Lawyers for Luigi Mangione asked a federal judge to dismiss the murder count that could lead to his execution if he were convicted of killing UnitedHealth Group Inc. executive Brian Thompson.

Mangione’s lawyers said prosecutors are improperly seeking the death penalty by tying the murder to another crime of violence. The crime they charged, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The 29-year-old man accused of sparking one of the most destructive wildfires in Los Angeles allegedly threatened to burn down his home in Florida last month during an argument with a relative and then showed his father a gun, according to federal prosecutors.

Jonathan Rinderknecht appeared in a Florida federal courtroom on ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Marc Benioff has become the latest Silicon Valley tech leader to signal his approval of President Donald Trump, saying that the president is doing a great job and ought to deploy the National Guard to deal with crime in San Francisco.

The Salesforce chief executive's comments came as he headed to San Francisco to host his annual...Read more

President Donald Trump’s preference to cut one-to-one deals with allies and adversaries has been the hallmark of his self-proclaimed deal-making magic, but with the China trade truce seemingly teetering on collapse, the fragility of such an approach has been laid bare.

China’s Ministry of Commerce late Wednesday night New York time unveiled...Read more

Former President Joe Biden started radiation treatments for an aggressive form of prostate cancer diagnosed in May.

“As part of a treatment plan for prostate cancer, President Biden is currently undergoing radiation therapy and hormone treatment,” a spokesperson for Biden said. NBC News reported earlier that the radiation treatment is ...Read more

Volodymyr Zelenskyy had a “very positive and productive” phone call with President Donald Trump and also spoke on Saturday with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, the Ukrainian president said in posts on X.

“We discussed opportunities to bolster our air defense, as well as concrete agreements that we are working on to ensure this,” ...Read more

Economic collapse and political repression drove up to a third of Venezuela’s population to flee over the past decade. Some are now returning home and reembracing loved ones on Venezuelan soil.

This is not the way it was supposed to happen.

Venezuela’s top opposition leader has long vowed to reunite families by restoring democracy. That ...Read more

WASHINGTON — On and off Capitol Hill, those watching cybersecurity worry the lapse of two key federal programs will discourage information sharing between companies and the federal government, leaving an opening for a cyberattack. And if an attack occurred, the nation’s cybersecurity agency’s shutdown staffing level might not be sufficient...Read more

LOS ANGELES — After months of slight temperature shifts in the Pacific Ocean, La Niña has officially returned — the climate pattern that typically drives drought in Southern California.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday that La Niña conditions had arrived, a possibly foreboding sign for Southern ...Read more

CHICAGO — A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

Debbie Brockman, who has worked as a producer for WGN since 2011, according to her LinkedIn profile, was taken to the ground face down on Foster Avenue and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A member of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners who led a nationwide search to hire a new LAPD chief and sparked condemnation from activists for his previous counterterrorism research is stepping down.

Erroll Southers confirmed his plans to resign through a spokesperson on Friday, ending a stormy two-year tenure on the...Read more

The White House slammed the Nobel committee on Friday for playing “politics” with its prestigious peace prize after President Donald Trump lobbied heavily for the honor — only to see it awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado. The committee said it was honoring her “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Federal prosecutors sued Southern California Edison, saying its equipment ignited the 2019 Saddle Ridge fire, which burned nearly 9,000 acres and damaged or destroyed more than 100 homes in the San Fernando Valley.

The complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on Tuesday claims that Edison was negligent in designing,...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced his plans to travel to Cairo and Jerusalem to herald an agreement that has halted the fighting in Gaza and set the stage for Hamas to release hostages the militant group is holding.

Trump told reporters Friday he would be meeting with “a lot of leaders from all over the world” who had been ...Read more

DENVER — The FBI was working to identify the person behind the Evergreen High School shooter’s social media accounts through search warrants when the attack happened, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said Friday.

Sheriff’s officials released a lengthy statement Friday afternoon addressing “rumors” being circulated about the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump said he would impose an additional 100% tariff on China as well as export controls on “any and all critical software” beginning Nov. 1, hours after threatening to cancel an upcoming meeting with the country’s leader, Xi Jinping.

“It has just been learned that China has taken an extraordinarily ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — It looks like any other house in the city’s Fairmount Park neighborhood: Plants in the front yard. A front porch decoration announcing “Hello fall.” Toys on the porch. A satellite dish.

But the two-story home on a residential street near Lafayette Boulevard is central to a mortgage fraud case the Justice Department ...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump said he would impose an additional 100% tariff on China and export controls on “any and all critical software” beginning Nov. 1, hours after threatening to cancel an upcoming meeting with the country’s leader, Xi Jinping.

“It has just been learned that China has taken an extraordinarily ...Read more