LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles will utilize AI-powered scanners at Union Station over the next month in an effort to stop passengers with hidden weapons from boarding the rails.

Commuters descending to the A and B subway lines (formally known as the Blue and Red lines) will enter into the testing ground for Metro's 30-day pilot program, which is ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The United States on Wednesday said at least 3,000 North Korean troops have been deployed to Russia, raising the possibility they will be sent to fight in Russia's war on Ukraine — an assertion made by South Korea and the Ukrainian government in Kyiv.

The move may show that Moscow's shortage of manpower amid exorbitant ...Read more

Most Cuban Americans in Miami-Dade County support former president Donald Trump, according to a poll from Florida International University released only days ahead of the U.S. presidential election.

The poll found that Trump is on track to capture 68% of Cuban Americans voters, underscoring the wide support the presidential candidate has ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A historic synagogue near Old City was the target of arson and vandalism on Tuesday, and police are asking for the public’s help in apprehending those who committed the crimes.

Congregation Mikveh Israel, which was founded in 1740 and bills itself as the synagogue of the American Revolution, was vandalized at least twice in ...Read more

American Airlines Group Inc. agreed to a $50 million civil penalty to resolve claims by the Biden administration that the carrier violated U.S. rules protecting airline passengers with disabilities.

A U.S. Transportation Department investigation found that American damaged or delayed the return of thousands of passenger wheelchairs, the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration said Wednesday it would provide a $20 billion loan to Ukraine, concluding an aid agreement reached in principle by the G7 leading industrial nations in June that relies on interest from roughly $280 billion in frozen Russian state assets to support Kyiv.

The $20 billion loan — dubbed an extraordinary ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The city of Los Angeles has filed a nuisance abatement lawsuit against the owner of a South L.A. motel where at least seven shootings and 30 LAPD arrests have taken place since 2020.

The city attorney alleges that the 10-room Sun Motel was a hub for the Denver Lane Gangster Blood, or DLGB, street gang. In addition to the ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Attorneys for Idaho death row prisoner Thomas Creech, who is under a death warrant and awaits his scheduled execution next month, asked Tuesday for a new hearing so the state’s parole board can reconsider dropping his sentence to life in prison.

His application for the hearing is supported by the family of one of Creech’s ...Read more

NEW YORK — Harvey Weinstein’s Manhattan sex crimes cases will be tried at the same trial, a judge ruled Wednesday.

At a brief hearing, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Curtis Farber granted a request from the district attorney’s office to consolidate a recently filed charge against Weinstein with the 2018 case they are retrying. Weinstein�...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper is proposing $3.9 billion in state Hurricane Helene relief for the western part of the state devastated by flooding.

Total damage in Western North Carolina is estimated at roughly $53 billion, Cooper said. His proposed $3.9 billion would be for costs that won’t be covered by the federal ...Read more

President Joe Biden’s top diplomat held talks with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman about efforts to reach a cease-fire in Gaza and Lebanon, a bid to garner regional support for a push toward peace.

Antony Blinken met with Saudi Arabia’s de-facto leader in Riyadh on Wednesday, having earlier traveled to Israel to discuss how to ...Read more

As the election nears, voters are considering the two leading presidential candidates’ records on a wide range of issues, including civil liberties – a broad term used to describe the constitutionally protected freedoms that protect citizens from excessive government power. These key freedoms are contained in the Bill of Rights, the first...Read more

ATLANTA — U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock and U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson are demanding answers from the CEO of BioLab’s parent company in yet another escalation of pressure following a fire at its facility last month.

The letter comes days after Rockdale County commissioners called on the Conyers plant to be shut down as lawsuits and federal ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A flavored tobacco ban is back on Kansas City’s city council agenda this week.

The ordinance was first considered four years ago, but failed to pass.

The ordinance returned in early October, was approved in committee and placed on the city council’s Oct. 10 docket, where it got pushed back to the committee’s agenda. ...Read more

NEW YORK — A vandal bashed two religious statues with a brick at a Brooklyn Catholic church, leaving them damaged, police said.

The attacker, wearing an orange headscarf, used the brick to smash off the hands of a statue of the Virgin Mary in the courtyard of St. Therese of Lisieux Church on Avenue D near Troy Avenue in East Flatbush about 4:...Read more

ATLANTA — The Navy’s newest Virginia-class, nuclear-powered submarine will launch into service with “U.S.S. Atlanta” branded on its side.

For the first time in 25 years, hundreds of young sailors with the U.S. Navy will travel aboard a vessel named after the city of Atlanta, the branch announced Wednesday at the Jimmy Carter ...Read more

The United States on Wednesday said North Korean troops have been deployed to Russia, raising the possibility they will be sent to fight in Russia's war on Ukraine — an assertion made by South Korea and the Ukrainian government in Kyiv.

The move may show that Moscow's shortage of manpower amid exorbitant casualties is worse "than most people ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A civil lawsuit brought against Roman Polanski that alleged the filmmaker sexually assaulted a child in the 1970s — a separate case from his conviction for assaulting a 13-year-old girl — is set to be dismissed.

This suit, which accused Polanski of giving a child alcohol and raping her at his Benedict Canyon home in 1973, ...Read more