LOS ANGELES — A federal judge indicated Thursday that jurors in the upcoming retrial of a man accused of an arson that sparked the Palisades fire will not be allowed to consider whether Los Angeles firefighters adequately extinguished the blaze that prosecutors say later reignited and spread, devastating the community.

U.S. District Judge ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A police department in California has opened an investigation into an officer accused of abusing Flock Safety cameras and using another police database for reasons not connected to a criminal investigation.

The accusations appeared this week in a report from Fresno’s in-house police watchdog called the Office of ...Read more

Subtropical Storm Josephine became a powerful extratropical storm off the U.S. coast Thursday while the National Hurricane Center kept its eye on another system also in the Atlantic.

As of the 5 p.m. NHC advisory, what is now Post-Tropical Cyclone Josephine was located about 235 miles east-southeast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, and 335 miles ...Read more

Donald Trump and World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency venture he co-founded with his sons, were sued by a shareholder in a rival crypto firm over claims the president illegally profited from his office in violation of the U.S. Constitution.

J. Benjamin Greenberg, a shareholder in Circle Internet Group Inc., claims illegal competition ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner — whose office is now the subject of a federal grand jury investigation over potential obstruction of justice— said Thursday that he is not worried about the prospect of facing criminal charges, saying: “There is not a jury in the world that is going to find me guilty of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A West Hollywood father who punched a self-described “MAGA influencer” during a viral clash earlier this year will not face criminal charges, his attorney said Thursday.

David Vulin, 32, completed the terms of a “pre-filing diversion” agreement with the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office, and no longer faces...Read more

WASHINGTON — Calley Means, a top adviser to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., resigned Thursday, dealing a setback to the administration’s efforts to overhaul the U.S. food system.

Means’ departure is likely to come as a relief to big food companies, who had fought against his efforts to create a federal definition of ultra-...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The parents of a 10-year-old girl who was killed in the mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church endorsed Democrat Amy Klobuchar’s campaign for governor on Thursday and accused her Republican opponent of breaking a promise to allow a floor vote in the Minnesota House on gun safety legislation.

At a news conference in ...Read more

BOSTON — Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said the city plans to keep exploring congestion pricing and is deploying her team to New York “in a couple of weeks” to learn more about how the contentious tax on drivers has cut traffic in Manhattan.

Wu said congestion pricing has “been a huge source of funding for public transit improvements” in ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — A McKinney teen has been arrested after allegedly planning to assassinate U.S. Rep. Keith Self and conduct a terrorist attack in North Texas on behalf of ISIS, federal officials said.

“I am grateful to the FBI and law enforcement for stopping this threat,” Self said on social media Wednesday. My family and I are safe, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California Attorney General Rob Bonta and First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli traded barbs at dueling healthcare fraud news conferences in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday morning, sniping at each other over billions lost to benefits schemes and the increasingly politicized efforts to stop them.

“California has a fraud ...Read more

DENVER — The U.S. Department of Justice plans to send federal election observers to Adams and Douglas counties on Election Day, according to letters confirmed by the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office and the state clerks association.

The DOJ characterized the monitoring as routine, but it quickly drew concerns from election officials ...Read more

Plain old water could be responsible for making plastics harmful to people, according to a new study that portends significant consequences for human health.

The study, published Thursday in the prominent scientific journal Nature, found chemical reactions between water and six types of fossil fuel-based plastic created particles that damaged ...Read more

Clavicular, the manosphere influencer known for his looksmaxxing content, pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges that he raped a teenager at his family home in Massachusetts.

The controversial internet personality, whose real name is Braden Peters, is accused of giving a 17-year-old girl alcohol until she was drunk, then sexually assaulting her...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visited Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale Thursday to announce the 2026 update to the National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias.

Joined by CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz, Acting FDA Commissioner Dr. Kyle Diamantes,...Read more

CHICAGO — A federal judge has allowed the U.S. Department of Justice to join a lawsuit that seeks to halt and dismantle the City of Evanston’s historic reparations program, which awards grants to Black residents whose ancestors lived in Evanston during decades of housing discrimination.

Judge John F. Kness of the U.S. District Court for the...Read more

NEW YORK — All fare enforcement teams will be pulled off of city buses until the MTA can investigate two allegations of improper use of force, MTA Chairman Janno Lieber said Thursday.

“I’m not willing to keep our teams in the field until I know that all protocols are being followed,” Lieber said, reading from a prepared statement at an ...Read more