SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday commuted the sentences of four men convicted in Sacramento County shootings, including three killings, citing their efforts to rehabilitate themselves through education, vocational training and prison work programs.

The four were among 57 people granted clemency Thursday, including...Read more

Southern California coastal cities are preparing for mega high tidal swings in the coming days that may threaten to flood streets in low-lying areas.

The tides for the region — from Los Angeles County down to San Diego — are expected to pass 6 feet starting Sunday just before 9 a.m., and while each beach up and down the coastline has ...Read more

California boaters will now face a higher fee to use the state’s lakes, rivers and other waterways as officials expand their efforts to fight invasive golden mussels.

The California State Parks Division of Boating and Waterways announced that the cost of a Mussel Fee Sticker has increased to $42 from $16 for a full two-year cycle — a 162.5%...Read more

Metrolink announced it will temporarily suspend service in Southern Orange County, California, where the train runs along the coastline, during the last week of October as forecasts call for high tides.

The affected rail line, used by trains operated by Metrolink and Amtrak that connect Orange County to San Diego and offer picturesque ocean ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the unsolved 2011 murders of two Sikh grandfathers in Elk Grove that have haunted the community for 15 years.

Gurmej Singh Atwal and Surinder Singh were shot March 4, 2011, during an afternoon walk along ...Read more

MIAMI — The tiny Miami-Dade County enclave of Indian Creek Village — a manicured golf course surrounded by mega mansions and super yachts — is home to multi-billionaires Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg, celebrities like NFL star Tom Brady and singer Julio Iglesias and President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared ...Read more

Federal immigration agents violently detained a 20-year-old U.S. citizen and Santa Maria, California, High School student with special needs on Wednesday morning, according to school and city officials.

The student, who has limited verbal communication and is on an individualized education program, was walking to school when agents tackled him,...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Metrolink announced it will temporarily suspend service in Southern Orange County, where the train runs along the coastline, during the last week of October as forecasts call for high tides.

Amtrak’s iconic Pacific Surfliner, which connects Orange County to San Diego, and offers picturesque ocean views, has long been under ...Read more

A tanker carrying diesel left the Russian port of Primorsk and intermittently signaled New York, potentially marking the first such shipment following a fuel-supply agreement between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.

The vessel, hauling almost 43,000 metric tons of ultralow-sulfur diesel, left the Baltic Sea port on Thursday and would arrive in ...Read more

Leaked data from Moderna Inc. and Merck & Co.’s highly anticipated melanoma vaccine trial has led to a rare disconnect between doctors, who celebrated the result, and Wall Street, which sold off the stocks.

Normally results of such pivotal drug studies are binary, with doctors, patients and investors all learning whether a novel medicine will...Read more

NEW YORK — A 2-year-old girl was found in a Bronx apartment that doubled as a packaging mill for fentanyl during a recent raid that authorities on Friday called a “rescue mission.”

The child was not harmed but was taken into custody by the Administration for Children’s Services, officials said. Four other children who lived in the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate Finance ranking Democrat Ron Wyden of Oregon released the text of a pair of bills Friday aimed at blunting the impact of artificial intelligence on the American workforce — an early signal of potential Democratic priorities if the party regains control of the Senate.

One bill, dubbed the Stability and Opportunity for ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has moved in federal court to preemptively block a narrow loss by Republican Sen. Dan S. Sullivan if he comes up short in his reelection bid next month.

The lawsuit filed Thursday in an Alaska federal court argues that the presence of a third contender in the race, Daniel J. Sullivan Jr., should justify a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A mediator will decide whether Nick Reiner can use money set aside by his parents to defend himself when he stands trial for their murders.

Lawyers for Reiner and the trust told a judge Friday morning they have reached an agreement for "global mediation" that will begin in mid-December. A judge would still have to approve the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has moved in federal court to preemptively block a narrow loss by Republican Sen. Dan S. Sullivan if he comes up short in his reelection bid next month.

The lawsuit filed Thursday in an Alaska federal court argues that the presence of a third contender in the race, Daniel J. Sullivan Jr., should justify a ...Read more

On Oct. 20, 2026, a week before Israel’s elections, dozens of men were detained on suspicion of evading the draft – arrests that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called “unacceptable.”

The young men attend ultra-Orthodox, or Haredi, religious schools, whose students were long exempt from the military service mandatory for ...Read more

Federal immigration agents violently detained a 20-year-old U.S. citizen and Santa Maria, California, High School student with disabilities on Wednesday morning, according to school and city officials.

The student, who has limited verbal communication, was walking to school when agents tackled him, questioned him about his citizenship and ...Read more