LAS VEGAS — Siera Begaye told a judge on Monday that Nathan Chasing Horse robbed her of her innocence.

“Instead of being allowed to grow into my own person, he tried to shape me into something for his own desire and control,” she said in a packed Las Vegas courtroom.

District Judge Jessica Peterson gave “Dances with Wolves” actor ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In a rare rebuke, UC Regent Jay Sures is speaking out in a blistering criticism of UCLA student government leaders amid a growing controversy over the campus visit of a freed Israeli hostage held by Hamas after the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel.

Saying he was "disgusted and appalled" by recent statements from the undergraduate ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — There's nothing quite as identifiable as a face.

Retailers use facial recognition technology to more easily nab shoplifters. Casinos have deployed it to keep card counters away. Even a popular New York City venue allegedly uses it to blackball people its millionaire owner considers adversaries.

So, it comes as no surprise to ...Read more

President Donald Trump ramped up his push for a new White House ballroom on Tuesday by promoting an unorthodox and sharply worded legal filing after the shooting attack at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner.

Trump posted legal papers filed by his Department of Justice that included his claims that the historic preservation group ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — ABC late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel explained his controversial joke about first lady Melania Trump, but declined to apologize for offending her.

On Monday, President Donald Trump repeated his demand that ABC fire the longtime show host over a joke that aired on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” two days before the White House ...Read more

Jimmy Kimmel shrugged off the first couple’s call for his firing after his morbid quip about Melania Trump ahead of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, which was interrupted by a shooting attack days later.

“You know how sometimes you wake up in the morning and the first lady puts out a statement demanding you be fired from your job?�...Read more

WASHINGTON — King Charles III will address a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, becoming the second British monarch in history to do so as the United States commemorates the 250th anniversary of its independence from England.

The king’s address, the centerpiece of a four-day state visit, comes at a moment of unusual strain between ...Read more

President Donald Trump said Iran has asked the U.S. to lift a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz while the two sides negotiate an end to the two-month war, which has upended global energy supplies.

Tehran wants the critical waterway for oil and gas shipments open “as soon as possible, as they try to figure out their leadership situation,�...Read more

LOS ANGELES — ABC late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel explained his controversial joke about First Lady Melania Trump, but declined to apologize for offending her.

On Monday, President Donald Trump repeated his demand that ABC fire the longtime show host over a joke that aired on the L.A.-based “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” program two days before ...Read more

Whether you’re planning a weekend hike, deciding what to wear to work or preparing your home for severe storms, the weather forecast is essential. You might instinctively grab your smartphone and check an app for an instant weather update.

But how many times have you looked at your app, only to step outside and see the sky painting ...Read more

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, caused 141,733 deaths in the United States in 2023 – the latest data that has been reported. That number reflects not just the effects of smoking, but a broader set of medical and social factors that shape who survives.

As of early 2026, COPD remains the fifth-leading cause of death ...Read more

Keeping tabs on blood sugar throughout the day used to be the exclusive domain of people with diabetes. But in 2026, anyone can buy a user-friendly wearable device that provides minute-by-minute readouts on how their glucose levels respond to food and movement.

These glucose numbers are increasingly being tracked by people who are ...Read more

For the first time in almost 80 years, U.S. service members will no longer be mandated to receive the annual influenza vaccine.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the change on April 22, 2026. Citing medical autonomy and religious freedom, he described the requirement as “overly broad and not rational,” telling troops that �...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The LAPD's black-and-white helicopters have long been a fixture of local skies, allowing the police to track suspects and patrol the city from above.

Now, the air traffic is growing more crowded with the expansion of the department's drone fleet.

The Los Angeles Police Department has increasingly come to rely on small, unmanned...Read more

LOS ANGELES — At Turner's Outdoorsman in Torrance, racks of long guns line the back wall under taxidermied deer and antelope heads. On Sunday afternoon, shoppers browsed for fishing poles and sifted through a wide array of camouflage hunting gear.

It could have been a scene straight out of a gun store in rural Utah or Alabama, but instead it ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been quietly expanding its presence in the Pittsburgh area after leasing space in a five-story office in the western suburbs late last year.

For months, the federal government worked in lockstep to keep the expansion under the radar as the Post-Gazette checked records and requested ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will hear arguments this week over whether the Trump administration may revoke temporary protected status for about 350,000 Haitian and 6,100 Syrian immigrants.

TPS allows people who are already in the United States to legally reside and work here if they are unable to safely return to their home country ...Read more

Despite bipartisan agreement on the need for testing and treatment for the life-threatening liver disease hepatitis C, potentially hundreds of thousands of Americans remain untreated or even unaware they’re infected as efforts to expand access to cures have stalled in Congress.

Legislation introduced last year has struggled to gain traction ...Read more

​It was hailed as a “triumph of 21st century medicine” — a daily pill that cures a life-threatening liver disease in a matter of weeks with minimal side effects and a success rate of more than 95 percent.

But more than a decade after direct-acting antivirals to cure hepatitis C hit the market, potentially hundreds of thousands of ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Mary Alice Glen was 37 years old when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1996. Years earlier, her mother died from ovarian cancer. One of her sisters had breast cancer. A brother had colorectal cancer.

In the early 2000s, when Glen was in remission, people in her community in Boise were having recurrences of breast cancer ...Read more