President Donald Trump on Monday won some rare bipartisan praise for forging the Israeli hostage release and Gaza ceasefire deal although most senior Democrats avoided crediting him by name.

As most top Democrats stuck to cheering the release of the hostages and the ceasefire, Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., broke ranks with his party to explicitly...Read more

The Cuban government released dissident leader José Daniel Ferrer from prison Monday and sent him with his family into exile in the United States, the island’s foreign affairs ministry said.

The announcement comes after weeks of speculation about his possible release. He was expected to arrive in Miami later Monday.

After decades of ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the state’s first law regulating AI companion chatbots on Monday, but it wasn’t the one some online safety advocates and parents had urged him to approve.

For weeks, parents and safety advocates have been calling on Newsom to back Assembly Bill 1064, which would prohibit the rollout of any AI ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season saw its 12th named storm form Monday with the arrival of Tropical Storm Lorenzo, but it’s a system not expected to threaten land.

As of the National Hurricane Center’s 5 a.m. advisory, Lorenzo had 45 mph sustained winds located about 1,095 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands moving ...Read more

PARIS — Emmanuel Macron called on France’s fractured parliament to deliver stability for the country rather than precipitate another government collapse.

The French president announced a new cabinet Sunday with his prime minister, Sebastien Lecornu, under intense pressure to defuse a long-running political crisis by passing a budget. But ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump suggested he’s willing to step in to resolve days of deadly cross-border fighting between Pakistan and Afghanistan, saying he is “good at solving wars.”

Trump made the remarks while on his way to Egypt to co-chair an international peace summit on Gaza. Also expected to be in attendance is Pakistan Prime ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Former President Barack Obama, speaking on stand-up comedian Marc Maron's final podcast on Monday, said the Trump administration's policies are a "test" of whether universities, businesses, law firms and voters — including Republicans — will take a stand for the nation's founding principles and values.

"If you decide not to ...Read more

CHICAGO – Former House Speaker Michael Madigan must report to federal prison Monday to begin serving his 7 1/2-year sentence on corruption charges, an ignominious end for a man who for decades was considered the most powerful politicians in the state.

Madigan, 83, must turn himself in no later than 2 p.m. at the institution assigned by the U....Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — After both onshore and offshore weather headaches in the past week, SpaceX is back on Monday to try and finish up its third of three contracted launches of competitor Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites.

A Falcon 9 on the KF-3 mission was no match for torrents of rain across Florida late Thursday on its first launch window, ...Read more

Monica Perez scanned the street as she left Funston Elementary, five of her children in tow. She kept her head down, her family close. After school pickup was once a familiar routine — in recent weeks, though, fear had crept into the family’s life and festered.

“Rápido,” Perez told her children, ushering them along Logan Square ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Ash still clings to the windowsills of the gray home in Altadena, nine months after an inferno ripped the community apart.

The couple who rents the house has moved 15 times with their newborn since January as their place of solace for the last decade has awaited testing and remediation to clear it of toxic material and debris.

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Every day at noon, no matter how busy he was at work, Johny Merida Aguilar left his construction job and hurried to Rhawnhurst School to feed his 5-year-old son, Jair.

The boy has brain cancer, in addition to autism and a severe eating disorder. He survives on PediaSure nutrition drink, delivered through a plastic syringe, and generally accepts...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- It has been six weeks since Brittany and Joe Haeg’s 6-year-old son, David, suffered a lacerated spleen from one of the 116 bullets shot from a semiautomatic rifle into an Annunciation Catholic School Mass.

Like dozens of other Annunciation parents whose children were scarred physically, emotionally or both in the Aug. 27 ...Read more

Chinese President Xi Jinping has drawn a clear red line in a bid to stem new U.S. exports controls, threatening to reignite a tit-for-tat trade spiral with Donald Trump just weeks before a planned meeting between the leaders of the world’s biggest economies.

After China unveiled wide-ranging global export controls on products containing even ...Read more

Canada is pushing to strengthen ties with China and India, even as it remains in precarious trade talks with a U.S. administration that has escalated its tariff war with Beijing.

Foreign Minister Anita Anand is traveling to New Delhi, Mumbai, Singapore and Hangzhou, China this week to meet with her counterparts and lay the groundwork for ...Read more

A bill that would enable parents concerned about deportation to nominate an alternate guardian for their children has been signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Assembly Bill 495 would allow an extended family member to be authorized as a caregiver for the child if the parent is unavailable, with the ability to enroll them in school and OK routine ...Read more