LOS ANGELES — A beautiful menace is growing on the freshly charred slopes of the San Gabriel Mountains.

The whimsically named poodle-dog bush thrives in the wake of fires, such as the more than 14,000-acre Eaton fire that ravaged swaths of the Angeles National Forest in January. The mountain shrub strikes the senses with bell-shaped purple ...Read more

Duc never imagined his past mistakes would cost him everything.

Brought to the U.S. as an infant in the 1980s, Duc, a Vietnamese refugee, has always considered the U.S. his home. But after serving time for a felony drug conviction, he learned that his green card had been revoked, and he now faces deportation to Vietnam, a country he has never ...Read more

China pledged decisive action to defend its economy, a day after unveiling levies on American goods and export controls on rare earths in response to Donald Trump’s tariffs.

Beijing will continue to take “resolute measures” to safeguard its sovereignty, security and other interests, the state-owned Xinhua News Agency reported on Saturday....Read more

President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff plan has rocked global markets, with every single sector in the S&P 500 ending Friday in deep red. But one turgid addendum issued by U.S. Customs and Border Protection just after his April 2 tariff pronouncement provided relief for those in the collectible car business: Vintage cars would be exempt.

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Elon Musk hopes for a “zero-tariff” system between the U.S. and Europe that would effectively create “a free-trade zone,” he said on Saturday, days after levies set by U.S. President Donald Trump sent global markets into a tailspin.

“Both Europe and the United States should move, ideally, in my view, to a zero-tariff situation, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Trump administration has canceled dozens of international student visas at California campuses, including UCLA, UC San Diego, UC Irvine, UC Berkeley and Stanford, university leaders, students and faculty at campuses confirmed to The Times.

At UCLA, the revocations hit at least eight international students, according to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Tens of thousands of people took to the streets across the country on Saturday to protest President Donald Trump and a wide range of his administration’s actions, including government downsizing, attacks on the rights of immigrants and transgender people, and tariffs that are roiling economies across the globe.

More than 500,...Read more

WASHINGTON — From the moment President Donald Trump unveiled his sweeping tariffs Wednesday through the ensuing market mayhem the following day, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s phone lit up with text messages from executives tied to his former industry.

Multiple hedge fund managers and finance executives reached out, seeking his help in ...Read more

Colombia said it’s acting “decisively” against transnational organized crime after a senior U.S. official described the country’s president as being sympathetic to drug traffickers and gang members.

Operations against the Tren de Aragua gang have “significantly weakened” its consolidation in Bogota and thwarted its expansion plans,...Read more

An American YouTuber was arrested by Indian authorities after he allegedly snuck onto a remote island untouched by the modern world, bringing with him a coconut and a can of Diet Coke as an offering for an isolated tribe that lives there.

Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov is accused of using an inflatable boat to illegally travel to North Sentinel ...Read more

A Yale police officer has been arrested for allegedly possessing dozens of digital files depicting child sexual abuse, state police said.

Otilio Green, 43, of Hamden, was arrested Friday following a Connecticut State Police investigation prompted by a tip sent to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, or NCMEC.

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ATLANTA — This year’s legislative session ended with a jolt, as Senate leaders abruptly adjourned and left dozens of pending proposals to die on the vine.

But before the Friday standoff, Georgia lawmakers had already approved a stack of bills, setting the stage for Gov. Brian Kemp to begin the final phase of the legislative process. He has ...Read more

The ex-husband of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., has apologized for berating three Muslim women in Georgia days after a video of the incident went viral.

“I came today just to meet with the young ladies that I was mean to and treated disrespectfully about their religion and about what they were doing,” Perry Greene said Friday at a ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — A San Diego Superior Court judge has issued a ruling that bars a Texas-based company from selling and marketing in California a computer-controlled milling machine designed to make untraceable “ghost guns,” with the decision marking the third significant victory for San Diego County in the early stages of its lawsuit against ...Read more

The Canadian government issued a new warning for travelers entering the U.S., saying they should “expect scrutiny” at the border and that their phones and other electronic devices may be searched.

The updated travel advisory follows U.S. President Donald Trump’s move to tighten border and immigration policy, which had already prompted ...Read more

Five nurses who worked on the same floor of a Boston-area hospital have all developed brain tumors.

In total, 11 members of the fifth-floor maternity unit at Mass General’s Newton-Wellesley Hospital have reported suffering from health issues, including the nurses diagnosed with the benign tumors. Two of those have the most common, benign ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — You’re not the only one asking this question: Why is it raining so darn much?

Some of Kentucky’s foremost and longest-tenured experts on weather and flooding aren’t sure when they last saw a system so sustained hang over the state.

From Thursday afternoon through Saturday, downpours have pelted much of the commonwealth...Read more