LOS ANGELES — Relatives of a man who died after being found unconscious in a downtown Los Angeles jail cell are demanding answers about his death, while questioning whether authorities missed signs that he was having a mental health crisis.

Daniel Magaña, 40, died Sept. 5 at an area hospital, about 10 days after he was found unresponsive in ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Ron Schutz was a young lawyer when he took a case to trial on behalf of the inventor of the MRI, claiming General Electric had infringed on his client’s patent.

His opposing counsel urged him to settle: “You’re never going to win this case,” Schutz recalled. His team forged ahead anyway — and won more than $100 million...Read more

Justice Samuel Alito’s decision not to take part in a major climate change case because of his wife’s stock holdings is putting renewed focus on the U.S. Supreme Court’s recusal practices as it kicks off its new nine-month term.

The justice said in a Sept. 30 interview that Martha-Ann Alito didn’t want to sell the oil-company stocks ...Read more

Saudi Arabia said 12 people were killed and 309 were injured Saturday in an attack on the Riyadh airport, the deadliest incident in an intensifying conflict with Yemen’s Houthis.

Saudi civil aviation authorities said that airport operations were suspended temporarily while the damage was being assessed. Some of the injured were in critical ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia police officer was killed and another was critically wounded after authorities said a man ambushed them with a shotgun early Saturday outside his West Philadelphia home. The suspect, who continued to shoot at responding officers before being arrested, is a city employee.

Shane Seiber, a 40-year-old father of two,...Read more

Anthropic PBC said its Claude AI model carried out additional unintended actions on the digital systems of outside organizations, including submitting a false tip in a police homicide case, prompting a warning from the Trump administration for artificial intelligence companies to secure their systems.

In a report outlining previously ...Read more

Turkey has barred social media platforms from providing services to children under the age of 15, according to a regulation published in the Official Gazette.

Social media companies will be required to verify users’ ages when accounts are created, using an age-verification token through Turkey’s e-government system. Applications from users ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A coastal flood warning covered beaches from Malibu to San Diego on Saturday as Tropical Storm Rachel moved toward Southern California, while Long Beach kept some oceanfront residents under an evacuation order, and Newport Beach closed piers and temporarily shuttered beaches before a reopening.

“There is growing confidence ...Read more

The toll from Friday’s powerful earthquake in Panama continued to mount Saturday, with authorities reporting at least 27 people injured, more than 400 buildings damaged and hundreds of coastal residents evacuated, as emergency crews assessed the destruction and the number of aftershocks surpassed 100.

The magnitude 7.7 earthquake damaged at ...Read more

Police in India’s capital cracked down on protests against a contentious review of voter rolls, detaining youth leaders and locking down central New Delhi with thousands of security personnel.

Authorities entered an aircraft after it landed in New Delhi from Mumbai and took Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke and spokespersons Saurav...Read more

Downpours spread across the Appalachians and mid-Atlantic as Isaias’ remnants headed north after knocking out power to hundreds of thousands in three states and killing at least four people in Florida and Alabama.

Two people died after trees fell onto their homes Friday night — one in Birmingham, Alabama, according to Jefferson County ...Read more

Saudi Arabia said 12 people were killed and 309 were injured Saturday in an attack on the Riyadh airport, the deadliest incident in an intensifying conflict with Yemen’s Houthis.

Saudi civil aviation authorities said that airport operations were suspended temporarily while the damage was being assessed. Some of the injured were in critical ...Read more

The Trump administration’s embrace of legal liability to enforce artificial intelligence safety sets the stage for future conflicts over who foots the bill when AI models go rogue: the companies that design the systems or the people that deploy the technology.

Holding AI developers financially responsible for the safety of their products has ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — It's not unusual for a public meeting to be canceled for lack of a quorum.

But there isn't even a word for what happened Friday when a once-obscure board canceled a meeting to decide the future of homeless services in Los Angeles because too many people came to vote.

More than 1,500 potential voters signed up for a meeting of ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Messages between a young man and a confidential informant. Talks about joining al-Shabaab. Plans for a mass casualty attack.

The federal criminal case filed against a young Minnesota man Wednesday echoed a series of cases that made headlines a decade ago, when a wave of young men were lured by terrorist organizations to travel ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — A gunman in Erie killed eight people Friday night, including two children and a pregnant woman, police said, marking one of the worst mass shootings in Pennsylvania history.

Seven of the victims were members of the same family, police said. The eighth was a family friend. The alleged gunman, who authorities have not named but ...Read more

CHICAGO — Another beluga whale rescued from a troubled Canadian marine park and brought to Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium earlier this summer has died, the facility announced Friday.

In a blog post, the aquarium staff said Caspian, a 27-year-old female beluga, died Wednesday evening “despite intensive efforts by Shedd’s veterinary and animal ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Tropical Storm Rachel brings with it a slew of potential hazards, including damaging coastal flooding.

The National Hurricane Center warned that Rachel could pick up some strength before arriving on the West Coast — an unusual occurrence for storms in the tropical eastern Pacific.

Typically, storms weaken significantly once ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A coastal flood warning covered beaches from Malibu to San Diego on Saturday as Tropical Storm Rachel moved toward Southern California, while Long Beach kept some oceanfront residents under an evacuation order, and Newport Beach closed its beaches and piers.

“For vulnerable south-facing beaches, especially Long Beach and ...Read more