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LOS ANGELES — A 34-year-old man was arrested this week after he pepper-sprayed another moviegoer at a Burbank AMC theater for using a cellphone during a film, police said.

Lt. Brent Fekety, a Burbank Police spokesman...Read more

Oil and liquefied natural gas shipments through the Strait of Hormuz in the past two weeks reached the highest level in six months, signaling that U.S. naval protection and mine clearance efforts are “paying off,” a ...Read more

A federal judge in California has sentenced a former Syrian prison warden to 60 years for torturing inmates and lying to immigration officials to get into the United States.

A jury convicted Samir Ousman Alsheikh, 74, in ...Read more

A Tesla’s driver was pulled over for apparently sleeping at the wheel on Interstate 80 in Solano County, the California Highway Patrol said.

Because California’s vehicle code has no specific law against that, he was ...Read more

Washington's public-sector unions are throwing down millions of dollars to keep the state's new high-earners income tax in place and fight an initiative seeking to repeal it.

The Washington Education Association plopped $...Read more

Dan Walters describes working for The Sacramento Bee several decades ago as "like living in Sweden."

The newspaper had a bustling office in California's capital replete with a cafeteria, a gas station, a credit union, and...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — For months, a sizable group of University of California professors has been demanding the reinstatement of standardized test requirements in the undergraduate admissions policy. Their main reason? A ...Read more

Voting by mail remains an option for the upcoming November elections, but recent efforts by the Trump administration to tighten mail-in requirements have left questions among some voters, particularly U.S. military and ...Read more

Brian Hickerson is said to understand why he has reportedly been left off the guest list for Hayden Panettiere's celebration of life, with the actress' on-off boyfriend also apparently still struggling to come to terms ...Read more

Ringo Starr believes The Beatles would have found their way back together to make more music had John Lennon and George Harrison lived.

The 86-year-old drummer said he thought the Fab Four could eventually have reunited ...Read more

Angelina Jolie has revealed her friendship with Salma Hayek Pinault has given her a connection unlike any she has experienced before as their deeply personal film Without Blood finally reaches cinemas.

The actress and ...Read more

Kenny Loggins has revealed the simple four-word epitaph he wants written on his tombstone - and it has nothing to do with Footloose, Top Gun or the soundtrack hits that made him famous.

The 78-year-old disclosed his ...Read more

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and China’s Vice Premier He Lifeng will lead talks on trade and other pressure points Sunday in New York ahead of next week’s summit between the leaders of the world’s two ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he would name an artificial intelligence czar as he continued to push tech companies to race ahead with development despite growing fears safety.

He rejected concerns that the quickly evolving ...Read more

Carrot Top, the mop-topped prop comedian who has entertained audiences since the early 1990s, was taken to a Las Vegas hospital after an apparent suicide attempt, according to a report by TMZ.

In a statement to the ...Read more

Carrot Top has been hospitalized following an alleged suicide attempt, according to a report.

The comedian, whose real name is Scott Thompson, was rushed to the hospital ahead of his performance at the Luxor Hotel & ...Read more

WASHINGTON — MS NOW, CNN and Politico said their journalists were denied access to the White House grounds on Saturday after President Donald Trump said he would bar the outlets.

CNN called the move “an illegal ...Read more

In a conservative win, campus members of an education advocacy organization may refer to transgender people using names and pronouns that are not consistent with that individual's gender identity, according to a federal ...Read more

Tropical Depression Six formed in the far eastern Atlantic on Saturday, according to the National Hurricane Center.

As of the NHC’s initial 11 a.m. advisory, the center of the storm was located about 525 miles southwest...Read more

Public health officials are sounding the alarm after an unvaccinated Amtrak passenger who traveled across the U.S., including a stop at Union Station last weekend, was hospitalized with measles.

The person traversed the ...Read more