LOS ANGELES — A man arrested in advance of President Donald Trump’s trip to the Trump National Golf Club had visited the facility twice in three days, wore a radio earpiece and took photographs of Secret Service agents at the Palos Verdes Peninsula facility, authorities allege.

After arresting him Sunday, authorities said they discovered a ...Read more

DENVER — Former Vice President Mike Pence will join Colorado Christian University as a visiting faculty member for the coming academic year, the school announced this week.

Pence will travel to the private college’s Lakewood campus once a month for the 2026-27 term, CCU said in a press release on Tuesday. He’ll give lectures, lead ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As air quality regulators press for legal action against the operator of a cold-storage warehouse that burned in Boyle Heights, Lineage officials say they expect to spend $80 million to $100 million to clean up the site, which contains millions of pounds of rotting meat and has generated thousands of odor complaints.

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MIAMI — It’s approaching the peak of hurricane season for South Florida, but the Atlantic is dead quiet.

This great news is likely to continue, according to an updated hurricane season prediction released Wednesday by Colorado State University. Forecasters at CSU dropped their predicted number of storms, hurricanes and major hurricanes from...Read more

DURHAM, N.C. — Two Durham teens were arrested Tuesday after the female teen allegedly took abortion-inducing medication while 31 weeks pregnant.

Syeisha Jadan Johnson, 18, is charged with assault inflicting serious bodily injury on an unborn child, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and negligent child abuse inflicting serious ...Read more

MIAMI — A dispute over a diving spot during the lobster mini-season ended in what authorities say was an attempted murder after a man allegedly turned off a diver’s oxygen supply.

On July 29, around 5:30 a.m., a boat had stopped, and its occupants were preparing to dive at a known lobster location when a second boat, a 27- to 28-foot Gray ...Read more

Hundreds of thousands of Haitian immigrants shielded from deportation lost that official protection Wednesday when a federal judge in Washington, D.C., lifted her stay that had blocked the Trump administration from carrying out its policy to end it.

U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes was forced to undo her stay preserving temporary protected ...Read more

MIAMI — After nearly three years of legal battles, a federal appeals court has upheld a Florida child-protection law — sometimes referred to as the "drag ban" — which drew strong criticism from Democrats and LGBTQ advocates and sparked nationwide discussions about censorship.

In an 8-5 opinion Tuesday, the majority of the full panel of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A man arrested in advance of President Donald Trump’s trip to the Trump National Golf Club had visited the facility twice in three days, wore a radio ear piece and took photographs of Secret Service agents at the Palos Verdes Peninsula facility, authorities allege.

After arresting him Sunday, authorities said they discovered a...Read more

A 10-foot golden trophy made by the anonymous Washington, D.C.-based arts activist group Secret Handshake is officially going on tour. The satirical piece of protest art originally appeared on the National Mall three weeks ago, and later moved to Foley Square in Lower Manhattan. On Wednesday it's scheduled to pop up in Minneapolis, a ...Read more

Part of a SpaceX rocket, about the size of a school bus, is believed to have collided with the moon, independent scientists said Wednesday.

The rocket carried two lunar landers into space earlier this year, one for NASA and another from a Japanese company. After the lunar landers separated from SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, the team sought to ...Read more

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ release date from federal prison, where he’s serving time for prostitution-related charges, has been delayed following last month’s fight with a fellow inmate.

The Bad Boy Records founder, 56, was arrested in September 2024 in relation to his sex marathons known as “freak-offs,” and found guilty by a New York ...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump said a deal on the Strait of Hormuz is possible as early as Wednesday, as expectations build for an arrangement that allows for the reopening of the critical waterway.

“It could happen. Tomorrow or the next day,” Trump told reporters in Los Angeles, when asked about reports that an announcement is ...Read more

Philadelphians who live near industrial land and major roads – those who live in the Port Richmond and Bridesburg neighborhoods along I-95, or the Delaware River port-industrial corridor, for example – face worse air pollution and are more likely to have asthma than residents who live farther from those sites.

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For millennia, the Wounaan people, who live in parts of what is now Panama and Colombia, have hewn and sculpted various woods. Cocobolo rosewood, Dalbergia retusa, is particularly favored for carving ceremonial staffs used in traditional medicine and commercial art depicting tropical plants and animals.

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Severe storms, heat waves and wildfires can shut down the social life of a community, flooding out festivals, canceling community events and keeping people indoors.

They’re also evidence of how climate change isn’t just changing the environments we all live in, but also impeding our ability to connect with one another.

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“Look around.”

“Pay attention.”

“Be mindful of where you are and who you are with.”

“Check in. With us. With yourself.”

For parents of Black children, these four statements represent routine guidance they give, part of currentnews/newsheadlines/s-4268932">Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump said a deal on the Strait of Hormuz is possible as early as Wednesday, as expectations build for an arrangement that allows for the reopening of the critical waterway.

“It could happen. Tomorrow or the next day,” Trump told reporters in Los Angeles, when asked about reports that an announcement is ...Read more

At least 17 people were killed and dozens injured in Russian air attacks on Ukraine amid fresh signs that Kyiv’s ability to defend against missile strikes is becoming exhausted.

Russia fired 28 missiles including 24 ballistic projectiles and 115 drones mainly at Kyiv and its surrounding region overnight, Ukraine’s Air Defense said in a ...Read more