Yellow 2120' has been driven out of other Altadena neighborhood crawlspaces, but he just keeps coming backHe's back: the 550lb bear made famous after he took up residence under an Altadena home in November 2025 is wandering the Los Angeles neighborhood again after he moved in and out of the crawlspace of another home.Yellow 2120", as the black bear has been tagged, was spotted in the crawlspace of a home on Minoru Drive on Monday. Continue reading...
US president also issues executive order officially rebranding artificial intelligence' as superintelligence'Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that the heads of the largest US tech and AI companies had signed on to a morally binding" agreement to put controls on artificial intelligence. He announced the deal, called the Joint Commitment On Frontier Responsibilities, following a White House luncheon with top tech executives.It's almost like a constitution in a way, and the biggest people in the world signed that, and I signed it as president, and it really is a form of protection," Trump said. Continue reading...
Garces Perez, who was shot in his car by agents, is accused of striking officer with side mirror while trying to drive awayFederal prosecutors on Tuesday announced an assault charge against a Venezuelan delivery driver who was shot in his car by a federal immigration agent in Texas, accusing the man of striking an officer with his side mirror while trying to drive away.Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was charged with one count of assaulting, resisting and impeding a federal officer, according to a criminal complaint. Garces Perez, whose attorney has said still has a bullet lodged in his back from the 20 September shooting, made an initial court appearance in an Austin federal court on Tuesday, according to the US attorney's office in the western district of Texas. Continue reading...
Caleb Flynn convicted of aggravated murder in shooting of Ashley Flynn, a schoolteacher and volleyball coachCaleb Flynn, the former Ohio music pastor and one-time American Idol contestant accused of killing his wife to pursue a lover, was convicted of her murder on Tuesday.As a judge read the guilty verdict, 40-year-old Flynn cried, shaking his head and closing his eyes at times. He faces up to life in prison. Continue reading...
Conservative majority temporarily lifts lower-court decision as liberal justices dissent from rulingThe Trump administration can resume quickly deporting immigrants to a third countries", or countries other than those immigrants' homeland, without giving them any opportunity to contest their removals, the supreme court ruled on Tuesday.The six-justice conservative majority of the high court temporarily lifted a lower-court decision that required the administration to provide immigrants sufficient notice and the opportunity to claim fear of torture or persecution in the countries where they are being sent. The Trump administration had claimed this stipulation had prevented it from efficiently removing aliens" from the US. Continue reading...
The verdict stems from Carroll's 2023 sexual abuse and defamation civil trial against TrumpDonald Trump has agreed to stop fighting in court the disbursement of E Jean Carroll's $5m verdict in her 2023 sexual abuse and defamation civil trial against him, a procedural development as these funds were already distributed to her.While the decision does not change anything about Carroll's receipt of the payout, its revelation effectively means that Trump will no longer oppose the monetary outcome he had long fought. Continue reading...
More than 100 people have said they were injured by the ride in California, which reached speeds up to 76mphSix Flags has permanently shut down its embattled X2 rollercoaster in Valencia, California, the company announced on Tuesday, as numerous past riders have come forward with allegations of serious injuries.X2, a Magic Mountain park favorite, which reaches up to 76mph (about 122km/h) and has seats that can rotate 360 degrees, had been closed since mid-July. Continue reading...
During the 29 September US Senate judiciary committee hearing, the Republican senator Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith, the former special counsel, of attending an Atlanta Hawks basketball game in Atlanta. Schmitt insinuated that Smith was in the area when Fani Willis, the Fulton county district attorney, revealed she'd had a relationship with fellow prosecutor Nathan Wade. Smith, who led two criminal cases against Donald Trump in 2023, clarified he had attended an Iowa Hawkeyes v Maryland Terrapins game in February 2024 to watch Caitlin Clark Continue reading...
Douglas Carter, 71, who has spent more than four decades on death row, was released on bail until new trial beginsA Utah man who has spent more than four decades on death row was released from jail after newly analyzed DNA evidence showed that he was not connected to a 1985 homicide.Douglas Stewart Carter, now 71, walked out of the Utah county jail late on Monday night after a judge ordered his release on bail. He will have to wear a GPS monitoring device until a new trial begins. Continue reading...
