Democrat Xavier Becerra has advanced to the general election for California governor after pitching himself as an experienced choice to lead the nation’s most populous state.

The U.S. military says it shot down four Iranian drones that were launched toward the Strait of Hormuz on Friday and then struck some of the Islamic Republic’s coastal surveillance radar sites in response.

The U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles says it has opened “multiple election fraud investigations” related to California’s elections and sent a prosecutor to the county’s vote-counting center.

Several FBI analysts tied to the creation of a 2023 memo warning of a potential threat from Catholic “violent extremists” were told Friday that they were being fired, the latest wave of terminations under the leadership of Director Kash Patel.

Members of the Iranian World Cup soccer team have been granted U.S. visas, clearing them to enter the country ahead of their first two matches near Los Angeles this month.

President Donald Trump says he will attend Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Monday at Madison Square Garden — and says he doesn't have much sympathy for ordinary Americans who can't afford the sky-high ticket prices.

The three remaining correspondents at "60 Minutes" have decided to stay with the show despite recent turmoil.

Lawyers representing the federal government argue that a court cannot stop construction of a White House ballroom because it was already underway and because of the sensitive security concerns they say the structure is meant to address.

The Energy Department says a small nuclear reactor under development at a national lab has reached a crucial milestone that could allow it to produce electricity in the next few years.

With virtually no strings attached, Congress is on the verge of providing a massive infusion of cash to the Homeland Security Department.

President Donald Trump says he wants his new acting director of national intelligence to cut the office, which has already been significantly scaled back during his second term.

A federal judge has struck down a Trump administration policy enacted after the shooting of two National Guard members that made it harder for immigrants from dozens of countries to stay and enter the country.

The Texas senator’s defeat to Ken Paxton sparked talk he’d join the “YOLO Caucus” of Republicans defecting from Donald Trump. This week, he sided with Senate GOP leadership on every key vote.

The U.S. military is waiting for clarity from the Pentagon following President Donald Trump’s back-and-forth on troop levels in Europe.

The Treasury's financial crimes unit is warning banks about the risks of serving people living in the country illegally.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has rejected a proposal by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for a face-to-face meeting, saying he sees “no point” in it.

A federal judge has struck down a Trump administration policy that made it harder for immigrants from dozens of countries to enter and stay in the U.S. The judge criticized the policy for putting immigrants' lives in "indeterminate legal limbo" and accused the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services of ignoring the law.

Washington, D.C., is gearing up for pivotal primaries this month to elect a new delegate to Congress and a new mayor.

Rights lawyers have filed a case against Equatorial Guinea before Africa’s top human rights body.

A federal judge in Washington has blocked a plan to loosen rules for fishing red snapper in the Atlantic, halting what was expected to be the longest recreational snapper season in years.

Southern Baptists will gather for their annual meeting on Tuesday.

Two corporations bid on a handful of leases during the latest oil and gas lease sale in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

The Senate has passed legislation to fund President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agencies, sending it to the House.

The U.S. stock market had its worst day since October as a sell-off in big technology companies weighed down the broader market.

The Justice Department says an American journalist has pleaded guilty to acting as an illegal agent for the Chinese government.

President Donald Trump is planning to attend an NBA Finals game in New York next week to root for his hometown Knicks.

The Kennedy Center is removing references to President Donald Trump after a federal judge ruled they were added illegally.

President Donald Trump says his acting director of national intelligence, Bill Pulte, will not be in the role permanently.

The United States has imposed sanctions on Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, his wife and three other individuals.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called for face-to-face negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Days after the state’s primary, California voters are in a familiar position -- waiting to find out which candidates will go on to the general election in their most high-profile races, for governor and Los Angeles mayor.

A New Jersey police sergeant has been charged with stealing $10,000 worth of camera equipment from a photojournalist.

A new study finds that smoke from larger wildfires is reversing more than a decade of American improvements in smog.

The House has passed a bill to aid Ukraine and sanction key segments of the Russian economy.

