A 3.3-magnitude earthquake shook the Arcata area in Northern California, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

The 14-mile deep quake hit 2 miles from Arcata at 9:50 p.m. Sunday, June 22, according to the USGS.

About 335 people from as far away as Florence and Talent in Oregon reported feeling the tremor to the agency.

Arcata is about a 280-...Read more

NEW YORK — The heat wave that New York City and the Northeast have been bracing for descended in earnest Monday as temperatures hit 86 degrees by 8 a.m.

The soaring temperatures expected over the next few days come just as New Yorkers head to the polls Tuesday for the Democratic primary that will decide the party’s mayoral candidate, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Federal efforts to help people cope with extreme heat appear to be melting away even as the nation prepares for another summer of record high temperatures and increasing numbers of heat-related illnesses and deaths.

The heat is already on in much of the country, with highs in the 90s and 100s expected from coast to coast this ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore’s Juneteenth announcement of $400 million in state funds to historically underserved communities isn’t sitting well with some Republican lawmakers, who view the initiative as an unproductive government handout.

According to the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD), the funds �...Read more

Iran vowed retaliation and kept up attacks on Israel following the U.S. strikes on its nuclear facilities over the weekend, fueling fears of a wider war in the Middle East and rattling global markets.

The Islamic Republic fired another missile against Israel on Monday, while Israeli forces kept up strikes on Iranian military sites and airports....Read more

Russia unleashed its latest missile and drone strike on Kyiv, killing at least seven people, as Moscow steps up its aerial attacks on civilian infrastructure.

A section of a residential building collapsed after it was hit, and more than 30 people were injured across the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram on Monday ...Read more

Iran said U.S. strikes on its nuclear sites over the weekend have delivered an “irreparable blow” to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty — a bedrock, international agreement preventing the spread of atomic bombs.

Iran’s envoy for the International Atomic Energy Agency, Reza Najafi, described U.S. attacks as an act of aggression that �...Read more

Russian President Vladimir Putin denounced “absolutely unprovoked aggression” against Iran, as he met a top official from Tehran the day after the U.S. strike on Iranian nuclear facilities.

Putin described the attack as “totally unfounded and unjustified” as he met Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in the Kremlin on Monday. The ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A day after news that the U.S. military bombed three nuclear sites in Iran, the L.A. County Sheriff's Department said on its social media channels their "hearts go out" to Iranian "victims."

The post sparked quick backlash — and an apology followed.

It's unclear what time the initial message, which was on X, Facebook and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Board of Education on Tuesday is slated to vote on an $18.8-billion spending plan for the next school year that officials say will keep cuts and layoffs at bay for exactly one more year.

Union leaders and activists, meanwhile, want more from a district reserve that still contains several billion dollars. This is ...Read more

DETROIT — A suspected gunman fatally shot at a Wayne church Sunday by a security guard has been identified as a 31-year-old Romulus man, police said.

Officials said the suspect was Brian Anthony Browning, and the investigation into the shooting is ongoing.

Authorities said Browning was armed with an AR-15 style rifle, more than a dozen fully...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The vast majority of California voters support expanding access to translated ballots for people who speak limited English, an effort that would likely increase turnout, a new poll found.

That finding comes from a poll released Monday by the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies, which conducted the survey in five ...Read more

United Launch Alliance took a week to reset, but was able to send up its second launch of the year, another mission for Amazon’s effort to compete with SpaceX’s Starlink internet constellation. The launch came just hours after SpaceX sent up its 50th rocket from the Space Coast this year.

An Atlas V rocket on the Kuiper-2 mission with 27 ...Read more

Medical experts are dismayed over a federal report’s claim that kids are overprescribed asthma medications, saying it minimizes how many lives the drugs save.

Safe treatment protocols for asthma management have been carefully studied over the years, said Dr. Perry Sheffield, a pediatrician and professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at ...Read more

DENVER — President Donald Trump’s vow to carry out mass deportations of immigrants has sparked fear and outrage among some Coloradans since he took office on Jan. 20. It’s drawn approval from others. Most of all, his pledge has brought uncertainty to many across the state.

The administration’s underlying goal, according to reporting by ...Read more

The Trump administration is pushing to reshape the federal housing safety net by slashing spending and shifting the burden of housing millions of people to states, which may be ill-equipped to handle the mission.

President Donald Trump’s recent budget request to Congress for fiscal year 2026, a preliminary plan released in early May and known...Read more

Adriana Lorenzo has stopped letting children play outside after 10 a.m. at the child-care program she runs from her Boyle Heights home. That's the time she's heard ICE agents start knocking on doors.

She's added extra locks to the outside gate, canceled field trips to the park and library and reassured frantic parents that she won't let federal...Read more

As Gabriela crossed the stage at her kindergarten graduation in Chicago, she scanned the audience, desperately searching for a familiar face. But her mother was nowhere to be found.

Still, wearing a pink dress and ballerina flats, Gabriela, 6, smiled and twirled around holding a bouquet on her way home. An older neighbor who sometimes cares for...Read more

Immigration arrests in Los Angeles have been headline news and the subject of legal disputes for the past few weeks, but Angelenos watching the drama play out on television and in their communities may be confused about who exactly is putting people in handcuffs and hauling them off.

After all, some of the federal agents involved in the raids ...Read more