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Breaking Suspect in the deadly Berlin Pride ramming is shot dead as officials call it Islamist terror
A Christopher Street Day parade in Berlin in 2019
World
Sunday, 7/26, 07:48 PM

Suspect in the deadly Berlin Pride ramming is shot dead as officials call it Islamist terror

  • A man drove a vehicle into a crowd near Berlin's Christopher Street Day celebrations and then attacked people with a bladed weapon, killing one person and injuring 29, German authorities say.
  • The suspect, a 21-year-old German citizen, was located and shot dead by police on Sunday, and Germany's interior minister said the evidence points to an Islamist terrorist attack.
The Newport Beach Pier
California 5 d

Newport Beach braces for another social-media crowd after 439 July 4th arrests

  • After a TikTok-driven crowd of young people descended on the Newport Pier over the July 4th weekend and police made 439 arrests, the Newport Beach Police Department says it is aware of another 'organized gathering' being promoted for this weekend, and is deploying extra officers with a warning of immediate enforcement.
A camera drone in flight
Los Angeles 5 d

LAPD says its drones beat patrol cars to the scene 73 percent of the time

  • Nearly a year into a pilot program, LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell says camera drones sent as first responders reach 911 calls before officers about 73 percent of the time, relaying real-time detail on suspects and weapons and, in one case, finding a missing 5-year-old in five minutes.
  • The department is moving to make the drones permanent, with privacy limits it says the public can verify.
The San Diego Convention Center during Comic-Con
Los Angeles 5 d

At Comic-Con, a nonprofit turns kids' wheelchairs into superhero cosplay

  • Magic Wheelchair, an all-volunteer nonprofit, builds elaborate cosplay wheelchairs, free, for children with disabilities and hands them over at San Diego Comic-Con.
  • This year's builds included a 'Battle Cat' chair from 'He-Man.' Among the recipients was 16-year-old Isaiah Mejia of Long Beach, who said he had 'no words for how awesome this chair is.'
A Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department patrol car
Los Angeles 6 d

Deputies shoot a man they say was armed in Bellflower

  • Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies shot a man during a confrontation near Grand Avenue and Artesia Boulevard on Friday night.
  • The department says he was armed, and aerial footage showed a handgun on the ground at the scene.
A crude oil tanker moored at a refinery jetty
World 11 d

Iran sold oil hard during the three-week window Washington gave it

  • A 60-day sanctions license issued in late June was revoked after 15 days, when the cease-fire collapsed.
  • In the interval, Iranian crude moved at a rate the country had not managed in months, and because buyers pay on a lag, some of that money is still arriving.
An apartment building in Los Angeles
Los Angeles 13 d

Courts strike down LA and Pasadena rules that made landlords pay tenants over rent hikes

  • For a few years, Los Angeles and Pasadena required landlords to help pay tenants' moving costs when a steep rent increase effectively forced them out.
  • California appellate courts have now struck those rules down, finding they collided with a state law that lets owners set rents freely on many properties, and leaving renters without that cushion.
ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations officers
Los Angeles 14 d

Federal judge orders sweeping changes at the Adelanto immigration jail

  • A federal judge has ordered wide-ranging changes at the Adelanto immigration detention center in San Bernardino County, requiring clean drinking water, proper medical care, more time outdoors and limits on solitary confinement.
  • The order followed the deaths of two detainees last fall and a lawsuit describing conditions that lawyers called inhumane.
A flooded street
World 14 d

Texas Hill Country floods again, one year after a disaster that killed scores

  • Torrential rain sent the Guadalupe River surging again through the Texas Hill Country, killing at least one person and forcing frantic rescues in the same area where more than 130 people, including children at a summer camp, died in floods a year ago.
  • This time, officials said, warning sirens installed after that disaster helped people get out in time.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
World 14 d

Zelensky ousts Ukraine's defense minister, and protesters fill Kyiv

  • President Volodymyr Zelensky has removed Mykhailo Fedorov as Ukraine's defense minister after only about six months, a surprise wartime shake-up that drew rare street protests.
  • Fedorov, a popular reformer credited with expanding Ukraine's drone warfare, clashed with the army's top commander over strategy.
ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations officers
U.S. 15 d

Trump orders ICE to resume traffic stops days after two were killed

  • President Trump directed Immigration and Customs Enforcement to keep making vehicle stops, reversing a brief pause the agency had imposed after two people were fatally shot by ICE officers during such stops in the span of a week.
  • The whiplash exposed a split between the agency's field leadership and the White House.
Air Force One, the presidential aircraft (file photo).
Politics 20 d

Justice Dept. subpoenas New York Times reporters over Air Force One story

  • The Justice Department has subpoenaed New York Times journalists who reported that President Trump's new, Qatari-supplied Air Force One lacks the anti-missile defenses of the previous plane, seeking to compel their testimony and, potentially, the identity of their sources.
  • It is the latest escalation in the administration's pressure campaign against the press.
A San Antonio Spurs game at the AT&T Center (file photo).
Sports 20 d

Wembanyama agrees to a reported $252 million max extension with the Spurs

  • Victor Wembanyama, the 22-year-old French phenom reshaping the NBA, has agreed to a maximum rookie contract extension with the San Antonio Spurs reported to be worth about $252 million over five years, according to ESPN, locking in the league's most tantalizing young star for years to come.
A film premiere at Leicester Square in London (file photo).
Entertainment 20 d

Christopher Nolan shrugs off 'The Odyssey' backlash as 'irrelevant'

  • With his big-budget adaptation of Homer's 'The Odyssey' about to reach theaters, Christopher Nolan is waving away months of online criticism over casting and other choices, calling the pre-release noise 'irrelevant' and noting he spent a decade weathering the same thing with Batman.
Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles (file photo).
Sports 22 d

Mookie Betts caps a late Dodgers rally to beat the Rockies

  • Mookie Betts lined a go-ahead single in the eighth inning on Wednesday night to cap a late Dodgers comeback and beat the Colorado Rockies 4-3 at Dodger Stadium, completing a series sweep in which all three games were decided by a single run.
Victorian houses in San Francisco (file photo).
Business 22 d

AI wealth is sending San Francisco home prices soaring again

  • A wave of money from the artificial-intelligence boom is driving San Francisco home prices back to record highs, with buyers flush with tech pay and stock windfalls touching off bidding wars and pushing the cost of housing further out of reach for everyone else.
MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, site of the 2026 World Cup final (file photo).
Entertainment 22 d

Justin Bieber joins a star-packed World Cup final halftime show

  • Justin Bieber has been added to the lineup for the halftime show at this month's World Cup final, joining Madonna, Shakira and BTS in what FIFA is billing as the first Super Bowl-style halftime performance at soccer's biggest match.
The United States Supreme Court building in Washington.
U.S. 22 d

Supreme Court disclosures show book deals padding the justices' pay

  • The annual financial disclosures of the Supreme Court justices, released this week, show that book royalties, teaching and the occasional gift can add substantially to their government salaries, with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson reporting more than a million dollars from her memoir in a single year.
A Los Angeles Police Department vehicle (file photo).
Los Angeles 22 d

LAPD wrestles with a staffing crunch ahead of the 2028 Olympics

  • With the 2028 Olympics approaching, the Los Angeles Police Department is short of officers and searching for ways to put more of them on the street, even weighing whether to pause some of its own academy training, a sign of how badly the thinning department is straining to meet the demands of the Games.
A baseball game (file photo).
Sports 22 d

Justin Verlander says he will retire after the 2026 season

  • Justin Verlander, a three-time Cy Young Award winner and one of the defining pitchers of his era, said Wednesday that he will retire at the end of the 2026 season, closing out a career that began and will now end with the Detroit Tigers.
The downtown Los Angeles theater, now the Peacock Theater, that hosts the Emmy Awards (file photo).
Entertainment 22 d

'The Pitt' and 'Hacks' lead the 2026 Emmy nominations

  • The medical drama 'The Pitt' and the comedy 'Hacks' led the field when nominations for the 2026 Primetime Emmy Awards were announced on Wednesday, with 'Hacks' setting a record for a comedy series and first-time nominees ranging from the reality host Ariana Madix to Bad Bunny and Taylor Swift widening the academy's circle.
Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles (file photo).
Entertainment 22 d

The Dodgers team up with the artist KAWS for a baseball collection

  • The Los Angeles Dodgers are among the teams featured in a new Major League Baseball collaboration with KAWS, the contemporary artist known for his cartoonish 'Companion' figure and crossed-out 'XX' eyes, a tie-up that will bring his instantly recognizable style to jerseys, trading cards and other merchandise.
Shelves of medication in a pharmacy (file photo).
U.S. 22 d

Insurers fight proposals to force them to sell their pharmacy middlemen

  • The country's largest health insurers are pushing back against proposals in Washington and beyond that would force them to break off the pharmacy benefit managers they own, the powerful middlemen that sit between drugmakers, pharmacies and patients.
  • The companies say the arrangement lowers costs; critics say it inflates drug prices and squeezes independent pharmacies.
The Greenland ice sheet (file photo).
World 22 d

Trump renews his push for Greenland as Denmark vows to defend it

  • President Trump used the NATO summit in Turkey to revive his demand that the United States take control of Greenland, the vast Arctic island that is a self-governing territory of Denmark, saying it matters for global security.
  • Denmark's prime minister pushed back, pledging to defend 'every inch' of NATO territory.
Argentina supporters (file photo).
Sports 23 d

Messi drags Argentina back from 2-0 down to beat Egypt and reach the quarterfinals

  • Argentina looked headed for a stunning early exit until Lionel Messi took over, sparking a late comeback from two goals down to beat Egypt 3-2 in the World Cup's round of 16 on Tuesday in Atlanta.
  • The win, sealed in a frantic finish and shadowed by contested video-review decisions, sent the defending champions into the quarterfinals against Switzerland.
A clear day over the Los Angeles basin (file photo).
Los Angeles 23 d

A heat advisory hits Southern California as extreme heat builds this week

  • Southern California is heading into a stretch of dangerous heat, with forecasters issuing a heat advisory across much of the region and an extreme heat warning for the deserts, as temperatures build toward a peak midweek before monsoonal moisture brings a chance of showers in the days after.
Earth's day-night line, seen from the International Space Station.
World 23 d

Why nearly everyone on Earth will be in daylight at once on Wednesday

  • For a brief moment on Wednesday, around midday over Africa and Europe, an estimated 99 percent of the world's people will be in daylight or twilight at the same time.
  • It sounds like a cosmic event, but it is really a fact about geography: almost everyone lives on the same side of the planet.
The skyline of Tel Aviv (file photo).
U.S. 23 d

Rahm Emanuel rebukes Netanyahu and says U.S. should drop unconditional support

  • Rahm Emanuel, a longtime defender of Israel and a possible Democratic presidential contender, delivered a sharp rebuke of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a speech in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, warning that Israel has become a 'pariah' and drifted toward a 'dead end,' and arguing that the United States should end its unconditional support, remarks that reflect how far American politics has shifted on Israel.
A polling place on Election Day (file photo).
U.S. 23 d

Judge orders DHS to restore states' access to a citizenship database

  • A federal judge in Florida on Tuesday ordered the Department of Homeland Security to restore several states' access to a federal database they use to check the citizenship of people on their voter rolls, siding with Florida and other states after a separate court ruling had disrupted the system.
The Palais de Justice in Paris (file photo).
World 23 d

French court upholds Le Pen's conviction but clears her path to run in 2027

  • A French appeals court on Tuesday upheld Marine Le Pen's conviction for misusing European Parliament funds but sharply reduced the ban on her holding public office, lifting the main legal barrier that had threatened to keep the far-right leader out of the 2027 presidential race.
  • Hours later she declared she would run, saying 'I am a candidate,' and vowed to take her case to France's highest court.
The California State Capitol in Sacramento (file photo).
California 23 d

A California bill would bring abortion pills to community college health centers

  • California lawmakers are weighing a bill that would require the state's community colleges with student health centers to offer access to medication abortion by 2029, extending to the largest branch of public higher education a mandate that already applies to the University of California and California State University systems.
The E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington (file photo).
U.S. 23 d

Lawsuit alleges the U.S. shared Iranian asylum seekers' details with Iran

  • A federal lawsuit filed Tuesday accuses the Trump administration of sharing confidential information about Iranian asylum seekers with the government of Iran, the very country many of them fled, an allegation that, if true, would put those people and their families at risk of persecution.
  • The administration had not responded to the specific claims as of Tuesday.
The Royal Courts of Justice in London (file photo).
Entertainment 23 d

Prince Harry loses privacy case against the Daily Mail's publisher

  • A London judge on Tuesday dismissed Prince Harry's lawsuit accusing the publisher of the Daily Mail of years of unlawful information-gathering, ruling against the Duke of Sussex and a group of other high-profile claimants and rejecting all of their allegations after a lengthy High Court trial.
United States dollar banknotes (file photo).
Business 23 d

More than 440,000 Americans became millionaires last year, a report finds

  • The United States minted more than 440,000 new millionaires last year, more than any other country and close to half of all those added worldwide, according to a new UBS report, a surge driven by rising stock and asset prices even as measures of typical household wealth have lagged.
The stadium in Seattle where the match was played (file photo).
Sports 24 d

Belgium ends the United States' World Cup with a 4-1 win in Seattle

  • The United States' home World Cup ended in the round of 16 on Monday night, as Belgium beat the co-hosts 4-1 in Seattle behind two goals from Charles De Ketelaere, a strike that followed a costly error by the U.S.
  • goalkeeper Matt Freese, and a late goal from Romelu Lukaku.
Samsung's Digital Complex in Suwon, South Korea (file photo).
Business 23 d

Samsung posts a record quarterly profit on AI memory demand, as shares slip

  • Samsung Electronics said its operating profit soared to a record in the second quarter, up more than 1,800 percent from a weak year earlier, as the artificial-intelligence boom lifted demand and prices for its memory chips.
  • Yet the company's shares fell, a sign that investors are wary about how long the spending behind those numbers can last.
Servers in a data center (file photo).
Business 23 d

Cheaper Chinese AI models are winning over U.S. companies

  • As the cost of using the top American AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic climbs, a growing number of U.S.
  • companies are turning to cheaper, openly available models from Chinese labs such as DeepSeek and Alibaba's Qwen, a shift that is reshaping the economics of the AI business even as it raises security and political questions.
Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles (file photo).
Sports 24 d

Dodgers walk off in the 11th to edge the Rockies 8-7

  • The Los Angeles Dodgers survived a late Colorado rally and a tense replay review to beat the Rockies 8-7 in 11 innings at Dodger Stadium on Monday night, with Dalton Rushing lining a walk-off single that scored Teoscar Hernández.
The Wendelstein 7-X stellarator, an experimental fusion device in Germany (file photo).
Business 24 d

