LOS ANGELES — A member of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners who led a nationwide search to hire a new LAPD chief and sparked condemnation from activists for his previous counterterrorism research is stepping down.

Erroll Southers confirmed his plans to resign through a spokesperson on Friday, ending a stormy two-year tenure on the...Read more

The White House slammed the Nobel committee on Friday for playing “politics” with its prestigious peace prize after President Donald Trump lobbied heavily for the honor — only to see it awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado. The committee said it was honoring her “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Federal prosecutors sued Southern California Edison, saying its equipment ignited the 2019 Saddle Ridge fire, which burned nearly 9,000 acres and damaged or destroyed more than 100 homes in the San Fernando Valley.

The complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on Tuesday claims that Edison was negligent in designing,...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced his plans to travel to Cairo and Jerusalem to herald an agreement that has halted the fighting in Gaza and set the stage for Hamas to release hostages the militant group is holding.

Trump told reporters Friday he would be meeting with “a lot of leaders from all over the world” who had been ...Read more

DENVER — The FBI was working to identify the person behind the Evergreen High School shooter’s social media accounts through search warrants when the attack happened, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said Friday.

Sheriff’s officials released a lengthy statement Friday afternoon addressing “rumors” being circulated about the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump said he would impose an additional 100% tariff on China as well as export controls on “any and all critical software” beginning Nov. 1, hours after threatening to cancel an upcoming meeting with the country’s leader, Xi Jinping.

“It has just been learned that China has taken an extraordinarily ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — It looks like any other house in the city’s Fairmount Park neighborhood: Plants in the front yard. A front porch decoration announcing “Hello fall.” Toys on the porch. A satellite dish.

But the two-story home on a residential street near Lafayette Boulevard is central to a mortgage fraud case the Justice Department ...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump said he would impose an additional 100% tariff on China and export controls on “any and all critical software” beginning Nov. 1, hours after threatening to cancel an upcoming meeting with the country’s leader, Xi Jinping.

“It has just been learned that China has taken an extraordinarily ...Read more

The deployment of the Texas National Guard to Chicago at the order of President Donald Trump this week is dividing state governors and sowing discord within the National Governors Association, a long-standing group committed to bipartisanship.

As reported by The New York Times, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and California Gov. Gavin Newsom, both ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Multiple state officials and lawmakers have recently moved to support efforts that would make it harder — or even illegal — for President Donald Trump to deploy the National Guard to Maryland without the state’s consent.

Gov. Wes Moore announced Thursday night that Maryland would co-lead a coalition of 24 governors and ...Read more

PARIS — President Emmanuel Macron reappointed Sebastien Lecornu to be France’s prime minister, giving the centrist ally another shot at naming a new cabinet and getting a budget through a fractious parliament.

Lecornu must propose a 2026 budget on Monday in order to get the legislation adopted by the end of the year through the normal ...Read more

BOSTON — The Haitian national found guilty of raping a “disabled” 15-year-old girl at a Rockland hotel used as an immigration shelter was sentenced to at least a decade in state prison.

“Our commitment to seeing this case through was, most importantly, about seeking justice on behalf of the child victim,” Plymouth District Attorney ...Read more

BALTIMORE — As the debate over the controversial Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project escalates to federal court, Gov. Wes Moore’s office said the governor continues to have “grave concerns” about the transmission line.

Moore’s communications director, David Turner, said in a statement Thursday that the governor “will continue to ...Read more

More than two dozen Minnesota school board members and candidates have signed a letter in support of transgender athletes, calling for state and school leaders to affirm those students’ “right to fully participate in school sports.”

The letter released Friday by the nonprofit Gender Justice comes as the state awaits word on what “...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Friday that a facility for a branch of Qatar’s armed forces will be built at the Mountain Home Air Force Base south of Boise.

“Today, we’re signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatar Emiri Air Force facility at the Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho,” he told reporters at...Read more

Israel began the process of withdrawing troops from Gaza while the U.S. started the clock on a 72-hour window for Hamas to release all remaining hostages, as the complex process of ending the two-year war got underway.

Israeli forces retreated on Friday to a so-called yellow line as laid out in a plan unveiled by U.S. President Donald Trump ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A judge temporarily blocked California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s attempt to take over Los Angeles County’s beleaguered juvenile halls on Friday, finding that despite evidence of a “systemic failure” to improve poor conditions, Bonta had not met the legal grounds necessary to strip away local control.

After years of ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — As her office fights in court to preserve Missouri abortion restrictions, Attorney General Catherine Hanaway has issued subpoenas demanding patient medical records, incident reports, and communication about patient care from Planned Parenthood.

The attorney general’s office is defending the state in a case brought by ...Read more