WASHINGTON — U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed Saturday that neither of their nations would turn over control of nuclear weapons to artificial intelligence programs, the White House said.

“It’s an important statement about the intersection of artificial intelligence and nuclear doctrine, and it is a ...Read more

Chinese leader Xi Jinping told U.S. President Joe Biden that he’s ready to work with Donald Trump to improve the relationship between the world’s biggest economies.

Speaking at the start of what’s expected to be their final meeting before Trump takes office, Xi told Biden that the U.S. and China should strive for peaceful coexistence ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Since Caltrain has switched to electric all-electric trains, their retired diesel fleet will be sent to Lima, Peru, to serve passenger rail service there, according to a Caltrain news release.

After seven years of electrification work, Caltrain switched to all-electric trains on their 51-mile corridor between San Jose, San ...Read more

NEW YORK — Three months ago, male model Dynus Saxon confidently strutted down the red carpet at the premiere of the superhero smash “Deadpool & Wolverine.” It was one of several red carpet rides the steely eyed, square-jawed stunner had made over the last few years as his modeling career blossomed.

He struck a far less assured pose late ...Read more

MIAMI — A somber crowd amassed on the sandy beaches of South Pointe in Miami Beach Saturday afternoon, carrying flowers and holding back tears as they mourned the loss of 19-year-old Victor Enrique Castaneda Jr.

Wearing shirts with his face adorned on them, “Forever 19” written in cursive above it, they held up a portrait and lowered ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — King tides will sweep across San Diego beaches this weekend and a few others over the next few months, sending powerful waves surging against seawalls and making for unusually low tides — prime opportunities to explore tide pools.

The California Coastal Commission is asking the public to photograph the rising tidal waters as ...Read more

NEW YORK — Meet the highest paid member of the NYPD — and it’s not the Police Commissioner.

Quathisha Epps, a lieutenant special assignment who works in Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey’s office, made $406,515 in fiscal 2024 which ended June 30, city payroll records show.

Former Police Commissioner Edward Caban, who quit in ...Read more

Billionaire Elon Musk voiced support for Howard Lutnick in the race to be President-elect Donald Trump’s next Treasury secretary as warring camps make final pushes for the coveted Cabinet post.

The infighting has delayed decisions on Trump’s economic picks even as he rushes to fill many other posts in his incoming administration.

Musk ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Since Caltrain has switched to electric all-electric trains, their retired diesel fleet will be sent to Lima, Peru, to serve passenger rail service there, according to a Caltrain news release.

After seven years of electrification work, Caltrain switched to all-electric trains on their 51-mile corridor between San Jose, San ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Tropical Storm Sara is forecast to slog its way over Central America this weekend but lose organization before remnants make their way into the Gulf of Mexico and get sucked back to the east toward Florida next week.

As of the National Hurricane Center’s 7 p.m. advisory, Sara was located about 30 miles west-northwest of Isla...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The first case in the U.S. of a more severe mpox variant has been confirmed in a person who had recently traveled to East Africa and was treated in San Mateo County, the California Department of Public Health announced Saturday.

The person diagnosed with the Clade I variant is isolating at home and recovering, while people who ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Adam Iza grew up a world away from the Bel-Air mansion he inhabited before his arrest in September.

As his lawyer Josef Sadat tells it, Iza was poor during his childhood in Iraq, borrowing a computer from his uncle before coming to the U.S. as a teenager and building a lucrative cryptocurrency trading platform.

But as Iza grew ...Read more

Russia, ranked the most corrupt of the world’s biggest economies, is intensifying a crack down on graft among officials that has risked undermining the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine and further straining state coffers.

Data from the courts and law enforcement agencies show a jump in the number of corruption-related criminal cases, sentences...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The California Public Utilities Commission this week unveiled a proposal that could potentially close the Aliso Canyon gas storage field in the coming years, but local activists and politicians say it doesn’t provide a fast or clear enough timeline to shut down the site of the largest natural gas leak in American history.

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NEW YORK — Whoopi Goldberg was publicly accused of defamation on Friday, two days after “The View” co-host suggested a bakery didn’t want to make her birthday desserts due to her left-leaning political views.

Goldberg celebrated her 69th birthday on “The View” this week, where she told viewers her order for several dozen Charlotte ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A southwest Missouri man who wanted to someday be a cop was sentenced Friday to one year in prison for assaulting an officer and several other offenses committed during the Capitol riot.

Kyler Joseph Bard, 28, of Seneca, also will have 24 months of supervised release and must pay $2,000 restitution for damage to the Capitol, ...Read more

Chinese leader Xi Jinping told U.S. President Joe Biden that he’s ready to work with Donald Trump to improve the relationship between the world’s biggest economies.

Speaking in what’s expected to be their final meeting before Trump takes office, Xi told Biden that the U.S. and China should strive for peaceful co-existence over the long ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — San Diego County’s public health department warned local doctors Friday that the region is in the midst of a significant increase in walking pneumonia cases, especially among children ages 2 to 4, echoing a national trend recently observed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And this surge has not arrived ...Read more

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson reversed course Saturday and announced he will not attend a slain cop’s funeral after the officer’s family told him to stay away.

Johnson’s office had said Friday he would go to the funeral for Officer Enrique Martinez, despite protests from the police union president who said he would not be welcome.

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President-elect Donald Trump nominated Chris Wright, who runs a Colorado-based oil and natural gas fracking services company, to lead the Energy Department.

Wright, the chief executive officer of Liberty Energy Inc., has no previous Washington experience. He’s made a name for himself as a vocal proponent of oil and gas, saying fossil fuels ...Read more