Google backs a German fusion startup aiming for Europe's first commercial plant

  • Google has joined a large new funding round for Proxima Fusion, a German startup that wants to build Europe's first commercial nuclear-fusion power plant, adding one of the world's biggest technology companies to a growing list of investors betting that fusion can one day deliver clean, near-limitless energy.
A robotaxi at a stop in China (file photo).
World 24 d

China bets it can repeat its EV success with robotaxis

  • Having come from behind to dominate the world's electric-car market, China is now pouring the same ambition into robotaxis, the driverless ride-hailing services already carrying passengers in several of its cities.
  • Whether the country can turn that head start into a lasting lead, as it did with electric vehicles, is far from settled.
An F-35 Lightning II fighter jet in flight (file photo).
U.S. 24 d

Trump signals he may return Turkey to the F-35 program at NATO summit

  • President Trump indicated he may move to restore Turkey's access to the F-35 stealth fighter as he prepares to meet President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at this week's NATO summit in Ankara, reviving a question that has divided Washington since the United States expelled Turkey from the program in 2019 over its purchase of a Russian air-defense system.
The Podil district of Kyiv at night (file photo).
World 25 d

Russian strikes on Kyiv kill at least 20 as Ukraine runs short of interceptors

  • A Russian barrage of missiles and drones hit Kyiv, killing at least 20 people in the city and surrounding region and wounding dozens more, Ukrainian officials said.
  • None of the ballistic missiles were shot down, and Ukraine blamed a shortage of interceptors, sharpening its appeal for Western air defenses as a NATO summit opened in Turkey.
The United States Supreme Court building in Washington.
U.S. 24 d

Supreme Court lets Texas require age checks on app stores, for now

  • The Supreme Court declined on Monday to block a Texas law requiring app stores such as Apple's and Google's to verify users' ages and get parental consent before minors download apps, allowing the measure to take effect while a legal challenge from the tech industry continues.
The Old Senate Chamber at the U.S. Capitol.
U.S. 24 d

McConnell, 84, remains hospitalized weeks after being found unconscious

  • Senator Mitch McConnell, the longtime Kentucky Republican and former Senate leader, has been hospitalized for weeks after being found unconscious at his Washington home in mid-June, an episode his office has said little about, leaving unanswered questions about the health of one of the chamber's most senior members.
The eye of a super typhoon seen from space (file photo).
World 25 d

Super Typhoon Bavi bears down on Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands

  • Super Typhoon Bavi, a Category 5 storm, made landfall Monday on the U.S.
  • territory of Rota, near Guam, bringing catastrophic winds and early reports of major damage across the Northern Mariana Islands after prompting a state of emergency on Guam, a federal disaster declaration and evacuations.
A Microsoft sign (file photo).
Business 24 d

Microsoft cuts about 4,800 jobs and overhauls its Xbox gaming unit

  • Microsoft is cutting roughly 4,800 jobs, about 2 percent of its workforce, with its Xbox video game division taking the heaviest hit and several game studios set to be spun off or sold.
  • The company is trimming staff even as it pours enormous sums into artificial intelligence.
Flags at a NATO summit (file photo).
World 24 d

Trump presses NATO allies on spending at a summit in Turkey

  • NATO leaders were set to gather in Ankara, Turkey, this week for a summit shadowed by questions about President Trump's commitment to the alliance, as he pushes member states to make good on their defense-spending pledges and prepares to meet Ukraine's president against the backdrop of a deadly new Russian strike on Kyiv.
A United States green card. This one, a historical example, belonged to John Lennon.
U.S. 24 d

Getting a green card through marriage gets harder under new scrutiny

  • Marrying an American has long been one of the surest routes to a green card and eventual citizenship.
  • Under the Trump administration, that path has grown slower and more heavily scrutinized, with more interviews, more demands for evidence and, immigration lawyers say, more anxiety for couples who are together for real.
An easyJet Airbus A319.
Business 24 d

EasyJet agrees in principle to a £5.2 billion Castlelake takeover

  • The British budget airline EasyJet has agreed in principle to a takeover by the U.S.
  • investment firm Castlelake that values the carrier at about £5.2 billion, roughly $7.3 billion, capping a rough stretch in which a spike in fuel costs pushed the airline deep into the red.
The United States Capitol in Washington.
Politics 25 d

Trump administration moves to roll back dozens of federal gun rules

  • The Justice Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are moving to eliminate or ease dozens of federal firearms regulations, part of a broad deregulation push that gun-rights groups have cheered and gun-control advocates have condemned.
Yosemite Valley seen from Tunnel View.
U.S. 25 d

Yosemite drops its reservations, and the crowds come roaring back

  • For the first time in years, Yosemite National Park is not requiring summer entry reservations.
  • The change has thrown the gates open to record crowds, with hours-long entrance lines and parking lots full by early morning, and reopened a debate over how to manage one of California's most beloved places.
Russian President Vladimir Putin.
World 27 d

Putin Visits the Front and Vows to Take All of Donbas as Ukraine War Grinds On

  • President Vladimir Putin of Russia visited a military command post near the front on Friday and declared that Moscow would seize all of Ukraine's eastern Donbas region, hardening his aims even as independent analysts say his summer offensive has largely stalled.
  • Kyiv rejected any surrender of territory, and battlefield claims from both sides could not be independently verified.
The north facade of the White House.
U.S. 27 d

Trump Pardons People Convicted of Emissions Violations, Including a Major Donor

  • President Trump has pardoned a group of people convicted of federal emissions crimes — mostly for disabling or selling devices that defeat vehicles' pollution controls — casting the prosecutions as government overreach.
  • Among those granted clemency was Adam Kidan, a major Republican donor with a separate old fraud conviction, drawing criticism from opponents even as the president acted within his broad constitutional power.
The Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad, Iran.
World 27 d

Iran Holds a Weeklong State Funeral for Its Slain Supreme Leader

  • Iran has begun days of state funeral ceremonies for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader who was killed in Israeli airstrikes in February at the start of the war with the United States and Israel.
  • Officials say millions are expected to mourn across a weeklong procession that ends with his burial in Mashhad, and delegations from more than 100 countries — though not the Western nations that backed the campaign — are attending.
LeBron James on the court.
Sports 27 d

LeBron James Tells the Lakers He'll Play Elsewhere, Ending an Era in L.A.

  • LeBron James has informed the Lakers that he intends to play for another team next season, according to multiple reports, signaling the end of his time in Los Angeles.
  • His agent, Rich Paul, framed the decision as a search for 'complete happiness' rather than money — and while no destination is set, the Golden State Warriors, Cleveland Cavaliers and Miami Heat have emerged as reported contenders.
Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Entertainment 27 d

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Marry at Madison Square Garden

  • Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce were married Friday evening at Madison Square Garden in New York, capping one of the most closely watched celebrity romances in recent memory.
  • The comedian Adam Sandler officiated, roughly 1,100 guests attended, and the arena's marquee lit up afterward with a simple message: 'JUST&T MARRIED.'
Yellow police line tape at a scene.
U.S. 27 d

Two Killed in a Shooting at a Dearborn Shopping Mall; No Suspect in Custody

  • Two people were killed and a third wounded in a shooting Friday afternoon inside Fairlane Town Center, a shopping mall in Dearborn, Michigan.
  • Police said the gunfire grew out of a dispute between two groups, not a random attack, and that there was no ongoing threat to the public — but no suspect was in custody as of Friday evening.
A Los Angeles Lakers game in progress.
Sports 27 d

Lakers Trade Deandre Ayton to the Wizards in an Offseason Reshuffle

  • The Lakers have agreed to trade center Deandre Ayton to the Washington Wizards, according to ESPN, receiving guard Jaden Hardy and two future second-round picks.
  • The move clears the way for a reshaped frontcourt in Los Angeles after the team added center Walker Kessler earlier in the offseason.
The skyline of Caracas, Venezuela.
World 27 d

Days After Venezuela's Earthquakes, Survivors Wait as the Toll Climbs

  • More than a week after twin earthquakes struck northern Venezuela, the confirmed death toll has climbed past 2,500 with tens of thousands still unaccounted for, and survivors in and around Caracas remain in tent camps with scarce water and power.
  • The scale of the disaster — the country's deadliest in over a century — has also sharpened a bitter fight over the government's response.
Jürgen Klopp on the touchline.
Sports 27 d

Klopp Confirms Talks to Take Over Germany After Nagelsmann's Exit

  • Jürgen Klopp says he is in talks to become the manager of Germany's national team, confirming his interest days after Julian Nagelsmann stepped down in the wake of a stunning World Cup exit.
  • The former Liverpool boss stopped short of accepting the job — negotiations are only beginning — but for the first time put his name openly to it.
Firefighters working a wildland fire.
U.S. 27 d

Colorado's Aspen Acres Fire Explodes to 66,000 Acres, Forcing Evacuations Near Pueblo

  • The Aspen Acres Fire southwest of Pueblo has burned more than 66,000 acres with no containment, driving mandatory evacuations across mountain communities and destroying scores of homes.
  • Now the ninth-largest wildfire in Colorado history, it is one of more than a dozen fires burning across the state during a dangerous, wind-driven stretch.
A referee reviews a play on a pitchside video (VAR) monitor.
Sports 27 d

A Red Card Leaves the U.S. Without Balogun for Its Round-of-16 Test With Belgium

  • The United States reached the World Cup's round of 16 on home soil, but it will get there without its first-choice striker.
  • Folarin Balogun was sent off against Bosnia and Herzegovina and, under FIFA's rules, is suspended for Monday's knockout match against Belgium in Seattle — a call there is no way to appeal.
Ripe nectarines on the branch.
Los Angeles 27 d

A Reedley Farmer Couldn't Sell His Nectarines. So He Gave Tons of Them Away.

  • Barred by a lawsuit from selling the white nectarines ripening in his Fresno County orchard, third-generation farmer Cesar Mora made a choice: rather than let the fruit rot, he opened his gates and let the public pick it for free.
  • More than 125,000 pounds have gone out the gate — and thousands of people have come to help him haul it away.
The exterior of a multiplex movie theater.
Entertainment 27 d

How 'Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow' Became DC Studios' Costliest Misfire

  • 'Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow' was supposed to be a cornerstone of the rebuilt DC Studios.
  • Instead the roughly $180 million film opened to about $37 million and landed with a thud — and a Hollywood Reporter investigation lays the failure at the feet of a troubled production marked by dueling edits and creative clashes.
The Washington Monument on the National Mall.
U.S. 27 d

A Brutal Heat Wave Scrambles Fourth of July and 250th-Anniversary Plans in the East

  • A dangerous heat dome baking the Midwest and eastern United States is forcing organizers to rework Fourth of July and America's 250th-anniversary events, from the National Mall to Philadelphia, with heat indices well into the 100s.
  • The West, including Los Angeles, is largely outside the emergency — Southern California faces a mild, ordinary holiday by comparison.
Mohamed Salah during a match.
Sports 27 d

Salah's Panenka Sends Egypt Past Australia and Into the World Cup's Last 16

  • Mohamed Salah cheekily chipped home a Panenka penalty in the shootout as Egypt beat Australia to reach the round of 16 at the World Cup — the first time in the nation's history it has won a knockout match at the tournament.
  • Egypt now faces a possible blockbuster next: a meeting with Lionel Messi's Argentina.
An illustration of NASA's Swift observatory in orbit.
World 27 d

A Robotic Spacecraft Races to Rescue NASA's Falling Swift Telescope

  • NASA has launched an audacious rescue: a small robotic spacecraft, built by a startup, is on its way to grab an aging space telescope whose orbit is decaying and nudge it higher before it burns up in the atmosphere.
  • If it works, it will be the first time a commercial craft has docked with a government satellite never designed to be caught.
The Huntington Beach pier at sunset.
Los Angeles 27 d

Surf City Throws Its 122nd Fourth of July Parade

  • Huntington Beach stages its 122nd annual Fourth of July parade this Independence Day, the centerpiece of a daylong Surf City celebration that organizers bill as the largest July 4 parade west of the Mississippi.
  • A crowd in the hundreds of thousands is expected to line Pacific Coast Highway and Main Street, capped by fireworks over the pier.
A satellite view of the January 2025 wildfires burning across the Los Angeles area.
Los Angeles 27 d

Six Charged With Illegally Working as Contractors in the Palisades Fire Zone

  • Prosecutors have charged six men with felony contracting without a license in the Pacific Palisades fire zone, saying they preyed on homeowners trying to rebuild after the January 2025 wildfire.
  • The charges grew out of an undercover sting, and the district attorney used the case to warn fire survivors to check that anyone they hire is licensed.
A football match underway in a packed stadium.
Sports 27 d

Mexico-England World Cup Match Is Moved Six Hours Earlier Over Weather Risk

  • FIFA has pushed Sunday's World Cup round-of-16 match between Mexico and England at Estadio Azteca six hours earlier, to a midday kickoff, to reduce the risk of a weather disruption during a stormy stretch in Mexico City.
  • It is the latest sign of how heat and summer storms are reshaping the schedule of the first 48-team World Cup.
Mount San Gorgonio, the highest peak in Southern California.
Los Angeles 27 d

A Mother and Daughter Missing on San Gorgonio Are Found Safe

  • A mother and her adult daughter who went missing on one of Southern California's most punishing trails have been found alive.
  • Krystal Meyers, 41, and Alexis Meyers Martinez, 21, were located by search crews Friday afternoon, about a day after they failed to return from a hike on the Vivian Creek Trail in the San Gorgonio Wilderness.
A high-voltage electricity transmission tower.
Business 27 d

The Nation's Largest Power Grid Scrambles to Keep the Lights On in a July 4 Heat Wave

  • As a dangerous heat wave settles over the eastern half of the country for the holiday weekend, PJM Interconnection — the grid operator for some 65 million people across the mid-Atlantic and Midwest — has escalated emergency measures to keep electricity flowing, with demand forecast to approach a two-decade record.
  • No blackouts have occurred; the alerts are meant to prevent them.
Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland.
Los Angeles 27 d

Disneyland Marks Its One Billionth Guest, Days Before Turning 71

  • An Arizona family passed through the turnstiles at Disneyland one recent morning with no idea they were about to make history.
  • Their arrival, Disney says, marked the one billionth guest since the Anaheim park opened in 1955 — a milestone unveiled on Main Street just days before Disneyland's 71st birthday.
The downtown Los Angeles skyline seen through summer haze.
Los Angeles 27 d

Unhealthy Air Is Likely This Fourth of July Weekend. Here's How to Protect Yourself.

