LAS VEGAS — Many of the residents who packed Tuesday night’s Mesquite City Council meeting said they were “disappointed” by the police union’s complaints against the chief of their city’s police department.

While meeting attendees spilled out of the overflow rooms, a union leader told the mayor and council that the Mesquite Police ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — When Jonathan Dalton first heard about psychedelic therapy, it sounded like a “bunch of hippie drugs” for “hippie veterans.”

As a Navy SEAL with a 23-year career, Dalton began to suffer from depression and anxiety and was looking for reprieve. Through the VA, he was prescribed SSRIs, drugs used to treat depression and ...Read more

DENVER — At least seven young people in Colorado youth detention centers were hospitalized following overdose-related emergency calls this year, including three teens who required life-saving naloxone at a Colorado Springs facility on the same day over the summer.

The Colorado Department of Human Services declined to provide The Denver Post ...Read more

A ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah started early Wednesday, after the sides reached a deal following weeks of U.S.-mediated talks.

The development is a first step to ending a war that’s killed thousands of people and forced more than a million to flee their homes. The U.S. hopes it calms the Middle East and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Before sheriff's deputies found his body on Thanksgiving morning last year, shot to death in a desolate stretch of warehouses and pallet yards west of Compton, Eduardo Escobedo Sr. had become rich beyond his dreams.

The impoverished child of East Los Angeles had climbed the ranks of the Sinaloa cartel, the world's largest drug ...Read more

Nearly half of adolescents and three-quarters of adults in the U.S. were classified as being clinically overweight or obese in 2021. The rates have more than doubled compared with 1990.

Without urgent intervention, our study forecasts that more than 80% of adults and close to 60% of adolescents will be classified as overweight or ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump has threatened tariffs of 25% on imports from Canada and Mexico until fentanyl and undocumented migrants stop flowing over U.S. borders. Canada says it has a plan to boost border security — and points to U.S. government data that show most of the problems come from Mexico.

Agents captured an average of 1,810 ...Read more

A ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah started early Wednesday, after the sides reached a deal following weeks of U.S.-mediated talks.

The development is a first step toward ending a conflict that’s killed thousands of people and forced more than a million to flee their homes. The U.S. hopes it calms the Middle ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Mark Lillienfeld, a former Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department homicide investigator, has been deemed ineligible for rehire after a police officer who attended one of his training lectures last year accused him of making racist comments and repeatedly giving a Nazi-like salute during the class, according to an internal ...Read more

Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov called for strengthening cooperation with South Korea on a trip to Seoul widely viewed as a bid to obtain weapons supplies to help Kyiv repel a Russian invasion now backed by North Korea.

A Ukrainian delegation led by Umerov met with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday and shared ...Read more

William Lopez remembers clearly the day in June 2017 when he says he was asked to call the spouse of a college friend who had just died and ask for her eyes.

The spouse hadn’t responded to calls from other employees at the Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Bank, he said. As Lopez recalled, his supervisor thought a friend’s personal number would have...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Amid fears that a new state law criminalizes those who sleep outside, Central Florida leaders are coalescing around a diversion program to waive court sentences for people experiencing homelessness in exchange for pursuing treatment, housing and employment.

Such a program is called a homeless court and could apply to ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — State and Solano County water officials concerned about the spread of invasive golden mussels are barring watercraft traveling from the Delta from launching in Lake Berryessa without a 30-day quarantine or decontamination.

The larval microscopic mussels have been found in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta and easily...Read more

SAN JACINTO, Calif. — A paradox has settled across California’s velvet green fields and orchards. California farmers, who are some of the most ardent supporters of Donald Trump, would seem to be on a collision course with one of the president-elect’s most important campaign promises.

Trump has promised to carry out mass deportations of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President elect Donald J. Trump announced on Tuesday night that he would nominate Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford professor of health policy and outspoken critic of the nation’s public health system, to lead the National Institutes of Health.

In a statement on social media, Trump said that “Together, Jay and RFK Jr. will ...Read more

A nearly 20-year-old video posted by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals alleging turkey abuse at one of the nation’s foremost providers of Thanksgiving birds has triggered an online uproar.

The 2006 footage appears to depict employees of Butterball abusing live turkeys at a plant in Ozark, Arkansas, and drew a slew of comments from ...Read more