The Arizona Supreme Court has denied a prosecutor’s appeal of an order that the state’s fake elector case over the 2020 presidential election be sent back to a grand jury.

President Donald Trump has announced that water has begun refilling the recently renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

President Donald Trump is again seeking to boost the struggling U.S. coal industry.

U.S. employers added a surprising 172,000 jobs in May as the labor market continued to show resilience in the face of rising costs from the Iran war.

Former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton has agreed to plead guilty to a single count of retaining classified information under a deal with the Justice Department that could allow him to avoid prison time.

The Supreme Court has sided with the Trump administration in a case about the power of federal regulators over telecommunications companies.

Senate Republicans are working toward passage of legislation to fund President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agencies.

Hezbollah has rejected the latest ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Lebanese government and demanded a complete Israeli withdrawal.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is back on Capitol Hill to testify before the House Ways and Means Committee on the department’s priorities, one day after he refused to say whether President Donald Trump and his family would still get immunity from IRS audits after the administration abandoned plans for a $1.776 billion compensation fund that would have benefited the president’s allies.

President Donald Trump's administration put dozens of college campuses under investigation last year and cut federal funding unless they came in line with his Republican agenda.

A British lawmaker is suing Elon Musk’s company xAI for invasion of privacy.

Melinda French Gates is expanding her efforts to improve women's health worldwide, pledging $215 million for contraceptive access and maternal care, as well as initiatives for middle-age women.

João Victor Gonçalves, from one of Rio de Janeiro's poorest favelas, has achieved a dream by playing soccer internationally.

Chinese authorities are intensifying efforts to erase the memory of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.

Some of the leading artificial intelligence companies are moving toward initial public offerings this year at eye-popping valuations.

President Donald Trump insists he's comfortable with the current holding pattern in the Iran war.

President Donald Trump says he will nominate Todd Blanche to serve as attorney general, tapping his former personal attorney who has aggressively pursued the Republican president’s agenda while leading the Justice Department in an acting role.

The U.S. military has attacked another boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two men.

A stunning week of revelations of discord at “60 Minutes” has raised a host of questions, and left people inside and outside the network wondering about the program's ultimate health.

Spanish hotel chain Meliá has joined a growing list of companies with a long-standing presence in Cuba that are withdrawing or limiting their operations on the island after the U.S. announced new sanctions while upholding an oil embargo.

The House for the first time has approved a war powers resolution that would halt the U.S. military action against Iran.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is refusing to say whether President Donald Trump and his family will still receive immunity from IRS audits after the administration abandoned plans for a $1.776 billion compensation fund.

Polymarket is ending its paid relationship with George Santos as federal regulators investigate him for possible insider trading.

The Republican-led Senate is moving forward with legislation to fund immigration enforcement agencies after forcing the White House to drop its settlement fund for political allies and stripping a separate proposal for White House security from the bill.

The killing this month of a 14-year-old girl in central Argentina has shocked the country, triggering a groundswell of outrage and growing demands for government action against gender-based violence.

Colombian lawyer and presidential candidate, Abelardo de la Espriella, has thanked U.S. President Donald Trump for endorsing his campaign.

Republicans have won a partisan redistricting battle for Congress.

A federal judge is considering whether to throw out a jury’s guilty verdict against former Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan who was convicted of felony obstruction for helping an immigrant evade federal officers.

A massive coastal development project linked to Jared Kushner is facing resistance in Albania.

Immigrant detainees across at least 33 states allege in court documents that the government is failing to provide them with adequate medical care.

Businessman Zach Lahn's win in Iowa’s Republican gubernatorial primary over President Donald Trump's pick is a rare electoral setback for Trump.

The House approved a war powers resolution that would halt the U.S. military action against Iran, defying President Donald Trump as a handful of Republicans joined with Democrats to seek to end the war.

The 9/11 Memorial and Museum has launched a $75 million fundraising campaign as the nonprofit tries to educate the millions of U.S. youth who don’t remember the terror attacks.

Macy’s reported its fourth consecutive quarter of comparable sales gains as the department store said an overhaul of its merchandise and better customer service is resonating with customers.