  • Air regulators expect Southern California's Independence Day fireworks to push particle pollution to unhealthy levels from Saturday evening into Sunday, layered on top of the summer's usual ozone.
  • The South Coast Air Quality Management District has issued an advisory through midday Sunday, with the worst air likely over Downtown Los Angeles, the San Gabriel Valley and northern Orange County.
A national highway in Pakistan.
World 27 d

Overloaded Bus Plunges Into a Ravine in Pakistan, Killing 40

  • A passenger bus traveling from Quetta to Peshawar lost control and plunged into a deep ravine near the border of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces on Friday, killing 40 people and injuring several more, officials said.
  • Police said speed was a likely factor, and the bus was carrying passengers it had picked up from another vehicle that had broken down.
The forecourt of a gas station.
California 27 d

Why California's Gas Prices Stay So High Heading Into the Fourth of July

  • Californians packing the car for the holiday weekend are paying about $5.40 a gallon — some $1.50 above the national average — and the reasons are mostly structural: the country's highest fuel taxes, a special cleaner-burning blend, and an isolated, shrinking refinery system.
  • Meanwhile, the state's most aggressive tool for policing prices at the pump sits unused.
Novak Djokovic on court.
Sports 27 d

Djokovic Ties Federer's Wimbledon Record With a Gritty Comeback Win

  • Novak Djokovic dropped a lopsided third set but recovered to beat France's Arthur Rinderknech in four on Friday, reaching the Wimbledon fourth round and, with his 105th singles-match win at the tournament, tying Roger Federer's record for the most by a man at the All England Club.
An LAPD vehicle parked at a West Valley station.
Los Angeles 27 d

Family Sues LAPD After Officers Fatally Shoot Their Dog During a Canoga Park Welfare Check

  • A Canoga Park woman has sued the city of Los Angeles after LAPD officers shot and killed her dog, Jameson, during a June welfare check that was prompted by a neighbor who mistook her celebration of the Knicks' championship for screams of distress.
  • The lawsuit alleges excessive force; the mayor has called the body-camera footage disturbing and ordered a review of the department's use-of-force policy.
A little brown bat, a species common across North America.
U.S. 27 d

A Pilot Says Bats Invaded His Denver Hotel Room and One Bit Him. Now He's Suing Marriott.

  • A commercial airline pilot says he woke before dawn to find bats flying through his room at the Sheraton Denver Downtown — and that one of them bit him on the foot, setting off a roughly $100,000 course of rabies treatment.
  • His lawsuit against Marriott, the brand's parent company, says staff failed to seal the gap the bats came through or move him to another room.
The entrance to a hospital emergency department.
U.S. 27 d

Oregon ER Doctors Beat Back a Corporate Takeover, Using a New State Law

  • A group of emergency-room physicians in Eugene, Oregon, has won an unusual fight against a national staffing company that was set to take over their jobs — by invoking a new state law meant to curb corporate control of medicine.
  • Their victory is being watched nationally as private equity extends its reach into the country's emergency rooms.
Serena Williams during a match.
Sports 27 d

Serena's Wimbledon Return Draws Record Ratings, Even in Defeat

  • Serena Williams lost her first singles match in nearly four years, but the audience told its own story: her Wimbledon comeback drew an average of 1.8 million viewers on ESPN, the network's most-watched first-round match at the tournament on record.
  • At 44 and on a wild card, she is still, by the numbers, the biggest draw in the sport.
A shopper in a grocery store.
Los Angeles 27 d

What's Open and Closed on the Fourth of July

  • The Fourth of July falls on a Saturday this year, and it is a federal holiday — so banks, the post office and government offices are closed, while most stores and restaurants stay open, many on shortened hours.
  • Here's a quick guide before you head out, with the reminder that hours vary by location.
A California Highway Patrol vehicle.
Los Angeles 27 d

CHP Fatally Shoots an Armed Suspect at a Covina Gas Station After a Freeway Shooting

  • California Highway Patrol officers shot and killed a man at a Covina gas station early Thursday, authorities said, ending a pursuit that began when the man allegedly shot a tow-truck driver on the eastbound 210 Freeway.
  • The tow driver was critically hurt; no officers or bystanders were injured, and eastbound lanes were shut down for hours.
A California reservoir feeding the California Aqueduct.
California 27 d

California Concedes It May Not Stop the Golden Mussel

  • Less than two years after an invasive freshwater mussel turned up in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta — the first time it had been found anywhere in North America — golden mussels have spread deep into California's water system.
  • State experts now acknowledge that wiping them out is probably impossible, shifting the fight from eradication to slowing the damage.
The Germany national football team lines up before a match.
Sports 27 d

Germany Parts With Nagelsmann After a World Cup Shock, With Klopp the Target

  • Germany has parted ways with national-team manager Julian Nagelsmann after a stunning early exit from the 2026 World Cup, and the German federation says it will open talks with Jürgen Klopp — who has signaled he is 'fundamentally willing' to take the job.
  • It would be a marquee hire to arrest a run of tournament failures for the four-time world champions.
The United States Declaration of Independence.
U.S. 27 d

A Rare 1776 Copy of the Declaration Turns Up in Britain's Archives

  • Days before the Fourth of July, a rare early printing of the Declaration of Independence has surfaced in an unlikely place: Britain's National Archives.
  • The 1776 copy was tucked among papers seized from a captured American ship — a small artifact of the Revolution that made its way to the very country the colonies were declaring independence from.
A nurse helps an elderly patient.
U.S. 28 d

End of Haitian TPS Threatens an Already-Strained Caregiving Workforce

  • The Supreme Court's decision letting the Trump administration end Temporary Protected Status for roughly 350,000 Haitians has alarmed nursing homes, home-care agencies and hospices, which say the loss of thousands of immigrant caregivers will deepen a chronic staffing shortage in an industry that increasingly depends on foreign-born workers.
  • The administration says the program was never meant to be permanent.
The World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva.
World 28 d

WHO Declares the Cruise-Linked Hantavirus Outbreak Over After 3 Deaths

  • The World Health Organization has declared over an unusual outbreak of hantavirus tied to a polar expedition cruise ship, the MV Hondius, that sickened 13 people and killed 3.
  • The culprit was the Andes virus — the only hantavirus known to spread from person to person — and health officials say the risk of a wider epidemic remains low.
An interpretive sign at a national historical park.
U.S. 28 d

Appeals Court Lets the Trump Administration Keep Removing National Park Signs

  • A federal appeals court has cleared the way, for now, for the Trump administration to continue removing or altering national park signs it considers unflattering to American history — pausing a judge's order that the displays be restored by the Fourth of July.
  • The dispute, arriving on the eve of the nation's 250th-anniversary year, is a fight over who decides how the country's story is told.
Fireworks burst in the night sky.
Los Angeles 28 d

Fireworks Recalled Days Before July 4 Over Explosion and Burn Risk

  • With the Fourth of July days away, federal regulators have recalled tens of thousands of aerial fireworks that can tip over and explode unexpectedly, posing a burn risk.
  • If you bought a 'Unity' 7-shot aerial cake this year, the maker and the Consumer Product Safety Commission say to stop using it and return it.
Congolese football supporters celebrate in the stands.
Sports 28 d

After 52 Years, DR Congo's World Cup Ends in Pride, Not Just Defeat

  • The Democratic Republic of Congo returned to the World Cup for the first time in 52 years, reached the knockout round and pushed England to the brink before bowing out.
  • For a nation weighed down by conflict and hardship, the Leopards' run offered something a scoreline could not measure: a moment of shared pride.
An oil pumpjack in a field.
Entertainment 28 d

How Taylor Sheridan Pitched Landman: A Bad Santa Running an Oil Company

  • Taylor Sheridan, the writer behind 'Yellowstone' and a sprawling television empire, has revealed how he landed Billy Bob Thornton for his oil drama 'Landman': not with a script or a deck, but with a single, irresistible image — Thornton's foul-mouthed antihero from 'Bad Santa,' this time running an oil company in West Texas.
The Portugal national football team lines up before a match against Croatia.
Sports 28 d

Ramos Strikes in Stoppage Time to Send Portugal Past Croatia

  • Portugal edged Croatia 2-1 in Toronto on Thursday, with Gonçalo Ramos heading in a winner deep into stoppage time to book a place in the World Cup's round of 16 — and a blockbuster meeting with neighbor Spain.
  • Cristiano Ronaldo scored from the spot for his first goal in a World Cup knockout match; for Croatia's Luka Modric, the tournament is over.
A box of the GLP-1 medication Ozempic.
U.S. 28 d

A Study on Weight-Loss Drugs and Bias: What It Really Shows

  • A new working paper reports that women who lost weight on GLP-1 medications became more likely to find a job or a partner within a year and a half.
  • The finding is preliminary and unreviewed — and, its author stresses, it is less a story about the drugs than an uncomfortable measure of how much appearance still shapes the way women are treated.
Actress Ella Hunt at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival.
Entertainment 28 d

Ella Hunt's Moment: A Hulu Lead, a Debut Album, and a Long Climb

  • You may know Ella Hunt as Emily Dickinson's beloved Sue, or as Gilda Radner in 'Saturday Night.' This summer, the British actress is stepping to the front: leading a new Hulu comedy and releasing a debut album drawn from grief.
  • After more than a decade of steady work, her moment has arrived all at once.
A United States federal courthouse.
U.S. 28 d

Appeals Court Says Migrants Can't Be Held Past 90 Days Without a Bond Hearing

  • A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration cannot detain long-settled immigrants for more than 90 days without offering them a bond hearing — a setback for the government's mandatory-detention policy that deepens a split among the courts and appears headed for the Supreme Court.
A federal courtroom interior.
Los Angeles 28 d

Hawthorne Man Pleads Guilty to Fake Ransom Demands in the Nancy Guthrie Case

  • A Los Angeles County man has pleaded guilty to sending bogus ransom demands to the family of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of Today co-anchor Savannah Guthrie who vanished from her Arizona home in February.
  • Prosecutors say the man was an opportunistic imposter with no role in her disappearance, which remains unsolved.
Angel Reese during a WNBA game.
Sports 28 d

Angel Reese Calls the Dream's All-Star Shutout a Slap in the Face

  • Angel Reese did not hide her frustration after the WNBA revealed its All-Star starters and not a single Atlanta Dream player made the cut.
  • 'For us not to have anyone was just a slap in the face,' the forward said — a pointed complaint from one of the league's most followed players ahead of the reserve selections.
A California police vehicle.
Los Angeles 28 d

Police Shoot and Wound a Suspect Inside a Thousand Oaks Hospital

  • Police shot and wounded a man they were seeking in a homicide investigation inside Los Robles Regional Medical Center in Thousand Oaks on Thursday afternoon, authorities said, touching off a large law-enforcement response.
  • The suspect was taken into custody, and the hospital said no patients, staff or visitors were hurt.
The green home jersey of Mexico's national soccer team.
Los Angeles 28 d

Everywhere in LA Right Now: Mexico's Green Jersey, and What It Means

  • From swap meets to Metro platforms, the green jersey of Mexico's national soccer team has become one of the most visible garments in Los Angeles this summer.
  • But as Angelenos told LAist, the same shirt can mean very different things depending on who is wearing it — national pride, family, identity, or simply a great look.
An Italian submarine sandwich.
Business 28 d

Jersey Mike's Files to Go Public, a Year After Its Blackstone Deal

  • Jersey Mike's Subs, the fast-growing sandwich chain, has filed to go public, aiming to list on the New York Stock Exchange less than two years after the private-equity giant Blackstone bought a majority stake.
  • The filing reveals a franchise that has kept growing where much of the restaurant business has slowed.
A UPS McDonnell Douglas MD-11F cargo jet, the same type as the aircraft in the Louisville crash.
U.S. 28 d

UPS Never Required Inspection of the Part That Failed in the Deadly Louisville Crash

  • UPS never told its mechanics to inspect the small engine-mount bearing that cracked and sent an engine tearing off a cargo jet during takeoff from Louisville last fall, killing 15 people, investigators say.
  • The airline instead relied on years-old assurances from Boeing that such a failure posed no safety risk — even after several earlier fractures had been reported.
A Planned Parenthood health center.
Politics 28 d

A One-Year Ban on Medicaid Funding for Planned Parenthood Is Set to Expire

  • A one-year federal restriction that blocked Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood and a handful of other providers is set to lapse, restoring their ability to bill Medicaid for services like contraception and cancer screenings.
  • The sunset returns the decision to individual states — and reopens a fight that Republicans and abortion-rights groups are both preparing to wage again.
Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles 28 d

Dodgers Fans Line Up for an Anime Crossover: One Piece Night at the Stadium

  • Two of the most passionate fan bases in Los Angeles — Dodgers loyalists and anime devotees — collided at Dodger Stadium on Thursday, as fans turned up early for a limited 'One Piece' giveaway tied to the hit manga and anime series.
  • It was the second year the team has run the crossover, and the demand showed why.
A movie theater marquee lit up at night.
Entertainment 28 d

The Movies That Own the Fourth of July Box Office

  • Fireworks are not the only reliable explosion on the Fourth of July.
  • Hollywood has long treated the holiday as prime real estate for its biggest, loudest movies — and a handful of titles, from alien invasions to giant robots to Spider-Man, have turned Independence Day into one of the year's most lucrative days at the box office.
A doctor examines a patient with a stethoscope.
U.S. 28 d

US Death Rate Falls to a Record Low as Overdose Deaths Keep Dropping

  • Americans died at the lowest rate on record in 2025, new federal data show, as a steep, sustained decline in drug-overdose deaths helped push mortality below even its pre-pandemic level.
  • The provisional figures point to a nation still recovering from the shocks of COVID-19 and the opioid crisis — and, health officials say, making real progress.
The Ruby Princess cruise ship at port.
California 28 d

Norovirus Sickens 125 on the Ruby Princess After It Docks in San Francisco

  • A norovirus outbreak sickened 125 people aboard the Ruby Princess during a three-week cruise to Alaska, federal health officials said, after the ship returned to San Francisco.
  • It is the third norovirus outbreak on a Princess Cruises vessel this year — a reminder of how quickly the highly contagious stomach bug spreads at sea.
A storm drain grate in a curb.
California 28 d

The Case of San Francisco's Vanishing Sewer Grates

  • In the Bernal Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, sewer-vent grates keep disappearing from the sidewalks — pried up in the small hours by someone with a headlamp and the right tools, and leaving behind hazardous holes.
  • The strange part: as scrap, the grates are nearly worthless, so no one can quite explain why.
The United States Supreme Court building in Washington.
U.S. 28 d

Supreme Court Lets an $800-a-Day Fine Stand Against a Reporter Protecting Sources

  • The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to halt a mounting $800-a-day contempt fine against the veteran journalist Catherine Herridge, who has refused to identify the confidential sources behind her reporting.
  • The order leaves a lower court's finding in place and hands press-freedom advocates a setback, in a country that still has no federal shield law for reporters.
A plate of loaded french fries.
Los Angeles 28 d

LA's First French Fry Festival Rolls Into Griffith Park

  • Los Angeles is about to get a food festival dedicated entirely to the humble fry.
  • The city's first French Fry Festival lands July 11 at the Autry Museum in Griffith Park, with fry vendors, a build-your-own sauce bar, eating contests and tasting flights across three sessions.
A vintage television set, evoking the sitcom era Marla Gibbs helped define.
Entertainment 28 d

