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LOS ANGELES — Sarina Hosseiny said she had never heard of Qassem Soleimani, an Iranian general assassinated by the U.S. in 2020.

That is, not until this year, when threatening comments cropped up on social media ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Animal activists are pressing the Los Angeles City Council to continue funding a program that provides exercise and play time for dogs confined in city animal shelters.

Under a $1.6 million annual contract...Read more

A bizarre pursuit unfolded along the residential streets of Oceanside, California, this week as a helicopter and half a dozen sheriff's patrol cars chased a teen whizzing away from them on an electric dirt bike.

The ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As the war with Iran sends the price of virgin plastic skyward, speculation is growing as to whether recycled plastic could finally have its day after struggling for years to gain a greater foothold among ...Read more

JOLIET, Ill. — Inside 25-foot high, sand-colored walls where inmates once served maximum security prison sentences and where rusty jail cells still stand, thousands gathered for an unusual afternoon ballgame Thursday.

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CHICAGO — As many as 120,000 Illinoisans could lose access to food assistance beginning Friday due to new work requirements from the federal government, according to the Illinois Department of Human Services.

To remain ...Read more

DENVER — A message carved into the shoe of the boy who shot two students and then himself at Evergreen High School last year makes clear the teenager was deeply entrenched in online extremist networks and that his ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Experts who monitor far-right extremism have tracked a resurgence in California in recent years.

There are nearly 100 "hate and anti-government" groups in the state, including anti-vaxxers, doomsday ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Driverless cars haven't always obeyed the rules of the road but, unlike vehicles with humans behind the wheel, they've gotten away with it.

That's about to change.

A slew of statewide autonomous vehicle ...Read more

State officials remain uncertain on how to enforce a requirement that many adult Medicaid enrollees show they’re working — even as one state launches its program this week— and they’re taking a variety of ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Three additional measles cases were reported in South Florida in April as the state, for two consecutive months, ranks fourth in the U.S. for the highest number of cases this year.

As of April 25...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Stanford is backing away from a program designed to support teachers of color after accusations of racial discrimination led to a federal investigation announced this week.

The Department of Education...Read more

Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacteria Treponema pallidum.

During pregnancy, this bacteria can pass from a mother with untreated syphilis, known as maternal syphilis, to her child in...Read more

The phrase “concentration camp” is freighted with dark historical meaning. Most people hear it and instinctively think of concentration camps used by the Nazis to exterminate Jews and other minority populations ...Read more

In the summer of 2025, OpenAI released ChatGPT 5 and removed its predecessor from the market. Many subscribers to the old model had become attached to its warm, enthusiastically agreeable tone and complained at the loss...Read more

The U.S. Energy Information Administration expects nationwide retail gasoline prices to average near US$4.30 a gallon for April 2026 – the highest monthly average of the year. The political response has been familiar....Read more

Iran’s record internet blackout is emerging as a key dividing line between the country’s powerful security apparatus and its civilian government, underlining how the war with the U.S. has extended the military’s ...Read more

The U.S. government had no trouble deporting Lazaro Romero León to Mexico in February, despite a California federal judge's order that the Cuban national stay in this country.

The problem now, government officials claim,...Read more