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Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed on the movie's New Mexico set. Some proceeds from the film's distribution will help compensate her family, who sued.

The House took a trio of votes this week targeting California's decades-old authority to enforce its own environmental standards, setting the stage for a significant standoff in the U.S. Senate.

Recent executive orders and actions have set the stage for the federal government to curtail states' rights, once a central tenet of conservative policy.

Shortly after taking office in 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled. Years later, inmates say they have a bittersweet new lease on life.

President Trump claims 'everybody is saying' his second term had the best start in presidential history. No, they're not.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris blasted President Trump's policies as a betrayal of the nation's founding principles and warned of a constitutional crisis.

Senators question Rodney Scott, who formerly led the U.S. Border Patrol and is now the nominee to lead its parent agency, about the brutal 2010 beating of a migrant by agents.

Massive deportations from the U.S. have yet to materialize in Mexico. But Mexico is accepting migrants from third countries.

Sectarian violence has erupted again in Syria, raising fresh doubt on the ability of the new Islamist rulers to control armed factions and calm tensions.

A UC San Francisco eye doctor mentioned "hesitancy" and "uptake" in her grant application. That cost her $3 million in funding for shingles vaccine research.

Amid the chaos of government cuts, the defunding of grants to libraries has gone largely unnoticed. But California wasn't spared.

Mexico's attorney general said a forensic investigation found 'not a shred of proof' that corpses were burned at a ranch that was used as a training camp by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.

Israel has blocked food aid for six weeks. More than 2.1 million people are trapped and dying. Even my cat is starving.

Potential Trump administration funding cuts at NASA would take a blowtorch to space science and American leadership in space.

In its first 100 days, California has challenged the Trump administration multiple times, while backing other litigants against the federal government in even more cases.

The story of Tony Lam, the first Vietnamese American elected to public office in the U.S., is also the story of Little Saigon.

President Trump's first 100 days in his second term have been a blitz of executive orders, job and spending cuts, and global tariffs, in pursuit of expanded presidential power.

One order directs the attorney general and Homeland Security secretary to publish a list of state and local jurisdictions that 'obstruct the enforcement of federal immigration laws.'

Supporters of President Trump and counterprotesters converged in West Hollywood and Beverly Hills on Sunday in a small but raucous confrontation that included a performance from a pro-Trump punk rock star and remarks from a disgraced former congressman.

President Trump enjoyed the highest approval ratings of his political career when he entered office in January, but his support has dropped sharply in the 100 days since.

Since taking over as chairman of the communications agency, Carr has revived news bias complaints and launched probes into diversity initiatives at Comcast and Disney. This month, he blasted NBC's coverage of the Kilmar Abrego Garcia controversy.

Directors, writers and actors who had to appease censors in the regime of former Syrian President Bashar Assad, now face a new uncertainty: Whether the Islamist-led government that overthrew Assad will seek more control on the programs they create.

The speech comes as Harris has been weighing whether to enter the 2026 California governor's race to replace termed-out Gov. Gavin Newsom.

The day the Vietnam War ended has become a high-profile celebration in Vietnam. But debates over the name of the April 30 holiday reveal lingering sensitivities within the country and beyond

Ten students at Occidental College are staging a hunger strike, calling on the college to divest from weapons manufacturers with ties to Israel and to shield international students the Trump administration might target for deportation.

Irish hotelier Patrick McKillen is suing members of the Qatari royal family, accusing them of defrauding him and his company. The family has denied the allegations.

The arrest appears to heighten the stakes in the Trump administration's aggressive actions against judges who have challenged its immigration crackdown.

Pope Francis regularly called a church in Gaza to ask how residents there were doing during the Israel-Hamas war. He is remembered as a defender and consoling presence.

Situated at the nexus of the face-off between the executive and judicial branches is a little-scrutinized arm of the federal government: the U.S. Marshals Service.

Since Trump took office in January, hurling insults and threatening devastating tariffs and U.S. drone strikes, Mexico has been seized by a nationalistic fervor.

Under U.S. law, noncitizens may be detained and deported, but they can't be punished and imprisoned without a trial.

Eight endangered Fijian iguanas have arrived at their new home at the San Diego Zoo. The creatures were seized by Spanish authorities in a 2017 bust of more than 600 illegally trafficked reptiles.

Some nonprofits are fighting back, including an L.A. provider that's leading a campaign to try to stop potential GOP cuts to healthcare for low-income Americans.

Chief executives of Walmart, Target and Home Depot reportedly warned Trump that supply chain disruptions would lead to empty shelves at U.S. stores in weeks.

FBI agent Richard Miller acknowledged his secret dealings with the Soviets, but claimed he did so to infiltrate Soviet intelligence and redeem his career.

Homeland Security sent an email to a Los Angeles attorney, warning: 'Do not attempt to remain in the United States — the federal government will find you.'

The Department of Justice is investigating L.A. County over alleged waits of up to 18 months for gun permits, a case that legal experts say could have far-reaching implications.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday that the Department of Health and Human Services will work toward eliminating more than half a dozen common dyes from the U.S. food supply.

A growing number of Southeast Asian immigrants whose deportation orders have been on indefinite hold are being detained, and in some cases, deported after showing up for routine check-ins with immigration authorities.

Conservative commentator and Silicon Valley entrepreneur Steve Hilton is the second prominent Republican to enter the 2026 race to replace termed-out Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Mexico's president said her government asked TV stations to pull a Trump administration advertisement warning against undocumented migration to the U.S.

Gov. Newsom warned that the wrongful deportation case of Abrego Garcia was a "distraction." Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), who flew to El Salvador to see Garcia, shot back that due process isn't a distraction. Who's right?

Isael Hermosillo, a mediator who was negotiating labor contracts for California grocers, was one of 130 terminated in March.

The meeting caps the first of a four-day visit by Vance and his family, a trip that underscores India's importance among countries seeking trade negotiations with the U.S.

No matter how hard wildlife officials try to direct the wolves toward their natural prey, mostly deer and elk, they seem to find the bigger, slower, domesticated cows wandering through open fields a lot more appealing.

Reps. Robert Garcia (D-Long Beach) and Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) led the effort to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported, back to the United States for a hearing.

Pope Francis, whose warm, humble, no-nonsense manner galvanized the Roman Catholic Church and drew widespread admiration from outsiders, has died.