MIAMI — Thousands of Venezuelans living in South Florida gathered at Bayfront Park Saturday afternoon, joining thousands more of their countrymen converging in 300 cities around the planet, all seeking to let the world know that they won’t stop protesting until Nicolás Maduro is removed from power in their homeland.

The world-wide event, ...Read more

BOSTON — Cape Cod scientists are delaying a geoengineering project that looks to dump more than 60,000 gallons of sodium hydroxide into the ocean and has caught federal concerns around potential impacts on the ecosystem.

Scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Falmouth have pushed back the project from mid-September to next ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles is exploring whether to clamp down on tour buses driving near a home once owned by Marilyn Monroe, under a proposal backed Friday by the City Council.

The Brentwood home was designated by the city as a historic monument in June, a move that helps protect the residence from demolition, after its new owners began ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles City Council gave the go-ahead on Friday to tow illegally parked vehicles in large swaths of the city, granting workers more latitude to immediately remove RVs and other vehicles that homeless people sleep in.

Officials have been struggling to gain control over the proliferation of RV encampments after a pandemic...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Nevada launched its top-down voter registration and election management system Saturday, creating a unified registration process across the state’s 17 counties.

The Voter Registration and Election Management Solution (VREMS) project is a centralized system that moves the state and its counties into a top-down voter registration ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A bill that sought to overhaul California’s system for wildfire hazard mapping has died in the state Assembly.

Senate Bill 610, introduced in June by Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, sparked heated debate over its plan to eliminate the decades-old system of ranking state and local lands as “moderate,” “high” or “...Read more

After the World Health Organization this week warned that a fast-spreading strain of mpox poses a global threat, Denmark again has a potential solution and underscored its capacity to outshine traditional powerhouses in the U.S. and the U.K.

From treatments for diabetes to depression, the Nordic nation of 6 million people has punched above its ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A measure on the November ballot that would double the county's quarter-cent homeless sales tax is leading in an early poll of Los Angeles County voters but but does not yet have enough support to pass.

Forty-seven percent of likely voters surveyed said they would vote for the new half-cent tax if the election were held ...Read more

Combative Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert revealed a ’90s-era body tattoo in a photo posted to Instagram by the wife of Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz.

“We love confident, healthy, patriotic women like Lauren,” Ginger Gaetz captioned a photo of Boebert in a leopard-print bikini, showing off thorn-patterned ink along the entire right side of her ...Read more

With a foreign army fighting on Russian soil for the first time in 80 years, President Vladimir Putin gathered top officials Friday at his regular security council meeting for a report by Defense Minister Andrey Belousov.

The main topic wasn’t Ukraine’s shock seizure of territory in Russia’s Kursk border region. Putin said they’d ...Read more

Israel voiced cautious optimism about prospects for a cease-fire in Gaza after high-level talks with mediators over a new U.S. proposal, placing the onus on Hamas to drop objections.

A statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said he spoke to his negotiators after their return from two days of meetings with senior Qatari and...Read more

Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is among more than 50,000 prisoners and convicted felons to receive royal amnesty to celebrate King Maha Vajiralongkorn’s birthday, Matichon newspaper reported, without identifying where it obtained the information.

The royal pardon will immediately free Thakin from his commuted sentence for ...Read more

Matthew Perry’s sad last words were instructions to his live-in assistant — one of five people charged in the actor’s ketamine-related death last year — to administer the drug to which he’d become addicted.

The 54-year-old “Friends” star, who was found dead in his hot tub last October from “the acute effects of ketamine,” ...Read more

Former U.S. Rep. George Santos, whose career in Congress was derailed after revelations that he’d fabricated much of his life story, is expected to plead guilty to federal fraud charges on Monday, a person with knowledge of the matter said.

The former New York Republican, who has steadfastly denied wrongdoing since he was first indicted last ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A comedian featured on "America's Got Talent" and "The Late Late Show with James Corden" died after being struck by a car in a hit-and-run in the Tarzana area late Thursday night, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner.

Perry Kurtz, 73, was hit by a gray Honda Civic while crossing Ventura Boulevard east of Corbin ...Read more

With a foreign army fighting on Russian soil for the first time in 80 years, President Vladimir Putin gathered top officials Friday at his regular security council meeting for a report by Defense Minister Andrey Belousov.

The main topic wasn’t Ukraine’s shock seizure of territory in Russia’s Kursk border region. Putin said they’d ...Read more