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As Trump's aggressive tariffs rattle business owners and shake the foundation of American importing, the men and women who work on the ground at the country's busiest port are feeling the effects too.

An ex-assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles has filed a claim calling his dismissal "unlawful" and alleging it was motivated in part by his prosecution of the ex-CEO of the Fatburger and Johnny Rockets restaurant chains.

The U.S. created the Alhurra network to provide pro-American news coverage in the Middle East. Now it, like Voice of America and other global media efforts, is being dismantled by the Trump administration.

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.