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Los Angeles police are investigating an apparent homicide at the Brentwood home of Rob Reiner, where two people were found dead Sunday afternoon. The bodies of a 78-year-old man and a 65-year-old woman were found the home in the 200 block of Chadbourne Avenue, according to Police Capt. Mike Bland. Law enforcement sources confirmed to The Times that there was no signs of forced entry into the ...

Kentucky’s U.S. Sen. Rand Paul said more congressional redistricting could lead to political violence across the country. The process of redrawing district boundaries to determine how many representatives there are in Congress — and who puts them there mid-decade per a push from President Donald Trump and his opponents — is a mistake that, at its worst, may disenfranchise voters and lead to ...

Nearly five years after her dog disappeared, Patricia Orozco still thought about Choco every day.

For five seconds, 1,435 couples kissed in unison, while at least one reporter observed in awkward silence in downtown D.C. on Saturday afternoon. They ordered hot chocolate, sang along to the blaring holiday music and laughed loudly. But for a moment, they fell utterly quiet.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Authorities said they have detained a person of interest after a gunman opened fire inside a building at Brown University, killing at least two students and injuring nine others, the latest shooting to rock a U.S. college campus this year.

Between 128,000 and 186,000 years ago, when ice covered the Sierra Nevada, a lake 100 miles long and 600 feet deep sat in eastern California in what is now the Mojave Desert. As the climate warmed and the ice retreated, the lake dried up, leaving a white salt pan in its place. But a November of record rainfall has brought the ancient lake, known as Lake Manly, back to life. Now Death Valley, ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — As California again delays controversial rules requiring homeowners in fire-prone areas to maintain a 5-foot “ember-resistant” zone around their houses, a new report finds that properties that were already close to that standard were much less likely to be destroyed in the devastating Los Angeles wildfires in January. With ashes still smoldering, researchers with the ...

MOUNT VERNON — A break in the rain has dialed back the immediate threat of swollen rivers, but state and federal officials warned tougher days may still be ahead.

MINNEAPOLIS — An Ecuadorian man was arrested Friday at a coffee shop in Brooklyn Park after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents summoned him to the parking lot in a ruse to get him outside. The man was a cook at Crumbs & Coffee on Zane Avenue N.; his employer didn’t want to reveal his name. Crumbs & Coffee co-owner Charles Spies said the man was arrested Friday morning between 10 and 11 ...

A gunman dressed in black shot multiple people, killing two of them, and wounding nine others, on the campus of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, on Saturday afternoon, local officials said.

SAN DIEGO — Sitting next to her husband in their Rancho Peñasquitos home, Ukrainian mother Viktoriia Bulavina recalled Friday the tense moments she experienced being taken into immigration custody during a green card interview last week. On Dec. 4, she was handcuffed in front of her husband, who is a U.S. citizen, and taken away by federal immigration agents at the end of her marriage-based ...

LOS ANGELES — Frigid ocean water off Sonoma County wasn't the only thing sending a chill down the spine of a surfer riding the waves on Friday. The surfer was paddling in the water off North Salmon Creek, roughly 300 yards from shore, about 8 a.m. when a shark bit his hand. The surfer's injuries were not considered life threatening, according to the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office. The Sonoma ...

Second of two stories looking at the role of ICE in the changing landscape of immigration enforcement.

Almost a half-mile below the surface of Monterey Bay, California, scientists recently recorded rare footage of a seven-arm octopus— only the fourth time the same research team has spotted the species in about four decades. In a new video posted online, scientists with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute shared footage of the giant octopus eating and holding onto a smaller red helmet ...

ATLANTA — The U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit Friday seeking copies of Fulton County’s ballots from the 2020 election. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Atlanta, also seeks absentee ballot signature envelopes, digital files and other records from the 2020 election. The lawsuit accuses the Fulton County Clerk of Superior Court Che Alexander of violating federal laws by ...