SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Texas real estate agent Tara Jarrett opened the online class with a prayer, bowing her head and closing her eyes.

“Dear Heavenly Father,” she began. “I ask that you would just speak to me and through me as I deliver this detailed message tonight.”

What followed was a lesson on revenge.

Jarrett walked the ...Read more

Dan Burton has trapped hundreds of wild pigs for clients of his wildlife control company in Salinas, but even he was startled when he cut one of them open and found blue meat inside.

"I'm not talking about a little blue," said Burton, owner of Urban Trapping Wildlife Control. "I'm talking about neon blue, blueberry blue."

Burton immediately ...Read more

U.S. families lose nearly $350 billion each year due to the incarceration of a loved one in jail or prison, according to a recent report from the criminal justice advocacy group FWD.us. The estimate includes both direct expenses and long-term losses in household income.

The findings are based on a national survey of just over 1,600 adults ...Read more

On a recent weekday evening, Ashly Richards helped her 13-year-old son, Case, with homework. He did math problems and some reading, underscoring how much he’s accomplished at his school for children with autism.

Richards has heard Trump administration officials suggest that food dyes and pediatric vaccines cause autism and ADHD. That stance, ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia has recorded the fewest homicides in recent memory this year — a rate of violence that, after reaching record highs just three years ago, has plummeted to a pace the city has not seen since the 1960s.

Violence in the city began to decline in 2023, and it has continued to fall ever since. Through July, 134 people ...Read more

A “shiny” fossil found in an Alabama creek has been identified as the tooth of a large dinosaur that doesn’t quite belong at the site, experts say.

Hadrosaurs were land-dwellers, but the tooth surfaced in a spot that was underwater during the age of dinosaurs, according to the Alabama Museum of Natural History.

The tooth was discovered ...Read more

Artificial intelligence is giving some climate research projects a much-needed boost at a time of worsening extreme weather and funding cuts that threaten science in the U.S. and elsewhere.

While generative AI faces criticism due to the large amounts of power required to train and run sophisticated models, it also holds the promise of ...Read more

Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani — who has faced heat lately over years-old social media posts critical of the police — came face-to-face with an audience of NYPD officers Tuesday night and told them he would, if elected, spare them the responsibility of responding to most mental health calls.

“We must stop asking them to respond...Read more

LARGO — Friends and colleagues of Terry Bollea, the pro wrestler better known to the world as Hulk Hogan, gathered Tuesday evening to say goodbye to the Clearwater resident.

Bollea died July 24 at age 71.

Law enforcement vehicles escorted the funeral procession through Pinellas County, where Bollea lived for decades and where a restaurant ...Read more

Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada will look at whether to remove some counter-tariffs against the U.S., despite winning an election in which he pledged to fight back against President Donald Trump’s trade war.

Carney said retaliatory tariffs should be designed to maximize the impact on the U.S. but minimize the pain for Canadian ...Read more

Stanford University will lay off at least 363 employees this fall as part of $140 million in budget cuts driven by rising costs and changes in federal funding policies, including a steep revision to the endowment tax.

The layoffs will affect a wide range of staff roles, such as academic operations managers, IT business analysts, librarians, and...Read more

Starting Wednesday, visitors to the Minnesota State Capitol will encounter tighter security and fewer public entry points under new measures announced by the Department of Public Safety.

The heightened security come a week after safety officials ordered an outside review of security at the State Capitol in response to the shootings of two ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Vice President JD Vance was “most likely” the heir-apparent to his Make America Great Again movement, but added there were also other potential candidates and that it was too early to make that call.

Trump during a White House event on Tuesday was asked about comments from Secretary of State Marco ...Read more

Federal authorities in the United States revealed Tuesday that they will not seek the death penalty against three reputed Mexican drug cartel leaders, including an alleged former partner of the infamous “El Chapo” and the man accused of orchestrating the killing of a Drug Enforcement Administration agent.

Court filings showed decisions ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A prominent law firm suing L.A. County over childhood sexual abuse is pushing for a federal investigation into how so many children were harmed on the government's watch.

The county agreed in April to a $4 billion settlement to resolve roughly 7,000 cases of sexual abuse inside the county's juvenile detention facilities and ...Read more

Woody Allen frequently attended “interesting” dinner parties hosted by Jeffrey Epstein, which he recalled being attended by an eclectic collection of VIP guests being “well served” by young women.

A typewritten letter obtained by the New York Times and reportedly penned by Allen in 2016, described “many” of the 89-year-old filmmaker...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As many immigrant parents express fear about sending their children back to school next week, Los Angeles Unified has amassed $1 million in donations for a "compassion fund" for families affected by federal immigration raids, Supt. Alberto Carvalho announced Tuesday.

The funds donated to the LAUSD Education Foundation, a ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is ending contracts to develop vaccines using messenger RNA technology, another step in the agency’s changing practices toward vaccines under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The agency is terminating 22 contracts worth almost $500 million, according to a statement Tuesday.

The move comes as ...Read more

Worried about the possibility of losing congressional seats, California Republicans are trying several strategies to fight Gov. Gavin Newsom’s aggressive push to redistrict the state to boost Democrats in response to a similar effort happening in Texas.

Rep. Kevin Kiley, R-Roseville, introduced legislation Tuesday that would impose a federal ...Read more