Rashel Mereness was on vacation when this week's record-breaking king tide relentlessly streamed water onto the Redondo Beach International Boardwalk and into her bar, so she called staff to gauge just how bad the flooding was. While on the phone Wednesday morning, one staffer watched a city trash can float by.

"I don't think anybody expected ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — The U.S. Department of Justice is sending election monitors to three North Carolina counties on Tuesday as part of a massive expansion of the longstanding practice across the country.

Alamance, Wake and Mecklenburg — three of the largest counties in the state — will all receive DOJ monitors on Election Day, the State Board...Read more

Daylight saving time is ending Sunday at 2 a.m., giving trick-or-treaters extra time to recover from their sugar rush as the clocks “fall back” one hour to 1 a.m.

Here’s what to know.

What is daylight saving time?

Daylight saving time was implemented to harness more hours of sunlight in the evening during warmer months, according to the...Read more

CHICAGO — Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday reiterated his opposition to a per-employee corporate tax in Chicago, as Mayor Brandon Johnson again proposes one as part of his latest city budget pitch.

“I do not think that is a great way to provide revenue for the city, and here’s why: it sends a signal. It’s just the most direct signal to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Washington ordered the federal government Thursday to provide more information about letters it has sent to several states demanding they set aside ballots of alleged noncitizens during next week’s elections.

The ruling from Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia would ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York City’s public schools lost 187,000 students in kindergarten through 12th grade in over a decade, according to a new report by the city comptroller — while enrollment is projected to keep falling.

Thursday’s report analyzed K-12 enrollment declines between the 2013-14 to 2025-26 school years, finding a 19% decrease ...Read more

DENVER — As damage assessments continue across southwest Colorado, Archuleta County officials have confirmed more than 500 homes were impacted by flooding and dozens of stranded residents were rescued.

Of the 595 miles of roadway in Archuleta County, roughly 150 miles are impassable, Archuleta County Board of County Commissioners Chair Warren...Read more

NASA’s hopes for a 2028 moonshot to return humans to the lunar surface has pushed the agency to make changes, including spiking original orbital plans and delaying a full version of the astronauts’ new spacesuits.

The details were revealed during an Artemis program update last week. While Artemis III, a low-Earth orbit mission, remains on ...Read more

MIAMI — Next week, Florida voters will decide on a ballot measure that, if approved, would introduce sweeping changes to property taxes.

Amendment 3’s impact on properties with homestead exemptions — which are their owners’ primary residences — has occupied the spotlight. If passed, Amendment 3 would exempt the first $150,000 of a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES —Soon after a federal judge in Los Angeles sharply rejected a Trump administration effort to block 20,000 California ballots from voters it alleged may be noncitizens, the U.S. Justice Department announced it will appeal — leaving attorneys on both sides preparing Thursday for yet another court battle.

That was despite the lower...Read more

MIAMI — Cuban Americans in Miami-Dade County strongly support the U.S. government’s hardest push in decades to bring down the regime in Havana, but oppose the Trump administration’s immigration agenda when it affects Cubans living in South Florida, according to a new poll conducted by Florida International University.

The poll lands a few...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom and the California Democratic Party are sending teams of election law attorneys to five congressional districts to guard against federal intervention in next week’s midterms after the White House accused the state of allowing noncitizens to illegally vote in recent elections.

The volunteer lawyers, ...Read more

Electronic devices belonging to Meghan Markle’s embattled father are being examined by authorities investigating Thomas Markle Sr. for possessing child exploitation material.

Police in the Philippines have obtained a warrant to look into the 82-year-old suspect’s digital equipment including computers, phones and hard drives, according to ...Read more

Iran received a letter sent by U.S. Vice President JD Vance to its top security official, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported, with one of the country’s top negotiators later suggesting Tehran’s positions on ending the war will not be compromised.

Tasnim didn’t disclose the contents of the letter addressed to Mohsen Rezaee, the...Read more

Early into his tenure this summer, Florida Education Commissioner Henry Mack took to social media to talk about the limits of artificial intelligence.

His office had just rolled out a sweeping set of regulations meant to safeguard against the possible harms of AI in schools, including the outsourcing of critical thinking and work to the ...Read more

SANTA ANA, Calif. — Orange County’s election officials cannot comply with the U.S. Department of Justice’s request to check the citizenship status of more than 1,700 people, the county told the federal government Wednesday evening.

Citing state and federal law, the county denied the federal government’s request, saying it may revisit ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department announced the capture and extradition of a Southern California man Wednesday, more than two months after he was accused of beating an elderly woman with a bat and fleeing the state.

Erik Navarro, 26, was taken into custody in Oklahoma on unrelated traffic charges. Detectives from ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — Five detention officers at a North Carolina jail have been indicted on misdemeanor charges after allegedly allowing and facilitating a fight between two female inmates, according to court documents and interviews.

The five officers face the class-one misdemeanor charge of willfully failing to discharge duties by arranging a ...Read more

MIAMI — The Florida Department of Education reported a hack into the state’s student financial aid portal Thursday, potentially compromising millions of Floridians’ personal information such as Social Security numbers.

The department wrote in a release that the website FloridaStudentFinancialAidSG.org was the subject of the hack, referred...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The chief executive of the California's High Speed Rail Authority abruptly resigned late Wednesday amid intensifying scrutiny over cost overruns, project delays and wasteful expenses.

In a letter to authority executives Ian Choudri cited "personal and family priorities" for his decision to step down. Board chair Steve Kawa ...Read more