SAN FRANCISCO — Patrick Carney's mother, Edith, always embraced his taste for the extravagant.

That includes the tarps he and a dozen friends purchased from Home Depot on a shoestring budget in 1995, painted "Mardi Gras pink" and installed on Twin Peaks on a dark June night. He's stepped up as the annual event organizer ever since, inspired ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Another potentially dangerous hurricane season officially begins Sunday and with forecasters calling for an “above-average” number of storms, Floridians should have their initial preparations in place soon.

We can expect an above-average season over the next six months due to many factors, including hot Atlantic ...Read more

DENVER — Gov. Jared Polis signed into law new regulations for the herbal remedy kratom on Thursday, giving resolution to a public lobbying campaign that included the family of someone who died from kratom-related complications and an herbal supplement company that offered free product to people who called their lawmakers to urge a veto.

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Hamas said it submitted a response to the U.S. proposal for a truce in Gaza, but Trump administration envoy Steve Witkoff quickly dismissed it as “totally unacceptable.”

“Hamas should accept the framework proposal we put forward,” Witkoff said Saturday in a post on X. He added that further talks on a truce “can begin immediately this ...Read more

A legal argument that the U.S. Supreme Court used to foil Joe Biden on climate change and student debt now looms as a threat to President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs.

During Biden’s presidency, the court’s conservative majority ruled that federal agencies can’t decide sweeping political and economic matters without clear ...Read more

MIAMI — A federal judge has granted protection from deportation and work permits to as many as 5,000 Venezuelans who have Temporary Protected Status.

U.S. District Judge Edward E. Chen in San Francisco on Friday granted an emergency motion filed by Venezuelan plaintiffs following last week’s Supreme Court ruling that the Trump ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — The Norfolk-based USS Gravely last week seized more than 850 pounds of narcotics while in the Caribbean Sea.

The ship’s search and seizure team had boarded a “vessel of interest” on May 25 and found 19 bales of cocaine, according to a news release from the Navy. A spokesperson for the Navy said the drugs had a street ...Read more

NEW YORK — Sean “Diddy” Combs’ federal sex trafficking trial wrapped its third week on Friday, following a failed mistrial bid and additional testimony detailing the rapper’s alleged abuse, including that of a former assistant who accused him of raping her at his Los Angeles home.

Combs, 55, has pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — There are 26 letters in the alphabet but only 21 are set aside each year for potential tropical storm and hurricane names in areas tracked by the National Hurricane Center.

The names for the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season are Andrea, Barry, Chantal, Dexter, Erin, Fernand, Gabrielle, Humberto, Imelda, Jerry, Karen, Lorenzo, ...Read more

MIAMI — On the eve of hurricane season, Florida’s top disaster official promised Floridians that they will see no changes to the state’s hurricane response despite the turmoil at Federal Emergency Management Agency over staff cuts and proposed slashes to state disaster aid.

Kevin Guthrie, the executive director of Florida’s Division of ...Read more

Iran manufactured a record volume of uranium enriched just below the levels needed for nuclear weapons, complicating efforts to negotiate a peaceful resolution to international concerns over the Islamic Republic’s atomic ambitions.

In its first report since U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration began negotiations with Tehran, the ...Read more

For the first time in history, voters in Mexico will cast their ballots for justices, judges and magistrates in an election set to overhaul the nation’s judiciary.

Sunday’s election will decide 881 federal judicial positions nationwide, including the nine seats on Mexico’s reconstituted Supreme Court. In addition, Baja California is among...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Zachariah Bacote says he still doesn’t know why he was stabbed at Bertie Correctional Institution in January.

He also can’t figure out why correctional officers put him, the victim of an attack, in solitary confinement after the assault.

One day alone in a concrete cell the size of a parking space scarred him as much as...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Staycee Dains was about a month into her job overseeing the Los Angeles city animal shelters when an employee openly defied her.

Dains asked the employee to clean a kennel. Instead, the employee picked up a hose and sprayed a dog in the face, Dains said.

Dains thought the employee should be fired, but she said the city's ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Man's best friend appears to have a bone to pick with U.S. Postal Service workers in Los Angeles, which just ranked No. 1 in the nation when it comes to canine attacks on mail carriers.

Seventy-seven Postal Service employees were attacked by dogs last year in Los Angeles, earning the city the unfavorable top spot on the Postal ...Read more