LOS ANGELES – It was the first and possibly the most dramatic act by Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass after she took office: declaring a city emergency on homelessness.

That move, backed by the City Council, gave Bass the power to award no-bid contracts to nonprofit groups and to rent hotels and motels for interim homeless housing. It also ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s tariff strategy has been thrown into turmoil after a U.S. court issued a rare rebuke blocking many of the import taxes he has threatened and imposed on other countries.

In a ruling issued late Wednesday, a three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of International Trade declared that the Trump administration had wrongly ...Read more

Picking up a fight they started two years ago, GOP U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri and Democratic U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois again have proposed laws aimed at curbing child pornography.

Last week, the bistate pair reintroduced a bill that would eliminate laws that protect tech companies from being held liable for hosting child sex ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — It’s an election unlike any other in Mexico. No sports stadiums packed with the party faithful. The smiling faces of normally omnipresent candidates almost completely absent on TV or glitzy posters. But the stakes couldn’t be higher.

On Sunday, Mexicans will begin electing judges from among thousands of largely unknown ...Read more

CHICAGO — The officers were just north of 71st Street when they saw a man lying in the middle of Western Avenue, close to the eastern boundary of the Chicago Police Department’s 8th District.

It was about 10:30 p.m. on May 13, and several witnesses told police that a silver vehicle was speeding north on the busy thoroughfare when the driver...Read more

Like many moderate-income workers, public school teachers Julia and Scott Whitnall didn’t think they’d become homeowners in their early 30s. Especially in California.

“We never felt homeownership was in our cards. But we did it!” Julia Whitnall said. “We’re extremely happy.”

The couple moved May 16 to a $509,000 two-bedroom house...Read more

LOS ANGELES — On Oct. 29, 2022, the universe told Dr. Casey Means her fate lay in Los Angeles.

President Donald Trump’s new pick for surgeon general wrote in her popular online newsletter of her epiphany, which came during a dawn hike among the cadmium-colored California oaks and flames of wild mustard flower painting the Topanga Canyon: �...Read more

WASHINGTON — When J. Thomas Manger took charge of the Capitol Police in the aftermath of Jan. 6, 2021, he said that day “should not define us.”

As Manger prepares to retire at the end of the month, he’s taking stock of what’s changed since the mob attack on the Capitol, which revealed long-standing leadership problems and tanked ...Read more

HAMILTON, Mont. — Scientists are often careful to take off their work badges when they leave the campus of one of the nation’s top research facilities, here in southwestern Montana’s Bitterroot Valley.

It’s a reflection of the long-standing tension caused by Rocky Mountain Laboratories’ improbable location in this conservative, blue-...Read more

CHICAGO -- For a city with hundreds of shootings each year, the work that Pha’Tal Perkins does with kids in Chicago is quiet but significant.

Perkins, 41, remembers that after a bullet went through a window and into the neck of an 11-year-old girl last year in the West Englewood neighborhood, for example, he spent long hours bringing food and...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Florida police arrested more than two dozen people under a controversial new immigration law that makes it a crime to enter the state while undocumented — after a judge blocked the measure saying it was likely unconstitutional, a Tampa Bay Times analysis has found.

At least nine of the 25 arrested have landed in immigration ...Read more

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang soothed investor fears about a China slowdown by delivering a solid sales forecast, saying that the AI computing market is still poised for “exponential growth.”

The company expects revenue of about $45 billion in the second fiscal quarter, which runs through July. New export restrictions ...Read more

As the Minnesota Legislature blew its deadline to pass a $66 billion budget last week, legislative leaders and Gov. Tim Walz said they hoped lawmakers would return to the Capitol for a special session to enact new state spending by the end of May.

That’s looking less likely by the day as disagreements over a budget framework deal reached by ...Read more

A string of protesters against Israel’s assault on Palestinians in Gaza disrupted U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet’s town hall at the University of Denver on Wednesday, leading to several ejections from the otherwise friendly crowd.

Bennet, a Democrat in his third term in the Senate, was hosting the town hall as part of a spate of Front Range ...Read more

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered staff cuts at the congressionally mandated Pentagon office that oversees tests of major weapons systems, to ensure they’re effective and maintainable, before billions of dollars are spent on them.

Hegseth framed the decision to scale back the Office of the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation as a...Read more