SAN DIEGO — Camp Pendleton has begun large-scale training exercises to prepare Marines to operate from a base in Darwin, Australia, early next year, part of a larger U.S. effort to deepen ties with a key ally in the Indo-Pacific.

Darwin represents a potential staging point for the U.S., which has repeatedly said it will repel any attempt ...Read more

NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s attorneys have asked the judge who presided over his criminal hush money case to dismiss the indictment and vacate the jury’s guilty verdicts — arguing their client is a victim of the same “raw politics” President Joe Biden cited in pardoning his son, Hunter, according to filings made public Tuesday.

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OAKLAND, Calif. — The city charter in Oakland contains an extensive set of laws, but it wasn’t exactly set up to address the aftermath of an election that saw the mayor recalled and the next-up city official ascend to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors.

But that’s where Oakland now finds itself, nearly a month after City Hall was ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Treasury secretary nominee Scott Bessent plans to meet this week with incoming Senate Republican leader John Thune and other key senators as he begins preparing for confirmation hearings.

The veteran hedge fund manager hasn’t aroused public opposition from GOP senators even as some of Donald Trump’s other picks have stirred ...Read more

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said he will rescind his martial law decree, giving in to the parliament’s opposition just hours after his dramatic move imposing it that shook markets and surprised other world leaders.

Yoon said in a televised address early Wednesday that he will “accept the National Assembly’s...Read more

The judge who presided over Hunter Biden's federal tax case in Los Angeles criticized President Joe Biden on Tuesday for pardoning his son this week, saying he misrepresented the facts of his son's criminal case when he announced the move.

In a brief order, U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi faulted Hunter Biden's lawyers for failing to file a ...Read more

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s main opposition party announced that it would seek to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol after he shocked the nation by briefly imposing martial law.

The Democratic Party will pursue charges of treason and impeachment against Yoon, as well as South Korea’s defense minister and safety minister, for ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams doubled down on his claim that President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice is politically motivated — touting a front-page New York Times story focusing on the Hunter Biden pardon at a press briefing Tuesday.

“President Biden and President-elect Donald Trump now agree on one thing: The Biden Justice ...Read more

PARIS — President Emmanuel Macron called on French lawmakers to set aside their personal ambition and reject a vote that would topple the government and throw the country into political turmoil.

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen and her National Rally party have vowed to support a no-confidence motion on Wednesday submitted by a left-wing ...Read more

Haiti’s second-largest city, Cap-Haïtien, has the only airport in the country open to international commercial air travel. But getting in and out of the northern city has for weeks now been nearly impossible.

Domestic flights remain grounded after gang gunfire last month struck three U.S. commercial airplanes, prompting a ban against U.S. ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The state of Missouri executed Christopher Collings by lethal injection Tuesday evening, the state’s Department of Corrections and his legal team confirmed.

Collings — who was convicted of the 2007 killing of Rowan Ford, a 9-year-old girl in southwestern Missouri — was pronounced dead at 6:10 p.m. Central time at the ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A fatal Tesla Cybertruck incident in Piedmont is being investigated by the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration and California Highway Patrol after three Piedmont high school graduates died and another was hospitalized.

The NHTSA said it is working with the California Highway Patrol to determine the cause of ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas Bureau of Investigation will be looking into how Roger Golubski, a retired Kansas City, Kansas, detective found dead on the morning of his criminal trial, obtained a firearm, a spokesperson for the state agency said Tuesday.

“We will look into how he obtained the firearm as a part of the death investigation,”...Read more

NEW YORK — Manhattan jurors ended their first day of deliberations in the case against Daniel Penny without reaching a verdict Tuesday after prosecutors asked them to determine he killed Jordan Neely “recklessly and needlessly.”

The panelists who got the case around 1:15 p.m. sent one substantive note requesting to rehear Justice Maxwell ...Read more

ATLANTA — A Fulton County judge has ordered the Fulton District Attorney’s office to turn over documents from its election interference investigation that were sent to Special Counsel Jack Smith and the U.S. House Jan. 6th Committee.

On Monday, Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney ordered the DA’s office to turn over the documents to ...Read more

A Stanford University misinformation expert who was called out in a federal court case in Minnesota for submitting a sworn declaration that contained made-up information has blamed an artificial intelligence chatbot.

And the bot generated more errors than the one highlighted by the plaintiffs in the case, professor Jeff Hancock wrote in an ...Read more

CHICAGO — Federal prosecutors in the corruption trial of former House Speaker Michael Madigan will get the chance Tuesday to ask ex-Ald. Daniel Solis about his cooperation against another “high-ranking official” — but they won’t be able to say the name Edward M. Burke.

Solis, whose stunning turn as an FBI mole is at the center of both...Read more

Rep. Andy Kim, poised to become the highest-ranking Korean American politician in the United States when he is sworn in as a senator, said Tuesday he is deeply relieved that martial law in South Korea has been lifted, just hours after it was invoked by the country’s unpopular president.

But Kim, D-N.J., said he is still troubled that the ...Read more