LOS ANGELES -- Authorities were investigating after the discovery Sunday afternoon of possible human remains at a Long Beach park as visitors gathered to celebrate Easter.

The Long Beach Police Department responded to a call around 5 p.m. at DeForest Park after a possible small skull was found by someone searching for Easter eggs in the area, ...Read more

NEW YORK — An advocacy group that counts the growing number of homeless students in New York City every year released a new brief Monday underscoring a need for more support for these 154,000 children in local schools.

The report from Advocates for Children of New York found that 63% of students living in shelters are chronically absent, and...Read more

NEW YORK – More than 11,000 law enforcement officers from across the globe have signed a petition asking a Bronx judge not to throw the NYPD sergeant convicted of killing a fleeing suspect by hurling a cooler at him in prison, the Daily News has learned.

Attorneys for Sgt. Erik Duran will be presenting the signatures to Judge Guy Mitchell, ...Read more

MIAMI — For three straight years, spring break in South Beach has come and gone without major incident.

Crowds were relatively small last month, especially compared to March weekends in the years after the COVID pandemic, when thousands of young people packed Ocean Drive and the party was sullied by shootings, stampedes and curfews.

This ...Read more

CHICAGO — Jessica Biggs, an elected school board member representing parts of downtown and the South Side, officially announced Monday she is running for president of the Chicago Board of Education.

Biggs — the director of the Southwest Organizing Project and a former Chicago Public Schools principal — is the fourth candidate to enter the...Read more

LOS ANGELES — CNN will host a California gubernatorial primary debate May 5.

The two-hour debate will take place at 6 p.m Pacific time at a venue in the Los Angeles area that is yet to be determined. CNN anchors Elex Michaelson and Kaitlan Collins will serve as moderators.

The debate will air live across CNN, CNN International, CNN en Españ...Read more

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s conservative evangelical religious beliefs drew attention even before his confirmation hearings in January 2025. He is a member of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches – CREC – whose beliefs have been influenced by a 20th-century movement called Christian Reconstructionism.

Many CREC ...Read more

U.S. allies are reportedly pressing for a last-minute deal with Iran, as President Donald Trump extended his deadline to Tuesday for Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, keeping markets on edge over whether a breakthrough can be reached.

Axios reported that Pakistan, Egypt and Turkey are pushing to secure a potential ceasefire — lasting ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s desire to make the nation’s capital “beautiful again” is a central focus of the White House’s fiscal 2027 budget request for the Interior Department.

The budget, released Friday, calls for $15.9 billion for the department, a $2.3 billion decrease from the fiscal 2026 enacted level. The White ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — It started as a legal dispute over dog custody and visitation after a San Diego County couple broke up.

The judge’s order cited two similar cases and ultimately sided with the woman who had Kyra the dog for the last couple of years, giving her full rights and denying her ex’s requests.

It wasn’t until later, well into the ...Read more

Bluestem Health, a clinic that serves low-income and uninsured patients in Lincoln, Nebraska, has lost money for the last two years.

And CEO Brad Meyer fears times will soon get worse for the clinic and its 21,000 patients. That’s because Nebraska is set to become the first state to require certain Medicaid enrollees to work or lose their ...Read more

What do America’s national parks taste like?

In Northern California, perhaps it’s the earthiness of forest mushrooms and sweetness of crab meat. Along the Southern border, maybe the basso of pine nuts and tang of cactus paddles. And in the East, how about … a whole lot of country ham?

That delicious thought came up while Nina Elder and ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado lawmakers want to create a new way to institutionalize mentally ill and disabled people who are accused of serious crimes in an effort to ensure that dangerous people are not set free when their criminal cases end.

The bipartisan effort to tweak Colorado’s competency laws is backed by major players in the criminal justice ...Read more

President Donald Trump issued increasingly aggressive threats to destroy Iran’s power plants starting Tuesday and bring “Hell” to the country following the rescue of a U.S. airman more than a day after his fighter jet was shot down.

Iran rejected Trump’s latest ultimatum to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, saying it would only fully resume ...Read more

It’s an Easter Sunday to remember for Big Bear bald eagles Jackie and Shadow, who welcomed a pair of eaglets this weekend in front of 2.5 million social media followers.

The first chick hatched late Saturday at 11:33 p.m. while the second emerged Sunday at 8:30 a.m., according to Friends of Big Bear Valley, the nonprofit group that oversees ...Read more