Marla Gibbs, Television's Sharpest Maid, Gets Her Due

  • Marla Gibbs spent a career stealing scenes with a raised eyebrow and a perfectly timed retort.
  • As the actress — a nonagenarian now being honored anew — is celebrated for more than seven decades in show business, it is worth remembering how much of that career unfolded in, and belonged to, Los Angeles.
U.S. dollar bills.
Business 28 d

Max Out Your 401(k) or Pay Down Debt First? What Planners Actually Advise

  • Stashing as much as possible in a 401(k) sounds like unambiguously smart money management.
  • But financial planners say that if you are also carrying high-interest credit-card debt, maxing out retirement contributions can be the wrong first move — with one big exception you should never skip.
Flames from a brush fire burn across a hillside at night.
World 28 d

Wildfires Force Thousands to Flee Southern France Amid Europe's Heat

  • Wildfires driven by drought and strong winds tore across southern France on Thursday, burning more than 1,200 hectares and forcing some 3,000 people from homes and campsites, authorities said, as a punishing heat wave across Europe primed the landscape to burn.
  • No deaths had been reported.
The interior of a movie theater.
Entertainment 28 d

What's Worth Streaming on Netflix This July

  • A holiday-week guide to the month ahead on Netflix, where July brings a new Enola Holmes mystery, the finale of a beloved teen romance, a fresh 'Little House on the Prairie,' and the return of the NFL docuseries 'Quarterback.' Here's what to put on your list.
An NBA player shoots a free throw.
Sports 28 d

The NBA Is Testing a One-Shot Free Throw at Summer League

  • The NBA will try out a time-saving twist on the free throw at this summer's Summer League: a single shot worth the full value of the trip to the line — one, two or three points — instead of a string of one-pointers.
  • It is an experiment, not a rule change, and the old rules stay in place at crunch time.
A street in the old city of Damascus, Syria.
World 28 d

Bomb at Crowded Damascus Cafe Kills at Least Six, Syrian Authorities Say

  • A bomb tore through a crowded cafe in central Damascus on Thursday, killing at least six people and wounding more than 20, Syrian authorities said, in the latest attack to test the country's fragile security as its new government works to consolidate control after the fall of Bashar al-Assad.
  • No group immediately claimed responsibility.
Fireworks light up the night sky.
Los Angeles 28 d

Rancho Cucamonga Steps Up Fireworks Patrols and Fines Before July 4

  • In Rancho Cucamonga, every firework is illegal — no exceptions, not even the 'safe and sane' kind — and the city and San Bernardino County are leaning hard into enforcement before the Fourth of July, with a regional task force running patrols and interdiction stops and fines that can top $1,000.
Indiana Fever guard Kelsey Mitchell defends during a game against the Minnesota Lynx.
Sports 28 d

Clark Leads a Fever Takeover of the WNBA All-Star Starting Lineup

  • The Indiana Fever will send three starters to this year's WNBA All-Star Game, led by Caitlin Clark, after Clark and teammate Aliyah Boston finished one-two in fan voting.
  • The game returns to Chicago's United Center on July 25 — but with no Los Angeles Sparks player among the starters.
The White House, memorably destroyed in the film 'Independence Day.'
Entertainment 28 d

Thirty Years On, Independence Day Still Owns the Fourth of July

  • Three decades after alien ships parked over the world's cities and blew up the White House, Roland Emmerich's 'Independence Day' remains the definitive Fourth of July blockbuster.
  • On its 30th anniversary, a look back at the movie that helped invent the modern disaster spectacle — and where its cast went next.
Cooling towers at a nuclear power plant.
Politics 28 d

US Moves to Scrap a 50-Year-Old Radiation Safety Rule to Speed Nuclear Power

  • Federal regulators are moving to rewrite the rules that have governed radiation exposure for half a century, part of a push to build nuclear power faster.
  • Supporters call the old standards outdated and needlessly costly; critics warn that loosening them could put workers and communities at risk.
The CIA headquarters building in Langley, Virginia.
U.S. 28 d

Appeals Court Says Intelligence Agencies Skipped the Rules in Firing DEI Officers

  • A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that the CIA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence must let 19 officers fired over their work on diversity programs seek other posts in the intelligence community, finding the agencies failed to follow their own procedures when they moved to dismiss them.
The Washington Capitals during a home game.
Sports 28 d

At 40, Ovechkin Signs On for a 22nd Season and More Goals

  • Alexander Ovechkin, already the most prolific goal-scorer in NHL history, is not ready to stop adding to the record.
  • The Washington Capitals captain has agreed to a one-year deal to return for a 22nd season at age 40 — all of it, as ever, in Washington.
The Hotel Thermal, the main venue of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
Entertainment 28 d

In a Czech Spa Town, Hollywood Remembers Why It Loves Movies

  • Each summer the Czech spa town of Karlovy Vary trades its mineral springs for movie premieres, and A-list stars make the trip for something the bigger festivals can't guarantee: real audiences who still love cinema.
  • As its 60th edition opens July 3, the pull endures.
The United States Capitol in Washington.
U.S. 28 d

Tucker Carlson Says He Will Help Build a Third Party

  • Tucker Carlson, the conservative broadcaster once closely aligned with President Trump, says he now intends to help build a third political party — a striking declaration of a break with the Republican Party, though one that faces the same steep obstacles that have sunk nearly every third-party effort in modern American history.
The aurora borealis glows green over a landscape in Alaska.
U.S. 28 d

Northern Lights Could Reach US Skies This July 4 Weekend

  • A burst of activity from the sun could bring the northern lights within reach of the northern United States over the July 4 weekend, forecasters say.
  • Skywatchers in the far northern states have the best odds — but if you are hoping to see the aurora from Los Angeles, the honest answer is: almost certainly not.
A grass court at the All England Club, home of Wimbledon.
Sports 28 d

Gauff Escapes at Wimbledon, Seven Years After Her Breakthrough

  • Coco Gauff came within two points of a stunning early exit at Wimbledon before rallying to beat Solana Sierra in a third-set tiebreak — on the same court where, seven years ago almost to the day, a 15-year-old Gauff first announced herself by upsetting Venus Williams.
The exterior of a Target store.
Los Angeles 28 d

Target Recalls a Popping Toy After a Child Choked: What to Check

  • If you bought a Target 'Gigglescape' popping toy for a young child in the past year, federal safety regulators say to take it away and return it.
  • The retailer is recalling its 'Under the Sea' popping toy after reports that a plastic dome can detach and expose small balls a child can choke on.
Damage from the Eaton Fire in the Altadena area of Los Angeles County.
California 28 d

Two Wildfire Rebuilding Bills, Two Very Different Ideas of Whom to Protect

  • As Los Angeles County claws back from the January 2025 firestorms, Sacramento is fighting over how to rebuild — and over whom the state should shield.
  • Two bills moving through the Legislature take opposite tools to the same worry: that investors and developers, not fire survivors, will end up shaping what rises from the ash.
Fans gather to watch a World Cup match on a large screen.
Entertainment 28 d

Telemundo's World Cup Draws Record Spanish-Language Audiences

  • With the World Cup back on North American soil, Telemundo's Spanish-language broadcasts are pulling numbers the network itself did not see coming — roughly double the audience of four years ago, and a record for Spanish-language soccer in the United States.
  • For Los Angeles, the country's largest Latino media market, the surge lands close to home.
The New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street.
Business 28 d

What Private Credit Is, and Why It Makes Regulators Nervous

  • It is one of the fastest-growing corners of finance, and one of the least visible: a roughly $2 trillion market in which investment funds — not banks — lend directly to companies.
  • Private credit has minted profits and filled a real gap.
A university chemistry research laboratory.
California 28 d

A California Program Tries to Open STEM Doctorates to Students Long Left Out

  • Advanced science degrees remain among the least diverse corners of American higher education.
  • A California initiative called Cal-Bridge is trying to change that — pairing Cal State and University of California campuses to guide first-generation and underrepresented students into doctoral programs — and lawmakers are moving to write it into state law.
A Tesla Model Y, the company's best-selling vehicle.
Business 28 d

Tesla Shares Slip Even as Deliveries Hit a Record

  • Tesla said it delivered 480,126 vehicles in the second quarter — a record, up 25% from a year earlier and well past Wall Street's forecast.
  • Yet the stock fell about 6% on the news, a sign investors are now judging the company on profit margins and its self-driving ambitions more than on how many cars it sells.
An official ballot drop box in Mendocino County, California.
Los Angeles 28 d

California Made Voting Easier. Turnout Stayed Low and the Count Got Slower

  • California has spent years making it easier to vote — mailing every registered voter a ballot, planting drop boxes across the state, and allowing late-arriving ballots to be counted for days.
  • Yet turnout has stayed stubbornly low, especially in primaries, and the same rules that widened access have stretched the count to weeks, feeding frustration that officials say reflects the process, not fraud.
The San Bernardino County Courthouse.
Los Angeles 28 d

Judge Orders Leaders of a 'High-Control' Church to Stand Trial in Two Deaths

  • A San Bernardino County judge has ordered leaders and members of an Inland Empire religious group to stand trial on murder charges in two deaths — a 4-year-old boy who died in 2010 and a former member who vanished in 2023.
  • The defendants have pleaded not guilty, and the ruling sends the case toward trial; it is not a conviction.
A Tesla Model Y.
Business 28 d

US Regulators Close a Four-Year Tesla 'Phantom Braking' Probe Without a Recall

  • Federal auto-safety regulators have closed a four-year investigation into roughly 695,000 Tesla vehicles over so-called phantom braking — sudden, unexplained slowdowns — without ordering a recall, saying complaints had dwindled and no crashes were tied to the problem.
  • The agency stressed that closing the case is not a clean bill of health.
An illustration of Gavroche at the barricade, from Victor Hugo's 'Les Misérables.'
Entertainment 28 d

France Takes On 'Les Miserables' Again, This Time Without the Songs

  • Studiocanal has released a teaser for a new, big-budget film of Victor Hugo's 'Les Misérables' — and it is not the musical.
  • Directed by Fred Cavayé and starring Vincent Lindon as Jean Valjean and Tahar Rahim as his relentless pursuer, Javert, it aims to return the story to its roots as a sweeping historical drama.
The trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
Business 28 d

Under a New Chair, the Fed Says Less and Markets Are Left Guessing

  • In his first months running the Federal Reserve, Chair Kevin Warsh has rewritten how the central bank talks to the world — dropping its usual signals about where interest rates are headed and slashing its policy statement to a fraction of its former length.
  • Supporters call it a healthy reset; investors say they are being left to guess.
A Ford F-150 pickup truck.
Business 28 d

Ford's Truck Supply Squeeze and EV Slump Drag Down Its Sales

  • Ford's U.S.
  • sales slid through the second quarter, hit by a one-two punch: an aluminum-supplier disruption that choked production of its money-making F-Series trucks, and a sharp, continuing drop in demand for its electric vehicles.
A passenger jet seen from an airport departure gate.
Los Angeles 28 d

Flying Cheaper From LA: The Airfare Tactics That Actually Work

  • Summer is peak season for airfares, and the internet is full of tricks that don't hold up.
  • Here is what the data and consumer research actually support for finding a cheaper flight out of Los Angeles — no gimmicks, just small edges that add up.
The Boston Celtics during a game.
Sports 28 d

Celtics Trade Jaylen Brown to the 76ers in a Deal That Stunned the NBA

  • The Boston Celtics have traded Jaylen Brown — the 2024 NBA Finals MVP and one of their two franchise cornerstones — to the rival Philadelphia 76ers for Paul George and draft picks.
  • Rival executives called the return light, and the shock deal has instantly reshaped the balance of power in the East.
The Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building in Washington.
Business 28 d

US Hiring Slowed Sharply in June, With Just 57,000 Jobs Added

  • American employers added just 57,000 jobs in June, far fewer than economists expected and a sharp slowdown from May, the Labor Department reported.
  • The unemployment rate stood at 4.2%, in a report that points to a cooling labor market and complicates the Federal Reserve's path.
Raw oysters served on ice — a common source of Vibrio infection.
U.S. 28 d

Flesh-Eating Bacteria: What to Know About Vibrio Before a Warm-Water Beach Trip

  • Health officials are reminding beachgoers about Vibrio vulnificus, a bacterium in warm coastal waters that can cause rare but severe 'flesh-eating' infections.
  • The risk is greatest along the Gulf Coast and Southeast — worth knowing for the many Americans heading to warm-water beaches this Fourth of July.
Tracee Ellis Ross at an awards event.
Entertainment 28 d

Tracee Ellis Ross Makes Her Broadway Debut in a Daring One-Person Show

  • After decades on television, Tracee Ellis Ross is stepping onto a Broadway stage for the first time — and not gently.
  • She takes over the title role in 'Every Brilliant Thing,' an intimate one-person play about depression, resilience and the small reasons to keep going.
Burn aftermath from the January 2025 Eaton Fire near Altadena.
Los Angeles 28 d

As Altadena Rebuilds, a Fight Over Whether State Housing Laws Should Apply

  • A year and a half after the Eaton Fire leveled much of Altadena, a bill in Sacramento would shield the community from California's density-promoting housing laws as it rebuilds.
  • Supporters call it protection against speculators; critics warn it could make it harder for fire survivors to afford to rebuild at all.
The Los Angeles Lakers during a game.
Sports 28 d

LeBron James Is Leaving. The Lakers Are Rebuilding Fast Around Luka Doncic

  • LeBron James has told the Lakers he intends to play elsewhere next season, ending an eight-year run that included the 2020 championship.
  • Within hours, Los Angeles pivoted hard toward its new franchise cornerstone, Luka Dončić — trading for a starting center and spending big in free agency to reshape the roster around him.
A swimmer competing in a freestyle race.
Sports 28 d

Inside the Enhanced Games, the Doping-Friendly Contest Dividing Sports

  • A new competition that lets athletes openly use performance-enhancing drugs held its first event in Las Vegas this spring, dangling million-dollar prizes and promising a franker conversation about doping.
  • Anti-doping officials, sports bodies and doctors call it reckless — 'a circus, built on shortcuts.'
Jordan Spieth on the golf course.
Sports 28 d

The Course That Made Jordan Spieth Could Help Him Find His Game Again

  • The John Deere Classic is where Jordan Spieth's career took off, with a breakthrough win at 19.
  • This week the three-time major champion returns to that Illinois course in the middle of a long slump — healthy again, but still searching for the form that once made him golf's next great hope.
Anfield, Liverpool's stadium, where Jota's number 20 was retired.
Sports 28 d

A Year After His Death, Portugal Carries Diogo Jota to the World Cup

  • One year ago this week, the Liverpool and Portugal forward Diogo Jota died in a car crash in Spain alongside his brother, André Silva.
  • As Portugal chases a World Cup, it is playing with him in mind — calling the squad '27 plus one' and carrying the memory of a player his teammates describe as their joy.
An NFL offensive line at the line of scrimmage.
Sports 28 d

