Four days after astronauts flew around the moon for the first time in a half-century, ground crews across Southern California are making final preparations for their high-energy reentry and splashdown off the coast of San Diego, expected around 5 p.m. Pacific time Friday.

Southern Californians likely won't be able to see reentry or splashdown ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump demanded Iran reopen the Strait of Hormuz while Israel and Hezbollah exchanged fire, complicating upcoming talks aimed at turning a fragile ceasefire into lasting peace.

The truce announced on Tuesday remains shaky, with Kuwait reporting large-scale drone attacks on “vital” facilities overnight and accusing Iran ...Read more

Ukraine’s top negotiator with Russia said he sees progress toward a potential peace deal with the Kremlin, adding that a resolution to the war may not take long to achieve.

While negotiations to end Europe’s bloodiest conflict since World War II have publicly yielded few results, Kyrylo Budanov expressed optimism that the talks are evolving...Read more

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban addressed the nation two days before pivotal elections, telling voters that he was the safe bet and that ousting him after 16 years in office, as independent polls suggest may happen, would imperil the nation.

“We are now facing the danger of losing everything we have built together,” Orban said on ...Read more

Roads blocked by shipping containers, armed soldiers out on patrol, and luxury hotels quietly asking guests to vacate: the leafy Pakistani capital Islamabad has transformed into a security fortress as officials prepare for high-stakes peace talks between the U.S. and Iran.

U.S. President Donald Trump is dispatching Vice President JD Vance, ...Read more

Records were set. History was made. Now all that’s left is to get the four Artemis II astronauts home safe.

NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen are in the final run of a 600,000-mile trip that began on April 1 when they launched from Kennedy Space Center on the first...Read more

U.S. companies eyeing Venezuela’s vast mineral wealth may find themselves entering one of the world’s most opaque and dangerous supply chains — a gold economy dominated by armed groups, criminal syndicates and corrupt military-run networks that experts say could expose foreign firms to money laundering, human-rights abuses and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Along the shores of the shrinking Salton Sea, desert winds regularly kick up dust and send it drifting through nearby neighborhoods. New research indicates that living there may affect kids' lungs.

Scientists from the University of Southern California tested the lung capacity of 369 children between the ages of 10 and 12 for ...Read more

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — For decades, dentists across Illinois have taken time out of their daily schedules to swap sterile offices for public schools, providing checkups, fluoride treatments and cleanings to children who might otherwise go without dental care.

In Chicago Public Schools alone, city officials say the program has reached more than 1...Read more

A Tulare County sheriff's deputy was fatally shot Thursday while assisting officers serving an eviction notice in Porterville, California. The incident turned into an hours-long standoff with the suspected gunman that ended when he was run over and killed by a police armored vehicle.

The bizarre ending to the tragic sequence of events occurred ...Read more

U.S. regulators have withdrawn their approval of a GSK Plc drug that the Trump administration had promoted as a treatment for autism, adding another twist to the unusual story of a decades-old drug.

The Food and Drug Administration is pulling its approval of Wellcovorin, a branded version of leucovorin from GSK Plc, according to a post Thursday...Read more

A small aircraft carrying two people crashed Thursday afternoon on Catalina Island, the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed.

The plane, a 2014 Airplane Factory Sling, took off from Zamperini Field in Torrance at 10:53 a.m. and was last seen at 11:13 a.m. near Avalon, per FlightAware.

The aircraft was en route to the island and crashed in...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A Yolo County grand jury has made indictments for the July fireworks explosion in Esparto that killed seven people and ignited a 78-acre wildfire, the District Attorney’s Office announced Thursday.

At least three people connected to the Esparto fireworks explosion have been arrested. Sam Machado, a Yolo County Sheriff�...Read more

Federal immigration agents in Maryland used the state’s driver’s license database — without citing a traffic violation or outstanding warrant — to detain a driver in Howard County, a federal affidavit shows, raising legal and policy questions about how the information is used in immigration enforcement.

As part of “Operation Take Back...Read more

The outlook for Southern Nevada’s lifeline has only worsened as the Colorado River heads into runoff season.

Colorado Basin River Forecast Center hydrologist Cody Moser said in a webinar this week that if conditions persist as expected, it’s possible that runoff into Lake Powell could be under the lowest year on record, 2002, which is ...Read more

CHICAGO — The Rainbow PUSH Coalition has tapped the youngest son of the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. as its new leader, the organization said Thursday.

The announcement that Yusef Jackson would take over as the coalition’s president and CEO comes nearly two months after his father’s death reverberated across the country.

“I am deeply ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon and the Vatican denied allegations of a rift following Pope Leo XIV’s criticism of the Trump administration and a news report of a contentious meeting between a papal envoy and a top U.S. defense official.

In separate statements, the two sides professed an eagerness to get along, saying the meeting that occurred in...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Twenty-one people are facing charges as part of a massive hospice fraud scheme that prosecutors say bilked California’s medical system out of $267 million.

Attorney General Rob Bonta on Thursday announced the results of an investigation called Operation Skip Trace. Five principal conspirators were arrested on suspicion of a ...Read more