LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles and other major cities across the nation are girding for widespread demonstrations against the Trump administration Saturday as the federal government expands its aggressive immigration enforcement crackdown beyond Southern California.

In Washington, the Army will celebrate 250 years of service, as well as President ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Facing a formal ethics hearing for allegations of misconduct toward women, Kentucky Rep. Daniel Grossberg is asking a Kentucky court for emergency relief, calling the investigation against him “retaliatory and discriminatory.”

The 23-page complaint, filed Friday afternoon in Franklin Circuit Court, asks for immediate ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Iconic folk singer, political activist and long time Bay Area resident Joan Baez is coming full circle Saturday, set to speak and possibly sing at a “No Kings” protest against President Donald Trump in Palo Alto, the city where she engaged in her first act of civil disobedience at age 17.

Baez, 83, has come a long way ...Read more

SEATTLE — Washington state reported 25 times as many whooping cough cases last year as the year before, according to new data that serve as a reminder of the disease’s continued surge here and nationwide.

The state Department of Health in a Friday statement said the rise in cases last year was “staggering” and coincides with a drop in ...Read more

Iran fired hundreds of ballistic missiles against Israel following an unprecedented direct attack on its nuclear facilities, ramping up a conflict between sworn enemies that threatens to engulf the Middle East and disrupt global oil supplies.

Multiple waves of missiles targeting Israeli cities amount to the most forceful step yet by Tehran ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Police Department has made more than 500 arrests since demonstrations over the federal immigration enforcement that started last week, according to command staff.

On Thursday night, the third night of a curfew in and around downtown L.A., LAPD made 26 arrests. The total was a far cry from Tuesday, when the agency...Read more

Iran fired hundreds of ballistic missiles against Israel following an unprecedented direct attack on its nuclear facilities, ramping up a conflict between sworn enemies that threatens to engulf the Middle East and disrupt global oil supplies.

Multiple waves of missiles targeting Israeli cities amount to the most forceful step yet by Tehran ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Pacific Palisades will reopen to the general public on Saturday, Los Angeles Police Department Chief Jim McDonnell told the Los Angeles Times on Friday afternoon.

The affluent coastal enclave has remained closed to the public since the devastating January wildfires, months after other fire-damaged neighborhoods reopened. Access ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — An Orange County Superior Court judge who shot and killed his wife during an argument at the couple’s Anaheim Hills home will wait a little longer to find out how long he will have to spend behind bars, with his sentencing delayed this week until September.

Jeffrey Ferguson, now 74, was convicted of second degree murder for ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Legislature on Friday passed a budget to balance the state’s $12 billion shortfall. But the vote was not without disagreement as certain Democratic lawmakers remained opposed to it due to limits on health insurance for people with “unsatisfactory” immigration status.

For weeks, leaders in both the ...Read more

A 21-year-old TSA agent was arrested for allegedly assaulting a 79-year-old airline passenger at Florida’s Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.

Janiyah Wilson-Robinson is accused of “forcefully pushing” a woman to the ground on Wednesday as the victim waited to board a JetBlue flight, according to local ABC affiliate WPLG. It�...Read more

AMMAN, Jordan — Iran launched successive missile barrages on Israel late Friday, a retaliation for a punishing Israeli campaign the same day that wiped out the upper echelons of Iran’s military leadership along with important parts of its nuclear and military infrastructure.

The exchanges constituted the most significant escalation between...Read more

LOS ANGELES — With Los Angeles reeling from immigration sweeps and unsettled by nightly clashes between protesters and police, Mayor Karen Bass was asked by a reporter: What she did she have to say to President Donald Trump?

Bass, standing before a bank of news cameras, did not hold back.

“I want to tell him to stop the raids,” she said....Read more

TEL AVIV, Israel — Benjamin Netanyahu has said for three decades that the central threat to Israel’s existence is Iran’s nuclear program. At least twice over that period, he came within inches of carrying out an attack on it.

Now, at age 75, the Israeli premier has launched the biggest strike on Iran in his country’s history. It’s an ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Manhattan Supreme Court justice on Friday blocked the Adams administration from bringing federal immigration officers onto Rikers Island.

The preliminary injunction will prevent agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agencies from setting up shop at the jail complex until the case, filed by the New York...Read more

NEW YORK — An ex-con used artificial intelligence to build several explosive devices but then got cold feet, apparently tossing two of them in the East River, with another found ditched on the Williamsburg Bridge subway tracks and a fourth one in the bag he was carrying when the FBI arrested him in Manhattan, according to federal court ...Read more

NEW YORK — A tumultuous day in Mahmoud Khalil’s bid for freedom ended late Friday with a federal judge in New Jersey refusing to force the Trump administration to release the Columbia University graduate student and Palestinian activist from a Louisiana lockup.

Judge Michael Farbiarz denied a request from Khalil’s lawyers calling for his ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles and other major cities across the nation are girding for widespread demonstrations against the Trump administration Saturday as the federal government expands its aggressive immigration enforcement crackdown beyond Southern California.

In Washington D.C., the U.S. Army will celebrate 250 years of service, as well as ...Read more

President Donald Trump backed Israel on Friday after it launched a sweeping attack on Iran’s nuclear program and leadership, although officials stressed the U.S. was not directly involved in the dramatic escalation that could lead to a wider war in the Middle East.

Trump claimed the Israeli attack was launched after Tehran ignored a 60-day ...Read more