LOS ANGELES — State regulators have launched an inquiry into the Santa Monica sober living home where Presley Gerber died Sunday of a suspected overdose.

The California Department of Health Care Services, responding to a complaint from a rehab reform advocate, is reviewing whether the sober home, Resolutions Living, was illegally providing ...Read more

NEW YORK — The scores of protesters demonstrating against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside the U.N. in Midtown Manhattan — which included actors Susan Sarandon and Hannah Einbinder and several local politicians — were all given summonses and sent home after being briefly detained, police said Friday.

In total, 103 people ...Read more

Oil fell on tentative signs that talks between the U.S. and Iran to reopen the world’s most important energy shipping route were progressing.

West Texas Intermediate futures fell about 2.3% to settle near $92 a barrel, notching its first weekly drop since late August, as traders increasingly expect that the negotiations will be productive. ...Read more

NEW YORK — A tight-knit Italian family was robbed of a beloved son and brother — and the world lost “a brilliant mind” in scientific research — when a frenzied man wielding a knife went on a senseless, blood-filled rampage, a Manhattan judge heard Friday before sentencing the killer to 25 years to life.

Relatives of slain Columbia ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. State Department is moving to give state and local officials, as well as potentially some nonprofit organizations, access to passport records to verify voters’ citizenship.

The plan, laid out in a notice recently sent to key lawmakers on Capitol Hill, would add “voter eligibility” to the official list of “routine...Read more

WASHINGTON — For the third time this month, the Supreme Court has rejected Missouri’s bid for one more Republican-leaning congressional district.

With no dissents, the justices upheld a state court order requiring the use of a 2022 election map, which favors Republicans in six of the eight districts.

“At this late date, ordering ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Expectations were low entering President Donald Trump’s meetings with China’s leader, Xi Jinping, this week, after officials on both sides tempered hopes for a breakthrough. Yet the summit’s stark lack of substance surprised even the closest China watchers.

It was a visual affair designed to project a new phase of managed ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A pair of Democratic lawmakers is calling for hearings after the Navy disclosed that there were eight suicide attempts during the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group’s record-long time at sea.

“That this administration can find endless taxpayer dollars for bombs, ballrooms, and billionaires, but cannot take care of our ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday blocked Missouri from using a gerrymandered congressional map in the Nov. 3 election, allowing the state to use a map lawmakers passed in 2022 and likely drawing to a close a messy legal battle.

The nation’s highest court blocked two lower court rulings in favor of the Republican-backed map and ordered those ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., has proposed legislation that seeks to address artificial intelligence-fueled shifts in the workforce as his party works to define a clear position on the controversial technology ahead of the midterms and beyond.

Introduced Thursday, his bill would rely on new artificial intelligence and digital ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York City parents and teachers, many of them who pushed for a pause on artificial intelligence in public schools, are kicking off a new campaign: They want to reintroduce play in local classrooms that, advocates say, have been overtaken by education technology, test preparation and reading curricula that push more short passages...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Vance Boelter’s defense team pressed forward with a legal argument Friday that he was justified in taking the lives of state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and attempting to kill several other lawmakers because he was “effecting a lawful arrest.”

State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife Yvette, survivors of that ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California now bans people from protesting, harassing or blocking people exiting or entering a religious facility within a certain radius, after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two bills Friday that shore up state protections for religious worshippers.

Assembly Bill 2664 makes it illegal for a protester who is within 100 feet of...Read more

New Jersey Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell has resigned after investigators found “credible evidence” of sexual harassment and other wrongdoing.

The governor, who was inaugurated with Caldwell by her side in January, announced his resignation at a news conference Friday afternoon, after pushing for it following the release of the investigator’s ...Read more

New Jersey Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell has resigned after investigators found “credible evidence” of sexual harassment and other wrongdoing.

Sherrill announced his resignation at a news conference Friday afternoon. The governor, who was inaugurated with Caldwell by her side in January, pushed for his resignation, which she received Friday ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Friday a handful of legislative bills that will overhaul how California punishes people who repeatedly drive while impaired by drugs or alcohol.

Two of the bills Newsom signed, Assembly bills 1546 and 1687, strengthen penalties against people who repeatedly drive while under the influence...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Tropical Storm Gonzalo formed late Thursday to become the seventh named storm of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season, although still one that has yet to produce a hurricane. It joined Tropical Storm Fay in the distant Atlantic, according to the National Hurricane Center.

As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. EDT advisory Friday, the center ...Read more

New Jersey Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell has resigned after investigators found “credible evidence” of sexual harassment and other wrongdoing, according to a source familiar with the matter.

Sherrill announced his resignation at a news conference Friday afternoon. The governor, who was inaugurated with Caldwell by her side in January, pushed for ...Read more