Increasingly desperate negotiations. A plea from the president himself. An eleventh-hour sleight of hand, followed by a surprise vote in the dead of night.  Over the past month, chaos has unfolded on Capitol Hill as House Republicans fracture over a central question: Should the federal government need a warrant to spy on US citizens? According […]

In an outcome that was widely expected, the US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that New Jersey’s efforts to investigate an anti-abortion crisis pregnancy center for allegedly misleading consumers violated the First Amendment. In a 9–0 decision, the justices said a sweeping subpoena by the state’s then-attorney general, Matthew Platkin, seeking information about donors to First […]

Federal agents are conducting an ongoing drug enforcement investigation at multiple locations across Orange County Wednesday morning, officials confirmed. Around 6:40 a.m. in Irvine, the Irvine Police Department said “another agency” was serving a search warrant in the area of Steeplechase. A spokesperson for the Drug Enforcement Administration Los Angeles Field Division told KTLA that […]

For the first time since the US began bombing Iran two weeks ago, our military leadership testified before a congressional committee today. The main takeaway: there is no real plan for ending this war. But there is a plan for giving the Pentagon more money.  At today’s House Armed Services Committee hearing, Secretary of War […]

Law enforcement officials say death is still “imminent” for a man who was found with gunshot wounds in the trunk of a sedan in an affluent Los Angeles County community. The case unfolded early Tuesday morning, when San Marino Police Department officers pulled over a silver Ford sedan near Los Robles Avenue and Monterey Road just before 2:30 […]

How many times have you gotten a message or letter and wondered if it’s a scam? A new free website aims to give you a quick answer. “We’ve seen a massive uptick in volume in scams in the United States. That’s made scams and digital fraud in general the fastest growing crime in the country,” […]

An emergency room at a Los Angeles hospital was evacuated early Wednesday after a woman armed with a knife allegedly assaulted a security officer and barricaded herself inside a bathroom. Police received a 911 call around 1:15 a.m. reporting that a woman with a pocket knife had attacked the officer at Mission Community Hospital on […]

Nick Reiner is due in court Wednesday for a preliminary hearing, where a judge is expected to decide whether prosecutors have enough evidence to send the double murder case to trial. The 32-year-old is charged with two counts of murder in the deaths of legendary filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife, Michelle Singer Reiner, who […]

When President Donald Trump returned to office last year, he promised to largely steer America clear of foreign entanglements. But over the last year, his administration has captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, threatened to take over Greenland, pressured Cuba’s communist government in an attempt to destabilize it, and openly talked about making Canada the 51st […]