ATLANTA — Gov. Brian Kemp and state legislative leaders are headed to the U.S. border with Mexico on Friday to visit the roughly 85 Georgia National Guard troops stationed there to curb illegal crossings.

Kemp will be joined by Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, House Speaker Jon Burns and several legislators to thank the troops who have maintained “the ...Read more

NEW YORK — Citing Mayor Eric Adams’ federal corruption indictment, the city’s election finance watchdog agency is weighing a possible finding that the mayor’s political campaign in “breach of certification” — the panel’s most severe penalty that has the potential to cost his team as much as $10 million, the Daily News has learned...Read more

ATLANTA — One defendant in the long-running “Young Slime Life” case was acquitted of all charges by a jury earlier this month. However, he’s going to be stuck in jail for the holidays due to a legal technicality.

A Fulton County judge ruled Wednesday that, due to an outstanding warrant against Deamonte Kendrick, also known as rapper Yak...Read more

LOS ANGELES — At Los Angeles International Airport last spring, a dispatcher received an anonymous call suggesting that a Spirit Airlines flight to Las Vegas was "going to blow up."

In April, an employee at a legal clinic received a phone call from someone threatening to bring a grenade to the office if they didn't receive a callback from an ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In 1976, as the city of Rolling Hills Estates considered plans for a new development on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, officials debated how water should drain through a nearby canyon.

The development would cause increased runoff, city officials noted at the time, which would ideally be maintained by the Los Angeles County Flood ...Read more

We named him Squirt – not because he was the smallest of the 16 cuttlefish in the pool, but because anyone with the audacity to scoop him into a separate tank to study him was likely to get soaked. Squirt had notoriously accurate aim.

As a comparative psychologist, I’m used to assaults from my experimental subjects. I’ve been ...Read more

Ukraine’s capital faced a Russian missile attack for the first time in almost a month, a day after Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin offered to hold talks with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.

The strikes targeting Kyiv killed one person and injured at least nine others, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said Friday on his Telegram channel. Buildings in ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A U.S. Postal Service worker was arrested Thursday on suspicion of swiping more than 20 checks from the mail and depositing $281,000 into various bank accounts under her name, authorities said.

Joivian Tjuana Hayes, 36, of Compton, was charged with one count of bank fraud and faces a maximum sentence of 30 years in federal ...Read more

It was about 3 a.m. when immigration police began breaking down doors and dragging people away from a remote sugarcane cutters’ camp in the eastern Dominican Republic.

When the sun rose that morning, 17-year-old Arturo Mejia found himself crammed into a paddy wagon along with dozens of grizzled farm hands, pregnant women and children. They ...Read more

The sidewalks of the Fashion District in downtown Los Angeles were bustling.

Silver-faced, tuxedoed mannequins tussled with crazy clowns and beaming Hello Kittys. Ball caps, Stetsons and sombreros, baby strollers, toasters and Crock-Pots, lucha libre masks, belts and shoes burst from open storefronts and vendors' sidewalk card tables. Steam ...Read more

The work of crafting reparations at the municipal level is fierce.

Detroiters know. In November 2021, residents voted to create a reparations committee that would make recommendations for housing and economic development programs to address historical discrimination against Black residents.

Three years have passed – and ...Read more

Threats and harassment are pushing some politicians out of office, scaring off some would-be candidates and even compelling some elected officials to change their vote.

Those are some of the conclusions of a new study I led on political violence in Southern California.

Rising threats against public officials is a national ...Read more

The “choking game” has potentially deadly consequences, as players are challenged to temporarily strangle themselves by restricting oxygen to the brain. It sounds terrifying, but rough estimates suggest that about 10% of U.S. teenagers may have played this type of game at least once.

There’s more, unfortunately: The Skullbreaker...Read more

More than one-third of all animals on Earth, from beetles to cows to elephants, depend on plant-based diets. Plants are a low-calorie food source, so it can be challenging for animals to consume enough energy to meet their needs. Now climate change is reducing the nutritional value of some foods that plant eaters rely on.

Human ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A UC Davis study showed a nutty novel behavior in California squirrels: They're hunting like carnivores, taking down and then consuming other, smaller rodents.

As part of an ongoing 12-year study of California ground squirrels at Briones Regional Park in Contra Costa County, researchers last summer watched as squirrels began to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — It wasn’t too long ago that the big question about Jake LaTurner’s political career was just how high he could go. He won a Kansas state Senate seat in his 20s, and then the treasurer’s race at 30, making him the nation’s youngest statewide elected official. He joined the House two years later, scored a coveted ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s pledge to take a buzz saw to the federal bureaucracy has caused plenty of anxiety, but not an exodus of career civil servants hoping to land jobs at the Capitol, or at least not yet.

Instead, the post-election job market on the Hill largely resembles previous years, with things looking predictably rosier for the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Tom Carper has a roundabout way of sneaking up on an answer. If you ask him to reflect on his 24 years in the Senate, he might start with an anecdote about a nomination; inquire about his concerns for the future, and he’ll start talking about his MBA.

While most lawmakers with résumés like Carper’s share their opinions as ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Despite "repeated, extensive notice" of acts of antisemitism and other harassment in its schools, the Philadelphia School District did not adequately investigate the claims, take appropriate steps to respond to them, or even maintain all necessary records, the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights has found.

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