LOS ANGELES — Firefighters made steady progress fighting a slow-moving brush fire near Yosemite National Park and Mammoth Mountain on Sunday.

The Inn fire began Thursday afternoon off Highway 395 in Mono County. By nightfall, it had grown to over 500 acres, prompting evacuations spanning much of Mono City and Lundy Canyon.

But as weather ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Facing increasing scrutiny about his mental health and ability to perform his job, U.S. Sen. John Fetterman said he has been unfairly shamed into showing up for Senate votes and public hearings that he believes are a waste of his time, according to a New York Times article.

The first-term Pennsylvania Democrat, whose former ...Read more

Carlos Reales Dominguez sat motionless at the defense table Friday as experts testified to his mental decline at Yolo County Jail following his May 2023 arrest in the serial Davis stabbings that left two dead and another seriously injured.

Testimony continued Friday in Yolo Superior Court in the guilt phase of the former UC Davis student’s ...Read more

BOSTON — It’s been a month since testimony began in Karen Read’s second trial in the murder of John O’Keefe, and the new trial has brought a notable change in presentation.

“I mean, I didn’t think I hit him, but could I have clipped him? Could I have tapped him in the knee and incapacitated him?” Read told NBC’s “Dateline” ...Read more

A U.S. citizen staying in Israel threatened to kill President Trump and tried to torch the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, showing up with a backpack full of Molotov cocktails, Brooklyn federal prosecutors said Sunday.

Joseph Neumeyer, 28, wrote threats on his Facebook wall for months, posting messages like, “We are killing Trump and Musk now,” ...Read more

U.K. Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner left the door open on whether the government will lift the two-child benefit cap even as Nigel Farage’s Reform U.K. seeks to outflank the ruling Labour Party in bringing down the cost of living.

“Lifting any measures that will alleviate poverty on some of the poorest families is not a bad idea, but ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Sunday marks five years since George Floyd was pinned by his neck and killed by police in the streets of Minneapolis, sparking a historic wave of calls to action to end police brutality and racial injustice.

Since Floyd was murdered on May 25, 2020, by Minneapolis police, observers have trekked to the city every year on the ...Read more

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson sat onstage at a cavernous Woodlawn church and shot back at the criticism that he only cares about hiring Black people with his most forceful defense yet of the representation among his top appointees.

Addressing a Black audience last week, he quoted the Rev. Jesse Jackson: “Our people hire our people.” ...Read more

NEW YORK — Newark's airport was again plagued by delays over Memorial Day weekend, with more than 150 flights in and 230 flights out delayed on Saturday, according to flight-tracking data.

With more than 380 delays, Newark Liberty International Airport saw the second most delays in the nation Saturday, trailing only Denver International ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — It’s 540 acres of runways and hangars and flying schools surrounded on all sides by sprawling San Diego neighborhoods that attract thousands of pilots every year.

And now, after six people were killed and more than a dozen homes were heavily damaged in the fiery crash of a private jet on its approach to Montgomery-Gibbs ...Read more

When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently said he’d sign into law a ban on “weather modification activities” — such as spreading tiny particles into the air from aircraft to control sunlight — it raised long-standing controversies over “geoengineering” and “chemtrails.”

“I think it’s kind of caricatured as kind of kooky,” ...Read more

NEW YORK — Ahead of a key deadline to reduce class sizes, New York City’s sprawling school system will spend upward of $400 million as it races to fill 3,700 new teaching positions by the fall, new data shows.

Under the state’s 2022 class size law, 60% of classrooms must comply next school year with caps between 20 and 25 students, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The top federal prosecutor in Los Angeles is ratcheting up immigration enforcement in jails as the Trump administration looks for more ways to remove more immigrants from sanctuary cities.

U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli announced this week a pilot program dubbed "Operation Guardian Angel" intended to "neutralize" sanctuary state ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Sunday marks five years since George Floyd was pinned by his neck and killed by police in the streets of Minneapolis, sparking a historic wave of calls to action to end police brutality and racial injustice.

Since Floyd was murdered on May 25, 2020, by Minneapolis police, observers have trekked to the city every year on the ...Read more

Supporters of Poland’s presidential contenders took to the streets of Warsaw on Sunday for parallel marches that highlight deep divisions in the European Union nation a week before a tightly-contested runoff election.

Pro-government Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski is running neck-and-neck with Karol Nawrocki, who’s backed by the main ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — In the shadow of Florida’s Capitol, a supposedly closed boutique hotel has become an exclusive retreat for Gov. Ron DeSantis’ closest allies and top advisers — with a major supporter of the governor acting as gatekeeper.

Ostensibly closed for renovations, the Governor’s Inn is where DeSantis’ presidential ...Read more

Under a new executive order, prescription drug prices will be reduced “almost immediately.”

President Donald Trump, in a May 11 post on Truth Social

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President Donald Trump expressed high hopes for an executive order to reduce drug prices.

On May 11, the day before he held a White House event to sign the executive order, Trump posted...Read more

ATLANTA — In most states, when someone has been wrongfully convicted, exonerated by a court and freed from prison — often after being incarcerated for decades — the state will compensate them for the years they lost.

Beginning this year, Georgia will join the 38 other states that have a standardized way of compensating those who’ve ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — California has dozens of earthquakes every day. Most are below 3.0 magnitude, so small that they aren’t felt.

But a few, like the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, are massive, capable of widespread destruction. The last significant damaging earthquake in the Bay Area was the 6.0 South Napa Quake on Aug. 24, 2014, which ...Read more