ATLANTA — The first trial in hundreds of Georgia lawsuits alleging people were injured by exposure to a chemical used to sterilize medical products is due to start Monday in Gwinnett County.

Retired truck driver Gary Walker, 75, claims his decades of exposure to ethylene oxide at and around a sterilization facility in Covington caused him to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Just weeks after the deadly Eaton fire ignited near three Southern California Edison transmission towers, the utility quietly changed an internal policy on how crews should ground idle electrical pylons.

The change attracted little attention at the time — due mostly to the fact that early suspicion about the cause of the blaze...Read more

Amazon.com Inc. equipped some delivery vans in Europe with defibrillators to see if drivers crisscrossing residential areas could speed up aid to heart-attack victims.

The world’s largest online retailer tested a program, called Project Pulse, as a pilot in Amsterdam in November 2023, and expanded it to London and Bologna, Italy, according to...Read more

CHICAGO — It was a typical Thursday night for the financial analyst, who was watching “Lord of the Rings” when he got the email with the subject line “visa revoked.” At first, the University of Illinois Chicago grad from India thought it was a joke — just a scam email from some Indian website trying to mess with him.

But then he ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump issued a directive expanding military control over federal lands near the U.S.-Mexico border, seeking to bolster his efforts to crack down on undocumented migration.

In a memorandum released on Friday evening, Trump ordered several Cabinet secretaries to give the Defense Department jurisdiction over federal...Read more

LOS ANGELES — An L.A. County judge denied District Attorney Nathan Hochman’s bid Friday to revoke a petition to resentence the Menendez brothers that was filed by his predecessor, setting the stage for a hearing that could offer the brothers a path to freedom next week.

Superior Court Judge Michael Jesic denied Hochman’s request after a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The possibility that an idle, unconnected Southern California Edison transmission line somehow reengerized on Jan. 7 is "a leading hypothesis" for what started the destructive Eaton fire, Edison International Chief Executive Pedro Pizarro said Friday.

In response, Edison will take steps to harden other idle towers and lines ...Read more

NEW YORK — Puzzling and vaguely threatening graffiti appeared overnight around a Manhattan luxury townhouse once occupied by President Donald Trump’s former wife Ivana Trump, including the ominous message, “We killing u for Ivana Trump.”

The graffiti, which also referenced the first daughter, with “My queen Ivanka Trump,” was ...Read more

New Jersey acting U.S. Attorney Alina Habba has ordered an investigation of Gov. Phil Murphy and state Attorney General Matthew Platkin for allegedly refusing to cooperate with President Donald Trump’s ongoing federal immigration crackdown.

Habba announced the investigation on Fox News host Sean Hannity’s show Thursday night.

“I am ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — An Ada County judge on Friday ruled partially in favor of four women who sued the state after they were denied health condition-related abortions in Idaho because of strict bans on the procedure.

The ruling puts in place the first clear carve-out of a health exception in the ban, a contentious issue that has sparked multiple ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he underwent and passed a cognitive exam during a roughly four-hour physical exam conducted Friday by his physician.

“I took a cognitive test and I don’t know what to tell you other than I got every answer right,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One en route to Florida.

Trump, in response ...Read more

Wall Street economists maintained their forecasts for a sharp slowdown in U.S. economic growth and warned recession risk is still elevated despite the Trump administration’s decision this week to delay major tariffs on a wide range of trading partners.

Morgan Stanley, BNP Paribas, RBC Capital Markets, Barclays Plc and UBS issued updated ...Read more

NEW YORK — The company operating the helicopter that crashed into the Hudson River carrying a family from Spain, killing them all, has a history of close calls and financial problems that resulted in a 2019 bankruptcy filing, records show.

In June 2013, a craft owned by the same company, New York Helicopter, experienced engine failure with ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York Attorney General Letitia James and 18 other AGs Friday threw their support behind professors seeking to halt the Trump administration’s efforts to deport international students.

In a friend of the court brief, the coalition accused the federal government of weaponizing immigration enforcement to crack down on speech ...Read more

A dozen former OpenAI employees are objecting to the startup’s plan to restructure as a for-profit as Elon Musk wages a high-stakes legal challenge to the overhaul.

In the latest turn in a showdown between the world’s richest person and one of the most valuable startups, the data scientists and technicians argued in a court filing Friday ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Survivors of the 2016 Pulse nightclub massacre and the families of those killed must now decide if they want to tour the property before it is demolished, leaving them a “hard” and “painful” choice about whether to commemorate the ninth anniversary of the shootings with a look inside the shuttered building.

Orlando ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — After months of questions in the aftermath of the Eaton and Palisades fires, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has finally shared preliminary results from soil testing in and around the burn areas. The publicly available data are still somewhat vague — but they do show concerning levels of lead on properties ...Read more

NEW YORK — The National Transportation Safety Board said it isn’t ruling anything out as it probes the deadly crash of a New York City tourist helicopter.

“Everything is on the table,” NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said Friday during a media briefing on the accident, in which a sightseeing helicopter plunged into the Hudson River.

The ...Read more