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LOS ANGELES — Speakers at Los Angeles City Council meetings will be banned from using the N-word and the C-word, the council decided Wednesday.

The ban comes after years of tirades by a few speakers who attack officials...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday applied tariffs to low-value imports from all trading partners, a change that could raise costs for American travelers bringing goods into the U.S. after travels abroad.

The move, ...Read more

Ford Motor Co. on Wednesday declared a net loss of $36 million in the second quarter of 2025 related to one-time charges and issued a lower annual guidance for adjusted operating profit as it projects higher tariff costs. ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An insurance company that covered Kansas City’s 2024 Super Bowl parade and rally has filed a claim in federal court, seeking to avoid paying out a policy to the Greater Kansas City Sports Commission ...Read more

The Federal Communications Commission has opened an inquiry into NBCUniversal and its parent company, Comcast, over their handling of local broadcast television affiliate stations, according to a letter from commission ...Read more

Acting on a lawsuit by New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin, a state Superior Court judge issued an injunction against a Vineland gun shop that Platkin had accused of selling ammunition to buyers without checking ...Read more

MIAMI — The Coast Guard conducted an alcohol test on the captain of the tug boat that slammed into a Miami Yacht Club summer-camp sailboat Monday morning in Biscayne Bay, killing two girls and critically injuring two ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — “Naked Gun” co-stars Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson are each giving love another shot — and apparently they’re doing it together.

“Baywatch” icon Anderson and “Taken” star Neeson are in a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The legend of Detroit union leader Jimmy Hoffa endures in the world of organized labor, for reasons beyond speculation surrounding his mysterious, mob-connected disappearance 50 years ago on July 30, 1975.

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WASHINGTON — A U.S. senator is elevating an interfaith plea from a rabbi and a Muslim physician in Michigan to the very top of the State Department: Please help us to get life-saving baby formula into Gaza.

Sen. Elissa ...Read more

BALTIMORE — A contingent of state and federal officials watched as remnants of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge were disassembled on Wednesday morning.

“I know I speak for everybody here that seeing it from this...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Frengel Reyes says he’ll never forget the screams in the dark, the cold bunk bed without blankets, the brutality enforced by the guards.

“Hell is real back there,” Reyes, 25, said about the four ...Read more

A Los Angeles-area startup is using artificial intelligence and robotics in an unlikely way: making sashimi and other fish dishes taste better, last longer and more humane.

El Segundo, California-based Shinkei Systems ...Read more

MIAMI — In press conferences and on TV, top Florida officials have repeatedly said that everyone detained at Alligator Alcatraz has been ordered by a judge to be removed from the country.

“Everybody in this facility ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina lawmakers on Wednesday pared down an attempt to convert a wide swath of the State Board of Elections nonpartisan civil service staff into political appointees — advancing an amended ...Read more

As the crackdown on undocumented workers in California approaches a third month, researchers say the effects on the state’s economy are already showing.

Since early June, Los Angeles has been roiled by the Trump ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Texas state Republicans on Wednesday released a new draft congressional map which makes significant changes to districts held by Democrats across the state.

The Lone Star State’s House delegation ...Read more

Shane Tamura’s supervisor at Horseshoe Las Vegas helped him purchase a key part of the weapon he used to kill four people in Manhattan before turning the gun on himself, according to a report from the New York Post.

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Adam Sandler "couldn't be happier" with the response to Happy Gilmore 2.

The 58-year-old actor has reprised the role of Happy to star in the long-awaited comedy sequel, and Adam has been thrilled by the public's reaction ...Read more

Harrison Ford doesn't have any plans to retire.

The 83-year-old star believes actors are fortunate in that there's no strict time limit on their working life.

Asked if he'll ever retire, Harrison told Variety: "No. That'...Read more