August 2026

Fox has ordered two seasons of "Stewie," a spin-off built around the Griffin baby, for the 2027-28 television season. The cast spent this week teasing it without saying much. Here is what is actually confirmed, and what is still guesswork.

President Trump said on July 17 that the government had found 250,000 noncitizens registered to vote in four states. California accounts for the largest share of that figure by far, and the state's chief elections officer says she cannot see how the federal government could have produced it, because she has never given it California's voter file.

Two weeks after a federal judge ordered clean water, edible food, four hours of daily yard time and working medical care at the Adelanto immigration detention center in San Bernardino County, the government filed its remediation plan. It says much of the order is already satisfied, asks the court to adjust part of it, and argues that the agency cannot be held responsible for a facility run by a private contractor.

New York's attorney general sued the prediction market Kalshi on Friday, calling it an unlicensed gambling operation and asking for at least $36 billion. Kalshi says it is a federally regulated exchange that no state can shut down. The same argument is being fought in a dozen states, and in California three tribes say the contracts violate federal Indian gaming law.

A man was stabbed to death on the platform at the Sylmar/San Fernando Metrolink station shortly after 2 p.m. Friday. The attacker rode away on a bicycle, and police found him barricaded in a nearby motel; LAPD's SWAT team arrested him after a standoff of about an hour. Neither man has been named.

Mayor Karen Bass signed an executive order Friday directing city planners to stop processing permits to rebuild the fire-damaged Lineage cold storage warehouse on South Los Palos Street, six weeks after a fire in a building holding an estimated 85 million pounds of food left Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles with odor, pests and an unfinished cleanup.