After months of intensive talks and shuttle diplomacy, a trade agreement between the European Union and the U.S. now rests mostly on Donald Trump.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will travel to Scotland to meet the U.S. president on Sunday, as the two sides aim to conclude a deal ahead of Friday’s deadline, at which point ...Read more

An 18-year-old suspect has been arrested in a shooting at a University of New Mexico dormitory that left a 14-year-old boy dead and wounded a 19-year-old early Friday morning, authorities said.

The incident involved four individuals who were reportedly playing video games in a dorm room at Casas del Rio, a privately owned on‑campus housing ...Read more

NEW YORK — Astronomer has enlisted Gwyneth Paltrow as their temporary spokesperson after her ex-husband and Coldplay frontman Chris Martin caught the company’s CEO and head of human resources cuddling at his concert.

In a video shared on social media Friday night, Paltrow, seated behind a desk with her hands clasped, reveals she’d been ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — From the first 911 call, moments after Minnesota state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were shot at their home in the early morning of June 14, police knew a masked gunman was impersonating an officer, had targeted a politician and was on the move.

Yet it would take 10 hours for law enforcement to systematically alert ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — John Manley is sick of people telling immigrants to "stand in line" and "do it the right way."

An immigration attorney for almost three decades in Los Angeles, he said what most don't understand is that trying to legally come into the United States is nearly impossible for people from certain nations like Mexico.

"People are ...Read more

Molting peacocks squawked in the distance and a Pacific breeze whispered through the eucalyptus as flamingo keeper Liz Gibbons tidied her station at the San Francisco Zoo.

It had been an unusually cold summer in a city famous for them. Marooned on "a breathtaking piece of land" at the peninsula's far western edge, steps from the deadly surf at ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Denis Richard watched five men heave a giant manta ray from the waters off Panama City Beach and plop it into a pool on their boat deck.

“Let him go,” he yelled. “You ought to be ashamed of yourselves.”

Richard, a dolphin tour boat operator, was outraged that a threatened species often called the “angel of the sea�...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California Democrats led by Gov. Gavin Newsom may upend the state's mandate for independently drawn political districts as part of a brewing, national political brawl over the balance of power in Congress and the fate of the aggressive, right-wing agenda of President Donald Trump and the GOP.

The effort being considered by state...Read more

LOS ANGELES — While Katherine Alcantara was evacuating from her smoke-filled west Altadena home during January's firestorm, she remembered seeing her longtime neighbor returning home across the street.

In the chaos, she assumed he had come back to rescue his pets and grab some important belongings before heading to safety.

She never imagined...Read more

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — When Anwar Ibrahim came to power in late 2022, it was with the promise of reform: cleaner government, a leaner budget and a break from the patronage politics that had defined his predecessors.

Nearly three years later, not much of that has happened. His plans for targeted subsidies and reduced public spending have ...Read more

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to oust members of the advisory board that decides which preventive health measures are covered by insurance, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

Kennedy is expected to remove the 16 members of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force because he views them as “woke,” the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — One of the two hand grenades found in a Santa Monica townhome complex ahead of the deadly blast that killed three Los Angeles County sheriff’s detectives is currently missing, authorities said Friday.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has determined that one of the two grenades detonated on July 18, “...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Hundreds of pages of documents released Wednesday by the Moscow Police Department after Bryan Kohberger’s sentencing hearing revealed some new information about the man who murdered four University of Idaho students.

Not much has been known about the personality of Kohberger, who sat through his plea hearing and sentencing ...Read more

CHICAGO — A federal judge in Chicago on Friday blocked the Trump administration’s challenge to policies in the state of Illinois, the city of Chicago and Cook County that limit the powers of state and local police in assisting federal law enforcement on immigration-related matters.

The ruling comes as the Trump administration has ramped up ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Southwest flight climbing away from Burbank Airport suddenly descended hundreds of feet Friday afternoon, possibly to avoid a mid-air collision.

The plane was at 14,100 feet above Angeles National Forest headed northeast to Las Vegas at 12:03 p.m. when it abruptly dropped to 13,625 feet, data from Flightradar24 showed.

The ...Read more

MIAMI — Miami defense attorney David O. Markus represents Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous former girlfriend, a convicted British socialite who may hold the keys not only to her fate but that of President Donald Trump.

Markus’ client, Ghislaine Maxwell, found guilty of recruiting underage girls for the billionaire financier, was questioned on ...Read more