SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Election Day is next week. Have you voted yet?

If you’re reading this, chances are the answer to that is “no.” No worries, we're here to help you do your civic duty in fashionably late time.

Here’s everything you need to know before you vote:

What am I voting on?

The big race that everyone will be watching, of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — At Senator Ruben S. Ayala Senior High School in Chino Hills, students this semester complained of broken air conditioners and bathroom sinks, faulty Chromebooks and Wi-Fi and, in one classroom, a ceiling leak that dripped into a bucket by a teacher's desk as rats scurried across the floor.

But recently, school administrators ...Read more

MIAMI -- Arrests for possession of small amounts of marijuana have become less common in Miami-Dade County ever since State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle announced in August 2019 that her office would no longer prosecute such cases due to the legalization of hemp.

But a Miami Herald analysis of data from the Miami-Dade Clerk of Courts ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Nearly three years into Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the war has brought no shortage of complicated twists and turns. But one bizarre new element particularly stands out: North Korean troops in the battlefield mix.

South Korean intelligence first raised the alarm last month about their presence inside Russia, and ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York Mayor Eric Adams’ historic corruption trial will start in late April 2025 — just over two months before he’s set to face off against multiple challengers in next summer’s Democratic mayoral primary.

The mayor, who is also gunning to get the bribery count on his indictment tossed, is now scheduled to begin his trial...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Two high-profile, back-to-back reports slam UCLA leaders for a confusing breakdown in its police response leading to violence at a pro-Palestinian encampment in April, with one investigation also calling out the university’s “dramatic failures in confronting antisemitism.”

A draft report to the Los Angeles Police ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will not attend a major U.N. climate change summit opening just days after the U.S. election and set to shape the country’s approach to the issue for years to come.

Biden’s absence at the high-level COP29 negotiations was confirmed by a person familiar with the matter who wasn’t authorized to speak ...Read more

Boeing Co. has dismantled its global diversity, equity and inclusion department, making it the latest high-profile corporation to make changes to its DEI policy as its new top leader oversees a broader revamp of the company’s workforce.

Staff from Boeing’s DEI office will be combined with another human resources team focused on talent and ...Read more

Supporters of former President Evo Morales stormed three Bolivian military bases and took soldiers hostage on Friday as the nation descends further into chaos.

President Luis Arce said in a statement that groups fired weapons and threw dynamite in the Cochabamba region in the nation’s tropical lowlands. Armed Forces chiefs said the attackers...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Richard Moore was executed Friday by lethal injection for the murder of James Mahoney, a Spartanburg County store clerk. Moore, 59, is the second person executed in South Carolina in just more than a month after a 13-year pause.

Moore’s death sentence was carried out at 6:24 p.m. Eastern time Friday over pleas for mercy ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Richard Moore was executed Friday by lethal injection for the murder of James Mahoney, a Spartanburg County store clerk. Moore, 59, is the second person executed in South Carolina in just more than a month after a 13-year pause.

Moore’s death sentence was carried out at 6:24 p.m. EDT Friday over pleas for mercy from three ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Two men accused in a mass shooting that occurred at Crown Center were each convicted on four felony charges by a Jackson County judge Friday.

Joel Olivas, 24, and Brian Favela, 23, were both found guilty of two counts of unlawful use of a weapon, two counts of armed criminal action and three misdemeanor counts of second-...Read more

A 9-year-old girl who fell in love with the goat she raised for the Shasta District Fair was heartbroken when deputies, wielding a search warrant, confiscated the furry livestock, taking him away to be butchered.

Two years after the scandal erupted, Shasta County has agreed to pay $300,000 to the girl’s family to settle the legal dispute over...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer on Friday declared a weeklong state of emergency in the city — curtailing late alcohol sales and implementing a downtown curfew — in the wake of a deadly mass shooting downtown during a crowded early-morning Halloween celebration.

Dyer made the surprise announcement hours after suspected gunman 17-...Read more

BOSTON — The Bay State is facing an unprecedented spike in outdoor fires, as 100 brush and wildland blazes have been reported in the last week as officials urge residents to use caution.

Massachusetts had a total of about 200 reported wildland fires in October — a 1,200% spike from the average of 15 reported wildland fires each October.

Of...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — With only a few days remaining before Election Day, George Stuart headed out to knock on doors as part of a final push to put Florida’s abortion rights ballot initiative over the top.

Polls show the measure heading for a nail-biting finish. He didn’t want to watch from the sidelines.

“Women deserve to have control over ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate Agriculture Committee will see a new leader in the next Congress regardless of the results of next week’s election as the current chairwoman, Debbie Stabenow, reaches the end of her 24-year Senate career.

Ranking member John Boozman, R-Ark., would likely take the gavel if Republicans secure the majority. Boozman ...Read more

The U.S. Secret Service, in a report released Friday, indicated officials have put into place numerous reforms in the aftermath of the failed assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

The report, a seven-page summary of a larger classified document, lists 11 operational changes and lays out the ...Read more