LOS ANGELES — For Javier Hernandez, cooperating with federal prosecutors felt like the only option.

Hernandez, 48, faced up to life in prison after U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents and Fontana police arrested him and seized nearly 22 pounds of meth during a 2015 operation targeting cross-border drug smuggling. Recovering from drug ...Read more

The U.S. and Iran failed to reach an agreement after marathon talks in Pakistan, raising doubts about whether they can find a lasting resolution to a six-week war that has killed thousands and disrupted energy supplies across the globe.

Vice President JD Vance said negotiators will return to the U.S. without a deal after Iran failed to give a ...Read more

The U.S. and Iran failed to reach an agreement after marathon talks in Pakistan on the weekend, a major setback to finding a lasting resolution to the six-week war in the Middle East.

Vice President JD Vance said negotiators will return to the U.S. without a deal after Iran failed to give a commitment it would not seek a nuclear weapon. Iranian...Read more

The U.S. and Iran failed to reach an agreement to end the war in the Middle East after 21 hours of talks in Pakistan on the weekend, Vice President JD Vance said.

“We go back to the United States having not come to an agreement,” Vance told reporters in Islamabad early Sunday. “We’ve made very clear what our red lines are, what things ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A protest in downtown Los Angeles against the ongoing actions of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement grew heated Saturday afternoon, with police declaring an unlawful assembly.

A few dozen anti-ICE protesters had gathered around noon and began adorning the fence surrounding the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown L.A....Read more

Mohamed Bailor Jalloh was in the Virginia National Guard when he became hooked on speeches by Anwar al-Aulaqi in about 2014.

The U.S.-born cleric was already dead by the time his words moved Jalloh: He had been killed in Yemen in a drone strike ordered by President Barack Obama in September 2011.

The American news media referred to Aulaqi as a...Read more

The U.K. government put its plan to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands on hold after failing to win U.S. backing for the deal.

President Donald Trump in February said a plan to hand over the Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius, while retaining control of the joint U.S.-U.K. military base of Diego Garcia through a lease, was a “big ...Read more

NEW YORK — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has opened an investigation into a sexual assault allegation against California Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell, the Daily News has learned.

The alleged assault occurred in a Manhattan hotel in 2024, as first reported by CNN. A former staffer of Swalwell said, after a night of drinking with him...Read more

The U.S. Department of State on Saturday announced it canceled the green cards of three more Iranian nationals and placed them in custody of federal immigration agents, noting their ties to a former Iranian politician.

The three Iranians arrested, Seyed Eissa Hashemi, Maryam Tahmasebi and their son, were based in the Los Angeles area, and are ...Read more

A former Yolo County Sheriff's Office lieutenant is one of five people charged with murder following a fireworks warehouse explosion that killed seven workers in the rural Northern California community of Esparto last summer, authorities said.

Samuel Machado is accused of illegally having 1 million pounds of fireworks on his property at the ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is launching an investigation into accusations Rep. Eric Swalwell, a candidate for California governor, sexually assaulted a woman in 2019 and 2024, the office confirmed Saturday.

The investigation, which was first reported by CNN, follows accusations published by that outlet and...Read more

NEW YORK — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has opened an investigation into a sexual assault allegation against California Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell, the Daily News has learned.

The alleged assault occurred in a Manhattan hotel in 2024. A former staffer of Swalwell said, after a night of drinking with him, she woke up to the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The nationwide controversy surrounding high-tech data centers, and environmental impact and energy and water supplies, turned into a police matter not far from the U.S.-Mexico border.

A man speaking out against a proposed data center said he was removed and arrested at an Imperial County Board of Supervisors meeting this week ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Last September, the Department of Homeland Security started advising unaccompanied immigrant children that they could either self-deport or expect to face long-term detention.

But a federal judge in Los Angeles on Monday ordered the government to stop using such "blatantly coercive" language, ruling that the new advisals, as ...Read more

Staff at Microsoft Corp. have told some developers of carbon removal credits that the company is pausing what is currently the world’s biggest program for financing the extraction of CO2 from the atmosphere.

Employees at the software giant have called a number of carbon project developers in recent days to say Microsoft is putting purchases ...Read more

The U.S. and Iran engaged in marathon negotiations with Pakistan, taking their second break after 14 hours, with Iranian state media saying “some differences remain.”

The Iranian government said in a post on social media that both sides were exchanging “expert texts” as the talks in Islamabad moved into Sunday. Talks were expected to ...Read more

A French bill aimed at combating what supporters call “new forms of antisemitism,” such as calls for Israel’s destruction, has ignited a fierce political battle, as critics warn it could restrict free speech.

The legislation, introduced by centrist lawmaker Caroline Yadan, is scheduled for debate in the National Assembly next week. But ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho school districts will soon have a little help to serve students with disabilities.

Gov. Brad Little on Friday signed legislation that finalizes a fund to provide money for school districts educating students with disabilities who need services that are costlier, like a nurse or an ASL interpreter. Under the bill, schools ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — A Texas woman ordered to pay $10 million in damages to a University of Idaho professor who she repeatedly accused on social media of orchestrating the 2022 Moscow college students murders has appealed the jury’s award in federal court.

Ashley Guillard, 41, of Houston, filed a notice of appeal this week in the 9th U.S. Circuit...Read more

BOSTON — The Massachusetts State Police lieutenant who led the Norfolk County investigative unit during the troubled Karen Read investigation has retired from the agency.

Lt. Brian Tully’s retirement was effective at the end of Wednesday, an MSP spokesman told The Boston Herald. A personnel order reviewed by the Herald states that he was �...Read more