LOS ANGELES — The incoming Los Angeles Police Department chief stands to get paid more than L.A. Mayor Karen Bass, the leaders of the police departments in New York and Chicago — the nation’s two largest — and even the president of the United States.

The Board of Police Commissioners, the LAPD’s civilian oversight body, has proposed ...Read more

SEATTLE — Two people were injured and one person was killed Thursday night at Vancouver Mall when someone began shooting in the food court, according to police.

Vancouver, Wash. police responded to the shooting around 7:30 p.m. Witnesses said a person in the food court shot someone and fired other rounds that struck two more people, according...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Just under half of California voters support Proposition 32, the measure to increase California's minimum wage to $18 an hour, a warning sign about its fate in next week's election, according to new polling results released Friday.

Forty-seven percent of likely voters and those who have already cast ballots backed the ...Read more

NEW YORK — The City Council is pitching its “comprehensive” plan to tackle the housing crisis Friday as part of ongoing negotiations over Mayor Eric Adams’s own “City of Yes for Housing Opportunity” zoning package ahead of its crucial final vote.

“City For All,” as the new plan is known, is billed as picking up where “Zoning ...Read more

ST. LOUIS — Voters in Missouri, Nebraska and Alaska will soon decide whether workers in those states should be entitled to paid sick leave.

If approved, the ballot measures would allow many workers to accrue paid time off, a benefit supporters say means workers — especially those with low-paying jobs — would no longer have to fear losing ...Read more

More than 225,000 Kentuckians cast ballots on the first day of early voting Thursday, signaling a stronger voter turnout than in the 2020 presidential election, Secretary of State Michael Adams’ office said Friday morning.

Adams said 225,696 Kentuckians voted on Halloween, the first day of a three-day, no-excuse early voting period.

That ...Read more

Spanish rescue teams are searching for dozens of missing people in the flood-hit city of Paiporta as the death toll from this week’s storms surpassed 200.

Paiporta, just inland from Valencia on Spain’s east coast, is still largely inaccessible, leaving many of its 27,000 residents trapped without water or electricity. The national ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — After all the ballots in this year's presidential contest are cast, the count will begin to be reported. But in the United States' unusual election system, there are in essence two counts —the popular vote and the results in the electoral college.

Here's how they work:

What is the popular vote?

The popular vote is your vote ...Read more

ST. CLAIR SHORES, Mich. — A 55-year-old man has been charged with multiple counts of felonious assault and hate crimes after Macomb County Prosecutors say he allegedly hurled homophobic slurs before driving his car toward volunteers passing out literature last month for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.

Jason Lafond of St. ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Lawyers for Elon Musk have formally asked a federal judge to oversee the lawsuit filed against him by Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, the latest volley in the legal bout unfolding between Krasner and Musk ahead of Election Day.

The brief, filed Friday morning, said that because Krasner is seeking to bar Musk and ...Read more

A political float in a Halloween parade just outside Pittsburgh — featuring Vice President Kamala Harris chained to the back of a golf cart — has prompted an apology from the event coordinators.

Images from the parade in Mount Pleasant, sponsored by Mount Pleasant Volunteer Fire Department, almost immediately started making the rounds on ...Read more

Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly promised to launch what he calls the “largest deportation program in American history” if reelected, targeting immigrants living in the United States without documentation — people whom he described in a rally this week as “vicious and bloodthirsty criminals.”

“I will rescue every city ...Read more

This week, as many Americans fret over what our country will look like after the upcoming national election, much of the world is fretting with us. The United States may not be the unipolar power that it was following the Cold War, but it remains the most influential and consequential country on Earth. How our election turns out will affect ...Read more

DETROIT — FBI officials are seeking information about masked suspects who allegedly robbed four jewelry stores, including a store in Dearborn.

The four robbers alternately carried an AR-style rifle, handgun and hammer and targeted jewelry stores in Illinois, Missouri and Michigan, according to a press release from the FBI Chicago field office...Read more

Unlike many other countries, where the president or prime minister is chosen by direct popular vote, in the United States a candidate may win the popular vote and still not be elected to the nation’s highest office. The U.S. also differs from most other democracies in that it has no independent electoral commission to certify the final vote...Read more

U.S. elections are free, fair and secure, research shows – but about 20% of Americans still said in a September 2024 Gallup survey that they are “not at all confident” that the presidential election results will be accurate.

Faith has been declining in the integrity of U.S. elections in recent years, and the Jan. 6, 2021, ...Read more

Michigan’s swing-state status means people are talking about Detroit.

Some have been saying unpleasant things.

Addressing the Detroit Economic Club on Oct. 11, presidential candidate Donald Trump predicted that the “country will end up being like Detroit if (Kamala Harris is) your president. You’re going to have a mess ...Read more

Ballot measure 309 aims to ban slaughterhouses in the city and county of Denver. If passed, the measure would close just one facility, Superior Farms, in the Globeville neighborhood north of Denver.

I’m an associate professor of animal sciences at Colorado State University. My research explores solutions for meat and food system ...Read more

Mose Norman, a Black registered voter, was ready to cast his ballot for presidential candidate Warren G. Harding.

But when he arrived at his polling place on Election Day, Nov. 2, 1920, in the orange grove town of Ocoee, Florida, near Orlando, Norman was turned away by white election officials because of supposed unpaid poll taxes. ...Read more

On Oct. 28, 2024, just over a week before Election Day, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner filed a civil lawsuit against Elon Musk to stop his US$1 million voter sweepstakes from continuing in Pennsylvania. Musk, through his America PAC, has been giving $1 million to registered voters in key battleground states who pledge their ...Read more