Strategy includes increased security funding for synagogues, and focus on folding Jewish history into public school educationZohran Mamdani debuted a sweeping plan Tuesday to combat antisemitism and hate crimes against Jewish people in New York City, moving to assuage concerns from critics who see his steadfast denunciations of Israel as antisemitic.The strategy includes increased security funding for synagogues, an increased focus on folding Jewish history into public school education, and a pledge to highlight important Jewish cultural and religious sites in the mayor's day-to-day governance of the city. Continue reading...
GOP senators lash out on Smith, who led criminal cases against Trump, with invective and inaccurate informationFormer special counsel Jack Smith, who led two criminal cases against Donald Trump in 2023, faced attacks from Republicans in a wide-ranging hearing on Tuesday that included a basketball mix-up, a reference to the tooth fairy and accusations of perjury.In the Senate judiciary committee hearing on Tuesday, the Republican senator Eric Schmitt, of Missouri, raised perjury allegations against Smith, seemingly over a mix-up about the Atlanta Hawks and University of Iowa Hawkeyes basketball teams. Continue reading...
Texts, including unnamed male defendant appearing to apologize, reportedly sent days after alleged 2024 assaultExcerpts of text messages reportedly exchanged by a defendant in the Cornell University gang-rape case and the woman who claims she was assaulted were published by CBS News on Tuesday, a day after New York prosecutors said they were reopening a criminal investigation.The texts were reportedly sent within days of the alleged October 2024 assault at a campus fraternity house in which a female student said she was drugged and repeatedly raped over the course of seven hours by multiple men who were alerted to her presence on the social media platform Snapchat. Continue reading...
The Labour leader has set out his plans with passion and ambition, but the story he tells lacks a vital chapter on managing global chaosAndy Burnham is at home at Labour conference, and not only because it is in Liverpool and he has Merseyside roots. The prime minister is native to his political tribe wherever it gathers. He is fluent in its sentimental vocabulary and indigenous to its folk traditions.Keir Starmer had solid Labour bona fides. He joined the party as a teenager. His parents named him after Keir Hardie. But he didn't have Burnham's knack for turning those red-team credentials into an emotional connection.Rafael Behr is a Guardian columnistDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...
Recreational jumpers used their training as paramedics to treat crash victims before ground crews arrivedA team of experienced skydivers recently dropped in to help at a plane crash they happened to witness in Wisconsin - and used their training as paramedics to treat a seriously injured victim before ground-based rescue crews arrived.The single-engine plane carrying four people crashed in a cornfield near East Troy on Sunday, watched by the occupants of a Skydive Milwaukee aircraft who were preparing for an afternoon of recreational jumping. Continue reading...
Federal workers' union alleges EPA illegally terminated agreement with the goal of repressing political dissentThe union representing more than 8,000 workers at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) filed a lawsuit against the agency and administrator Lee Zeldin on Tuesday alleging the agency illegally terminated the union's collective bargaining agreement.The lawsuit, filed by two local unions of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), claims the agency failed to justify the contract's termination and was motivated by a desire to repress political dissent, a violation of the employees' first amendment rights. Continue reading...
Man, 57, was reportedly leaving A train at Utica Avenue station when stuck bag dragged him back and on to tracksA man in Brooklyn, New York, died after his bag got caught between the doors of a subway train which then dragged him down.On Monday, a man was leaving a Manhattan-bound A train at the Utica Avenue station in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood when his shopping bag became caught between the subway's doors. Continue reading...
With the midterms looming, and after the Epstein files and the war on Iran, Trump superfans are losing faith in their lame duck presidentIt took a dead child sex offender and a disastrous war to do it, but it looks as though the Maga faithful are slowly beginning to lose confidence in dear leader. As Donald Trump's approval ratings drop to record lows, some of his most fervent supporters are turning on him.See, as exhibit one, Trisha Hope, who was once a proud member of the Front Row Joes, a group of Trump superfans who follow the president to rallies around the country. They have custom-made T-shirts! They have branded baseball caps! They even have the attention of Trump himself, who frequently shouts out the group. He did once accidentally call them the front row Jacks and Joes", but who can expect a man of his calibre to pay attention to the plebs, eh? Continue reading...
