LOS ANGELES — A Riverside County man, charged with multiple felony counts of domestic violence, was at the center of a courthouse brawl that culminated in three sheriff's deputies being sent to the emergency room, according to authorities.

Ryan James Chalfant, 31, attempted to flee the Riverside County Hall of Justice after refusing to be ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — After weeks of criticism from political allies, Gov. Gavin Newsom explained why he shared his belief that it's unfair for transgender athletes to compete in women's sports.

Newsom, in a recent interview with The Times, said that although he had been deliberating over the issue for years, he didn't set up the interview with ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles County jury has awarded a former LAPD sergeant $4.5 million after finding that department officials retaliated against him when he reported another officer for billing Metro Transit for overtime work that was never performed.

The lawsuit by Randy Rangel, who spent 32 years with the department before retiring in ...Read more

Twenty staffers at a Pennsylvania charter school have been charged in connection with the physical abuse of more than two dozen children, some of them as young as 5 years old, prosecutors announced.

All 26 alleged victims, ranging from kindergarteners to fifth graders, were enrolled in a behavioral and emotional support program at Chester ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Ring camera footage captured the moment a masked vandal threw a rock at the windshield and slashed the tires of a Cybertruck in Novato, one of the latest in a string of nationwide attacks on Tesla vehicles and the second such incident in the small Bay Area city.

The vandal struck around 4:22 a.m. Saturday, appearing to case the ...Read more

Sen. Cory Booker Tuesday gave an all-night speech at the Capitol denouncing President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk.

The New Jersey lawmaker took the floor of the Senate at 7 p.m. Monday and continued almost uninterrupted until 9 a.m. and counting with a wide-ranging denunciation of Trump’s first 10 weeks in office, which he called a...Read more

France’s far-right National Rally conceded the extent of the damage caused by a court ruling barring its leader, Marine Le Pen, from running for election. But the party insists that the fight isn’t over and that it will try to use the controversy to its advantage.

“This indignation, this wound, must be used as an engine of indignation and...Read more

BOSTON — The white hot Karen Read retrial is officially underway in Norfolk Superior Court with the start of jury selection this morning.

The Read trial has been anything but quiet since Judge Beverly J. Cannone declared a mistrial last summer. The Herald has guides on what to know and who to know before this second trial gets underway.

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Ukraine’s top diplomat said officials are pressing ahead with the U.S. toward an “acceptable” economic accord hours after President Donald Trump accused Kyiv of trying to renegotiate the deal.

Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said Ukrainian officials were poring over the latest draft of an infrastructure and natural resources deal sent by ...Read more

WASHINGTON — In a private meeting at a global summit in Buenos Aires in 2018, China's president, Xi Jinping, turned to President Donald Trump and said it was a shame he couldn't stay in power beyond the two-term limit set by the U.S. Constitution. Trump agreed.

It was just one of several instances in which Trump mused over the prospects of an...Read more

Ever since the United States government’s unfulfilled promise of giving every newly freed Black American “40 acres and a mule” after the Civil War, descendants of the enslaved have repeatedly proposed the idea of redistributing land to redress the nation’s legacies of slavery.

Land-based reparations are also a form of redress ...Read more

After climbing for decades, the percentage of Americans with no religion has leveled off. For the past few years, the share of adults who identify as atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular” has stood at about 29%, according to a major study the Pew Research Center released Feb. 26, 2025.

But this hardly means that the “...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Samson Tafolo's final count read 119.

For 45 minutes, he had tugged a wagon packed with mini water bottles, hemp cigarettes and miscellaneous hygiene products around Skid Row, handing out the supplies and keeping a tally of everyone he served on his usual route.

Tafolo and other leaders at the Sidewalk Project, a harm reduction...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania teacher vacancies dipped slightly over the last year, but more than a third of all districts in the state still reported at least one vacancy this school year — meaning thousands of kids lacked a permanent teacher, or were placed in larger classes for all or part of the term.

The numbers were starker in schools ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is set to return to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to pitch the Trump administration’s take on the next big transportation and infrastructure bill as GOP lawmakers mull topline infrastructure funding levels.

Duffy, who will appear at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, is operating ...Read more