DUBLIN, CAlif. — A married man and woman in their 70s have been charged with using two guns to shoot and kill their son-in-law, who was embroiled in a bitter custody battle with the suspects’ daughter, in what prosecutors call a pre-planned daytime ambush at a local playground.

Shouyong Zhang and Shili Chen, both 77, were charged Wednesday ...Read more

SANTA ANA, Calif. — U.S. immigration officials are moving to revoke the citizenship of a former psychology professor who was imprisoned for her role in the killing of a man she says raped her three decades ago in an Orange County case that angered sexual assault victims worldwide.

Norma Patricia Esparza, 52, was released from prison in 2018 ...Read more

NEW YORK — Cornell University has agreed to Gov. Hochul’s demand for an independent review by outside counsel of the university’s response to gang rape allegations at a college fraternity house.

“I spoke with Cornell’s president today, and the university has agreed to bring in outside counsel for an independent investigation,” ...Read more

A pilot of a jet carrying more than 170 passengers to Tel Aviv stabbed his colleague and tried to crash the plane in what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu branded a serious security incident.

Catastrophe was narrowly avoided after passengers and members of the crew stormed the cockpit of the FlyDubai plane that had taken off in Dubai ...Read more

California voters will decide whether to establish a $7.5 billion state scientific research arm — similar to the National Institutes of Health — after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that will put the proposal on the March 2028 ballot.

The new state fund would aim to blunt federal research cuts by the Trump administration and ensure state ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — Agencies required under a bill passed by Republican state lawmakers to sign agreements with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — which allow their officers to carry out immigration enforcement duties typically performed by federal agents — have now done so.

On Tuesday, The News & Observer reported that the State ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The National Urban League and several local housing nonprofits nationwide challenged part of the Trump administration’s last-minute cancellation of congressionally appropriated funds.

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday night in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, focuses on one portion of the $810 million cancellation...Read more

President Donald Trump on Wednesday touted what he described as a commitment by South Korea to invest $54 billion in a liquefied natural gas pipeline in Alaska.

Surrounded by Alaska leaders and members of his cabinet, Trump said his administration’s trade agreement with South Korea would subsidize the construction of the costly 800-mile gas ...Read more

California Assemblymember Maggy Krell, D-Sacramento, is suing the Department of Homeland Security after the agency’s refusal to provide records regarding an attempted search of a Sacramento law firm last month by federal immigration agents.

The lawsuit, filed last week in federal court, demands information on the incident which unfolded when ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A fifth person has died amid Pennsylvania's growing measles outbreak, state health officials confirmed on Wednesday.

The Pennsylvania Department of Health said in a news release that an unvaccinated resident of Lancaster County tested positive for measles and has died.

Health officials said they would not release any ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A harrowing incident involving a pilot who stabbed his colleague during a FlyDubai flight is reviving a decades-old debate over whether commercial aircraft should be equipped with video recording equipment.

In situations where cockpit altercations or pilot actions are part of an accident investigation, cockpit video would ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A vast majority of Americans favor requiring artificial intelligence companies to meet independent safety benchmarks for their models, even if those standards mean slowing development of the technology, according to a new poll.

Against a backdrop of growing global anxiety over AI risks, 91% of those surveyed think it’s very or ...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Wednesday that aims to put a check on corporate power in the state, but that some advocates say does not go far enough.

The measure, Assembly Bill 1776, makes it unlawful for a company or person to hold a monopoly over business, even if they are acting on their own. It is an expansion of the state’s current ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A 36-year-old Florida woman was indicted Wednesday for allegedly using an assault rifle to spray bullets at Rihanna's Los Angeles home earlier this year, nearly striking the singer and her husband.

Ivanna Ortiz will stand trial on one count of attempted murder, 10 counts of assault and three counts of shooting at an inhabited ...Read more

WASHINGTON — In the last two months of the fiscal year that ends Wednesday, the Pentagon spent tens of billions of mandatory dollars from last year’s reconciliation law, intensely accelerating spending from its unusually large overall budget for the year, congressional sources said this week.

The Pentagon spends scores of billions of ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Colleges and universities in California will soon be able to apply to get designated as Asian American and Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander-serving institutions under AB 2374, which Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Tuesday. This comes about a year after the U.S. Department of Education ended several grant programs for federally ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As senators looked for the exits this week, Republican leaders forced votes on two hot-topic campaign issues: data center electricity costs and lawmakers’ ability to buy and sell stocks.

Democrats tried to label both as “toothless” last-ditch messaging bids, saying Republicans are merely trying to boost their sagging polls ...Read more

BEIRUT — America opened its “forever war” in Iraq more than 23 years ago with “Shock and Awe.” It ended it Wednesday with little of either, even as the legacy of that conflict — which saw Iraq endure sectarian bloodbaths, civil war and an insurgency that made Baghdad the car bomb capital of the world — continues to cast its shadow...Read more