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There are new signs that a dangerous fungus is once again on the move. Candida auris is a type of yeast that can cause life-threatening illness.

Elon Musk has benefited from his close alliance with Donald Trump, as the president has ousted federal officials who had overseen departments investigating the billionaire's multiple companies.

A year after the Baltimore bridge collapse, a report calls for an assessment of several California bridges.

Israeli journalist and 'No Other Land' filmmaker Yuval Abraham alleges the academy, which oversees the Oscars, 'felt no need to respond' to the recent attack on his co-director Hamdan Ballal.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and others in the Trump administration denied that the information he shared in a Signal chat that included a journalist was classified.

A new book by former L.A. prosecutor Marcia Clark raises questions about the tactics used to convict Barbara Graham, the brassy "dice girl" who in 1955 was executed at San Quentin for the murder of a Burbank widow.

Four California Republicans in the House of Representatives are on the target list of a prominent Democratic group preparing for the 2026 election.

United Flight 198 left LAX on Saturday bound for China but was diverted to San Francisco because the pilot "did not have their passport onboard."

Videos posted on X showed a blue orb in the night sky that was visible in the U.K., France and other countries.

Experts say Signal is the most secure messaging app. Even top U.S. officials use it. Should you?

The hiker and a companion had wandered off the remote 53-mile hiking path that follows the northern California coastline of redwoods and black sand beaches when one of them fell 100 feet.

The first branch of government should stop or empower Trump's use of the Enemy Aliens Act. Instead, Congress chooses to heckle from the cheap seats.

Palestinian 'No Other Land' filmmaker Hamdan Ballal is free, less than a day after Israeli military and police forces detained him following a brutal attack by settlers.

Oakland voters have a provocative choice in next month's special election for mayor, as longtime former Rep. Barbara Lee faces off against Loren Taylor, a scrappy politician 31 years her junior.

Francis rejected all trappings of sovereignty and cult of personality. Instead, he has lived and preached what Jesus commanded his followers to do in the Sermon on the Mount, which might as well be the Communist Manifesto nowadays.

Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal, who co-directed the Oscar-winning documentary 'No Other Land,' was beaten by Israeli settlers and detained Monday, according to his co-director.

Golfer Tiger Woods says he's in a relationship with Vanessa Trump, the former daughter-in-law of President Trump who divorced Donald Trump Jr. in 2018.

President Trump's lawyers urged the Supreme Court to block a judge's order requiring the government to 'immediately' rehire 16,000 federal employees.

Just as President Trump is facing multiple cases in court aimed at curtailing his presidential powers, Rep. Darrell Issa introduced a bill to rein in federal judges.

An Orange County couple was deported to Colombia after living in the U.S. for decades with no criminal record.

Han Duck-soo was reinstated as acting president Monday. He was handed the reins to the country after President Yoon Suk Yeol, who declared martial law, was impeached.

President Trump and his allies consistently frame his policy agenda around the concept of fairness, which experts say is a potent political message in America right now.

The families of two Venezuelans deported to El Salvador say the Trump administration wrongly branded them as Tren de Aragua gang members.

Eric Swalwell has received countless death threats, been physically accosted and sneezed on. Republican colleagues tell him they fear similar reprisals if they stand up to the president.

The Trump administration ends federal contract that provides legal representation to nearly 26,000 migrant children who entered the U.S. alone, leaving them vulnerable to rapid deportation.

In an all-hands company meeting broadcast on X, Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk urged employees to hold on to their shares, which have fallen in value by 34% year to date.

A Trump-appointed appellate court judge broke with his colleagues in a California gun case by posting a "dissent video" to YouTube of him manipulating firearms in his judicial chambers.

Former Lakers player Butch Carter has joined a class action lawsuit alleging Dr. Bradford Bomba Sr. sexually abused him at the University of Indiana in the 1970s.

Jiyeon Lee, 33, Taehee Kim, 59, and Junghee Kim, 54, disappeared while driving from the Grand Canyon toward Las Vegas on March 13.

Once the darling of alternative energy advocates, the electric vehicles are now the unlikely target of political violence.

A ranch used as a training camp by a Mexican drug cartel was littered with burned bodies and discarded possessions. The discovery has sparked calls for justice.

The dismantling of the department has been unofficially in progress for weeks, but Trump's impact on education already has been substantial in California.

What should the American people believe -- Trump's denials that he's defying court orders or the evidence that can be seen and heard?

Mexico's transfer of 29 cartel figures — including Rafael Caro Quintero and accused Zeta members — has led to jockeying by attorneys willing to defend them.

An article highlighting baseball and civil rights hero Jackie Robinson's U.S. Army career was back on the Department of Defense website after being removed in a DEI purge.

A cease-fire between Hamas and Israel allowed many Gaza residents to return to their devastated homeland. But now many are fleeing once more.

The U.S. has played an important role in Taiwan-China relations for decades. Trump's 'America First' ideology could subvert efforts to preserve a tenuous peace in the region.

U.S. support for Taiwan has ebbed and flowed throughout the decades. Here's what's at stake as Trump rewrites the rules of diplomacy.

Democrats do not want to repeat the mistakes of last week, when they split over the GOP's stopgap measure to avoid a federal government shutdown.

Stations that need to fill time are now using the broadcasting services of Russia and China. This is a fiasco for U.S. global standing.

Arms are a global business, so it's little surprise that at the International Defense Exhibition and Conference, discerning quartermasters had a world buffet of weaponry before them, be it Brazilian ballistic munitions, Indian patrol boats or the latest in AI-enabled drones from the U.S.

A new strain of bird flu — H7N9 — is detected in at a poultry farm; scientists learn that past human flu exposure may provide some immunity to H5N1.

'I am authorizing my Administration to immediately begin producing Energy with BEAUTIFUL, CLEAN COAL,' Trump wrote in a post on social media on Monday.

President Trump released 80,000 unredacted pages on the assassination of John F. Kennedy more than 60 years ago.

President Trump is escalating his attacks on the federal judiciary by calling for the impeachment of a judge who has tried to block his deportations.

The U.S. government's move to put South Korea -- a non-nuclear ally--in the same company as countries like China or North Korea has unsettled politicians in Seoul

President Trump told the assembled prosecutors of the Department of Justice on Friday that negative coverage of him is illegal. Spoiler alert: It's not.

Sen. Adam B. Schiff rebuffed President Trump's claims disputing President Biden's pardons for the Jan. 6 committee that Schiff sat on, saying its members would not be silenced by Trump's threats.