U.S. transportation safety investigators are probing a series of incidents in which self-driving cars operated by Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo unit drove improperly near parked school buses in Austin, Texas.

The National Transportation Safety Board will “examine the interaction between Waymo vehicles and school buses stopped for loading and ...Read more

Snow and dangerously bitter cold are expanding across the U.S. Great Plains as the country’s largest winter storm prompts cascading travel disruptions and threatens widespread power outages.

The storm is expected to span almost 1,500 miles, bringing heavy snow, crippling ice and subzero wind chill to some of the nation’s biggest cities. ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A San Jose doctor suing a Thai restaurant in Los Gatos over claims its Dragon Balls appetizer was so spicy it burned her internally has received a delay in the trial, citing her need to attend a wedding in Vietnam.

“It would be difficult and distracting for me to have a trial starting the day after I return from overseas,...Read more

NEW YORK — Kaz Daughtry, a top official in ex-Mayor Eric Adams’ administration, is slated to join the Department Homeland Security as a law enforcement liaison, the Department of Homeland Security told The New York Daily News.

Daughtry, who served as Adams’ deputy mayor for public safety and was one of Adams’ closest allies in the ...Read more

The Venezuelan regime is rejecting as “fake” a report by the British newspaper The Guardian that reported that acting President Delcy Rodríguez had privately pledged cooperation to the Trump administration ahead of the U.S. military operation that captured strongman Nicolás Maduro earlier this month.

On the official X account of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, will lead a summit of fellow military leaders to coordinate the campaign against narcotics traffickers and other criminal organizations in the Western Hemisphere.

“Chiefs of defense and senior military representatives from 34 nations will meet to build shared ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has dispatched naval assets to the Middle East, prompting fresh speculation that he’ll follow through on threats to attack Iran’s senior leadership amid a violent crackdown on nationwide protests.

“We have a big flotilla going in that direction and we’ll see what happens,” Trump told reporters ...Read more

DENVER — Immigration agents operating near Vail placed branded ace of spades playing cards — similar to “death cards” left on corpses by U.S. forces during the Vietnam War — in cars left behind after immigrants’ arrests this week, an advocacy group alleged.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is investigating, according to a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Department of Justice has agreed to stop demanding medical records that identify young patients who received gender-affirming care from Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, ending a legal standoff with families who sued to block a subpoena that some feared would be used to criminally prosecute the parents of transgender ...Read more

The largest pediatric health care system in California will stop providing gender-affirming medical care to transgender youth next month amid increasing pressure from the federal government.

Rady Children's Health, encompasses Children's Hospital of Orange County, Rady Children's Hospital San Diego and Rady Children's in Riverside County, said ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A new report from the Public Policy Institute of California said the state is losing more residents than it is attracting from other states. The top reasons? Employment and housing.

PPIC said since 2001, California has lost more residents than it has gained to other states.

“During the height of the pandemic, the flows...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Visitors at Independence National Historical Park strolled through what was left of the President’s House Friday afternoon, some stopping to inspect the blank brick and streaks of glue residue where exhibits about slavery were displayed for 16 years.

That is, until the National Park Service dismantled them a day prior.

At ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel on Friday filed a federal antitrust suit against the nation's largest oil companies, arguing the businesses had acted as a "cartel" to restrain trade and slow renewable energy competition and growth.

The result, the attorney general argued in a statement, has been "artificially high home ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — For some, the removal of exhibits about slavery at the President’s House Site at Independence National Historical Park on Thursday came as a shock.

For John Garrison Marks, a historian and author who writes and researches about America’s early years, it looked like history repeating itself.

In April, Marks will publish his...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In downtown Los Angeles on Friday, hundreds gathered as part of a nationwide protest of ongoing immigration raids that have rattled cities and communities across the country.

Labor organizers, clergy leaders and immigrant rights groups gathered at La Placita Olvera to march down to the federal detention facility where ...Read more

NEW YORK — As Mayor Zohran Mamdani dashed kids’ hopes of a snow day next week, the MTA said it was preparing for potential buildup of snow and ice on aboveground subway lines.

The MTA will work to keep aboveground service on elevated tracks running as long as the third rail is clear and train operators have visibility, transit sources told ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Long before and after his return to the White House, President Donald Trump perennially linked Joe Biden with John L. “Jack” Smith, the Justice Department special counsel who brought criminal charges against him.

But when Smith testified publicly for the first time Thursday, it was Democrats who repeatedly raised the issue to...Read more

The Missouri Supreme Court on Friday unanimously struck down a state law deployed by Republicans to fight abortion access, a sweeping ruling that wrestles power away from top statewide officials.

The law, signed by Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe last year, marked a key tool in Republican officials’ yearslong effort to halt abortions. It severely ...Read more