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Light pollution has steadily intensified and expanded from urban areas, and with the advent of LED lighting, it is growing in North America by up to 10% per year, as measured by the visibility of stars in the night sky....Read more

LOS ANGELES — As Los Angeles police internal investigators dig deeper into one of the bigger scandals in recent department history, they have uncovered links between two troubled anti-gang units in the San Fernando ...Read more

SACRAMENTO — Along the gentle rolling foothills nearby Nevada City is a village known as Yulića.

Across the 232 acres of this land, there are man-made ponds, two creeks that barely trickle through and, on top of a ...Read more

Little red crustaceans pepper the shallow depths by the San Diego shoreline. The tuna crabs are back.

Tuna crabs, named after their most common predator — the tuna fish — have been seen by the thousands in Southern ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The citation that Andrew Rice received in the mail looked like a traffic ticket, including a photo of his license plate. But the mail didn’t come from any police or city agency he recognized.

Back in ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Penn students launched a new, short-lived, pro-Palestinian encampment Friday night, leading to multiple arrests. The encampment inside the school’s Fisher-Bennett Hall came one week after Philadelphia ...Read more

A line of dangerous storms and flooding rains rolled over the US Gulf Coast, killing at least four people and leaving more than 800,000 customers in Texas — about 6% of the total — without power while grounding ...Read more

ZAGREB, Croatia — Croatian lawmakers approved a coalition government that gives Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic a third term after he made a deal to include a right-wing nationalist party known for anti-immigration ...Read more

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro is convinced he can win July’s presidential elections without resorting to fraud.

But, if he’s wrong, he also has backup plans to cling on to power, according ...Read more

SpaceX lined up and knocked out another Starlink launch from the Space Coast on Friday night using a first-stage booster for a fleet-leading 21st time.

A Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 6-59 mission carrying 23 Starlink ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Former President Donald Trump headlined the state Republican Party's annual Lincoln Reagan Dinner on Friday in St. Paul, repeatedly ripping President Joe Biden and promising to fight to turn Minnesota ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado voters in November will decide whether to make abortion a state constitutional right after the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office announced Friday that backers of a ballot initiative had gathered ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — The parents of the baby at the center of a child welfare case that prompted protests at hospitals led by far-right activist Ammon Bundy have filed a lawsuit naming St. Luke’s Health System, the Idaho ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The president of Sonoma State University has retired from his role after being placed on leave for issuing a controversial campus-wide message on the Israel-Hamas war.

California State University ...Read more

DENVER — The University of Colorado Denver will move to remote classes and work “until further notice” because of the ongoing anti-war encampment on the Auraria Campus, university officials said in a message Friday ...Read more

Former President Donald Trump recently told a crowd of thousands in Wildwood, New Jersey, the baseless claim that Democrats want to pass an abortion law that enables doctors to “execute” newborns.

“If the radical ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Representatives of the University of California, Los Angeles academic senate have voted against censuring or making a “no confidence” statement against UCLA Chancellor Gene Block, rejecting a call to ...Read more

The Biden administration quadrupled tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles this week in order to protect American automakers.

The tariffs are expected to rise to 100 percent from 25 percent for EVs. There are additional ...Read more

Even after the University of California, Berkeley officials struck a deal with student leaders of the university's long-standing pro-Palestinian encampment, a group of protesters took over an abandoned building on campus ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The nationwide collegiate discord with the ongoing war in Israel came to Baltimore Friday when a group of University of Maryland, Baltimore social work students waved Palestine flags and held “ceasefire now...Read more