The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants on Nov. 21, 2024, for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defense minister and one leading Hamas official. Those named in the action are accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity relating to the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by the Palestinian militant group and the ...Read more

Imagine you are a blue whale swimming up the California coast, as you do every spring. You are searching for krill in the Santa Barbara Channel, a zone that teems with fish, kelp forests, seagrass beds and other undersea life, but also vibrates with noise from ship traffic. Suddenly, the noise gets louder.

You start to make a slow, ...Read more

CHICAGO — In a stunning move, the Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the convictions of former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett, finding that a special prosecutor’s decision to retry him for allegedly staging a hate crime against himself violated his rights after the Cook County state’s attorney’s office previously dropped ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Former Rep. Matt Gaetz dropped his bid to become President-elect Donald Trump’s next attorney general on Thursday, closing out a campaign that was dogged by sexual misconduct allegations and the specter of an unreleased ethics report.

With the Florida Republican’s withdrawal, the Senate will avoid what was shaping up to be a ...Read more

Deepening Israel's international isolation in the starkest fashion since the start of the 13-month-old war in the Gaza Strip, the Hague-based International Criminal Court said Thursday it had issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his recently dismissed defense minister, Yoav Gallant, over the conduct of the war...Read more

Matt Gaetz Thursday abruptly dropped his bid to be President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general amid growing allegations involving drugs and paid sex with young women.

The former Florida lawmaker said he was stepping aside to avoid what he called a “needlessly protracted Washington scuffle” over his nomination to lead the Department of...Read more

WASHINGTON — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced Thursday she will chair a new House Oversight subcommittee to work with President-elect Donald Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency to cut spending and streamline government.

The new subcommittee, created by House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James R. Comer, R-Ky., would...Read more

Matt Gaetz Thursday abruptly dropped his bid to be President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general amid growing allegations involving drugs and paid sex with young women.

“It is clear that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction,” Gaetz tweeted. “Thus I’ll be withdrawing my name from consideration to serve as Attorney ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Former Rep. Matt Gaetz dropped his bid to become President-elect Donald Trump’s next attorney general on Thursday, closing out a campaign that was dogged by sexual misconduct allegations and the looming specter of an unreleased ethics report.

With the Florida Republican’s withdrawal, the Senate will avoid what was shaping up ...Read more

ATLANTA — The father of Apalachee School High School school shooting suspect Colt Gray pleaded not guilty Thursday and waived arraignment.

Colin Gray, who was not present in court, was indicted on 29 charges including murder in the second degree, involuntary manslaughter, reckless conduct and cruelty to children in the second degree. ...Read more

DENVER — Federal officials released a range of scenarios Wednesday that could be used to manage the overallocated and shrinking Colorado River as time for the seven basin states to reach an agreement grows short.

The Bureau of Reclamation’s four proposed plans are not set in stone, but for the first time offer insight into how federal ...Read more

DENVER — Gun violence in Denver is going down.

So far this year, the city has seen a 12% decrease in overall gun violence compared to the same point in 2023, including a 30% drop in the number of fatal shootings and a 28% drop in non-fatal shootings, Denver police Cmdr. Jake Herrera told City Council members Wednesday during a presentation to...Read more

BALTIMORE — Baltimore County statisticians plan on comparing Essex to Dundalk and Lansdowne to Towson to determine if a controversial gunshot detection system and other new policing technologies are successfully bringing down criminal activity.

County officials are required to submit their final analysis to the federal government because the ...Read more

Ukraine said Russia launched a “new” kind of ballistic missile at the city of Dnipro, in the latest escalation of hostilities and an alarming signal to Kyiv’s Western backers.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Thursday the weapon had all the parameters of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). But a U.S. official, ...Read more

The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for alleged war crimes in Gaza, adding to pressure on the country’s leadership over the conduct of its military campaign against Hamas.

The Hague-based court’s Thursday announcement followed an application by the ICC’s chief prosecutor ...Read more

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ Los Angeles mansion, with its alleged ties to his infamous “freak offs,” may have finally found a buyer — albeit one who’s offering much less than Diddy’s $62 million asking price.

Real estate mogul Bo Belmont announced Wednesday that his company, Belwood Investments, had put in an offer on the property for $...Read more

SAN DIEGO — San Diego is stepping up its crackdown on unlicensed rentals of boats and personal watercraft with higher fines, easier-to-enforce rules and new requirements that licensed rental companies agree to pay damages in injury crashes.

The moves come just over a year after a 12-year-old girl was killed paddle-boarding in Mission Bay by ...Read more

CHICAGO — In a stunning move, the Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the convictions for former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett, finding that a special prosecutor’s decision to retry him violated his rights after the Cook County state’s attorney’s office previously dropped all charges against him.

The high court’s ...Read more