The Tallest Man in Rugby League Is Chasing an NFL Dream

  • At 6-foot-9 and 268 pounds, Ben Te Kura is the tallest player in the history of Australia's National Rugby League.
  • Now the 22-year-old has walked away from a pro contract with the Brisbane Broncos to try something he has never done: play American football, following the trail blazed by Eagles star Jordan Mailata.
Coils of razor wire along a fence.
California 28 d

California Immigrant Detainees Boycott Commissary Over Steep Prices

  • More than 300 immigrant detainees at two privately run detention facilities in California's Central Valley and desert have stopped buying from the commissary in protest, saying prices for basics like coffee, soup and tampons are marked far above what the same items cost outside.
  • The operators and federal officials did not respond to requests for comment.
The Galen Center, home of USC basketball.
Sports 28 d

USC's Ezra Ausar Signs With the Miami Heat for Summer League

  • Ezra Ausar, a productive forward in his lone season at USC, is getting his shot at the NBA the hard way.
  • After going unpicked in the 2026 draft, he has signed with the Miami Heat as an undrafted free agent to play in Summer League — the audition where undrafted players try to turn a tryout into a career.
The Michigan State Capitol in Lansing.
Politics 28 d

Michigan's Open Senate Seat Draws a Marquee Democratic Primary

  • With Senator Gary Peters retiring, Michigan's open U.S.
  • Senate seat has produced one of 2026's most closely watched Democratic primaries — a three-way contest, set for August 4, that has become a test of the party's progressive and establishment wings.
The hemicycle of Algeria's People's National Assembly.
World 28 d

Algeria Votes for a New Parliament, With Low Turnout the Central Question

  • Algerians went to the polls to elect a new lower house of parliament, in a vote widely seen as a test of public trust more than seven years after the Hirak protests reshaped the country's politics.
  • The question hanging over the election was less who would win than how many people would bother to vote.
An aerial view of Taal Volcano and its crater lake in the Philippines.
World 28 d

Taal Volcano Erupts Twice in a Day, Sending Ash Over Batangas

  • Taal, one of the Philippines' most active volcanoes, erupted twice on July 1, blasting ash and steam as high as 1,200 meters over Batangas province and sending waves rippling across its crater lake.
  • Officials kept the alert at its lowest level and reported no injuries, but reminded the public that the volcano's island remains a permanent danger zone.
The Jonas Brothers performing in 2010.
Entertainment 28 d

Camp Rock Is Back: The Jonas Brothers Return as Connect 3 for a Third Film

  • Disney is reviving 'Camp Rock,' the musical franchise that helped make the Jonas Brothers stars, nearly two decades after the first film.
  • Kevin, Joe and Nick Jonas return as the band Connect 3 in 'Camp Rock 3,' set to premiere on Disney Channel in August — with Demi Lovato, one of the originals, now producing.
An Ebola treatment unit.
World 28 d

Ebola Surges in Conflict-Torn Eastern Congo, With No Vaccine for This Strain

  • An Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has grown into an international health emergency, with more than 1,300 confirmed cases.
  • Complicating the response: the outbreak is caused by a rarer strain of the virus for which there is no licensed vaccine, in a region already torn by armed conflict.
A close-up of a microchip die.
Business 28 d

Micron Pledges $250 Million to 'Trump Accounts,' the Largest Corporate Commitment Yet

  • The chipmaker Micron says it will put up to $250 million into 'Trump Accounts,' the new federal savings accounts for children created under last year's tax law — matching employees' contributions and seeding accounts for kids in seven states, including California.
  • Backers call it an investment in the future workforce; some analysts question who benefits most.
The plenary hall of Lithuania's parliament, the Seimas, in Vilnius.
World 28 d

Lithuania Moves to Lift Its Constitutional Ban on Nuclear Weapons

  • Lithuania's new government is pushing to strike a Cold War-era clause from the constitution that bars weapons of mass destruction and foreign bases from its soil — a step meant to keep the door open to NATO's nuclear defenses as fears of Russia grow.
  • It is a proposal, not yet a done deal: changing the constitution takes a two-thirds parliamentary supermajority.
City Hall in Georgetown, the capital of Guyana.
World 28 d

As Cuba's Crisis Deepens, a New Escape Route Opens in Oil-Rich Guyana

  • With the United States harder to reach and life at home unraveling, growing numbers of Cubans are heading to an unlikely destination: Guyana, the small South American nation transformed by an offshore oil boom.
  • It offers work and visa-free entry — but also legal limbo and jobs far below many migrants' skills.
The original Nathan's Famous at Coney Island, Brooklyn.
Sports 28 d

At Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, Joey Chestnut Chases an 18th Mustard Belt

  • The Fourth of July brings the strangest of American traditions back to Coney Island: the Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest.
  • Joey Chestnut, the sport's dominant figure, returns to chase an 18th title a year after ending a brief, contract-driven exile — while Miki Sudo aims to extend her own reign on the women's side.
Map of the Nord Stream pipeline route across the Baltic Sea.
World 28 d

Germany Charges a Ukrainian in the Nord Stream Pipeline Sabotage

  • German federal prosecutors have filed the first criminal charges over the 2022 explosions that wrecked the Nord Stream gas pipelines beneath the Baltic Sea, accusing a Ukrainian man of helping to coordinate the attack.
  • He denies it, and his lawyers say he was a soldier acting for his country — an argument that could turn the case into a test of international law.
A WHSmith shop in Britain.
Business 28 d

Up to 150 Former WHSmith Shops to Close in a Blow to Britain's High Street

  • A British court has approved a rescue plan for the high-street chain once known as WHSmith — now rebranded TG Jones — that will shut as many as 150 of its 451 shops.
  • The retailer told the court it was 'running on fumes,' the latest sign of how hard traditional stores are being squeezed.
Santi Cazorla during his time with Arsenal.
Sports 28 d

Santi Cazorla, the Magician Who Beat a Career-Ending Injury, Retires at 41

  • Santi Cazorla, the two-footed Spanish playmaker who won two European Championships, lit up the Premier League with Arsenal, and came back from an ankle injury so severe that doctors feared for his foot, has announced his retirement at 41 — closing the book with his boyhood club, Real Oviedo.
Leaves of Mitragyna speciosa, the plant from which kratom is derived.
U.S. 28 d

US Moves to Ban Concentrated Kratom Extract Even as Trump Floats Approving Another Form

  • Federal drug regulators moved to outlaw 7-OH, a highly concentrated kratom derivative sold in gas stations and smoke shops, calling it a growing public-health threat.
  • The action lands amid a contradictory record: the same administration dropped a lawsuit against a major kratom company and has floated approving a related product, drawing scrutiny of the industry's ties to senior officials.
The Reichstag building in Berlin, seat of the German Bundestag.
World 28 d

Germany Races to Overhaul Its Economy as the Far Right Gains

  • Chancellor Friedrich Merz's German government is pushing a package of pension, tax and labor changes to revive a stagnant economy — an effort shadowed by the steady rise of the far-right Alternative for Germany, which has climbed to the top of the polls amid public frustration.
Nvidia's headquarters in Santa Clara, California.
Business 28 d

Nvidia Offers Startups Computing Power in Exchange for a Cut of Revenue

  • Nvidia is rolling out a revenue-sharing arrangement that would give AI start-ups access to its coveted computing power without big upfront bills, in return for a slice of their future sales.
  • The move could ease a major barrier for young companies — and further tighten the chip giant's grip on the AI economy.
The main branch of the New York Public Library, the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building.
Entertainment 28 d

At the New York Public Library, a 250th-Anniversary Show Weighs America's Ideals

  • As the United States marks its 250th year, the New York Public Library has opened a sweeping exhibition that pairs founding-era documents — including a handwritten Declaration of Independence — with protest art and contemporary works, tracing the long gap between the nation's ideals and its history.
Gloria Estefan performing.
Entertainment 28 d

Gloria and Emily Estefan's New Musical 'Basura' Turns Landfill Into Song

  • Gloria Estefan and her daughter Emily have written an original stage musical, 'Basura,' inspired by the real Paraguayan youth orchestra that builds its instruments out of trash.
  • Now premiering at Atlanta's Alliance Theatre, it is a departure from the Estefans' hit-driven jukebox show and, they say, their first original score together.
A row of arcade video game machines.
Entertainment 28 d

From the Oregon Trail to Fallout's Vegas: How Video Games Retell America

  • For the Fourth of July, a look at an unlikely keeper of American mythology: the video game.
  • From the covered wagons of 'The Oregon Trail' to the neon ruins of a post-apocalyptic Las Vegas, games have spent decades staging — and increasingly questioning — the country's founding stories.
The actor Rami Malek.
Entertainment 28 d

Ira Sachs and Rami Malek Bring an AIDS-Era New York Drama to the Screen

  • The independent director Ira Sachs has made 'The Man I Love,' a drama set in 1980s New York starring the Oscar winner Rami Malek as an ailing queer performer determined to keep working.
  • After a Cannes premiere, the film is touring festivals — and Sachs is talking about the European cinema that shaped it.
Passport control at an airport in the European Union.
World 28 d

Europe's New Biometric Border System Snarls Summer Travel

  • Europe's new Entry/Exit System, which registers non-EU travelers' fingerprints and faces at the border, is producing long airport queues at the height of summer — prompting airport and airline groups to warn the European Commission that the strain has reached a 'critical point.' American visitors are among those affected.
An oil refinery lit up at night (illustrative).
World 28 d

As Ukraine Strikes Its Refineries, Russia Grapples With a Summer Fuel Squeeze

  • A sustained Ukrainian campaign of long-range drone strikes on Russian oil refineries is producing something Moscow rarely admits: fuel shortages at home.
  • President Vladimir Putin has acknowledged a 'certain deficit,' and reports describe rationing and long lines at filling stations across parts of Russia.
A Jaguar electric vehicle (illustrative).
Business 28 d

Jaguar Bets Its Future on a Radical, All-Electric Reinvention

  • Jaguar, the storied British marque, is remaking itself as an all-electric, ultra-premium brand with a jarringly bold new look — a high-stakes reinvention that its owner casts as survival and its many critics call a needless gamble with a beloved name.
550 Madison Avenue (the former AT&T Building) in New York, designed by Philip Johnson.
Entertainment 28 d

The Castle on Madison Avenue: Philip Johnson's Unbuilt Trump Tower

  • One of the stranger might-have-beens of 1980s New York architecture was a literal castle in the sky: a skyscraper, complete with a moat and drawbridge, that the celebrated architect Philip Johnson designed for the developer Donald Trump.
  • It was never built — but its story captures a giddy era of Manhattan ambition.
Stacked shipping containers at a port (illustrative).
Business 28 d

Alibaba to Pay 600 Million Dollars to Settle US Claims Over Illegal Drug Sales

  • Alibaba and an affiliated U.S.
  • payments company have agreed to pay $600 million to resolve a Justice Department investigation into illegal pharmaceutical and controlled-substance sales facilitated on the Chinese group's platforms — one of the largest such penalties against a Chinese tech company.
A flag flying over the United States Capitol.
Politics 28 d

GOP Senate Hopefuls Lean on Their Own Super PACs to Stockpile Cash for 2026

  • Ahead of the 2026 midterms, a growing number of Republican Senate candidates are relying on friendly single-candidate super PACs — outside groups that can raise unlimited sums — to pad their war chests, a strategy that both parties use but that watchdogs say further blurs the line between campaigns and the money behind them.
The Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad, Iran, where Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is to be buried.
World 29 d

Iran Prepares to Bury Khamenei, Months After His Killing, in Days of Mourning

  • Iran is preparing for days of state mourning and the long-delayed burial of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in February, with ceremonies set to culminate in his interment at a revered Shiite shrine.
  • His son, Mojtaba Khamenei, has already been named to succeed him.
A military reconnaissance drone in flight (illustrative).
World 29 d

Drone Incursions Over Europe Fuel Fears of Russian Hybrid Warfare

  • A rising tempo of unexplained drone sightings and incursions over European airspace has forced airport closures and military scrambles, and drawn suspicion toward Russia — though officials caution that firm attribution, in many cases, remains elusive.
A gas station at Western Avenue and Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles 29 d

Lawsuit Says Gas Chains Used Pricing Software to Inflate California Fuel Prices

  • A new class-action lawsuit accuses more than a dozen major gas chains of using a shared algorithmic pricing service to keep California fuel prices artificially high — an early test of a state law, effective this year, that targets pricing algorithms.
  • The companies have not responded to the allegations, which remain unproven.
The United States Capitol at dusk.
Politics 29 d

House GOP Revolt Blocks Defense Bill, Freezing Johnson's Floor for a Second Week

  • A bloc of 14 House Republicans joined Democrats on Tuesday to sink a procedural rule and block the annual defense bill, the second straight week that conservative holdouts have frozen Speaker Mike Johnson's floor.
  • At the center of the fight is a demand over how to advance President Trump's SAVE America voter-eligibility bill.
The grand courtroom of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg.
Business 29 d

EU's Top Court Set to Rule on Google's 4.1-Billion-Euro Android Fine

  • The European Union's highest court is due to deliver a final, binding judgment on Google's appeal against a €4.1 billion antitrust fine over its Android mobile software — one of the largest competition penalties in EU history, and a case that has run for nearly a decade.
Centre Court at the All England Lawn Tennis Club, Wimbledon.
Sports 29 d

Krejcikova Stuns French Open Champion Andreeva at Wimbledon

  • Barbora Krejcikova, the 2024 Wimbledon champion who arrived at the All England Club unseeded this year, came from a set down to beat fifth seed Mirra Andreeva 4-6, 7-5, 6-4 in the second round, denying the 19-year-old French Open champion after Andreeva fought off six match points.
Aerial view of SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California.
Sports 29 d

World Cup Round of 32 Comes to Inglewood as Spain Faces Austria at SoFi

  • The World Cup's expanded knockout round touches down in Los Angeles on Thursday, as reigning European champions Spain meet Austria at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood.
  • Spain arrive as heavy favorites and unbeaten in more than two years; Austria, through to the last 32 for the first time in the modern era, will try to spring a surprise.
A street in the old town of Damascus, Syria.
World 29 d

Trump's Idea for Syria to Fight Hezbollah Meets Swift Rejection in the Region

  • President Trump has suggested that Syria's new government could take on Hezbollah more effectively than Israel has, floating the idea at the G7 summit.
  • But Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa flatly rejected any military intervention in Lebanon, and analysts called the proposal unworkable given Syria's fragile state and the two countries' fraught history.
The Seoul skyline at night.
Business 29 d

A Merger to Reshape South Korea's Cinemas Collapses Amid a Financial Crisis

  • A planned merger of Lotte Cinema and Megabox that would have created South Korea's largest movie-theater chain has fallen apart, undone by a financial crisis at Megabox's parent — a collapse that lays bare how badly the country's theater business has been battered by streaming and the pandemic's long tail.
Lionel Messi playing for Argentina.
World 29 d

