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NASA is set to launch its latest multibillion-dollar telescope Sunday morning, as scientists gather at Florida's Space Coast and await liftoff with bated breath.

After riding atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, the Nancy ...Read more

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Carlos A. grew up in a family on Medicaid, which made healthcare an afterthought since the public insurance is free for low-income enrollees. But when he received a raise two years ago, he found ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — LAPD officials on Friday released security camera footage showing a group of officers piling on top of a man and beating him before he died in a San Fernando Valley jail cell, one of two recent incidents ...Read more

Nearly 2,500 people are missing after flash floods devastated a mountainous region between Nepal and China, with authorities on both sides of the border intensifying rescue efforts.

At least 579 people have been confirmed...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach is caring this summer for an additional 500 animals rescued from wildlife traffickers.

It's not clear when the trafficked animals might join the roughly 12,000 ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A multibillion-dollar bond proposal that sought to fund scientific research amid federal funding cuts failed to meet the June deadline to secure its place as a statewide measure on the November ...Read more

CHICAGO — When Illinois Legislative Inspector General Michael McCuskey last month released his report substantiating sexual harassment allegations against former state Rep. Harry Benton, one of the victims listed in the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Southern California’s swampy summer is setting new records, with humidity levels creating conditions that feel more like Florida than the West Coast.

Forecasters attributed the punishing humidity to the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The United States is set to take majority control over a huge amount of Venezuela’s oil wealth in an unprecedented maneuver that officials said would create the world’s second-largest private oil company...Read more

The former acting assistant U.S. attorney whose body was found last week in a San Diego federal building died by suicide, the San Diego County medical examiner's office said in a statement.

Andrew Haden, 48, was found ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Hurricane center tracks new Gulf system, remnants of Dolly that could threaten Florida

Tropical Storm Dolly may have turned back into just a tropical wave on Friday, but the National Hurricane Center is ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The United States and Venezuela have agreed to a deal that would give Washington a major stake in Venezuela’s oil reserves, President Donald Trump said Friday.

“At my direction, Secretary of State Marco...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department is pushing back on requests for information about how it resolved President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service, accusing challengers of the ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has a message for New York: Let’s dance!

The 68-year-old governor Friday touted the state’s rollback of a regulation that required restaurants or bars to obtain special ...Read more

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump lost another bid to move a challenge to his New York criminal fraud conviction to a federal court as a judge said that payments to an adult film star don’t constitute an official act ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s controversial policy mandating detention for nearly all undocumented immigrants is unlawful, a split Philadelphia-based federal appeals court ruled Friday.

In ...Read more

The Trump administration is considering trading a parcel of Yosemite National Park to a private commercial developer, according to administration officials, members of Congress and documents reviewed by the Los Angeles ...Read more

NEW YORK — A man was arrested after federal agents caught him loading a van with more than $10 million worth of cocaine he stashed at a Queens self-storage facility, officials said Friday.

New Jersey resident Nelson ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — The mother of a central North Carolina teenager infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba is sharing the family’s story on a GoFundMe page to help with their medical and related expenses.

The N.C. ...Read more