SAN FRANCISCO — Andrew Douglass shoved his clothes and belongings into plastic trash bags as five police officers surrounded his encampment — a drab gray tent overflowing along a bustling sidewalk in the gritty Tenderloin neighborhood, where homeless people lie sprawled on public sidewalks, sometimes in drug overdoses.

Officers gave him a ...Read more

ATLANTA -- Roughly three years ago near Eagle Pass, Texas, a mother of three waded through the Rio Grande to reach U.S. soil, with her then one-year-old daughter in her arms. The family had fled threats of violence in their hometown of La Ceiba, a Caribbean port city in northern Honduras.

Life in metro Atlanta, where they soon settled, brought ...Read more

The Biden administration has launched a new initiative to crack down on smugglers at U.S. borders and ports. The concern isn’t drugs or counterfeit goods, though; it’s a refrigerant that’s also a dangerous greenhouse gas.

The Environmental Protection Agency, Customs and Border Protection and other agencies are arming themselves with new ...Read more

CHICAGO — Chris Murray was homeless, living on Lower Wacker Drive, after his mother died from COVID-19 in 2020. Her death, he said, caused him to go “off the deep end.” His heroin addiction grew worse, and he lost his job.

Nonprofit and social service groups would come around to offer housing support, but Murray, now 37, said he was ...Read more

Earlier this month, Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed new emergency restrictions on California's hemp industry, citing an urgent need to protect children. His concern: a class of loosely regulated products that contain intoxicating levels of THC, the compound known for causing cannabis highs.

While many agree some changes are necessary, a number of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A magnitude 3 earthquake occurred just north of Malibu Saturday afternoon, the latest in a cluster of temblors reported over the last week and a half.

The latest earthquake occurred at 2:15 p.m. Saturday, with an epicenter along Kanan Dume Road, about 3.6 miles north of Point Dume.

Saturday’s event was the sixth earthquake of...Read more

A Sri Lankan leftist politician who’s pledged to fight corruption in the crisis-hit economy took a convincing early lead as votes were counted in Saturday’s presidential election.

With results of postal ballots in 18 of 22 electoral districts released so far, Anura Kumara Dissanayake was ahead with 55.9% of the vote, local media including ...Read more

The human-sparked Pearl fire burning west of Fort Collins in Larimer County is 90% contained, fire officials announced Saturday.

At 4 p.m. Saturday, Larimer County officials issued an “All Clear” for the wildfire, lifting all remaining evacuation orders and allowing normal activity in the area to resume.

The Pearl fire — a wildfire that ...Read more

President Joe Biden was caught on a hot mic saying China is “testing” the U.S. and its allies in the Indo-Pacific region during a Quad leaders’ summit — even as the bloc’s members in their public remarks sidestepped the idea that they are a counterweight to Chinese influence.

The Quad leaders, Biden and prime ministers Narendra Modi ...Read more

President Joe Biden is spending the final months of his term tightening the screws on China, capping an approach that has seen him carry out a difficult juggling act in office to counter the world’s second largest economy.

That effort will be on display this weekend as Biden hosts the Quad Leaders Summit in Wilmington, Delaware, bringing ...Read more

Only two of the original four members of SpaceX Crew-9’s mission to the International Space Station arrived to Kennedy Space Center on Saturday, making room on their future ride home next year for the pair of NASA astronauts left behind by Boeing’s Starliner.

NASA astronaut and Space Force Col. Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr ...Read more

MIAMI — Migrants intercepted at sea aboard U.S.-bound voyages are being kept in inhumane and prison-like conditions at a federal facility at Guantanamo Bay, according to a report released Wednesday by a legal-aid and advocacy group that has represented migrants at the center.

The International Refugee Assistance Project said that migrants ...Read more

ATLANTA — Marcee Gray, the mother of the suspect in the Apalachee High School shooting, has been indicted in Ben Hill County, accused of taping her then-73-year-old mother to a chair, stealing her phone and damaging her home in November.

Deborah Polhamus, 74, spent almost 24 hours taped to a chair in her Fitzgerald home, an incident report ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Saturday is tracking three systems in the Atlantic and one Gulf-bound system.

As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. tropical outlook, the most likely would come from a system expected to form in the northwestern Caribbean and move into the Gulf of Mexico.

The broad area of low pressure is likely to form by...Read more

BALTIMORE — Federal officials boarded a container ship in the Port of Baltimore Saturday, according to the FBI Baltimore press office. The vessel is managed by the same company as the Dali, as reported by The Associated Press.

Agents from the FBI, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Criminal Investigation Division and the Coast Guard ...Read more

Ukraine’s armed forces confirmed overnight attacks on at least two large Russian military warehouses in a Telegram post by its General Staff.

One arms depot was situated near Tikhoretsk in the Krasnodar region in southern Russia, where about 1,200 people were evacuated after what local officials described as debris from a downed drone ...Read more

California took a major step in its fight to protect children from the ills of social media with Gov. Gavin Newsom's signature on a bill to limit the ability of companies to provide "addictive feeds" to minors.

Newsom on Friday signed Senate Bill 976, named the Protecting Our Kids From Social Media Addiction Act and introduced by state Sen. ...Read more