From Maradona to Messi: Why Bangladesh Adopted Argentina as Its Team

  • In a cricket-loving country thousands of miles from Buenos Aires, millions of Bangladeshis have spent four decades cheering for Argentina's footballers — a passion that helped bring an Argentine embassy back to Dhaka and is roaring again at the 2026 World Cup.
A busy city street in India.
Business 29 d

Amazon and Flipkart Chase India's 10-Minute Delivery Boom

  • India's fastest-growing corner of online retail is 'quick commerce' — groceries and essentials delivered in minutes.
  • Now Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart are pouring money into it, racing to catch startups that got there first.
A film clapperboard on a movie set.
Entertainment 29 d

Screen Australia Bets on Audience Data With New Filmmaker Labs

  • Australia's government film agency is launching two programs that pair local filmmakers with international mentors and audience-data specialists — a data-driven push to help independent films find viewers in a fragmented market.
The Great Hall of the People in Beijing, seat of China's National People's Congress.
World 29 d

China's New Ethnic-Unity Law Claims Authority Over Critics Abroad

  • A Chinese law promoting 'ethnic unity' took effect this week, and officials say it can be applied to people beyond China's borders — a provision Beijing calls a security measure and that rights groups warn is a tool for reaching critics overseas.
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles.
Entertainment 29 d

The Academy's Chief Oscars Officer Steps Down Ahead of a Big Transition

  • Teni Melidonian, the Academy's chief Oscars officer and a two-decade veteran of the film organization, is leaving her full-time post and shifting to a consulting role, as the Los Angeles-based institution restructures ahead of its centennial and a coming move of Oscars rights to YouTube.
Rows of servers in a data center.
Business 29 d

Singapore Seizes a $42 Million Mansion in an Nvidia Chip-Smuggling Case

  • Singapore authorities have seized a luxury bungalow worth about $42 million as part of a fraud investigation tied to the alleged illegal movement of servers packed with restricted Nvidia AI chips — a case that shows how U.S.
  • export controls are reverberating across Asia.
The U.S. Supreme Court building at dusk.
Politics 29 d

A Federal Shield on Late Voter Purges Heads to the Supreme Court

  • The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an Arizona case that could reshape a decades-old federal rule barring states from systematically scrubbing their voter rolls in the final stretch before an election — a fight over how far states can go to remove noncitizens without sweeping up eligible voters.
The Hotel Thermal, hub of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
Entertainment 29 d

Croatian Debut 'Petty Thieves' Set for Karlovy Vary Premiere

  • Mate Ugrin's debut feature 'Petty Thieves,' a dark comedy about two hotel workers scraping by in a tourist town, is heading to the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival — a small story about solidarity among people with little power.
The Belgium national football team.
Sports 29 d

Belgium Survives Senegal on the Latest Goal in World Cup History

  • Belgium climbed off the floor against Senegal, erasing a two-goal deficit and then winning it from the penalty spot deep into extra time — a strike clocked at 124 minutes and 44 seconds that broadcasters called the latest goal ever scored at a World Cup.
The Volkswagen plant in Wolfsburg, Germany.
Business 29 d

Volkswagen Braces for a Historic Boardroom Showdown Over Deep Cost Cuts

  • Europe's largest carmaker is heading into what could be the biggest restructuring fight in its history, with reports that management is weighing tens of thousands of job cuts and the closure of German plants — a plan the company's powerful unions have vowed to resist.
Cars line up at a food pantry distribution.
Business 29 d

A Graduate Who Needed a Food Bank Sets Out to Strip Away the Shame

  • A university graduate in Wales who turned to a food bank after leaving school now volunteers to make the experience less humiliating for others — part of a broader push to treat food aid as a matter of dignity, at a time when demand is climbing on both sides of the Atlantic.
The front of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Washington, D.C.
U.S. 29 d

Federal Agents Tracked a Man Who Sent a Harsh Email to ICE's Director, NPR Reports

  • Homeland Security agents visited the home of a Rochester, N.Y., man and later tracked him to an airport hotel five months after he sent an angry email to the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to NPR — leaving notices that he may have violated federal law.
  • No charges have been filed.
The Toronto Raptors warm up before a game at their home arena.
Sports 29 d

Kawhi Leonard Reportedly Headed Back to Toronto in a Clippers Blockbuster

  • Seven years after leading Toronto to its only NBA championship, Kawhi Leonard is reportedly on his way back.
  • The Clippers have agreed in principle to trade the All-NBA forward to the Raptors for a package of players and draft picks, according to ESPN — a deal not yet officially confirmed by either team.
An oil refinery lit up at night (file photo).
World 29 d

Ukraine Drives the War Deep Into Russia, Striking Refineries and Arms Plants

  • Ukraine has sharply widened its long-range strike campaign into Russian territory in late June and early July, hitting oil refineries, missile-component factories and communications nodes as far as the Ural region — an offensive analysts say is meant to degrade Moscow's war machine and raise the economic cost of the war.
SAP's headquarters in Walldorf, Germany.
Business 29 d

SAP Bets on Retraining Over Layoffs as AI Reshapes Its Workforce

  • Germany's SAP, one of the world's largest software companies, says it is retraining and redeploying workers rather than cutting them as artificial intelligence transforms its business — a counterpoint to an industry shedding jobs, though economists question whether the pledge can hold.
U.S. one-hundred-dollar banknotes.
World 29 d

Washington Restores the Dollar Flow to Iraq After a Months-Long Squeeze

  • The United States has resumed shipments of dollar cash to Iraq after a suspension of roughly four months that strained the Iraqi dinar and rattled Baghdad — a financial lever Washington pulled to press Iraq's government to rein in Iran-aligned militias, and has now eased, with conditions.
Flames from a forest wildfire (file photo).
U.S. 29 d

Colorado's Wildfire Recovery Turns Political as Washington Denies Disaster Aid

  • A year after two of the largest wildfires in Colorado history burned across the state's Western Slope, the communities left behind have been denied federal disaster aid twice — a rejection the state calls its first in 35 years, and one that has turned the long work of recovery into a political fight with echoes in fire-scarred California.
The Baltic Sea off Bornholm, Denmark, near where the Nord Stream pipelines were damaged.
World 29 d

Germany Charges a Ukrainian Man Over the 2022 Nord Stream Pipeline Blasts

  • German federal prosecutors have charged a Ukrainian man over the September 2022 underwater explosions that ruptured the Nord Stream gas pipelines beneath the Baltic Sea — the first formal prosecution in one of the most consequential acts of sabotage in recent European history.
Travelers at an airport passport-control hall (file photo).
World 29 d

Europe's New Biometric Border System Is Snarling Airports, and Americans Are Next in Line

  • The European Union's new Entry/Exit System — which replaces passport stamps with fingerprint and facial scans for every non-EU visitor — is producing long queues at Schengen borders just as summer travel peaks, and aviation groups are urging Brussels to add flexibility.
  • For Americans flying to Europe, it means budgeting extra time at passport control.
A container ship carrying cargo at sea.
Business 29 d

Europe Heads to Beijing With a Trade Deficit It Can't Quit

  • European leaders are preparing for a high-stakes summit with China later this month aiming to narrow a trade gap that has tilted sharply in Beijing's favor — even as Europe stays dependent on Chinese electric vehicles, rare-earth minerals and, this scorching summer, air conditioners.
The interior of a classic movie theater.
Entertainment 29 d

From a Viral Horror Short to the Big Screen: The Makers of Obsession

  • A horror short about a cursed antique chair drew more than 10 million views online and launched Curry Barker and Anthony Pavone from an L.A.
  • acting class to a Focus Features release, 'Obsession' — a path the pair traced in a new Hollywood Reporter interview.
A U.S. Postal Service delivery truck (file photo).
U.S. 29 d

Man Charged With Killing a North Carolina Letter Carrier on Her Route

  • A North Carolina man has been charged with first-degree murder and kidnapping in the killing of a U.S.
  • Postal Service letter carrier who was shot while delivering mail on a rural route — a death that lands amid years of heightened concern over violence against the nation's mail carriers.
The Hollywood Sign in the Los Angeles hills.
Entertainment 29 d

The Minions Hit 1920s Hollywood, and the Summer Box Office

  • Illumination's 'Minions & Monsters,' which drops the little yellow troublemakers into the silent-film era of 1927 Hollywood, opened to a strong $13.75 million on its first day — and to some of the warmest reviews the franchise has drawn.
SoFi Stadium in Inglewood.
Los Angeles 29 d

Los Angeles at the 2026 World Cup: What Angelenos Should Know

  • The World Cup has come to Southern California, with the Los Angeles-area matches played at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood.
  • Here is a practical guide to the venue, getting there, how the expanded tournament works — and where to confirm the details before you go.
A coral reef beneath the ocean surface.
World 29 d

Ocean Temperatures Hit Record Highs as a Strong El Nino Gathers

  • Global sea-surface temperatures have returned to record or near-record highs in mid-2026, and forecasters say a potentially strong El Niño is now forming in the Pacific — a combination scientists warn could intensify heat, drought, flooding and coral loss, with consequences that reach the California coast.
The Forum in Inglewood, now the Kia Forum.
Entertainment 29 d

Rosalia Turns the Kia Forum Into a Cathedral on Her Lux Tour

  • Rosalía brought her acclaimed 'Lux' tour to the Kia Forum in Inglewood this week, and critics say the orchestral, cross-disciplinary spectacle is among the most ambitious arena shows of the year — part concert, part opera, part something the old building had never seen.
The coastal city of La Guaira, Venezuela, one of the areas hardest hit by the earthquakes.
World 29 d

Aid Workers Warn of a Health Crisis in Venezuela as Quake Toll Climbs

  • A week after the earthquakes that devastated Venezuela's Caribbean coast, relief workers warn the disaster may be entering a deadlier second phase, as a battered health system, contaminated water and crowded shelters raise the risk of disease among tens of thousands of survivors.
Humanoid robots on display at an exhibition (illustrative).
Business 29 d

Ant Group Bets Big on Humanoid Robots With a Dozen Deals

  • Ant Group, the Alibaba-affiliated Chinese fintech giant behind Alipay, has assembled roughly a dozen investments and ventures in humanoid robotics over the past 18 months — building its own robot and backing startups — as Beijing pushes the industry as a national priority.
The United States Supreme Court building at dusk.
Politics 29 d

Supreme Court Says States May Bar Transgender Athletes From Women's Sports

  • The U.S.
  • Supreme Court ruled that states may exclude transgender athletes from girls' and women's sports teams without violating federal law or the Constitution, upholding laws in Idaho and West Virginia in a decision that drew sharp praise and condemnation and is expected to echo through the midterm campaign.
Dawn over the La Candelaria district of Caracas, Venezuela.
World 29 d

A Boy Pulled Alive After Six Days, and the Aunt Who Vowed to Raise Him

  • A two-year-old boy was rescued alive from the rubble of his Caracas home six days after the earthquake that has killed more than 1,700 people in Venezuela.
  • His parents are still missing — and his aunt has vowed to raise him 'with a mother's warmth' until they are found.
The downtown Los Angeles skyline.
California 29 d

California Homicide Rate Hits Its Lowest Mark Since the 1960s

  • California recorded its fewest killings per capita in nearly six decades last year, and police solved a far larger share of the cases, according to new state figures — with Los Angeles posting its own lowest homicide rate since 1959.
Paseo de la Reforma, the Mexico City avenue where crowds gathered.
World 29 d

Four Die in Mexico City as World Cup Celebrations Turn Deadly

  • Four people died in Mexico City during the crush of celebrations after Mexico advanced at the World Cup, authorities said, as an estimated 1.4 million revelers packed the capital's main avenue and the city opened an investigation into how a night of triumph turned fatal.
Physical novelty cryptocurrency coins.
Business 29 d

Trump Crypto Ventures Earned Over a Billion Dollars as Many Investors Lost Out

  • President Trump's cryptocurrency ventures brought his businesses well over $1 billion in income last year, his annual financial disclosure shows — even as many small investors in the same tokens lost money, a gap that has drawn conflict-of-interest warnings and a firm denial from the White House.
The West Bay skyline of Doha, Qatar.
World 29 d

Qatar Reports Positive Progress as US and Iran Wrap a Round of Doha Talks

  • Qatar said a round of indirect U.S.-Iran technical talks ended in Doha with 'positive progress,' as the two sides worked to shore up a fragile ceasefire that has already been strained by fresh strikes — with Iran agreeing to open a channel to flag alleged violations before they escalate.
A bowl of breakfast cereal with milk.
Business 29 d

General Mills Bets on Protein to Win Back Cautious Shoppers

  • The maker of Cheerios is leaning on protein-enriched cereals — and protein-forward pet food — to rekindle growth after a year in which sales slipped and the company took more than $1.8 billion in write-downs.
  • Investors, focused on an easing quarter and a new cost-cutting plan, sent the stock higher.
A 19th-century painting depicting George Washington during the French and Indian War era.
Entertainment 29 d

Young Washington Arrives for the 250th, and Critics Are Divided

  • Angel Studios has timed a handsome, star-studded historical drama about George Washington's early years to the nation's 250th birthday.
  • Critics call it competent and earnest — and, some say, a little too polished to reckon with the complicated young man at its center.
Emergency workers amid the rubble of a building in Kyiv after an earlier Russian strike.
World 29 d

Russian Missiles and Drones Strike Kyiv, Setting a Central District Ablaze

  • Russia launched one of its largest overnight assaults on the Ukrainian capital in weeks, sending missiles and drones into Kyiv, collapsing a residential building and wounding several people, Ukrainian officials said — the latest escalation in a war grinding through its fourth year.
A Los Angeles Police Department patrol car.
Los Angeles 29 d

LAPD Releases Body-Camera Video of Boyle Heights Shooting of a Man With a Knife

  • The Los Angeles Police Department has released body-camera footage of an officer-involved shooting in Boyle Heights, saying a man armed with a knife ignored commands to drop it and advanced on officers, who opened fire.
  • The department's account has not been independently tested, and the investigation is ongoing.
Madison Square Garden in Manhattan.
Entertainment 29 d

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Set to Wed at Madison Square Garden, Sources Say

  • One of the most-watched couples in America is reportedly set to marry Friday at Madison Square Garden, according to news outlets citing anonymous sources — though neither Taylor Swift nor Travis Kelce has said anything publicly, leaving the details of the celebration a closely held secret.
Water boiling in a pot on a stove.
Los Angeles 29 d

Boil-Water Notice Hits Part of Koreatown After E. Coli Is Detected

  • The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power issued a boil-water notice for a two-block stretch of Koreatown after routine testing found E.
  • coli bacteria at a single monitoring station — and residents there should treat their tap water until the utility says it is safe.
The skyline of Seoul, South Korea.
Business 29 d

House Panel Accuses South Korea of Targeting Coupang and US Tech Firms

  • A House Judiciary Committee report accuses South Korea of waging a discriminatory regulatory campaign against Coupang and other U.S.
  • companies — allegations Seoul flatly denies, in a dispute that has grown into a flashpoint in a trade relationship worth more than $350 billion.
A street in Chinatown, Los Angeles.
Los Angeles 29 d

California Establishes Bruce Lee Day, a First for a Chinese American

  • California has designated May 17 as Bruce Lee Day — believed to be the first annual day of recognition in state history named for a Chinese American — honoring the martial artist and actor who was born in San Francisco and built his craft and Hollywood career in Los Angeles.

