LOS ANGELES — Federal authorities have arrested an Alameda County man after he allegedly assaulted flight attendants while traveling from Orange County to San Francisco, according to the U.S. Justice Department.

Charles Angel Salva, 30, of Fremont, was on a Frontier Airlines flight from John Wayne Airport to San Francisco International ...Read more

President Joe Biden will meet his Ukrainian counterpart at the U.N. General Assembly to discuss Ukraine’s strategy for the war ahead of the U.S. elections, said White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan.

With little more than four months before a new U.S. president is sworn in, “we are going to treat each single one of those days ...Read more

The U.S. and U.K. are increasingly concerned that Russia is sharing with Iran secret information and technology that could bring it closer to being able to build nuclear weapons, in exchange for Tehran providing Moscow with ballistic missiles for its war in Ukraine.

The Kremlin has increased its cooperation with Iran over its ambitions to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Plumes of smoke from Southern California’s fires blew across Big Bear on Sept. 11, causing local air quality meters to return off-the-chart readings for particulate pollution.

Officials report air quality on a color-coded scale, in which green indicates “good” and maroon denotes “hazardous” conditions. An air quality ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Despite an unusual number of modest earthquakes this year in Southern California, the state overall remains in the midst of a drought of major earthquakes.

There have been no significant damaging earthquakes underneath California's oldest, most populous cities in the last 30 years, sparing places like Los Angeles, San José, San ...Read more

ATLANTA -- A year ago, a line of training center opponents passed 16 cardboard boxes from the atrium, up a set of marble winding steps and into the municipal clerk’s office at Atlanta City Hall.

It was the culmination of a grassroots movement that began in June 2023 to force a referendum on whether the $90 million public safety training ...Read more

Under a bright California sun, I’m sipping a crisp, juicy, salty-tasting white, a vermentino with a very seductive texture. On the Italian island of Sardinia, you’d drink wines made from this often-underrated grape with sea urchin or spit-roasted suckling pig on a perfect beach. You get the idea.

But I’m savoring a new Napa Valley version...Read more

WINDER, Ga. — About an hour after gunfire erupted at Apalachee High School, ambulances started arriving at nearby Northeast Georgia Medical Center Barrow with two students and two adults suffering from panic attacks and extreme anxiety, not bullet wounds.

A fifth patient with similar symptoms later arrived at another local facility, according...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — State and federal officials have identified new cases of Avian influenza at three Central Valley dairies as the number of infected cows continues to climb in California.

The virus, known as Avian influenza or H5N1, has made its way across the U.S. since March, striking 14 states and infecting 200 dairy herds.

California ...Read more

Despite an unusual number of modest earthquakes this year in Southern California, the state overall remains in the midst of a “drought” of major earthquakes.

There have been no significant damaging earthquakes underneath California’s most populous cities in the last 30 years.

That’s a stark contrast to the prior three decades, when ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York Police Department brass welcomed the city’s new top cop Tom Donlon at 1 Police Plaza on Friday.

Interim Police Commissioner Donlon entered the department’s headquarters in Lower Manhattan around 4:30 p.m. for a meeting with more than a dozen police executives, including Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey, Chief of ...Read more

No single factor led a fire in the seaside Hawaiian town of Lahaina last year to rage out of control and kill 102 people, according to a state report that assesses the government’s response to the disaster but not its root cause.

The report released Friday by the state’s attorney general blamed the devastation on a confluence of issues, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — It would cost $20.4 billion to end homelessness in Los Angeles in a decade, a price tag requiring local, state and federal governments to more than double their spending on the problem, according to a draft budget analysis from city housing officials.

The money would produce 36,000 permanent housing units for homeless residents ...Read more

BRIGHTON, Colo. — A judge in Adams County District Court on Friday wiped away the 5-year prison sentence being served by a former Aurora paramedic convicted in the death of Elijah McClain.

Judge Mark Warner vacated Peter Cichuniec’s prison term and converted the sentence to four years of probation, a move prosecutors previously said would �...Read more

Proposition 47 achieved its goal of decreasing incarceration by reclassifying certain drug- and theft-related felony offenses as misdemeanors, but contributed to a rise in property crime as a result.

That’s the finding of a newly released Public Policy Institute of California report that looked at the impact of the ballot measure nearly a ...Read more

Jailed FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried is asking for a new trial, blaming a federal judge for preventing him from mounting a proper defense.

Lawyers for the former chief executive officer argued “everyone rushed to judgment” after FTX’s collapse and that fair-trial principles were swept away in a “sentence first-verdict afterwards ...Read more

The U.S. imposed sanctions Friday targeting Russia’s state-controlled media outlet RT over its role in Russia’s covert influence operations globally, offering fresh details about the extent of its involvement after a Justice Department indictment earlier this month.

Among the new allegations detailed Friday was that RT helped oversee a ...Read more

DETROIT — Detroit is launching a new, first-of-its-kind quick response team that will be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to follow up with suspected opioid overdose survivors after they receive treatment from the Detroit Fire Department.

The team, which was announced during a news conference Friday and will hit the streets Monday,...Read more