SAN DIEGO — A major swell from Hurricane Polo might combine with large high tides in northern San Diego County on Monday and Tuesday, causing flooding in an area that has already suffered severe beach erosion, according to the National Weather Service.

The hurricane, one of the largest ever recorded in the eastern Pacific, also might push ...Read more

DETROIT — A new report commissioned by the Great Lakes Water Authority says that Michigan needs to invest as much as $85 billion in water and wastewater infrastructure over the next 20 years and calls on the state to create a funding strategy for those investments.

It's unclear how much of that total comes from the service area of the Great ...Read more

CHICAGO — A third person has been charged with first-degree murder for allegedly pushing a 29-year-old man to his death off a Chicago Transit Authority Red Line train earlier this month, police said.

Christian McBounds, 18, was arrested Monday in Morgan Park and is charged in the death of Kyle Bickham on Sept. 7, according to Chicago police. ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — President Donald Trump’s administration can’t demand that Philadelphia officials assist his deportation agenda and enforce federal immigration law, the city told a judge Tuesday.

Attorneys for the city and local officials asked U.S. District Judge Chad F. Kenney to toss out the Department of Justice’s challenge to an ...Read more

A short-lived tropical depression could develop this week from a tropical wave off the coast of Africa and the remnants of what had been Tropical Storm Fay could redevelop, according to the National Hurricane Center.

In its 2 p.m. EDT tropical advisory Wednesday, the NHC said chances had grown for development for an area of low pressure ...Read more

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill aimed at deprioritizing commercial logging in a unique state forest system, arguing the measure would jeopardize the ability to test best management practices.

At issue are the state’s 14 demonstration forests — managed by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire �...Read more

After issuing an executive order last week to speed the establishment of guardrails on artificial intelligence, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that he had tapped four experts to advise the state on AI oversight.

Rob Reich, Jason Goldman, Gillian Hadfield and Alondra Nelson will advise the Government Operations Agency and Governor’s Office of ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — A whistleblower alleged that Department of Homeland Security agents may have illegally accessed Virginia voter records.

On Sep. 8, a whistleblower made a protected disclosure to the Senate alleging that agents working on the Unlawful Voter Initiative — the department’s name for its investigation — had used Virginia’s ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Two men were charged with hate crimes for allegedly shouting anti-gay slurs while attacking a San Jose State University student on campus last week, prosecutors said.

Josue Medina Flores, a 19-year-old resident of Sunnyvale, and Christian Gabriel Nunez Petty, a 20-year-old resident of Fremont, were each charged with felony ...Read more

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson proposed a data center moratorium ordinance Wednesday aimed at blocking the controversial developments from popping up in Chicago for one year.

He described the ordinance, now in aldermen’s hands, as a temporary pause that would give the city time to develop long-term policies regulating concerns around ...Read more

DETROIT — The American Civil Liberties Union and Amnesty International detailed how six colleges and universities violated the rights of "pro-Palestinian" student protesters and allowed campus and local law enforcement to arrest and use "unlawful and unnecessary" force against them in a report released Wednesday.

The University of Michigan, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California is moving forward with plans to link its signature climate program, cap-and-invest, to that of Washington state, a major step officials say will cut more pollution and increase revenue for key state programs.

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the move at Climate Week in New York City, where he is meeting with international ...Read more

NEW YORK — Miramax founder Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to another 15 years in prison Wednesday for sexually assaulting a production assistant in the heyday of his Hollywood career, the latest conviction for the disgraced mogul.

The term handed down by Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Curtis Farber followed a yearslong legal saga for the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The pilot of a military training jet was rescued by the U.S. Navy on Tuesday evening after the aircraft plunged into the Pacific Ocean about six miles northwest of Morro Bay.

“Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! I have lost thrust in my engine,” the pilot of the single-seat Mk.58 Hawker Hunter fighter jet communicated to an air traffic ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Detectives are trying to trace back the supplier of the drugs that Cindy Crawford's son, Persley Gerber, fatally overdosed on in Santa Monica rehab last weekend, according to law enforcement sources.

Gerber, 27, died at a luxury rehab center in Santa Monica on Sunday.

The investigation

The Santa Monica Police Department said ...Read more