Chuckwalla National Monument is more than an epic expanse of towering rocks, hidden canyons, ghost flowers, smoke trees and its namesake lizard. One of America’s newest protected public lands is a birthplace, a crossroads, a beloved relative and a historical document to the tribes of the California desert.

Stretching across 624,000 acres from...Read more

For years, the two patients had come to the Penn Memory Center at the University of Pennsylvania, where doctors and researchers follow people with cognitive impairment as they age, as well as a group with normal cognition.

Both patients, a man and a woman, had agreed to donate their brains after they died for further research. “An amazing ...Read more

The FBI was secretly listening last year when a high-ranking adviser to California Gov. Gavin Newsom unleashed a stream of profanities as she vented about a public records request from an unnamed individual.

“Double f— her!” said Dana Williamson, Newsom’s chief of staff, repeating the F word throughout the conversation. She also called ...Read more

A 47-year-old man from New Jersey died within hours of eating a hamburger at a barbecue in the summer of 2024.

He had no major medical problems before, nor did his autopsy find a cause of death.

But several months later, researchers at the University of Virginia pieced together a diagnosis: severe anaphylaxis linked to alpha-gal syndrome. It ...Read more

CHICAGO — Inside Columbia College Chicago’s glitzy glass student center, the walls are a canvas for campus life. “Call For Art,” lists a taped flyer. “Do you craft?” reads another. Beside them, hand-drawn stickers advertise a student podcast.

Over its 135-year history, the South Loop school has educated hundreds of thousands of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Sunset Mesa, the scenic neighborhood tucked on a bluff between Malibu and Pacific Palisades, might never be the same in the wake of the Palisades fire.

But resident Karen Martinez sees one potential change as a good thing.

The January fire torched about 80% of the community's 500 homes — almost all of them wood-framed. Now, ...Read more

When Friedrich Merz became Germany’s chancellor this year, he promised to revive a moribund economy, rebuild the nation’s neglected infrastructure and make the country relevant on the global stage again.

His failure to deliver on many of these core issues has not only helped energize far-right parties like the Alternative for Germany, it’...Read more

Thailand said tariff talks with the U.S. will continue following a phone call between their leaders, despite Washington’s earlier move to halt negotiations pending Thai compliance over a peace declaration with Cambodia.

The U.S. informed Bangkok of the temporary suspension, but that changed after President Donald Trump and Prime Minister ...Read more

NEW YORK — After enduring fire, flood, recession, a pandemic and changing times, a Brooklyn church still stands to celebrate its 170th anniversary on Sunday.

Much as visitors to Red Hook experience today, the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary’s clock tower was among the first sights immigrants spotted arriving in New York Harbor, said ...Read more

Former Federal Reserve Gov. Adriana Kugler, whose abrupt resignation allowed President Donald Trump to install an ally at the U.S. central bank, violated Fed ethics rules and was subject to an internal probe when she stepped down in August, documents released Saturday showed.

In her final weeks at the Fed, Kugler sought to address a problem ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has continued his purchases of municipal and corporate debt this fall, including bonds of companies affected by his administration’s policies.

New disclosures posted Saturday by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics show that Trump’s purchases of at least $82 million include bonds from Netflix Inc., ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Shelene Hearring is sprinting against big developers to try to buy a slice of Altadena on Lake Avenue, a part of the unincorporated town she sees as crucial to the community's identity.

Hearring, who ran Two Dragon Martial Arts Studio for 18 years on Lake Avenue, placed a bid to buy the land after her studio burned down in the ...Read more

Princeton University said a database containing information on alumni, donors, students and other members of the school’s community was “compromised by outside actors for less than 24 hours.”

The incident happened Nov. 10 and affected a database in the Ivy League university’s advancement office that contained personal information, such...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The countdown to the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games has sent Los Angeles International Airport into a $1.5 billion sprint to rebuild its roads, drawing ire from critics who argue the plan leaves the airport's most infamous bottleneck — the "horseshoe" — largely untouched.

Los Angeles World Airports Board of Airport ...Read more

BOSTON — The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority may have been caught loving that dirty water a little too much, as its board has halted a proposal that clean water advocates fear would dump sewage into the Charles River forever.

The MWRA Board of Directors has tabled its upcoming vote, scheduled for Wednesday, on whether to reclassify ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — As U.S. Border Patrol agents arrive in Charlotte, Wake and Durham sheriffs released statements Friday to address concerns about potential immigration enforcement activities in their counties.

Wake County Sheriff Willie Rowe said his office had not received “any official notification from U.S. Customs and Border Protection”...Read more

CHICAGO — Chicago police have announced charges against a man they say fled to South America during an investigation into a 2004 Gold Coast slaying.

David Barklow was extradited to Chicago from Peru on Friday, police said in a news release. He’s charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Kent Projansky.

Projansky, 40, was ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan lawmakers have taken extraordinary steps in recent weeks to exempt their own personal information from public disclosure and expand the powers of their own police forces beyond the halls of the state Capitol.

The budget that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed into law on Oct. 7 included $6 million in spending to bolster ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The most powerful band of a large atmospheric river storm slammed into Southern California Saturday, dumping much-needed rain across the region but also bringing mudslide dangers to communities still reeling from last January’s firestorms.

The storm flooded some streets and highways, sent mud and rocks sliding onto some canyon...Read more

This January, the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments in the Idaho case to decide whether transgender women and girls should be able to participate in sports that align with their gender identity.

Attorneys in the Little v. Hecox case, filed in 2020 by a transgender student at Boise State University after the Idaho Legislature ...Read more