Noem talks with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and her team at the National Palace, Mexican media reported, but no details were immediately available on what they discussed in the two-hour meeting.

Trump and his lawyers say federal judges must stand aside

The Saya de Malha Bank is one of the world's largest seagrass fields and the planet's most important carbon sinks. It faces incalculable risks that threaten the future of humanity.

The DOJ said it is likely that wait times for concealed carry permits are "unduly burdening, or effectively denying" 2nd Amendment rights for Angelenos.

President Trump threatened to block funding for Smithsonian exhibitions that discuss racism and ordered the restoration of monuments taken down because of their celebration of racist figures.

Mexico is working to stall or reduce Trump's 25% tariff on foreign-made autos. Canada denounced Trump's executive order but Mexico is taking a more subdued approach.

The Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday announced sweeping cuts in several federal health agencies.

There are new signs that a dangerous fungus is once again on the move. Candida auris is a type of yeast that can cause life-threatening illness.

Elon Musk has benefited from his close alliance with Donald Trump, as the president has ousted federal officials who had overseen departments investigating the billionaire's multiple companies.

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A year after the Baltimore bridge collapse, a report calls for an assessment of several California bridges.

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Israeli journalist and 'No Other Land' filmmaker Yuval Abraham alleges the academy, which oversees the Oscars, 'felt no need to respond' to the recent attack on his co-director Hamdan Ballal.

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Supreme Court, siding with the police, rules that handmade guns can be restricted under federal law.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and others in the Trump administration denied that the information he shared in a Signal chat that included a journalist was classified.

A new book by former L.A. prosecutor Marcia Clark raises questions about the tactics used to convict Barbara Graham, the brassy "dice girl" who in 1955 was executed at San Quentin for the murder of a Burbank widow.

Four California Republicans in the House of Representatives are on the target list of a prominent Democratic group preparing for the 2026 election.

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United Flight 198 left LAX on Saturday bound for China but was diverted to San Francisco because the pilot "did not have their passport onboard."

Videos posted on X showed a blue orb in the night sky that was visible in the U.K., France and other countries.

Experts say Signal is the most secure messaging app. Even top U.S. officials use it. Should you?

The hiker and a companion had wandered off the remote 53-mile hiking path that follows the northern California coastline of redwoods and black sand beaches when one of them fell 100 feet.

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The first branch of government should stop or empower Trump's use of the Enemy Aliens Act. Instead, Congress chooses to heckle from the cheap seats.

Palestinian 'No Other Land' filmmaker Hamdan Ballal is free, less than a day after Israeli military and police forces detained him following a brutal attack by settlers.

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Oakland voters have a provocative choice in next month's special election for mayor, as longtime former Rep. Barbara Lee faces off against Loren Taylor, a scrappy politician 31 years her junior.

Francis rejected all trappings of sovereignty and cult of personality. Instead, he has lived and preached what Jesus commanded his followers to do in the Sermon on the Mount, which might as well be the Communist Manifesto nowadays.

Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal, who co-directed the Oscar-winning documentary 'No Other Land,' was beaten by Israeli settlers and detained Monday, according to his co-director.

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Golfer Tiger Woods says he's in a relationship with Vanessa Trump, the former daughter-in-law of President Trump who divorced Donald Trump Jr. in 2018.

President Trump's lawyers urged the Supreme Court to block a judge's order requiring the government to 'immediately' rehire 16,000 federal employees.

Just as President Trump is facing multiple cases in court aimed at curtailing his presidential powers, Rep. Darrell Issa introduced a bill to rein in federal judges.

An Orange County couple was deported to Colombia after living in the U.S. for decades with no criminal record.

Han Duck-soo was reinstated as acting president Monday. He was handed the reins to the country after President Yoon Suk Yeol, who declared martial law, was impeached.

President Trump and his allies consistently frame his policy agenda around the concept of fairness, which experts say is a potent political message in America right now.

The families of two Venezuelans deported to El Salvador say the Trump administration wrongly branded them as Tren de Aragua gang members.

Eric Swalwell has received countless death threats, been physically accosted and sneezed on. Republican colleagues tell him they fear similar reprisals if they stand up to the president.

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Protesters marched toward the Wilshire Federal Building in Los Angeles, rallying against government cuts and what they described as U.S. Constitution violations.

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The Trump administration ends federal contract that provides legal representation to nearly 26,000 migrant children who entered the U.S. alone, leaving them vulnerable to rapid deportation.

