KEATON BEACH, Fla. — Three generations of Betheas walked around what remained of their house in this beach community, finding much of it still in one piece — but now sitting a quarter-mile from its original location.

The storm waters from devastating Hurricane Helene, which made landfall nearby, had picked up the one-story house and slammed...Read more

VALDOSTA, Ga. — Helene bent pine trees and utility poles like toothpicks. It littered this city’s downtown with twisted sheet metal, blocks-long piles of tree limbs and bricks from fallen building facades.

Two days after the storm raced up from the Gulf of Mexico, power lines still sag along many of south Georgia’s roads, tangling with ...Read more

BEIRUT — Hassan Nasrallah was for a long time one of the world's most hunted men.

A founder of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and its longtime secretary general, Nasrallah had for decades played a cat-and-mouse game with Israel, living a life mostly in the shadows — while transforming a band of Shiite guerrillas into a powerful ...Read more

President Joe Biden stood behind Israel after it killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, calling his death a “measure of justice” and pledging renewed work toward peace in a region straining under the threat of wider war.

“Ultimately, our aim is to de-escalate the ongoing conflicts in both Gaza and Lebanon through diplomatic means,” ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Hundreds of thousands of people remained without power Saturday in North Carolina in the aftermath of a tropical storm that started as Hurricane Helene.

Helene’s remnants dumped historic levels of rain across the state, leading to devastating flooding in western North Carolina and a web of impassable roads and interstates....Read more

Israel has killed the leader of the militant group Hezbollah in a airstrike in Beirut, marking a further escalation of hostilities in the region.

The death of Hassan Nasrallah, confirmed by Hezbollah on Sept 28, 2024, forms part of a major Israeli push against the Iran-backed group in recent days that has resulted in the death of ...Read more

BEIRUT — The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah confirmed Saturday that its longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, had been killed in an Israeli air raid the evening before, even as Israel pressed ahead with a new round of punishing airstrikes and the region appeared to reel closer to all-out war.

The announcement came hours after Israel’s ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Community college has a reputation as the most accessible way to receive a college degree. It’s low cost compared to four-year universities and everyone is granted admission.

For community college students in California, there remains serious challenges in getting a degree.

Sofia Aloise, 23, who attends Sierra College ...Read more

Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in New York on Friday, in what will be one of their last face-to-face encounters before the U.S. presidential election that will shape the course of U.S.-China relations for the next four years.

The two met for more than an hour on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly,...Read more

Health authorities in the U.S. are studying seven people who developed influenza symptoms after being exposed to a Missouri bird flu patient, raising the possibility of the first human-to-human transmission of the infection.

None have tested positive for avian influenza and work is underway to see if they have antibodies to the virus that’s ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — With its shattered windows and cartoonish graffiti, the mansion on Mulholland Drive sits like a gaping wound in the Hollywood Hills.

Broken glass spills out onto the narrow hillside road where tourist buses and others slow down to gawk at the mansion that sits like a colorful disaster.

"We've become known for the graffiti ...Read more

Musicians have penned songs about it. Scientists have deployed them to study ocean currents. Those lost at sea or aboard a sinking ship have used them as a last-ditch effort to call for help.

In July 2016, a trio of San Francisco Bay Area friends vacationing on Navini Island in Fiji placed a message in a bottle and set it out to sea wondering ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Florida model alleges in a new lawsuit that Sean “Diddy” Combs paid for her to travel overseas with him for years, pressured her to have sex with other men and women, and plied her with drugs and alcohol that caused her to pass out.

In one instance at Combs’ house in Los Angeles, the complaint alleges, she was drugged ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — A man accused of threatening his ex-girlfriend with a gun then taking off with their infant is suing the city of San Diego and the police officer who shot him as he was holding the baby.

Officer Robert Gladysz shot and wounded Steffon Nutall, 29, late the night of May 19 in an encounter outside a Chollas View apartment complex. ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — As Hurricane Helene formed and barreled toward the Big Bend, it provided an opportunity for Rick Scott, Florida’s reelection-seeking U.S. senator.

He demonstrated concern for the state’s residents, warned them to protect themselves — and got public attention with less than six weeks until Election Day.

It’s a ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska is one of 17 Republican-controlled states that signed on to a lawsuit filed this week against the federal government over a rule change that classified gender dysphoria as a disability.

The rule change sought by the administration of President Joe Biden means states that do not accommodate individuals experiencing ...Read more