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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum called her country's judicial election 'extraordinary,' despite turnout of less than 13%. Mexico becomes the first country on Earth to elect all its judges, from state level to the Supreme Court.

Delegates to the state party convention heard a lot of swearing and speeches from 2028 contenders Tim Walz and Cory Booker. But neither Gavin Newsom nor Kamala Harris attended.

California Democrats say their party must stay committed to their values protecting the most vulnerable, while also honing their economic messaging to win back voters they lost last year.

When French President Macron's wife palmed his face on a plane in Hanoi, public relations chaos ensued.

Policies put in place by President Trump are prompting concern among international tourists over spending top dollar on vacations to America that may end up disrupted, or never materialize.

As promised, federal health officials this week dropped longstanding recommendations that healthy children and healthy pregnant women should get the COVID-19 vaccines.

At a recent symposium at San Quentin prison, a group of district attorneys from across California met with inmates to talk about the state's model of prison reform.

The display of unity between President Trump and Elon Musk comes after Musk issued a series of criticisms of Trump's policies, both directly and through his companies.

Trump revoked two large-scale Biden policies that extended temporary protection to migrants. 'The court plainly botched this,' Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in a dissent.

Gov. Gavin Newsom and former Vice President Kamala Harris, California's two most prominent Democrats, are skipping the state party's convention this weekend in Anaheim.

After dominating the U.S. for decades, California avocado farmers have been lapped by Mexican growers offering cheaper fruit. But one local farmer is fighting back.

A new, highly transmissible COVID subvariant has been detected in California — heightening the risk of a summer wave as recent moves by the Trump administration threaten to make vaccines harder to get, and more expensive, for many Americans, some health experts warn.

Mexican authorities are blaming the Gulf cartel for the slayings of the five members of a band, El Fugitivo, in the border state of Tamaulipas.

The girl's family received notice last month that their legal status had been terminated, warning them to leave the U.S. on their own. Doing so would put the girl at immediate risk of death, doctors say.

Christopher Boyce and Andrew Daulton Lee journeyed from the Palos Verdes Peninsula suburbs to become Soviet spies, a story emblematic of 1970s California.

Lawsuit accuses Trump's reshaped National Science Foundation of imposing ideology and across-the-board cuts at a cost of scientific and economic advancement.

Retribution against Harvard and all students from abroad? This is not how a free country treats its schools or the international visitors who attend them.

The administration's cuts at the National Institutes of Health will obliterate billions in economic gains, America's scientific predominance and untold human lives.

The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear an Apache religious challenge to a copper mine that could turn the tribe's sacred site into a 1,000-foot-deep industrial crater.