Earlier today

Earlier today

Earlier today

Industrial robot arms on a factory line.
Business 29 d

Nvidia Bets on a Trillion-Dollar Robotics Boom It Calls 'Physical AI'

  • Having built its fortune on chips that train AI models, Nvidia is now pushing into the physical world — supplying the software and silicon for humanoid robots and smart factories in a market its chief executive predicts will eventually be worth trillions, even as analysts urge caution.
The United States Courthouse in downtown Los Angeles.
Los Angeles 29 d

Federal Sweep Targets a South LA Sex-Trafficking Ring, With 10 Arrested

  • Federal and Los Angeles investigators arrested 10 people Wednesday in the latest phase of a sweeping crackdown on an alleged sex-trafficking network that prosecutors say exploited dozens of victims — including minors — along South Los Angeles's Figueroa Corridor.
Cars on an automotive assembly line.
Business 29 d

No USMCA Renewal Leaves US Automakers in Annual-Review Limbo

  • Washington's decision to forgo a long-term extension of the North American trade pact — opting instead for yearly reviews — has deepened uncertainty for an auto industry built on seamless cross-border supply chains, freezing some of its biggest investment decisions.

Earlier today

The downtown Los Angeles skyline.
Los Angeles 29 d

LA City Council Approves the $2 Billion Fourth and Central Project Downtown

  • After roughly five years of environmental review, appeals and a major redesign, the Los Angeles City Council approved Fourth & Central — a $2 billion, ten-building complex on the eastern edge of downtown — over objections from Little Tokyo neighbors who fear it will accelerate gentrification.

Earlier today

Los Angeles Police Department headquarters.
Los Angeles 29 d

LAPD Sends Findings to the DA in Fatal Shooting by an Off-Duty ICE Officer

  • Six months after Keith Porter Jr.
  • was shot and killed by an off-duty federal immigration officer outside a Northridge apartment complex, the LAPD has completed its investigation and handed its findings to the Los Angeles County District Attorney, who will decide whether to file charges.

Earlier today

A United States Postal Service mail truck.
Politics 29 d

Federal Courts Block the Postal Service From Restricting Mail-In Ballots

  • Two federal courts have blocked the U.S.
  • Postal Service from withholding mail-ballot deliveries in states that refuse to hand over voter data to the federal government, dealing back-to-back defeats to a Trump administration effort to reshape how Americans vote before the November midterms.

Earlier today

A street on Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles.
Los Angeles 29 d

LA County Takes Over Homeless Spending, Sidelining LAHSA

  • After years of critical audits, Los Angeles County has broken with a three-decade-old partnership and stood up its own homeless services department — shifting roughly $843 million away from the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.

Earlier today

Earlier today

Earlier today

A Maya temple in Mexico (Palenque).
World 30 d

Archaeologists Uncover an Intact Maya City Hidden in the Mexican Jungle

  • In a remote corner of southern Mexico's Calakmul reserve, archaeologists have documented a previously unknown ancient Maya city — one so untouched by looters that its carved monuments still stand where they were left more than a thousand years ago, offering a rare, unspoiled window into the civilization's final century.
A gas tanker ship.
Business 30 d

QatarEnergy Extends Its LNG Force Majeure to September, Straining Gas Markets

  • One of the world's largest liquefied natural gas exporters has again told buyers it cannot deliver contracted cargoes — extending a suspension into September — as damage from the spring's Middle East conflict and instability around the Strait of Hormuz turn a short-term shock into a lingering strain on global gas markets.

Last night

The downtown Denver skyline.
U.S. 30 d

Democratic Socialist Melat Kiros Unseats Longtime Rep. Diana DeGette in Colorado

  • Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old attorney and democratic socialist, has defeated Rep.
  • Diana DeGette in the Democratic primary for Denver's House seat, according to a race projection — a stunning upset that would end DeGette's nearly three decades in Congress and extend a wave of insurgent left-wing primary wins.

Earlier this evening

The U.S. Department of Education building in Washington.
Business 30 d

A Judge Strikes Down a Trump Rule Limiting Public-Service Loan Forgiveness

  • A federal judge in Massachusetts has struck down a Trump administration rule that would have let the Education Department strip loan-forgiveness eligibility from certain nonprofits and public employers — preserving, for now, a decades-old benefit relied on by teachers, nurses, firefighters and other public servants, including a large share in California.
The Colorado State Capitol in Denver.
U.S. 30 d

Progressive Manny Rutinel Wins a Colorado Swing-Seat Primary

  • State Rep.
  • Manny Rutinel, a 31-year-old progressive born in Los Angeles, won the Democratic nomination in Colorado's 8th Congressional District on Tuesday, setting up a marquee November contest for a seat both parties see as central to control of the House.
Emergency vehicles on a Los Angeles street.
Los Angeles 30 d

Gardena-Area Residents Plead for Relief From Recurring Street Takeovers

  • Crowds of hundreds have been descending on a stretch of unincorporated Gardena with growing regularity, blocking intersections for car stunts late into the night, and residents say the recurring 'street takeovers' have become a safety crisis that authorities are not moving fast enough to stop.

Earlier this evening

U.S. airmen loading an urban search-and-rescue team and equipment onto an aircraft.
U.S. 30 d

U.S. Sends Rescue Teams and $150 Million to Quake-Stricken Venezuela

  • The United States has mounted one of its largest international disaster responses in years for earthquake-ravaged Venezuela — three urban search-and-rescue teams, including one from Los Angeles County, plus military support and $150 million in aid — a striking effort given the administration's deep cuts to foreign assistance and the near-absence of normal ties with Caracas.
A Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department patrol vehicle.
Los Angeles 30 d

L.A. County to Pay $9.6 Million to the Family of a Compton Man Killed by Deputies

  • Los Angeles County has agreed to pay $9.6 million to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit brought by the family of Samuel Herrera Jr., a 41-year-old Compton man fatally shot by sheriff's deputies during a 2020 search-warrant operation — a large payout the county approved without admitting wrongdoing, even as its own lawyers' account of the shooting differed sharply from the family's.

Earlier this evening

Downtown Los Angeles.
Los Angeles 30 d

Woman Charged With Felony Attack on a Downtown L.A. Street Vendor

  • A 19-year-old woman has been charged with three felonies in what prosecutors say was a violent attack on a 60-year-old street vendor outside a downtown Los Angeles shopping center — an assault that has renewed concern about the safety of the city's tens of thousands of sidewalk sellers.

This afternoon

Los Angeles City Hall.
Los Angeles 30 d

L.A.'s Noncitizen Voting Measure Is Pulled From the November Ballot

  • A Los Angeles charter amendment that would have opened a path for eligible noncitizens to vote in city and school-board elections has been pulled from the November ballot, the Los Angeles Times reported — halting, at least for now, a proposal that split the City Council and drew national attention.
Thousand Oaks, California.
Los Angeles 30 d

Moorpark Man Sentenced in the 2023 Death of Paul Kessler

  • A Ventura County judge sentenced a Moorpark man to a year in county jail and two years of probation in the 2023 death of Paul Kessler, a 69-year-old Jewish demonstrator who died after a confrontation at dueling protests in Thousand Oaks — a sentence the district attorney's office opposed as too lenient.
The Beijing skyline.
World 30 d

China Moves to Shield Workers From AI Even as It Races to Lead in It

  • As Beijing pours resources into becoming an artificial-intelligence superpower, it is also assembling an unusual set of policies — court rulings, retraining mandates and planning commitments — aimed at slowing the technology's disruption of its own workforce.

Earlier today

The New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street.
Business 30 d

U.S. Stocks Post Their Best Quarter Since 2020

  • Wall Street closed out the second quarter of 2026 with its strongest three-month rally in six years, as the easing of the spring war scare in the Middle East sent oil prices tumbling and a relentless surge in artificial-intelligence stocks pushed the major indexes to new highs.
An aerial view of CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
U.S. 30 d

The CIA Elevates Its Cyber Arm, Signaling a Tilt Toward Digital Spying

  • The CIA has restructured to place cyber operations and artificial intelligence near the top of its priorities, elevating its cyber-intelligence unit to the agency's highest operational tier — a quiet but telling shift toward technical espionage as it races to counter China.

Midday

The skyline of Lahore, Pakistan.
World 30 d

Roof Collapse at a Lahore Tutoring Center Kills at Least 14 Children

  • A roof gave way at a private tutoring center on the outskirts of Lahore on Tuesday, killing at least 14 children and injuring others, Pakistani police and rescue officials said, in one of the country's deadliest building collapses involving young students in recent years.
Cartons of eggs on a supermarket shelf.
Business 30 d

Egg Producers Settle a Federal Price-Manipulation Probe for $3.3 Million

  • Three of the nation's largest egg producers have agreed to pay $3.3 million and donate millions of eggs to food banks to resolve a Justice Department and multistate investigation into the alleged manipulation of egg-price benchmarks — a probe that grew out of the record prices that made a carton of eggs a kitchen-table issue.

Earlier today

The United States Supreme Court building in Washington.
U.S. 30 d

Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump's Birthright-Citizenship Order in 6-3 Ruling

  • The U.S.
  • Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Tuesday that the Constitution guarantees citizenship to nearly all children born on American soil, striking down President Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants and temporary-visa holders — with two of his own appointees in the majority.

Today

LeBron James on the basketball court.
Sports 30 d

LeBron James Tells the Lakers He Plans to Play Elsewhere Next Season

  • After eight seasons and a championship in purple and gold, LeBron James has informed the Los Angeles Lakers that he intends to play elsewhere next season, ESPN reported — a stunning turn as NBA free agency opens and one that would close a defining chapter for the franchise and the city.
The United States Supreme Court building in Washington.
U.S. 30 d

Supreme Court Will Decide Whether AR-15-Style Rifles Are Constitutionally Protected

  • The U.S.
  • Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide one of the most consequential Second Amendment questions in years: whether states and local governments may ban AR-15-style semi-automatic rifles — taking up cases from Connecticut and Illinois that put bans in roughly a dozen states, including California, in the balance.

This morning

A blood-pressure measurement at a medical visit.
Los Angeles 30 d

Millions Lose Obamacare Coverage as Subsidies Expire and Premiums Soar

  • Roughly three million people have dropped Affordable Care Act marketplace coverage since the start of 2026, after the enhanced federal subsidies that made those plans affordable expired and monthly premiums jumped sharply — a reversal that threatens years of gains in the number of insured Americans.
A BMW electric car charging.
Business 30 d

BMW Unveils an Electric X5 to Be Built in South Carolina

  • BMW revealed an all-electric version of its best-selling X5 SUV on Tuesday and confirmed it will be built at the automaker's giant Spartanburg, South Carolina plant later this year — the latest sign of foreign carmakers deepening their U.S.
  • manufacturing footprint as steep American tariffs reshape the industry.

Earlier this morning

The United States Supreme Court building in Washington.
Politics 30 d

Supreme Court Strikes Down Limits on Coordinated Party Campaign Spending

  • The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Monday that federal caps on how much political parties may spend in direct coordination with their candidates violate the First Amendment — erasing limits that stood for a quarter century and clearing the way for unlimited coordinated spending in federal elections.
University graduates in caps and gowns.
Los Angeles 30 d

Major Student-Loan Changes Take Effect July 1: What Borrowers Need to Know

  • The federal student-loan system is undergoing its biggest overhaul in years.
  • Starting July 1, new repayment plans, first-ever borrowing caps and the wind-down of the SAVE program reshape the landscape — and roughly seven million borrowers on one expiring plan face a deadline to act.
The United Nations headquarters in New York.
World 30 d

Syria's Spy Chief Addresses the U.N., a Milestone for Post-Assad Diplomacy

  • The head of Syria's intelligence service addressed a United Nations counterterrorism conference in New York this week — the first such appearance by a senior Syrian security official since the fall of Bashar al-Assad, and a striking marker of how far Washington's relationship with Damascus has shifted in 18 months.

Earlier this morning

A Victorian house in Eureka, Humboldt County, California.
California 30 d

Remains of More Than 100 Dogs Found at a Humboldt County Animal Rescue

  • A monthslong investigation into a Northern California animal rescue — sparked by a neighbor who bought the property next door to keep watch — culminated last week in the excavation of more than 100 dogs' remains, as state and federal agencies probe what became of hundreds of animals sent there from shelters across the state.

Overnight

Earlier overnight

An islet of the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.
World 30 d

China Squeezes Japan With Rare-Earth Curbs and Sea Patrols

  • Beijing has tightened rare-earth export controls and stepped up coast guard and military operations near disputed islands in a sustained pressure campaign against Tokyo — an escalation analysts call the most serious rupture in China-Japan relations in years, traced to a single statement about Taiwan.

Earlier overnight

Earlier overnight

A B-52 Stratofortress bomber taking off.
Los Angeles 31 d

Edwards Air Force Base Honors Eight Killed in B-52 Crash

  • Families, airmen and colleagues gathered at Edwards Air Force Base on Monday evening to honor the eight people — military officers, a civilian flight-test engineer and contractors — killed when a B-52 bomber crashed moments after takeoff on June 15, in the deadliest loss at the historic Mojave Desert test base in decades.
The United States Supreme Court building in Washington.
U.S. 31 d

Supreme Court Says Geofence Warrants Trigger Fourth Amendment Protections

  • The U.S.
  • Supreme Court ruled Monday that police conduct a Fourth Amendment 'search' when they use a geofence warrant to demand cellphone location data from a technology company — a decision that subjects a powerful and fast-growing surveillance tool to constitutional scrutiny without banning it outright.

Late Monday

The skyline of Doha, Qatar.
World 31 d

U.S. and Iran Both in Doha, but No Meeting Is Confirmed

  • American and Iranian delegations have both traveled to Doha — but whether they will actually sit across from each other is sharply in dispute, with Washington describing talks and Tehran flatly denying any meeting is planned.
A gasoline station in California.
Business 31 d

Trump Orders Gas Retailers to Cut Prices 'Immediately.' Markets Set the Pump.

