LOS ANGELES — The singer D4vd has dropped his high-powered legal team and will now be represented by the Los Angeles County public defender’s office on charges that he repeatedly sexually assaulted a teenage fan before killing her and dismembering her corpse to cover up the sex abuse.

David Anthony Burke, 21, asked to have the public ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Monday said a short-lived tropical depression or storm could form in the Gulf while the remnants of Tropical Storm Dolly are headed to Florida.

As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical outlook, what had been Dolly, that was only a tropical storm for one day last week, is now just a surface trough of ...Read more

Michael Sanft, the attorney for the man on trial for allegedly orchestrating the murder of Tupac Shakur, finds himself in a position out of a “Law and Order” episode.

He must convince a jury to ignore incriminating statements his client made. With every word he speaks, Sanft argues that Duane Davis is a liar who cannot be trusted.

It ...Read more

The U.S. and Iran exchanged strikes for the first time in about a month as American forces hit an island in the Strait of Hormuz and the Islamic Republic responded by launching attacks on the United Arab Emirates and Jordan.

President Donald Trump told Fox News on Monday morning that the U.S. would respond to Iran’s attacks on U.S. forces, ...Read more

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s advantage over Flávio Bolsonaro decreased ahead of Brazil’s October election, as the leftist leader faces fallout from corruption allegations against one of his sons.

Lula leads Bolsonaro 47.1% to 42.6% in a runoff scenario, according to an AtlasIntel survey for Bloomberg News published Monday. He led...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. plans to use its newfound assertion of control over billions of barrels of Venezuelan crude oil to refill the nation’s depleted emergency reserve, President Donald Trump said Sunday.

“One of the things I am going to do with the Venezuelan Oil is fill up the Strategic National Reserves,” Trump said in a Truth ...Read more

Central Florida’s Luke Delaney will have wait a little longer to take his first trip to space as NASA and SpaceX have delayed the upcoming Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station.

In a Sunday update, NASA said testing of the Crew Dragon Grace, which has flown on one previous mission, revealed an oxidizer leak on the spacecraft’s ...Read more

The U.S. and Iran exchanged strikes for the first time in about a month as American forces hit an island in the Strait of Hormuz and the Islamic Republic responded by launching attacks on the United Arab Emirates and Jordan.

Iranian media also said the country’s authorities seized a bulk carrier near the port of Bandar Abbas in the strait and...Read more

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s advantage over Flávio Bolsonaro decreased ahead of Brazil’s October election, as the leftist leader faces fallout from corruption allegations against one of his sons.

Lula leads Bolsonaro 47.1% to 42.6% in a runoff scenario, according to an AtlasIntel survey for Bloomberg News published Monday. He ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Nearly nine months ago, Sheriff Kelly Martinez stood before the San Diego County Board of Supervisors and presented a wish list of improvements needed across the seven jails she oversees.

The presentation included a host of proposed new construction and upgrades but lacked any specific request for new money.

Instead, Martinez ...Read more

Yaroslav Perepadya has built a life in Davis since fleeing Ukraine with his teenage son after Russia invaded their country in 2022. He has a job with the state, pays taxes and has watched his son begin college.

Now, that life is hanging in uncertainty as the federal government weighs the future of protections that allow thousands of Ukrainians ...Read more

The Supreme Court on Monday struck down an injunction barring the Trump administration from enacting new rules for mail-in voting, raising questions about the process just weeks before California plans to send ballots to 23 million voters for the November election.

But the legal saga continues. Late Thursday, a judge issued a temporary ...Read more

In January, Jeff La Marca got a prescription for the popular weight loss drug Zepbound. But he couldn’t afford the $750 monthly price tag.

Then Medicare launched an 18-month pilot program that offers GLP-1 medications to some enrollees for only $50 a month. La Marca thought he might finally be able to afford the drug.

“I thought, ‘Thank ...Read more

Nearly two decades later, Christopher Devoe still wakes from nightmares about the gruesome scene: bone fragments lodged in the ceiling, brain matter dripping above him and a hostage who had narrowly escaped before the suspect shot himself in the head.

The former Salisbury police lieutenant thought he had left those horrors behind — until ...Read more

On a recent morning, medical professionals huddled around banks of computer monitors like weather forecasters tracking a developing hurricane, though bed occupancy rates over 90% were the pressing threat rather than rising atmospheric pressure over the Pacific.

Opened in June, the new mission control center at UC San Diego Health pulls together...Read more

MIAMI — When a Miami Secret Service agent and two of his fellow alums of the nation’s second-oldest historically Black fraternity were arrested and accused of beating two men so badly they required emergency hospital care in the near-fatal cases, the reaction among many was disbelief.

How could the alums cane and paddle the two men secretly...Read more

Dolly Parton has been laid to rest in a private ceremony.

The immediate family of the country western star who died last week gathered at Woodlawn Memorial Park and Mausoleum in Nashville on Friday morning.

Parton was buried alongside her husband of almost 60 years, Carl Dean, who died in March 2025. The bronze crypt plate mounted at the ...Read more

Vice President JD Vance and other conservative politicos are expected to descend on the Strip this week for the Republican Jewish Coalition’s Annual Leadership Summit.

The event will take place between Sunday and Tuesday at The Venetian in Las Vegas.

The coalition’s aim is to “foster and enhance ties between the American Jewish community...Read more

A large flash flood swept through Bright Angel Canyon and the Phantom Ranch area of Grand Canyon National Park on Saturday, prompting 62 people to be evacuated from the area throughout the weekend.

The National Park Service said Sunday that more than 20 people may be missing following the flood. Officials are seeking information from the public...Read more

Tarrant County voter access is still being threatened though the proposed cut to polling locations isn’t as deep as initially suggested, Commissioner Alisa Simmons said Sunday afternoon alongside House Rep. James Talarico.

Last month, Tarrant County Commissioners Court members unanimously agreed the significant slash to the November midterm ...Read more