MIAMI — Flights from Miami to Venezuela have been canceled after twin earthquakes rocked the country, collapsing buildings, and killing or trapping hundreds of people.

Two American Airlines’s flight to Caracas on Thursday were canceled, said Miami International Airport spokesperson Greg Chin.

A GlobalX charter flight arrival from Caracas ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The devastation from two massive earthquakes that struck Venezuela on Wednesday offers a stark warning for California and other seismically vulnerable areas of the toll catastrophic shaking can bring to urban areas.

It will take days to assess the full scope of the damage; at least 164 were dead and nearly 1,000 were injured, ...Read more

MIAMI — After a year filled with lawsuits, torture allegations and criticism over the use of taxpayer money, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Thursday the closure of the Everglades detention center known as Alligator Alcatraz.

“Alligator Alcatraz fulfilled the role it was designed to serve,” DeSantis said at a news conference ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration may end the temporary protected status granted to more than 350,000 Haitians and Syrians whose home countries remain unsafe.

In a 6-3 decision, the court’s conservative majority said Congress gave the administration, not judges, the power to cancel or renew this ...Read more

Apple Inc. took the extreme measure of raising prices of all Macs, iPads, home devices and the Vision Pro on Thursday, seeking to offset cost hikes caused by an unprecedented shortage of memory chips and storage.

The price hikes, which went live on its online retail store Thursday, are in effect globally. The company did not raise iPhone, Apple...Read more

WASHINGTON — Licensed gun owners have a right to carry a concealed firearm into stores and other private places unless the owner objects, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

The 6-3 decision extends gun rights and strikes down laws in Hawaii, California, New York, New Jersey and Maryland.

Those measures would prohibit carrying guns onto ...Read more

CHICAGO — With the city facing a budget hole estimated at $680 million or more next year, a mayoral task force released its final proposals to strengthen Chicago’s long-term financial future Thursday.

Like last year’s ideas to help close a $1.15 billion gap, most are familiar, some are far-fetched and many have major tradeoffs or will ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Two Lexington federal prisons have been connected to a large, multi-year drone smuggling conspiracy, according to a federal indictment originating in Georgia.

The Federal Medical Center in Lexington and Federal Correctional Institution Manchester were listed as two of 10 federal prisons where cell phones, drugs, weapons and ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The family of an inmate at Western Correctional Institution who died of dehydration while at the facility filed a wrongful death lawsuit Thursday in Baltimore City Circuit Court. Officers, who allegedly cut off water to his cell more than a week before his death, also failed to take him to a scheduled medical appointment the day he...Read more

The heat wave baking western Europe broke records in the U.K. and France, as the region faces another day of soaring temperatures.

The U.K. recorded its hottest June day on Wednesday, with daytime highs hitting 36.1C (97F) in Gosport in southern England, according to the Met Office. France’s average daily temperature reached an all-time high ...Read more

For the third year in a row, accidental drug-related overdose and poisoning deaths have dropped in Los Angeles County, a decline officials attribute to ongoing investments in prevention and harm reduction resources countywide.

There were 2,298 accidental drug overdose and poisoning deaths in 2025, down 6%, a relatively small drop from 2,438 the...Read more

As the top boss of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán ran a multinational drug-smuggling enterprise despite being functionally illiterate, having dropped out of school around the third grade.

Evidence presented at El Chapo's trial, which ended in 2019 with his conviction and a sentence of life in U.S. prison with no parole, ...Read more

Britons said Andy Burnham would make a better prime minister than Reform U.K. Leader Nigel Farage, according to a poll on Thursday that highlights how Labour’s likely new leader can provide the governing party with an electoral edge.

Some 43% of people surveyed in a YouGov poll said Burnham would make a better premier, compared with 23% who ...Read more

MIAMI — President Donald Trump’s border czar will join Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday for what could be the official closure of Alligator Alcatraz, an immigration detention camp built a year ago on a remote airport seized from Miami-Dade County.

DeSantis’ office announced the morning press conference with White House Border Czar ...Read more

The heat wave baking western Europe broke records in the U.K. and France, as the region faces another day of soaring temperatures.

The U.K. recorded its hottest June day on Wednesday, with daytime highs hitting 36.1C (97F) in Gosport in southern England, according to the Met Office. France’s average daily temperature reached an all-time high ...Read more

Scientists racing to develop potential vaccines and treatments against a deadly Ebola outbreak are having to do so without a viable sample of the virus, highlighting growing disputes over pathogen sharing and the difficulty of moving infectious materials across borders for research.

More than a month after the outbreak was identified in ...Read more

Bill Curry, 65, raises cattle on the same land in rural Oklahoma once owned by his father and generations before him. Each quarter, for several years, he has made the 2½-hour drive to Oklahoma City for an epidural in his spine to treat his back pain.

But this year, because of a new Medicare program, Curry has traveled a little more often.

In ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Bob Blumenfield would like to see Angelenos’ old banana peels and moldy bread stay local.

The City Council member told a small crowd of waste advocates in front of City Hall this week that he was introducing a motion to reduce the city’s greenhouse gas emissions by strengthening local composting infrastructure and decreasing...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is once again dealing with blowback for being out of town when a massive fire ignited.

The fire at a cold storage facility in Boyle Heights began burning Wednesday, hours after Bass departed for the dedication of the Barack Obama Presidential Center in Chicago.

Since arriving back in Los Angeles ...Read more