Breaking News

Hopes of finding more survivors from the powerful earthquake that rocked Colombia early this week were fading on Thursday as rescue workers narrowed their searches, while families in the worst-hit areas waited for news of missing relatives.In Cali, the country's third-largest city, crews have turned their attention from a search-and-rescue effort to debris removal at most sites, a sign the disaster response was entering a grimmer phase after the crucial first 72 hours.The 7.4-magnitude quake struck shortly after 7:30 a.m. local time on Monday, toppling apartment blocks, damaging homes, school

Colombia earthquake response enters grim phase as hope for more survivors fades

US fully restarts activities in Mexico's avocado hub after security scare

Judge dismisses Trump administration lawsuit alleging Harvard failed to protect Jewish students

Health|Political|World

Hegseth says reports about poor conditions aboard carrier are misrepresented

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday said reports about poor conditions aboard aircraft carrier the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Middle East were "completely misrepresented.""We make sure every ship, every crew, every captain has everything we can provide them at every single moment. Some deployments are longer than others, and I have more respect and gratitude for those sailors than anybody. What they do in those high seas in those austere conditions with less port calls - it's incredible," he told reporters during a visit to Panama. The USS Abraham Lincoln and several guided-missi

Trapped and cut off: Palestinian families under settler siege in the West Bank

Amid public backlash, surveillance tech company Flock announces platform changes

Economy|Health|Political|US

‘They don’t trust him anymore’: How VA Secretary Doug Collins drew the ire of the White House and Republicans

A month after House Republicans failed to pass a veterans health bill, lawmakers are meeting behind closed doors to try to get the legislation back on track. But there’s one key person they haven’t invited to the table: Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins.Collins and his team at the VA have been excluded from recent meetings on Capitol Hill because some senior congressional Republicans and Trump officials blamed him when the planned House vote was abruptly abandoned in July, according to multiple sources who were involved in crafting the legislation.“His relationship with the Hill di

Poland says it thwarted a Russian plot to kill an American citizen in Warsaw

S&P 500 CEO pay jumps to record as Musk-inspired compensation plans spread

US News

See all »

Crime|US|World

Tennessee carries out second of 3 executions scheduled for the same day in the US

Tennessee put a man to death Thursday for killing a motel maid in 1985 in the second of three executions scheduled for the same day in the U.S. Earlier in the day, Oklahoma executed man for killing his girlfriend in 2003. In the remaining execution, an Alabama man will be put to death after dropping all his appeals in the killing of a 5-year-old girl he paid her mother to abuse. Eleven states carried out executions in 2025 in the U.S. If the Tennessee and Alabama deaths take place, six states will have had executions in 2026. The last ti

Deaths and damage reported as severe weather in the Midwest spawns tornadoes and flash flooding

First responders rescued more people from floodwaters Wednesday as utility crews cleared trees and wires downed by severe storms in the Midwest that unleashed tornadoes, heavy rains and flash flooding, leaving hundreds of thousands of customers without electricity. A 4-year-old boy was killed when a tree fell on a home in Geneva, Indiana, during Tuesday's storms, the Jennings County Sheriff's Office said. In Ohio, Gov. Mike DeWine said a resident of Roseville died during a health emergency when first responders, faced with flooded roads, couldn’t reach them. Officials in Porta

Bulldozers rip into Big Bend National Park, driving anger and heartbreak

Rep. Max Miller sued by ex-wife over release of ‘sensitive’ photo of child

Crime|Political|US|World

Ex-officer accused of plotting New Orleans attack is released after grand jury declines to indict

A former law enforcement officer accused of planning to kill Black people in a mass shooting at a New Orleans festival was quietly released from custody over the summer after a grand jury found there was not enough evidence to charge him with a crime. A Louisiana grand jury in June declined to indict Christopher Gillum on a state terrorism charge that could have carried up to a 15-year sentence, court records show. Gillum, who had been held without bond, was released shortly after the grand jury’s decision and is not facing charges in any other jurisdictions, acc

Crime|Political|US|Videos

ICE agent points gun at Virginia woman who shouted at them in video that conflicts with government’s narrative

A confrontation captured on video between a woman who shouted insults at Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents conducting immigration enforcement action in Northern Virginia escalated when one of the officers pointed a gun at her on Monday.A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson described the woman in a statement as “an anti-ICE agitator” who drove her car “in circles around our ICE officers and then attempted to harm officers by weaponizing her vehicle against them—all in an attempt to help illegal aliens get away.”The office of Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney S