A rare albino buffalo named after U.S. President Donald Trump for his distinctive blond tuft is drawing crowds at a Bangladesh zoo.

Republicans would have just a 76-74 majority in the Texas House if the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee succeeds in flipping its targeted GOP districts.

President Donald Trump acknowledged criticizing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as “crazy” in a phone call that involved expletives.

When musical acts pulled out of a concert series marking America's 250th anniversary, fearing it might be too closely tied to Donald Trump, the president decided to formally make himself the headlining act.

A new Gallup poll finds support for same-sex marriage and relationships in the U.S. has stopped rising after two decades.

Kuwait says Iranian drones have heavily damaged a passenger terminal at its main, killing one person, wounding dozens and briefly closing the airfield.

President Donald Trump is in a hurry to rebuild the tariff wall the Supreme Court tore down less than four months ago.

Jill Biden says she's sorry she didn't talk more about son Hunter's drug addiction during her time in the White House.

The Supreme Court is allowing Alabama to use a congressional map favoring Republicans in this year’s elections, blocking a lower court ruling that the map intentionally discriminates against Black people.

A prediction market reported former U.S. Rep. George Santos to federal prosecutors after he boasted he’d be going to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, then bet against his own attendance.

The White House Correspondents Association dinner has been rescheduled for July 24.

A federal judge has heard from voting rights groups and a coalition of two dozen states that want the courts to halt President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to create a federal voter list and limit who can receive a mail ballot, The plaintiffs argued in two lawsuits that Trump’s order should be found unconstitutional because the states and Congress, not the president, have the power to set election rules.

President Donald Trump has signed a new executive order on oversight of artificial intelligence, less than two weeks after postponing a White House ceremony over his concerns that a similar policy could dull America’s edge on AI technology.

U.S. Senate hopefuls Ken Paxton and Graham Platner are in Washington, D.C., to rally party support.

The Trump administration proposed 25% tariffs on imports from Brazil, charging that the world’s 10th-biggest economy engages in trade practices that are “unreasonable’’ and that “burden or restrict U.S. commerce.

New York’s attorney general is suing the Trump administration over one of its deals to end an offshore wind project.

For a state that’s home to Hollywood, there isn’t much star power in California’s gubernatorial race.

U.S. job openings jumped in April as the labor market looked resilient despite economic uncertainty caused by the Iran war.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin is set to appear in the Senate to discuss the agency's budget.

Democrats and Republicans say President Donald Trump's pick for director of national intelligence seems unqualified.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio will face more questions about the Trump administration’s fragile or stalling diplomatic efforts around the world in back-to-back hearings on Capitol Hill for the first time since the Iran war began.

The U.S. military says Iran fired missiles at Kuwait and Bahrain that failed or were shot down, and that the U.S. launched strikes on an Iranian facility in response.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche says the Trump administration is scrapping plans to create a $1.8 billion fund meant to compensate allies of the Republican president after widespread political backlash and setbacks in the courts.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Amy Webb, Pete Sessions and Annette Gordon-Reed among newly announced TribFest voices helping us navigate a world in flux.

Pride month has begun across the U.S., bringing parades and parties to big cities and small towns to celebrate LGBTQ+ people.

Israeli drone strikes on southern Lebanon have killed 11 people, including a man along with his son and daughter.

President Donald Trump has found multiple ways to harness the presidency to benefit himself.

The European Union has agreed on a major overhaul of its migration policy, aiming to increase deportations and establish detention centers abroad.

Kenya’s president has defended the establishment by the U.S. of its own Ebola quarantine facility.

Senate Republicans are weighing their next steps after the Trump administration's announcement that it is scrapping a $1.8 billion settlement fund for the president's allies who claim to have been politically prosecuted.

California’s congressional primaries were a preliminary test of Democrats’ best chance at countering Republican redistricting gains elsewhere this year.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he's optimistic about the potential for a resumption in nuclear talks with Iran despite a shaky ceasefire in the war that's looking increasingly in doubt.