A Louisville, Kentucky, judge has been suspended without pay after the state’s Judicial Conduct Commission found she had committed a long list of misconduct and other violations.

Laura Adams Ogden was suspended from the Jefferson County Family Court bench in an order issued Monday in which the JCC said she was guilty of bias, due process ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The body of a missing climber was found, covered in snow, on Mt. Whitney's Mountaineer's Route after a storm delayed recovery efforts, according to authorities.

The Inyo County Sheriff's Office said in a statement Monday it received a report from an employee at a Lone Pine motel shortly before 10 p.m. Oct. 19 of a guest who ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Homicides in Los Angeles still are falling, plunging to levels not seen since the 1960s and continuing a dramatic turnaround from the pandemic crime surge.

But no matter how low the numbers go, an old pattern persists: Black Angelenos are far more likely to be killed than those of other races.

So far this year, 35% of the city'...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Granada Hills homeowner is hoping to help a small crew of deaf construction workers replace thousands of dollars' worth of power tools that were stolen while they were making repairs to her house.

Jan Menapace had hired Neverless Construction to patch a leak and repair water damage in her kitchen during last week's storms in ...Read more

Iran’s Supreme Leader reiterated his country’s conditions for ending the war with the U.S., amid a regional diplomatic push to avert a fresh round of fighting in the Persian Gulf.

Mojtaba Khamenei emphasized the need to implement “the conditions set out by the country’s officials, with the aim of ending the war and the ‘neither war ...Read more

MIAMI — The new group tasked with retrieving organs for transplantation across South Florida and the Bahamas is already breaking records, just months after taking over operations from a decades-old nonprofit that was ordered shut by the federal government over safety-related issues and other concerns.

The South Florida Donor Network ...Read more

Israelis voted in their highest numbers for more than half a century in the country’s first election since the October 2023 Hamas attack, effectively a referendum on the war-dominated rule of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Turnout stood at 31.5% as of 12 p.m. on Tuesday, according to the central election committee, the highest level at ...Read more

Before most Americans step into the voting booth in November, they will already know their choices at the top of the ballot, in races for governor, the Senate and House of Representatives. But a race near the bottom of the ballot – for the chief prosecutor in their local district – will probably affect the voters’ lives more directly....Read more

When Americans hear of child soldiers, they may imagine tragic images of children wielding rifles on distant battlefields.

But the conditions that help warlords recruit children into armed conflict abroad also help gang leaders draw young people into violent organizations in the U.S.

In cities across the country, gang violence...Read more

A mosquito buzzing in your backyard may seem like a minor annoyance. But these tiny insects, with their taste for human blood, are increasingly appearing in areas where they were once rare or absent, and that’s raising concerns about the spread of mosquito-borne diseases, including West Nile, Zika and dengue fever.

Florida’s ...Read more

When people prepare to see a doctor before an international trip, vaccines usually dominate the conversation.

And while vaccines are important, many of the health problems most likely to derail a trip cannot be prevented with a vaccine: Diarrhea, respiratory infections, motion sickness and flare-ups of existing medical conditions are ...Read more

Israel is holding its first election since the October 2023 Hamas attack that traumatized the nation and triggered the wars in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran, a vote many consider to be the country’s most consequential in decades.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, 77, is seeking reelection on Tuesday, bolstered by the endorsement of U.S. President ...Read more

LAVONIA, Ga. — It had been a decade since Kara Holden last had a baby. But as the former obstetric nurse prepared for her fourth child, her head was swimming with contingency plans.

The labor and delivery unit where she used to work in this rural northeastern Georgia community is no longer open. So, she asked former co-workers to be on ...Read more

Four years ago, Oregon hospitals were under fire from state authorities and patient advocates. Hospitals, critics said, had made it too hard for patients to apply for and receive help paying their bills.

Within months, the state enacted a sweeping law that required hospitals to proactively screen patients and give financial aid to those who ...Read more

Voters in six states are considering ballot measures in the midterm elections that would make it clear that only U.S. citizens may vote — and block local governments from expanding that right to others.

Proposed constitutional amendments or law changes in Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Kansas, South Dakota and West Virginia would explicitly bar ...Read more

BRICELYN, Minn. — Last summer, President Donald Trump’s signature tax law cemented his administration’s policy legacy, driving down taxes for individuals and businesses and cutting social welfare benefits for people with no kids or low incomes.

A year later the tax law barely registers on campaign commercials ahead of November’s ...Read more

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson’s usual critics in the City Council and Chicago’s business community piled on as soon as his fourth budget proposal leaked last week, but the appetite for another full-out revolt is missing — for now.

“We don’t expect to take over the budget and try to rescue it like last year,” Ald. Scott ...Read more

The Trump administration’s lawsuit against Alaska, which seeks to block certification of the U.S. Senate results there if the GOP candidate does not win, is the latest in a long series of actions throughout 2026 in which the administration has attempted to wrest control of federal elections from states.

In the Alaska case, the U.S. ...Read more