LOS ANGELES -- A divided Los Angeles school board has voted to shut down a popular charter school to make more space for its own program on the same Echo Park campus, pushing the boundaries of state law and school district authority over charters.

The 4-3 vote late Tuesday denied a renewal authorization for Gabriella Charter School, which means...Read more

CHICAGO -- A federal judge in Chicago on Thursday said she is “profoundly concerned” that immigration agents are violating her orders restricting the use of tear gas on media and protesters and ordered the field director for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement into court to answer questions.

U.S. District Judge Sarah Ellis also modified...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Janet Rivera cares for both her 79-year-old mother, who has dementia, and her 25-year-old son, who has a genetic condition called Fragile X syndrome. Despite their differing diagnoses, both of her loved ones share a common symptom: They are prone to wander away from home, and have cognitive impairments that make it hard to find ...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed a bill to fast-track the study of psychedelic drugs, which a coalition of veterans say hold enormous potential to treat post-traumatic stress disorder and depression.

More veterans die from suicide in America on a daily basis than average daily combat deaths in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan combined, according ...Read more

SEATTLE — The lone independent federal agency responsible for ensuring safety at U.S. nuclear weapons sites will lose its ability to issue recommendations for safer work by January if the Trump administration doesn’t replenish its board, which this month dwindles to one member.

The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board ensures adequate ...Read more

A few months after hiking with a Marine battalion along Camp Pendleton’s steep hills, Vice President JD Vance will hit the beach at the sprawling Southern California base to welcome amphibious vehicles and aircraft doing a beach landing demonstration in honor of the Marine Corps’ 250th anniversary, according to White House officials.

On ...Read more

In August, an 80-year-old woman walked into the emergency room at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. She was lucid but experiencing a stroke. Within minutes, doctors asked for permission to pull out the stroke-causing clot before any more brain damage could occur.

She hesitated. The procedure was part of a clinical trial, and she’d heard ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — When his date pulled out handcuffs, the man thought it was for consensual sex.

He submitted to having his wrists cuffed and ankles bound together. Then the other man pulled out a baseball bat.

The Feb. 22 incident, recounted in a detective's affidavit, began on Grindr, a hookup app for gay men. It ended with the handcuffed man ...Read more

Megan Waiters can recite the stories of dozens of people she has helped connect to the internet in western Alabama. A 7-year-old who couldn’t do classwork online without a tablet, and the 91-year-old she taught to check health care portals on a smartphone.

“They have health care needs, but they don’t have the digital skills,” said ...Read more

Just before 2 a.m. on Sept. 14, engines roared in a Landover, Maryland, shopping center parking lot as a crowd gathered to watch souped-up cars spin in tight circles under the glow of streetlights. Then one car lost control.

Police say the white Infiniti sedan careened into a woman standing nearby, throwing her against another car. Police ...Read more

For years, Western leaders have debated the creation of a regional energy market: a coordinated grid to pool solar power in Arizona, wind in Wyoming, hydro in Washington and battery storage in California.

The shared resources would meet the demands of 11 different states, bolstering utilities’ local power plants with surplus energy from ...Read more

CHANDLER, Ariz. — Art Martinez has seen the power of ceremony.

Martinez, a clinical psychologist and member of the Chumash Tribe, helped run an American Indian youth ceremonial camp. Held at a sacred tribal site in Northern California, it was designed to help kids’ mental health. He remembers a 14-year-old girl who had been struggling ...Read more

People all across California will dive under desks Thursday at 10:16 a.m. Pacific time to take cover.

That’s not a prediction of a major earthquake. Rather, it’s part of increasingly popular statewide and international earthquake preparedness event.

The Great California Shakeout is a one-minute drill in which people at more than 9,000 ...Read more

The University of Pennsylvania’s faculty senate Wednesday joined a growing chorus of concern over the compact proposed by President Donald Trump’s administration, voting overwhelmingly to urge Penn’s leaders to reject it “and any other proposal that similarly threatens our mission and values.”

The one-page document passed by the ...Read more

At least two law enforcement experts with deep experience in police reform efforts are emerging as possible contenders to become Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani’s choice for NYPD commissioner should he win next month’s election, the Daily News has learned.

The two potential picks — Rodney Harrison and Isa Abbassi — both ...Read more