LOS ANGELES -- Since her Altadena rental home burned down in January’s Eaton fire, Tamara Johnson has crisscrossed Southern California looking for a place to live. She started in San Bernardino, where she stayed with a friend, and continued to Oceanside, where an Airbnb voucher let her remain a week.

She’s driven from Long Beach to Azusa ...Read more

The country’s top nonpartisan government watchdog has confirmed it is examining the costs of running the nation’s only active Medicaid work requirement program, as Republican state and federal lawmakers consider similar requirements.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office told KFF Health News that its analysis of the Georgia Pathways to ...Read more

CHICAGO — When a converted Kenwood hotel opened its doors to migrants in the summer of 2023, officials who announced the news received vociferous pushback from residents.

They had numerous concerns about the shelter at 4900 S. DuSable Lake Shore Drive: whether migrants would be vaccinated and fingerprinted; how their children would be ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — New security cameras are arriving in Altadena as law enforcement attempts to stem skyrocketing rates of residential burglary in the fire-ravaged community, but some residents fear that won't be enough to keep thieves away.

From Jan. 1 to April 15, the number of residential burglaries reported in the Altadena area was up about ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — One by one, the four California sea lions slid out of their crates and into the ocean. As the SeaWorld San Diego rescue boat bobbed nearby, one of the pinnipeds dove deep and then popped his head out of the water, his mouth full of what may have been a squid.

SeaWorld’s rescue curator Jeni Smith smiled. “We had a pep talk,” ...Read more

U.S. officials have prepared a set of options for President Donald Trump to increase economic pressure on Russia, according to people familiar with the matter, as President Vladimir Putin drags his feet over attempts to end the war in Ukraine.

The people, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations, cautioned that Trump...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A gunman who allegedly opened fire at the Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology in Inglewood, injuring two employees, on Friday has been arrested, authorities said.

The Inglewood Police Department responded to a call reporting a shooting at 8911 Aviation Blvd. at 3:39 p.m. Two women were taken to a trauma center in Long ...Read more

The U.S. has reached a settlement in principle with the estate of Ashli Babbitt, the protester who was shot and killed by a police officer as she tried to force her way into the chambers of the House of Representatives during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

Lawyers for the U.S. Justice Department and Babbitt’s estate revealed the financial ...Read more

DENVER — The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday filed a lawsuit against Colorado and Denver’s top elected officials seeking to overturn state and local laws that limit federal immigration enforcement in the state.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court, names Gov. Jared Polis, Attorney General Phil Weiser, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Two women were critically injured in a shooting at the Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology in Inglewood on Friday afternoon,authorities said.

The Inglewood Police Department responded to a call reporting a shooting at 8911 Aviation Blvd. at 3:39 p.m. Two women were taken to a trauma center in Long Beach in critical ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to let Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency have access to sensitive Social Security information, escalating a privacy fight that could affect millions of people.

The administration is challenging a federal trial judge’s order blocking DOGE from having full ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The State Bar of California announced Friday that its beleaguered leader, who has faced growing pressure to resign over the botched February roll out of a new bar exam, will step down in July.

Leah T. Wilson, the agency’s executive director, informed the Board of Trustees she will not seek another term in the position she has ...Read more

SEATTLE — Employees at Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad are reeling after a fire destroyed one of the railroad’s biggest bridges late Wednesday night.

According to a Thursday morning Facebook post, a fire on the 28-span bridge between Mineral and Morton was reported at about 6:40 p.m. Wednesday.

Regular excursions are still up and running, the ...Read more

CHICAGO — George Homer Ryan served one term as Illinois governor, his scandal-clouded tenure and subsequent imprisonment on federal corruption charges overshadowing a nationally historic move to halt the state’s death penalty and empty its Death Row amid concerns of widespread misconduct in capital cases.

Ryan, a Republican whose 35-year ...Read more

DEDHAM, Mass. — Members of an extended Canton family the Karen Read defense team has suggested colluded to frame their client were listening in on formal police interviews and commenting on them, according to text messages newly unveiled in the retrial.

“Kerry (Roberts) talked to cops and kept (it) simple,” Jennifer McCabe texted her ...Read more

CHICAGO — President Donald Trump’s administration has filed a lawsuit alleging the state of Illinois is undermining federal immigration laws with a measure passed by the General Assembly last year aimed at protecting the privacy of workers who are non-U.S. citizens.

The lawsuit is the latest challenge to Illinois’ progressive immigration ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier says he will not tell state law enforcement agencies to obey a federal court order halting immigration arrests under a new state law even as the judge who issued the order threatens to hold him in contempt of court.

In a statement issued to Fox News on Friday, Uthmeier said that he ...Read more