The U.S. military brought about two dozen companies to the Arizona desert to show off the latest technologies to counter enemy drones. Things didn’t always go as planned.

A pair of interceptors took turns trying to down a small white drone but only clipped a small part off before they were forced to return as the target flew on. Intense heat...Read more

United Launch Alliance’s beleaguered Vulcan rocket returned to service Sunday under clear blue skies streaking over the Space Coast more than nine months since its last flight.

Outfitted with six solid rocket boosters in its most powerful configuration, the rocket produced nearly 3.8 million pounds of thrust at liftoff. On board was its ...Read more

U.S. air travel struggled to recover over the weekend from the longest nationwide flight suspension since the September 2001 terrorist attacks, with thousands of cancellations following an outage that laid bare the fragility of America’s aviation infrastructure.

Airlines rushed to restore regular schedules, leaving more than 6,100 flights ...Read more

Iran targeted an air base in Bahrain in the first direct strike on the Gulf state in weeks, even as it reiterated that a path to ending the conflict with the U.S. remains open.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said on Sunday it launched six drones at the Riffa helicopter base, describing the move as a response to “blatant aggression of ...Read more

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that Nvidia Corp. needs a “dramatic shakeup” in leadership after the ouster of Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang.

Speaking on Fox News’s "Sunday Morning Futures," Bessent suggested the company should go outside the firm to find new leadership after a series of accusations that the company ...Read more

A new report on a county legal defense program provides a glimpse into how the Trump administration’s ramped-up deportation efforts have impacted the local immigration detention system.

Clients served by the county’s Immigrant Legal Defense Program generally spent nearly twice as long in detention last fiscal year compared to the prior year...Read more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said U.S. peace envoys asked whether Ukraine would be willing to cede the Donbas region to Russia in exchange for NATO membership, signaling a potential shift in Washington’s negotiating tactics, as a top U.S. envoy called for “direct engagement” between Europe and Moscow.

As the full-scale war ...Read more

The American Cancer Society announced on Nov. 12, 2026, that it has released major changes to its prostate cancer screening guidelines to improve detection and treatment of the disease.

The Conversation asked Dr. Andrew Wolf, a physician at the University of Virginia who was one of the lead authors of the new guidelines, to walk ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — It is a practice as old as time.

Way back in the Babylonian exile era, the Hebrew Bible told the story of Delilah, bribed by the rulers of the Philistines to entrap Samson to discover the source of his strength.

Delilah offers an ancient archetype of the “honey trap,” the deceptive practice of using romantic or sexual ...Read more

LOWER LAKE, Calif. — Two years after The Times found that cannabis sold at California dispensaries contained alarming levels of pesticides, the safety of the state’s legal weed remains a crapshoot, as government regulators fail to keep up with an ever-evolving slate of hazardous chemicals or crack down on the growers using them.

A new ...Read more

Thousands of travelers were stranded on Nov. 13, 2026, when the Federal Aviation Administration grounded all domestic flights in the U.S. because of what they said were failures in decades-old air traffic communications systems. Crisis communications expert Shannon A. Bowen, a scholar at the University of South Carolina’s College of ...Read more

Massport says it hopes operations are back to normal at Boston Logan Airport by Monday following the nationwide ground stop, a situation a leading federal aviation expert called “very avoidable.”

Friday’s massive disruption rippled into Saturday, with over 200 flights canceled and more than 100 delayed at Logan as airlines rushed to get ...Read more

Following an 18-hour evacuation prompted by a credible bomb threat near a Peoria ethanol plant, thousands of displaced residents were allowed to return to their homes, authorities said Saturday afternoon.

Peoria police lifted the evacuation order that impacted about 2,000 people at 1 p.m.

Street barricades were removed and all the roads in a ...Read more

Mayor Brandon Johnson defended his budget proposal Saturday after the sudden resignation of his newly appointed CFO, Ashlee Gabrysch, calling his plan “fair and balanced.”

Johnson largely avoided adding on to his administration’s public criticism of Gabrysch as his mayoral campaign launched a new West Side hub. Instead, he tried to steer ...Read more

Hundreds of flights and even more passengers suffered continued delays and cancellations at airports across the Bay Area through Saturday evening following Friday’s nationwide ground stop that stranded passengers for hours.

At San Francisco International Airport, 283 flights were delayed and 253 others cancelled through Saturday afternoon as...Read more

A tiny sea turtle emerged from its sandy nursery around 7:15 p.m. on Friday and made history.

Less than two inches long and weighing about as much as a large strawberry, the olive ridley was California's first native-born sea turtle.

For two hours, the lone hatchling waited atop a pile of sand and eggs in a styrofoam cooler, the makeshift ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Tall waves pummeled the California coast on Saturday, causing beach and pier closures and endangering coastal homes and infrastructure from San Diego to Malibu and beyond.

Further north, waves towering above 50 feet were recorded in specific coastal communities in San Mateo County, just south of San Francisco.

The city of ...Read more

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., suggested he may reevaluate his role in the Democratic Party if Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., were elected majority leader, citing his colleague’s criticism of Israel.

“Yeah, absolutely,” Fetterman said Saturday in a Fox News interview when asked about any red line that would make him “walk away” from his ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — An excessive force case from the 2020 George Floyd demonstrations in downtown San Jose continues nearly two years after a jury awarded more than $1 million to an injured protester, now that a federal appeals court has granted a police officer qualified immunity even though it agreed he used unreasonable force when ...Read more