In an all-hands company meeting broadcast on X, Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk urged employees to hold on to their shares, which have fallen in value by 34% year to date.

A Trump-appointed appellate court judge broke with his colleagues in a California gun case by posting a "dissent video" to YouTube of him manipulating firearms in his judicial chambers.

Former Lakers player Butch Carter has joined a class action lawsuit alleging Dr. Bradford Bomba Sr. sexually abused him at the University of Indiana in the 1970s.

Jiyeon Lee, 33, Taehee Kim, 59, and Junghee Kim, 54, disappeared while driving from the Grand Canyon toward Las Vegas on March 13.

Once the darling of alternative energy advocates, the electric vehicles are now the unlikely target of political violence.

A ranch used as a training camp by a Mexican drug cartel was littered with burned bodies and discarded possessions. The discovery has sparked calls for justice.

The dismantling of the department has been unofficially in progress for weeks, but Trump's impact on education already has been substantial in California.

What should the American people believe -- Trump's denials that he's defying court orders or the evidence that can be seen and heard?

Mexico's transfer of 29 cartel figures — including Rafael Caro Quintero and accused Zeta members — has led to jockeying by attorneys willing to defend them.

An article highlighting baseball and civil rights hero Jackie Robinson's U.S. Army career was back on the Department of Defense website after being removed in a DEI purge.

A cease-fire between Hamas and Israel allowed many Gaza residents to return to their devastated homeland. But now many are fleeing once more.

The U.S. has played an important role in Taiwan-China relations for decades. Trump's 'America First' ideology could subvert efforts to preserve a tenuous peace in the region.

U.S. support for Taiwan has ebbed and flowed throughout the decades. Here's what's at stake as Trump rewrites the rules of diplomacy.

Democrats do not want to repeat the mistakes of last week, when they split over the GOP's stopgap measure to avoid a federal government shutdown.

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Stations that need to fill time are now using the broadcasting services of Russia and China. This is a fiasco for U.S. global standing.

Arms are a global business, so it's little surprise that at the International Defense Exhibition and Conference, discerning quartermasters had a world buffet of weaponry before them, be it Brazilian ballistic munitions, Indian patrol boats or the latest in AI-enabled drones from the U.S.

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A new strain of bird flu — H7N9 — is detected in at a poultry farm; scientists learn that past human flu exposure may provide some immunity to H5N1.

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'I am authorizing my Administration to immediately begin producing Energy with BEAUTIFUL, CLEAN COAL,' Trump wrote in a post on social media on Monday.

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President Trump released 80,000 unredacted pages on the assassination of John F. Kennedy more than 60 years ago.

President Trump is escalating his attacks on the federal judiciary by calling for the impeachment of a judge who has tried to block his deportations.

The U.S. government's move to put South Korea — a nonnuclear ally — in the same company as countries like China or North Korea has unsettled politicians in Seoul

President Trump told the assembled prosecutors of the Department of Justice on Friday that negative coverage of him is illegal. Spoiler alert: It's not.

The court also temporarily blocked the release of the autopsy report in the case.

Sen. Adam B. Schiff rebuffed President Trump's claims disputing President Biden's pardons for the Jan. 6 committee that Schiff sat on, saying its members would not be silenced by Trump's threats.

Boxing is set to be in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics as IOC president Thomas Bach says the executive board he chairs approved including the sport, which will be run by World Boxing.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum faces a delicate balancing act, placating U.S. President Trump while showing Mexicans that she is defending her nation's sovereignty.

The California Republican Party made slight gains in California, attracting more new voters than the Democrats, but can that continue after Trump

George Orwell would have loved the concept: A Department of Government Efficiency that is anything but efficient.

The fancifully named Department of Government Efficiency is grounded in a fundamental misapprehension of how the federal government works. The recklessness and destruction is not a bug but a feature.

'Micro dramas' (90-second episodes, cheesy plots, lots of romance) are catching on worldwide. Will they upend the entertainment industry?

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In a letter addressed to the U.S. Trade Representative, Elon Musk's Tesla warned that retaliatory tariffs could affect production and harm U.S. companies.

Trump administration lawyers argue that district judges should not be allowed to issue rulings that apply nationwide.

Business owners around the state struggle to keep up with an ever-changing slew of trade policies.

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It's quite simple, really: If someone in the U.S. on a tourist visa or in possession of a green card violates the terms of their admission, they can be removed.

