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

NEW YORK — The eight people killed in the tragic building collapse on a busy Brooklyn street corner on Wednesday all had one thing in common: they were all immigrants who had come to this country chasing a dream that ended in a tragic instant.

Some were undocumented. Some had been here for a few years. But they all had come to the U.S. to ...Read more

DENVER — Federal officials are looking into the circumstances surrounding one of Colorado’s reintroduced gray wolves that died in Utah last week, Colorado Parks and Wildlife said Friday.

State wildlife officials received a mortality alert for wolf 2516, a female, on Nov. 7, the agency said in a news release. The cause of death is unknown.

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PITTSBURGH — The United States has lost measles elimination status, per multiple reports, a status it has held since 2000.

Losing measles elimination status means the highly contagious virus is now considered endemic in the country, representing continuous transmission. Epidemiologists consider it a major setback for public health progress, ...Read more

Jared Kushner, the U.S. president’s son-in-law who has been serving as a negotiator with Russia and Ukraine, said the Trump administration wants to see direct talks between Moscow and U.S. allies in Europe.

Russia has recently begun demanding a discussion with Europe over security arrangements on the continent, which has divided members of ...Read more

NEW YORK — The high-stakes admissions test for New York City’s specialized high schools faced technical difficulties on Saturday, sending thousands of test-takers home from sites across the city.

The Specialized High Schools Admissions Test, known as the SHSAT, is the sole determinant for admissions to eight of the city’s nine specialized...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Weather authorities had a stern warning for Bay Area locals as towering waves hit the coast Saturday: “Stay away from the coast.”

That was the message of the National Weather Service, San Francisco Fire Department and other authorities. The weather service had issued a high surf warning, with “life-threatening waves�...Read more

SpaceX successfully caught its Starship rocket as it returned to the Texas launch site from orbit, a novel engineering feat and major step toward Elon Musk’s goal of developing a fully reusable system.

Starship descended from the sky over SpaceX’s Starbase facility in South Texas after 3 p.m. local time on Saturday, lowering itself belly ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation was working Saturday to determine whether Friday’s air traffic control system meltdown resulted from human error or equipment failure as travelers across the nation continued to grapple with a cascade of flight delays and cancellations.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the crisis ...Read more

MIAMI — Florida Gov.-elect Byron Donalds’ new policy chair is a lobbyist who has claimed credit for ensuring Obamacare subsidy extensions died in Congress last year.

Donalds named Tarren Bragdon as the policy chair of his transition team this week. He’s the founder and CEO of the Naples-based conservative think tank Foundation for ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Supporters of Bill Peterson’s bid to become Minneapolis’ next police chief felt optimistic Thursday morning.

Top Minneapolis police supervisors, gathered behind closed doors, declared that the interim chief had the votes to secure the job.

But by mid-afternoon, following hours of scrutiny from skeptical City Council members...Read more

LONG PRAIRIE, Minn. — Talk to enough Amish residents in Todd County and you’ll hear a common refrain about the measles outbreak happening there.

“It’s just measles. Might as well get it over with,” said Emmanuel Schwartzentruber, who sells wooden chests and baskets from his farm west of Long Prairie, Minn.

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MIAMI — Hundreds of flights were canceled at South Florida airports Saturday after a telecommunications outage prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to issue a nationwide ground stop Friday, blocking planes from taking off and causing headaches for weekend travelers.

The head of the FAA say delays and cancellations will continue ...Read more

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Saturday that officials are looking into whether aerospace and defense contractor L3Harris Technologies Inc. was at fault for an aviation traffic control system shutdown that grounded flights nationwide for more than four hours.

L3Harris was replacing a copper line with fiber at a remote Federal ...Read more