California
Law enforcement agencies across the country are preparing for possible threats to election workers, violence at polling places and voter intimidation.
At many universities across the country, graduation for the Class of 2024 will feel more like making it through airport security than a procession through a free-flowing campus green or a cheering stadium crowd.
Music
The English guitarist co-wrote Whitesnake’s ‘Is This Love,’ one of the defining power ballads of late-’80s hard rock.
After a fire at a Monterey County battery storage facility, scientists say high levels of heavy metals were found at a nearby estuary, a home to endangered species.
Climate & Environment
The discovery of high levels of heavy metals in a popular fire retardant has added to long-running concerns from environmentalists.
World & Nation
On New Year’s Eve, the bollards protecting New Orleans’ Bourbon Street were gone, being replaced ahead of the Super Bowl, leaving the street vulnerable.
The Pentagon is again pausing flights of its V-22 Osprey fleet after weakened metals in a part inside one of the aircraft broke apart in flight in November.
The student was arrested after what police described as a ‘unprovoked attack’ on a professor in a classroom. It wasn’t immediately clear the professor’s condition.
A metal recycling plant was charged in a 25-count indictment on Thursday for exposing Jordan High School students in Watts to toxic explosions, hazardous waste and lead levels 75 times higher than those deemed safe by the U.S. EPA, authorities said.
‘Merciless,’ like its predecessors, is full of sound and fury, signifying much that Ice finds wrong with the world, his evenhanded, intelligent opinions writ loudly, if graphically.