS ANGELES — Around 7 a.m., Saturday, in a lot beside the shuttered Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, a strange set of cars and trucks began to gather. Three Model A's. A couple of '60 convertibles. A 1964 Chevrolet Impala station wagon. Also, a big bull on trailer wheels.

"Am I in the right place?" asked a man in one of the Model A's.

"Going ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Now that Floridians will decide in November whether to approve a historic property tax overhaul that would provide property tax relief at the expense of many essential local government services, expect an intense campaign for their votes.

In just the last few days, the rhetoric has already taken on a new level of specificity �...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The back rooms of the La Brea Tar Pits are, at the moment, a maze of packing crates tagged with handwritten sticky notes that say things like "bison skulls" or "camel hip."

Every bone, down to the last dire wolf rib, must be carefully sheathed in a custom foam shell. Sloth jaws and sabertooth fangs and a truly astonishing amount...Read more

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Following an Illinois spring legislative session in which efforts to regulate data center development and curb government support for the energy-hungry facilities stalled, Gov. JB Pritzker took matters into his own hands Friday.

The governor issued an executive order instructing the state agency overseeing a program that ...Read more

A U.S. citizen who contracted Ebola while working as a doctor in East Africa has been discharged from a hospital in Germany after receiving treatment and testing negative for the virus.

Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin admitted Peter Stafford, who had pronounced symptoms of the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, on May 20 amid a surge of the ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — After nearly a year, police have closed their investigation into the death of Terry Bollea — better known as Hulk Hogan — concluding there was no evidence his death was “anything other than natural.”

The Clearwater Police Department released more than 70 pages of files on Friday, detailing interviews with Hogan’s ...Read more

Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo jumped by 71 in a day and another 21 deaths were recorded as health workers expanded testing in the mining town where the outbreak is believed to have begun, pointing to an epidemic that may be much bigger than previously understood.

The infections brought the number of laboratory-confirmed cases ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A series of military exercises taking place in empty buildings across the Southland are scaring residents and rattling neighbors as the sound of gunfire rings out in the dark and troops descend from helicopters.

Multiple nights this week, the sounds of simulated urban warfare have erupted in the middle of the night in parts of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Federal agricultural inspectors detected a case of New World screwworm larvae — maggots that burrow into the flesh of living animals and sometimes humans — on a 3-week-old calf in south Texas, near the U.S.-Mexico border. Officials anticipated the arrival of screwworm in the United States and say they're prepared to contain ...Read more

BOSTON — Attorneys for Michael Proctor will have to answer in court when the disgraced former state trooper became unavailable for a scheduled deposition in Karen Read’s wrongful death suit.

The attorneys will also be pressed on when Read’s legal team was informed of the request to delay Monday’s deposition and why preparation couldn’...Read more

Harrowing scenes are unfolding at health facilities at the epicenter of an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

A 25-year-old midwife and a doctor in his early 30s are sick with Ebola symptoms, including fevers and severe joint pain, said their colleague Elisabeth Furaha, the medical director at SOFEPADI's Karibuni Wa Mama ...Read more

MIAMI — Inside the University of Miami’s newly opened 3D-bioprinting lab, the future of medicine looks a lot like science fiction. Think miniscule robotic devices that repair the body. Molecules designed to hunt down cancer cells. And a printer capable of creating a prosthetic ear in less than 10 minutes.

“You thought it was science ...Read more

CHICAGO — Third grader Denym Jenkins was meeting with the assistant principal at her Far South Side elementary school two years ago when a teacher walked in and told her to “get out.”

The teacher pushed Denym out of the office, slammed the door behind her and berated the assistant principal, district documents show. Denym was shoved so ...Read more