The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $880 million to victims of clergy sexual abuse dating back decades, in what an attorney said was the largest single child sex abuse settlement with a ...

Percival Everett’s novel “James” has won a $50,000 prize that continues Everett’s recent wave of literary honors. “James” was awarded the Kirkus Prize for fiction on Wednesday. Everett’s novel is a re ...

A California man has been arrested after federal prosecutors say he used a drone to deliver fentanyl and other drugs to customers. Officials say one customer died of a fentanyl overdose. Federal ...

Vice President Kamala Harris turned questions about her nearly four years in office into attacks on Republican rival Donald Trump’s record in a heated interview Wednesday on Fox News, her first ...

North Korea has revised its constitution to define South Korea as “a hostile state” for the first time. North Korea’s rubber-stamp parliament met last week to change the constitution but didn’t ...

Eight months later, the pain of losing a second Super Bowl in five seasons to the Kansas City Chiefs has barely subsided for ...

Authorities say a man has been charged in a mass shooting that left four people dead and more than a dozen wounded in the city of Birmingham, Alabama, last month. Birmingham Police Chief Scott Thurmon ...

Oil company Phillips 66 has announced it plans to shut down a Los Angeles-area refinery that produces about 8% pf the state’s crude oil. The company indicated it will remain operating in California.

Five airlines are poised to win permission for new new long-haul flights to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. The Transportation Department said Wednesday that it has tentatively awarded room ...

Vice President Kamala Harris engaged in a combative first interview with Fox News on Wednesday, sparring on immigration policy and shifting policy positions while asserting that if elected, she would ...

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ campaign is dismissing accusations that she and a co-author plagiarized parts of a 2009 book on the U.S. criminal justice system as a desperate attempt ...

An Eldon man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to several felonies. David Eugene Wallace pleaded guilty to three counts of ...