Authorities are trying to figure out how many were killed at a Jalisco ranch that apparently was used as a cartel training camp. Some call it the 'Mexican Auschwitz.'

The contract extension will allow NBCUniversal to broadcast the 2034 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City on NBC and streaming service Peacock

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A civil service law requires an administrative agency to hear complaints. Judges have thrown out lawsuits from unions, saying the courts lack power to block layoffs.

California and other Democratic states allege Trump's cuts amount to an illegal shutdown of the Education Department's congressionally mandated work, including protecting civil rights.

CEOs seek 'less unpredictability.' Claims that trade wars generate riches don't add up. The chaos shouldn't come as a surprise

All presidents like getting their picture taken with athletes. With the Trump presidencies, White House invitations have turned decidedly controversial for many athletes.

To protect thousands of varieties of Mexico's prized heirloom corn, leaders vote to amend the constitution to ban the planting of genetically modified corn seeds.

More than a dozen federal buildings in California were listed by the Trump administration as potentially disposable. The list was posted and then taken down.

As Trump begins dismantling the Education Department, student loan services, civil rights enforcement and funding for disadvantaged students remain in limbo.

The couple, who live in Washington, D.C., have temporary deportation protections and pending asylum claims. Advocates say the case could set legal precedent.

Rep. David Valadao faces the difficult task of reassuring constituents in his Central Valley district that he will stave off cuts to Medi-Cal, California's Medicaid program.

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A new H5N1 bird flu mutation has appeared in a cluster of infected dairy cows. It's a genetic change that scientists say could not only make the virus more lethal, but increase its spread between mammals and possibly humans.

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The governor's latest endeavor is a show coddling right-wing provocateurs. It's not only cringey, it's a glib diversion from the job he should be doing.

As the Trump administration cracks down on illegal immigration, California farm groups are working to influence legislation that would ensure a stable supply of laborers for an industry long reliant on a foreign-born workforce.

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After violence broke out between the current and past regimes in Syria, fearful residents have waded across a river to take refuge in Lebanon.

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Shaking off an earlier pause in action after President Trump's return to power, Democrats are landing on resistance strategies and finding receptive audiences.

Jordan Chiles accuses the Court of Arbitration for Sport of 'improper and newly-raised arguments as well as misstatements of fact' in her effort to retain an Olympics bronze medal.

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Even in Lebanese villages that incurred heavy losses during Hezbollah's war with Israel, support for the militant group remains strong despite some dissent.

The Department of Homeland Security said last month that it had undergone a 'competitive procurement process' for the campaign. But in a document posted Friday, the department said the usual process was bypassed.

Justices overturn the 9th Circuit Court again, saying the case should be decided under a California law that protects the rightful heirs of art lost during the Holocaust.

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California adopted the first ban on 'conversion therapy' as harmful for minors, and 21 states have followed.

Corporations such as Facebook, Amazon and Target have eagerly followed the president's lead. But consumer boycotts show much of the public isn't on board.

Jana Karibyan's family lost everything in the Eaton fire, and the prospect of starting from scratch can be overwhelming. But 'the American dream is a house'

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Clashes in Syria's coastal areas kill more than 700 people, a monitor says. Interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa's government says it has regained control of the situation.

Tragic revelations, made Friday by authorities in New Mexico, resolve many questions raised by the deaths of Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa.

The death toll from two days of clashes between security forces and loyalists of the ousted Syrian president and revenge killings that followed rises to over 600.

California's entire delegation in Washington sent Congressional leaders a letter Friday, urging them to continue funding federal wildfire aid.

Betsy Arakawa died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a rare rodent-spread disease with a mortality rate up to 50% in the American Southwest, officials said.

Santa Fe County officials announced that actor Gene Hackman died from heart disease with Alzheimer's disease as a contributing factor and that his wife, Betsy Arakawa, died from hantavirus. Rodents were considered a contributing factor in her death.

President Trump's focus on fentanyl crossing into the U.S. from Canada is his latest 1% policy war, following his targeting of transgender people and USAID funding. Critics say he's stoking fear for political points.

President Trump signed an executive order to establish a 'Strategic Bitcoin Reserve' and a 'U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile' ahead of the White House's first crypto summit.

An unvaccinated New Mexico man tested positive for measles after death, becoming what health officials say could be the second death reported in the ongoing outbreak that has infected over 160 people in at least nine states.