Neighbors in a quiet Temecula neighborhood received a shocking surprise when a hot air balloon landed in a home’s backyard Saturday. A witness said she was awoken by the sounds of her neighbors yelling outside her home just after 8 a.m. Video showed at least a dozen neighbors standing outside watching the scene unfold. The […]

Light to moderate rain and cooler temperatures are forecast for the Los Angeles area starting Monday night and continuing into Tuesday. The National Weather Service predicts a 30% chance of rain after 11 a.m. Tuesday, with a high around 67 degrees. San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties are expected to see the heaviest rainfall. […]

President Trump signed an executive order on Saturday calling for the acceleration of research on certain psychedelic drugs as treatments for depression and other conditions. Podcaster Joe Rogan stood with him as he signed the order—and Trump indicated that Rogan was a major inspiration behind the push to fast-track legalizing ibogaine, which is used outside […]

The Department of Homeland Security just rolled out a new website for its city-occupying task forces that looks, more than anything, like a vibe-coded pitch deck. Launched on Friday, HSTF.gov was first announced on the FBI’s X account. We don’t negotiate. We dismantle. The site’s slogan is displayed in the same sans-serif font stylings as […]

A cryptic message potentially surrounding the recent arrest of singer D4vd was written in the sky above Coachella on Friday. Skywriters flew above the festival grounds and wrote “Celeste is a liar” around 4 p.m., according to video obtained by KTLA. Many on social media were quick to speculate that the “Celeste” being referred to is Celeste Rivas Hernandez, a 14-year-old […]

A large party at a residence in the San Fernando Valley was broken up by police after reports of a gun in the area, and video shows officers tackling and detaining multiple people. Los Angeles Police Department officers were dispatched to the 5900 block of Hesperia Avenue in Encino just after midnight Saturday after a call came in regarding a […]

Iran rowed back on its decision to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and fired on a tanker attempting to pass the waterway on Saturday. It warned that it would continue to block transit through the strait as long as the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports remained in effect. Confusion over the critical chokepoint threatened to […]

Elon Musk has long been in an on-again, off-again relationship with the moon. Though just last year he called it “a distraction”—saying his focus was shifting exclusively to Mars—he now seems to be rekindling things with our natural satellite. And regardless of his own feelings about the moon, NASA is paying him to get us […]

In June, a sharp-suited Austrian executive from a global surveillance company told a prospective client that he could “go to prison” for organizing the deal they were discussing. But the conversation did not end there. The executive, Guenther Rudolph, was seated at a booth at ISS World in Prague, a secretive trade fair for police […]