  • President Trump demanded that U.S.
  • gasoline retailers slash prices at the pump immediately and threatened consequences if they don't — but economists say no presidential order can override the crude-oil markets that actually set what drivers pay, and nowhere is the gap starker than in California.
A soccer match in a packed stadium.
Sports 31 d

Morocco Oust the Netherlands on Penalties at the World Cup

  • Morocco's Atlas Lions knocked the Netherlands out of the 2026 World Cup in Monterrey, winning a penalty shootout 3-2 after a 1-1 draw through extra time — a result that sends one of Europe's most talented sides home and pushes Morocco deeper into the tournament.

Earlier tonight

A military unmanned aerial vehicle.
Business 31 d

AeroVironment Stock Surges About 19% on an Earnings Beat

  • Shares of AeroVironment jumped roughly 19% after the defense-drone maker posted a fiscal fourth-quarter earnings beat, with revenue topping $640 million and a swelling order backlog that underscores surging global demand for its loitering munitions and unmanned systems.

Earlier this evening

The U.S. Department of State's Harry S. Truman Building in Washington.
U.S. 31 d

State Department Confirms Three Americans Dead in the Venezuela Earthquakes

  • The U.S.
  • State Department says three American citizens were killed in the twin earthquakes that struck Venezuela on June 24, with a dozen more unaccounted for, as rescue teams — including a task force from California — keep searching the rubble of a disaster that has claimed more than 1,700 lives.
The west front of the United States Capitol.
Politics 31 d

Johnson Bets the Defense Bill on a Voter-Citizenship Law

  • House Speaker Mike Johnson said Monday he will try to force Senate action on a contentious voter-citizenship measure by bundling it with the annual must-pass defense bill — a high-stakes gambit that has already exposed fresh fractures inside his own Republican conference.

Earlier this evening

The Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo.
Business 31 d

Yen Sinks to Weakest Since 1986, Putting Tokyo on Intervention Watch

  • The Japanese yen fell to around 162 per dollar — its weakest level against the greenback since 1986 — intensifying pressure on Tokyo to mount another costly rescue of its currency as the interest-rate gap between Japan and the United States shows little sign of closing.
National Guard members in Washington, D.C.
Politics 31 d

Whitmer Threatens to Pull Michigan Guard From D.C. Over Trump Task Force

  • Michigan Gov.
  • Gretchen Whitmer has warned she will recall the state's more than 160 National Guard members from Washington if they are diverted from anniversary-celebration duties to President Trump's federal crime task force — a clash that already prompted Kentucky to bring its own guardsman home.

Earlier this evening

The skyline of Doha, Qatar.
World 31 d

Trump Says Iran Sought Doha Talks; Tehran Says No

  • President Trump declared Monday that Iran had requested a new round of talks in Qatar — a claim Tehran swiftly and flatly denied, deepening uncertainty over whether a fragile ceasefire can survive a fresh round of strikes in the Gulf.

Earlier this evening

Residents clear rubble after an earthquake.
Los Angeles 31 d

More Than 100 Venezuelans Deported Hours Before the Earthquakes Are Missing, Families Say

  • A U.S.
  • deportation flight carrying 146 Venezuelans landed in Caracas just hours before twin earthquakes devastated the country's coast on June 24 — and more than 100 of those deportees are now unaccounted for, the Associated Press reports, a wrenching collision of immigration enforcement and natural disaster that advocates say demands answers.
The Government Palace in Lima, Peru.
World 31 d

Keiko Fujimori Wins Peru's Presidency on Her Fourth Try

  • After three runoff defeats over fifteen years, Keiko Fujimori has won Peru's presidency, edging the left-leaning Roberto Sánchez by less than half a percentage point in one of Latin America's closest presidential contests — and inheriting a country defined by political instability and her own family's divisive legacy.
Ford's world headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan.
Business 31 d

Ford Rehires 350 Veteran 'Gray Beard' Engineers After Leaning Too Hard on AI

  • Ford has quietly reversed a costly bet — that automated systems could stand in for seasoned engineering judgment — bringing in some 350 veteran specialists it calls 'gray beards' to shore up vehicle quality after a wave of recalls made clear that artificial intelligence alone wasn't up to the job.

Earlier today

The United States Supreme Court building.
U.S. 31 d

Temporary Protected Status May Be Ending. Here's What the Supreme Court Did.

  • A Supreme Court ruling last week stripped federal courts of much of their power to block the Trump administration from ending Temporary Protected Status, a decision advocates say signals the effective unwinding of a 35-year humanitarian program that has shielded more than a million immigrants — many of them in Southern California — from deportation.
Firefighters work to put out a warehouse fire.
Los Angeles 31 d

Boyle Heights Cleanup Begins on Tens of Millions of Pounds of Rotting Food

  • Cleanup crews have begun clearing the fire-gutted Lineage Logistics cold-storage warehouse in Boyle Heights, where an estimated 85 million pounds of frozen food sat when the blaze struck — roughly half of it now spoiled and rotting in the summer heat, leaving neighbors to contend with a powerful stench and a growing rat problem.
A Rocket Lab Electron rocket lifting off.
Business 31 d

Rocket Lab Bets $8 Billion on Iridium to Challenge Starlink

  • Long Beach's Rocket Lab is acquiring satellite operator Iridium Communications in a roughly $8 billion cash-and-stock deal that would transform the launch company into a full-stack space-communications rival to SpaceX's Starlink.

Earlier this afternoon

A great white shark swimming.
California 31 d

Great White Sharks Filmed Feeding on a Whale Carcass Near Half Moon Bay

  • Drone footage showing several great white sharks tearing into a whale carcass off Martin's Beach, just south of Half Moon Bay, has drawn warnings for swimmers, surfers and paddlers to give the San Mateo County coast a wide berth — even as scientists stress that attacks on people remain rare.

Earlier this afternoon

Police line tape at a crime scene.
World 31 d

Six Dead in Stade Shooting as German Police Cite a Custody Dispute

  • The death toll from Monday's shooting at a youth-welfare center for mothers and young children in Stade, northern Germany, has risen to six, and police now say the rampage grew out of a custody dispute over the suspect's three-month-old daughter — an update to an attack the Herald reported as it unfolded.

Earlier today

A village in eastern Afghanistan.
World 31 d

Pakistan Strikes Afghan Provinces, Killing at Least 29; Taliban Says Civilians Died

  • Pakistani air strikes and ground operations along the Afghan border killed at least 29 people overnight, Islamabad said, calling all of them militants.
  • Afghanistan's Taliban government rejected that account, saying civilians — including children — were among the dead, a flat contradiction that underscores how far relations between the two neighbors have collapsed.
The downtown Los Angeles skyline on Bunker Hill.
Los Angeles 31 d

Capital Group Buys Its Own Bunker Hill Tower for $210 Million

  • In the largest Los Angeles office deal in years, investment giant Capital Group has completed the $210 million purchase of Bank of America Plaza — the 55-story Bunker Hill tower it has called home since the 1970s — buying the distressed skyscraper from a defaulting Brookfield at a fraction of its pre-pandemic value.

Earlier today

The Colorado State Capitol in Denver.
U.S. 31 d

'No One's Coming to Save Us but Us': Gen Z Takes On the 2026 Ballot

  • A generation that came of age through a pandemic, a housing crisis and a climate emergency is doing something its predecessors largely did not: running for office itself.
  • Across the 2026 primaries — with Colorado a notable flashpoint — Gen Z candidates are flooding down-ballot races.

Earlier today

The Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building in Washington.
U.S. 31 d

Trump Vows to Try Again After the Supreme Court Blocks Cook's Firing

  • Hours after the Supreme Court ruled that he had unlawfully fired Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook without due process, President Trump vowed Monday to renew his removal effort — pointing to the Justice Department's active criminal inquiry into Cook as the 'cause' he says will let him try again.
The central business district of Johannesburg, South Africa.
World 31 d

Thousands Flee South Africa as a Vigilante 'Deadline' Nears

  • More than 13,000 foreign nationals have left or been expelled from South Africa in the past two weeks as a vigilante-imposed June 30 'deadline' for undocumented migrants to depart drives a continent-wide scramble for repatriation — straining ties with Nigeria and beyond, even as the government insists the date carries no legal force.
The San Francisco skyline at sunset.
California 31 d

Six Figures, Stretched Thin: Why $180,000 Barely Gets By in San Francisco

  • As the AI boom draws a new wave of richly paid engineers back to San Francisco, a brutal arithmetic has set in: even a $180,000 salary — the envy of most of the country — is a strained proposition in a city where a one-bedroom rents for nearly $3,700 and a typical home tops $1.3 million.

Earlier today

Also this morning

Earlier today

The California State Capitol in Sacramento.
California 31 d

Newsom Signs Off on a $351 Billion Budget — His Last, and His Biggest

  • California's outgoing governor signed a roughly $351 billion spending plan for 2026-27, capping eight years in office with a budget about 40 percent larger, adjusted for inflation, than the one he inherited — and a parting clash with the Legislature over how deeply to cut safety-net programs.

Earlier this morning

A technology company headquarters in Silicon Valley.
California 31 d

The AI Doom Loop: How Spray-and-Pray Hiring Is Breaking the Bay Area Job Market

  • On both sides of the Bay Area tech job market, automation has turned hiring into an exhausting volume game — applicants fire off AI-written resumes by the hundred while employers deploy algorithms that reject candidates before a human sees them.
  • The result, recruiters and job seekers agree, serves almost no one.

Overnight

The Universal Studios globe.
Business 31 d

Comcast to Spin Off NBCUniversal, Creating an Independent Media Giant

  • Comcast said Sunday it will spin off NBCUniversal — including the Universal film and theme-park businesses, the Peacock streaming service and Britain's Sky — into a separate publicly traded company, the most dramatic reshaping of the cable giant since it took control of the entertainment group in 2011.

Earlier tonight

Dancers at the barre in a ballet class.
Entertainment 31 d

At 99, She Still Counts the Beats: Pasadena's Ballet Matriarch

  • Helga Monson de Kansky once danced at Covent Garden and in Paris for one of postwar Europe's most glamorous ballet companies.
  • At 99, she still arrives each week to teach at a Pasadena studio — and her students are still taking notes.
The United States Supreme Court building in Washington.
U.S. 31 d

Supreme Court Caps a Divided Term With Landmark Roundup and Gun Rulings

  • As it closed its 2025–26 term, the Supreme Court shielded the maker of Roundup from cancer-warning lawsuits and struck down a Hawaii gun-carry restriction — two decisions that underscored how firmly the court's conservative majority is steering American law, even as the alignments behind them defied easy left-right labels.

Earlier tonight

The Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Los Angeles 32 d

Venice Father Loses Part of His Leg Shielding His Toddler From a Truck

  • Jordan Stannard, 38, is recovering from a below-the-knee amputation after a truck struck him at a Venice intersection while he was buckling his 2-year-old daughter into her car seat — an instinctive move that left the girl unharmed and her father facing a long recovery.

Overnight

Aftermath of the January 2025 Eaton Fire.
Los Angeles 32 d

Smoke Without Fire: LA Homeowners Say Insurers Are Shortchanging Damage Claims

  • Eighteen months after the Eaton and Palisades fires, hundreds of Angelenos whose homes survived the flames say their insurers are refusing to fully pay for smoke, soot and toxic-ash contamination — a fight that has drawn the state's regulator into legal action against the FAIR Plan and State Farm.

Earlier overnight

Food grilling at a summer barbecue block party.
U.S. 32 d

The Hot Dog Is a Perfect Food. Here's How Not to Ruin It.

  • The Fourth of July is the single biggest hot dog day on the American calendar.
  • Whether you're firing up a Weber in Pasadena or tailgating at the beach in Santa Monica, here's how to cook yours without splitting, shriveling, or drying it into a sad tube of regret.

Late Sunday

Earlier tonight

A Los Angeles Fire Department engine.
Los Angeles 32 d

A Sherman Oaks Teen Woke to Flames and Helped Save His Block

  • A 13-year-old jolted awake by a 3 a.m.
  • fire between two Sherman Oaks homes grabbed a garden hose, called 911 and helped his family beat back the flames before firefighters arrived — after surveillance video appeared to show a man igniting brush along the block.

Sunday night

Late Sunday

The downtown Los Angeles theater at L.A. Live now known as the Peacock Theater.
Entertainment 32 d

Clipse and Kehlani Win Big as the BET Awards Light Up Downtown LA

  • The 2026 BET Awards turned the Peacock Theater in downtown Los Angeles into Black music's living room on Sunday, handing Album of the Year to the reunited Clipse, a long-awaited first to Kehlani, and an emotional Icon of the Year tribute to Teyana Taylor — presented by Janet Jackson.
The partial collapse of Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida, in 2021.
U.S. 32 d

Five Years After Surfside, Families Are Still Waiting for Answers

  • The Champlain Towers South condominium collapsed in the early hours of June 24, 2021, killing 98 people in Surfside, Florida.
  • Five years on, the families left behind are still navigating grief, an investigation they feel offered too little, and plans to build luxury condos where the tower stood.

Earlier tonight

A Saudi Aramco refinery complex in Saudi Arabia at night.
World 32 d

Aramco Helicopter Crash at Ras Tanura Kills All 14 Aboard

  • A helicopter operated by Saudi Aramco crashed near the Ras Tanura oil complex on Saudi Arabia's Gulf coast on Sunday, killing all 14 people on board, all of them Saudi nationals, the energy ministry said.
  • The cause is under investigation.

Earlier Sunday

A U.S. Navy sailor stands watch aboard a warship in the Strait of Hormuz.
World 32 d

US and Iran Agree to Stand Down, Set New Hormuz Talks in Qatar

  • The United States and Iran agreed to halt their latest exchange of strikes and to allow shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, U.S.
  • officials said, with technical talks set to resume in Qatar — a fragile pause after days of fighting that strained an interim deal struck this month.

Sunday evening

Flames during the January 2025 Eaton Fire in the Altadena area.
Los Angeles 32 d

New 3D Analysis of Eaton Fire Footage Sharpens Scrutiny of Edison

  • Attorneys for thousands of Eaton Fire victims released a new three-dimensional reconstruction of surveillance footage they say shows a Southern California Edison line at the moment the deadly Altadena blaze began — adding pressure on the utility as a mass trial nears, even as the official cause remains undetermined.

Saturday evening

This afternoon

Overnight

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Late overnight

Earlier tonight

Late tonight

A crowd under stage lights at a concert (file photo).
Entertainment 33 d

Bad Bunny Makes History as the First Latin Act to Sell Out a UK Stadium

  • Performing entirely in Spanish, Bad Bunny filled London's Tottenham Hotspur Stadium across two sold-out nights — billed as the first time a Latin artist has headlined a major British stadium, and the latest sign of how thoroughly Spanish-language music has gone global.

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Carvalho Resigns as LAUSD Superintendent After FBI Searches; Chait Takes Over

  • Alberto Carvalho has resigned as superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District after four months on paid administrative leave that followed FBI searches tied to a district technology contract.
  • Veteran administrator Andrés Chait has been named to lead the nation's second-largest school system.

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