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is leaving the Trump administration

Two US Army soldiers killed in Texas helicopter crash

World News

See all »

Science|Travel|World

Ready for another stunning eclipse? This 2027 total solar eclipse is the one to see

If Wednesday’s total solar eclipse sparked your excitement for viewing a stellar spectacle, pull on your traveling boots and start booking accommodations.A multitude of total solar eclipses will occur across far-flung locales over the next decade — and next year’s celestial event promises to be one of the best yet.A total solar eclipse occurring on August 2, 2027, is “the one to be at because it will actually be the longest eclipse in the remainder of our lifetimes,” said Dr. Ryan French, solar astrophysicist at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics in Boulder, Colorado, a

Economy|Finance|Political|World

What does Trump mean when he says the US is ‘low-keying’ negotiations with Iran?

After Iran intensified its demands over the weekend before it would reopen the Strait of Hormuz, President Donald Trump didn’t threaten new strikes but instead indicated that he planned to choke Iran economically. “We are low-keying it,” he told Axios over the weekend. “We are only semi-negotiating with them. We are just watching Iran with its huge inflation and the fact they have no money.”This broke with Trump’s usual rhetorical pattern in talking about Iran, in which the president generally declares that a conclusive deal with Iran is imminent, threatens to annihilate Iran if it

A passenger jet that came too close to Trump’s Marine One helicopter highlights continuing air traffic control problems

Night moves: Riding the world’s greatest sleeper trains

Environment|Science|World

El Niño is headed for record-shattering intensity, NOAA says

There is a nearly 70% chance that the building Super El Niño will be the strongest such event on record, according to a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecast released Thursday.Previously, NOAA had been projecting that this event would likely rank “Among the largest El Niño events in the historical record.”The change in the forecast largely stems from how rapidly this El Niño is intensifying, along with computer model guidance nearly unanimously showing it will peak in late fall and early winter at a level that is stronger than previously thought. NOAA’s El Niño int

Asia|Technology|World

Taiwan briefly slows its mobile internet to text-only speed as part of defense drill

For 30 minutes, the internet in parts of Taiwan crawled. The slowdown Thursday for people in the capital, Taipei, and six other cities and localities was part of the last phase of the island's annual Han Kuang exercises, military drills that began last week and aim to model a response to a possible Chinese military invasion. Telecommunication operators slowed mobile web traffic to 256 Kbps, making it difficult to exchange anything other than texts. Usually, residents can access 5G in major cities. Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te apologized to the pub

Sailor went overboard from the USS Abraham Lincoln last month as conditions on the ship prompt lawmakers’ demand for answers

Hackers used autonomous AI agents to attack Taiwan. Is this the future of cyberwarfare?

Latest

Business|Economy|Science|Technology

AI boom or bubble? Timing is everything

Business|Economy|Lifestyle|Science|Technology

Google’s Android chief lays out his vision for how AI will change our smartphones

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is leaving the Trump administration

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will be leaving the Trump administration at the end of the month to spend time with her young family

Arts|Business|Economy|Entertainment|Sports

Basketball-Iger, Kushner purchasing Lakers for record $12.5 billion

Someone in Illinois just won $1 billion in Powerball — and we may never know who

US consumer inflation mild in July, economy still not out of the woods

U.S. consumer prices barely increased in July as the cost of gasoline declined for a second straight month, while underlying inflation was benign,

Business|Economy|Food

How the Whopper reignited the burger wars

Business|Economy|Finance|Stock Markets|US

US annual inflation cooled to 3.4% in July as gas prices ease

Crime|Europe|Political|Travel|World

Security concerns prompted Trump to secretly change planes in Turkey, official says

While in Turkey for the NATO Summit in July, President Donald Trump flew out of the country on an alternate military plane which he boarded by hiding in a catering truck

Election|Political

Establishment strikes back in Wisconsin and other takeaways from Tuesday’s primaries

California & Local

See all »

Local

From LA to Scottsdale: The Founder Behind AdDynamix Is Building the Bridge Between AI and Business Tools

An LA digital advertising veteran of 28 years has moved to Scottsdale and is building what he calls the missing piece between business software and the AI assistants people now use every day. SCOTTSDALE, AZ. When Benoit Pecqueur talks about his latest company, he sounds less like a founder pitching a product and more like an operator who got tired of watching the same problem repeat itself. “Most small business owners are watching the AI revolution from the sidelines,” he says. “Not because they don’t want it. Because their tools don’t talk to ChatGPT or Claude. Their accountant still pulls