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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.

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.

AMAs host Jennifer Lopez may be the queen of multitasking: Monday night she danced to 23 hit songs, changed outfits eight times and announced a Vegas residency.

At least 50 people were hospitalized after being struck by the Ford Galaxy that drove directly into a tight cluster of fans lining a street.

An outpost for Chicano culture in Vietnam attracts community — and occasional concerns among older generations inclined to associate tattoos with gangs.

In 2023, a Mexican girl, 4, was allowed U.S. entry for lifesaving medical care. She and her parents, who live in Bakersfield, have been told they must leave.

As California positions itself as a leader on climate change, former Los Angeles mayor and gubernatorial candidate Antonio Villaraigosa is pivoting away from his track record as an environmental champion to defend the state's struggling oil industry.

Gutierrez spent 14 months in prison following her conviction in the 2021 death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

Five years after the mass protests of 2020, the LAPD's aggressive handling of demonstrations remains controversial — and costly.

St. John's Community Health launched its home visitation program after learning that hundreds of patients were skipping appointments because they're afraid of getting caught up in federal immigration raids.

A federal judge blocked President Trump's order banning international students at Harvard, but the effort has prompted concern at campuses nationwide among students and university leaders.

Fears that Washington might pull some or all of the roughly 28,500 U.S. troops stationed in South Korea have loomed large in the country since Trump's first term.

Dr. Maher Abdallah credited a series of miracles for limiting the scope of devastation from last Saturday's bomb attack, noting no staff or patients were on site at the time and the clinic's in vitro fertilization lab remained intact.

The decision is the latest in which the court's conservative majority sided with the president's power to fire agency officials in violation of long-standing laws.

U.S. authorities called the shooting outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., an "act of terror" and identified the suspect as Elias Rodriguez, 31, of Chicago.