Gov. Gavin Newsom and former Vice President Kamala Harris, California's two most prominent Democrats, are skipping the state party's convention this weekend in Anaheim.

After dominating the U.S. for decades, California avocado farmers have been lapped by Mexican growers offering cheaper fruit. But one local farmer is fighting back.

Mexican authorities are blaming the Gulf cartel for the slayings of the five members of a band, El Fugitivo, in the border state of Tamaulipas.

FBI says it will release video that officials say prove Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide.

The girl's family received notice last month that their legal status had been terminated, warning them to leave the U.S. on their own. Doing so would put the girl at immediate risk of death, doctors say.

Supreme Court says development is too often delayed or blocked by environmental impact claims .

Christopher Boyce and Andrew Daulton Lee journeyed from the Palos Verdes Peninsula suburbs to become Soviet spies, a story emblematic of 1970s California.

Sean 'Diddy' Combs' inner circle describes kidnapping, guns, threats and beatings

The administration's cuts at the National Institutes of Health will obliterate billions in economic gains, America's scientific predominance and untold human lives.

The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear an Apache religious challenge to a copper mine that could turn the tribe's sacred site into a 1,000-foot-deep industrial crater.

At least 50 people were hospitalized after being struck by the Ford Galaxy that drove directly into a tight cluster of fans lining a street.

AMAs host Jennifer Lopez may be the queen of multitasking: Monday night she danced to 23 hit songs, changed outfits eight times and announced a Vegas residency.

Supreme Court refuses to take up conservative backlash against LGBTQ policies.

An outpost for Chicano culture in Vietnam attracts community and occasional concerns among older generations inclined to associate tattoos with gangs.

Mexican authorities deny reports of mass executions, crematoria

In 2023, a Mexican girl, 4, was allowed U.S. entry for lifesaving medical care. She and her parents, who live in Bakersfield, have been told they must leave.

As California positions itself as a leader on climate change, former Los Angeles mayor and gubernatorial candidate Antonio Villaraigosa is pivoting away from his track record as an environmental champion to defend the state's struggling oil industry.

Gutierrez spent 14 months in prison following her conviction in the 2021 death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

Five years after the mass protests of 2020, the LAPD's aggressive handling of demonstrations remains controversial and costly.

The Department of Homeland Security is asking to dismiss its own deportation cases, after which agents arrest immigrants as they leave the courtroom and pursue expedited removals, which require no hearings before a judge.

St. John's Community Health launched its home visitation program after learning that hundreds of patients were skipping appointments because they're afraid of getting caught up in federal immigration raids.

Dr. Maher Abdallah credited a series of miracles for limiting the scope of devastation from last Saturday's bomb attack, noting no staff or patients were on site at the time and the clinic's in vitro fertilization lab remained intact.

U.S. authorities called the shooting outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., an "act of terror" and identified the suspect as Elias Rodriguez, 31, of Chicago.

The justices announced they were split 4-4 in a test case heard last month from Oklahoma, which blocks the new Catholic charter school in the state.

Taiwan, suspicoius of spying, is enforcing stricter oversight of Chinese immigrants. Some of them are being deported.