WASHINGTON — Donald Trump and Xi Jinping addressed their intense competition over artificial intelligence on Thursday during a summit aimed at keeping ties between the world’s largest economies on track.

How the leaders are handling AI is one of the key questions looming over the state visit, with the U.S. president arguing for unfettered ...Read more

Oil rose as signs of tightness across several key market gauges outweighed indications of diplomatic progress toward reopening the critical Strait of Hormuz.

Brent futures settled near $107 a barrel, after climbing as much as 5% during the session. Prices initially rallied on hawkish rhetoric from Iran before easing, with U.S. and Iranian ...Read more

NEW YORK — More than 100 people, including several celebrities and local elected officials, were arrested at protests against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of his scheduled speech before the U.N. General Assembly in Midtown Manhattan Thursday, police said.

City Councilman Chi Osse and Councilwoman Alexa Aviles were among the...Read more

NEW YORK — A man was arrested and charged with a hate crime for threatening a Jewish student and chasing him down a Brooklyn street with a knife while shouting “Heil Hitler!,” cops said on Thursday.

Devin Best, 48, was arrested and charged with menacing and aggravated harassment as a hate crime after cursing at the 24-year-old victim and ...Read more

BALTIMORE — University of Maryland Medical System saw a spike in rabies-related encounters this summer as state animal bite cases hit their highest point in August since 2018, according to data from UMMS and the Maryland Department of Health.

UMMS saw 493 rabies-related encounters across its 14 emergency departments from June to August this ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department asked the U.S. Supreme Court to let the Trump administration continue its aggressive policy of deporting people to countries other than their own, seeking emergency action on a pillar of its immigration agenda.

The filing aims to lift a federal judge’s order barring deportation to a so-called third ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Southern California's beaches may be in for another round of dangerous, high surf and severe erosion soon thanks to a pair of hurricanes being fueled by warm Pacific waters.

The hurricanes, Polo and Odalys, are not expected to make landfall in California. But forecasters said they could stir up rough seas and send swells toward ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate Environment and Public Works ranking member Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., said Thursday that the process of papering, selling and voting on a potential deal to take up legislation overhauling the federal permitting system will likely push consideration to the lame-duck session in November.

Speaking at a news conference, ...Read more

The California Supreme Court excoriated Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco over his seizure of hundreds of thousands of Proposition 50 ballots earlier this year, ordering the former gubernatorial candidate to immediately hand over all remaining material in a pair of scathing decisions on Thursday.

“We hold that the seizure of the ballots ...Read more

NEW YORK — The storm threatening to wallop the Northeast strengthened offshore Thursday into a full-blown nor’easter that appeared increasingly likely to bring rain to the tri-state area beginning Friday, according to the latest National Weather Service predictions.

Late Thursday morning it seemed slated to skew east of New York City toward...Read more

A Northern California community college wrestling star slipped and fell to his death Sunday at Yosemite National Park, officials confirmed.

Santa Rosa Junior College sophomore Ryan George died in an apparent accident, his college coach, Fred Duerr, posted in a statement Tuesday.

The Santa Rosa Press Democrat broke the news this week, saying ...Read more

Presley Gerber was reportedly living in a sober home rather than a licensed rehabilitation center when he died from a suspected drug overdose.

People who knew the 27-year-old model felt that Resolutions Living should have referred him to a facility that is legally authorized to offer detox, counseling, group sessions and treatment planning, ...Read more

NEW YORK — More than 100 people, including local elected officials, were arrested at protests against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of his scheduled speech before the U.N. General Assembly in Midtown Manhattan on Thursday, police said.

City Councilman Chi Osse was among the dozens taken into NYPD custody around 1 p.m. at ...Read more

A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday that removes President Donald Trump’s ban on three news outlets from White House grounds, a rebuke of the administration’s most severe attack yet on the Washington press corps.

Journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico were still denied access to the White House early Thursday. ...Read more

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to temporarily restore journalists’ access to the White House on Sept. 24, 2026. As he had in a similar case in 2018, U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly decided the revocation of the reporters’ press passes likely violated their Fifth Amendment right to due process.

His decision ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A nonprofit that steered nearly $100 million to fraudsters has agreed to hand over $18.5 million to the state of Minnesota to settle a lawsuit by Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison.

Under the settlement agreement, which was filed Thursday in Hennepin County District Court, Partners in Nutrition will dissolve and turn over ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The next phase of a highly successful satellite mission led by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has burned through its rainy day fund and now risks cost and schedule overruns, according to a new report.

One of the culprits: the 2025 Eaton fire, which came within a mile of the La Cañada Flintridge research facility.

The ...Read more

The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s trustees want the university to grow.

By a lot.

On Thursday, the board passed a resolution to recommend UNC enroll 5% of North Carolina’s high school seniors by 2030.

That would increase the number of students from North Carolina enrolling at UNC by up to 46%.

The university already had a ...Read more