Storm seems to have exposed segments of the Warren Sawyer, a wooden vessel that ran aground in 1884The nor'easter storm that pummeled New England over the weekend looks to have exposed large segments of a 19th-century schooner shipwrecked in the so-called graveyard of the Atlantic.The Warren Sawyer was sailing from New Orleans to Boston carrying cotton and scrap iron when the three-masted wooden vessel ran aground in Nantucket on 22 December 1884. Its captain and crew of seven were rescued and the ship began to break up after several weeks on the shoreline. Continue reading...
It marks another ratcheting up of Trump's trade war and affects nearly $1bn in imports of a $880bn trade relationshipUS-Canada relations, already tense, are likely to deteriorate further after the United States went ahead early on Tuesday with a decision to ban nearly $1bn worth of Canadian imports, including alcoholic beverages, dairy products and motorcycles.The ban amounts to barely a ripple in $880bn worth of annual two-way trade between the two northern neighbors. But it marks another ratcheting up of Donald Trump's second-term trade war with the US's longtime ally and trading partner. Continue reading...
Agent calls death of Haskins, who played the school principal in three programs, a tragic loss'The US actor Dennis Haskins - most known for co-starring in the popular Saved by the Bell television series franchise - has died, his agent confirmed on Tuesday. He was 75.Alluding to Haskins' Saved by the Bell character, the fictional high school principal Mr Richard Belding, agent Jay Schachter said in a statement: It's a tragic loss. Everyone loved Mr Belding, and those of us who got to know Dennis loved him even more. Continue reading...
Local sheriff's department announces new development related to disappearance of TV host's mother in ArizonaAuthorities are looking into the possibility of a new ransom note related to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, nearly eight months after she went missing from her Arizona home, the Pima county sheriff's department said.The sheriff's department and the FBI Guthrie taskforce were recently made aware of the possible ransom note as well as social media comments related to it, the statement from the sheriff's department said on Monday. Investigators are working to determine its credibility. Continue reading...
Four sailors injured during unexplained mishap' onboard USS Dwight D Eisenhower aircraft carrierTwo US navy aviators ejected as they were landing their plane on the USS Dwight D Eisenhower aircraft carrier off the coast of Virginia on Monday, and four sailors onboard the vessel were injured in what naval officials characterized as a mishap".The two aviators, assigned to Carrier Air Wing 3, successfully ejected as a mishap occurred during aircraft recovery operations" and were rescued by search and rescue personnel, the navy said in a short statement. Continue reading...
First Native American woman to serve as US cabinet secretary candid about history with alcohol as she seeks to tackle billowing public health crisisIt clouds your mind," recalls Deb Haaland, the trailblazing US cabinet secretary now running to be New Mexico's next governor. They say that, after the first drink, you lose your judgment."Haaland developed a drinking problem after leaving high school and was twice arrested for driving under the influence. But in her 20s she decided to get sober, a battle that required personal commitment and critical external support. She went on to become a member of Congress, one of the first two Native American women ever elected to the House, and then to become the first Native American to serve as a US cabinet secretary. Continue reading...
Anthropic's prospectus makes chilling claim as new revelations emerge about Muse and Astra models. Plus the silent movie rediscovered in the strangest of places
Republicans could lean on congressional procedure to defy the will of voters. But if they try that, the Senate has a clear way to fight backHaving lost his mail-in ballot case, Donald Trump will likely resort to ever more extreme ways to try to hold a Republican Congress in November's elections.His last-ditch effort to count Joe Biden out in 2020 was for Republicans to investigate" states Biden narrowly won; proclaim fabricated allegations of stolen elections" to be true; and then reassign those states' electoral votes to Trump. I have previously described how that same playbook could be used to try to steal the midterms if a Democratic margin of victory in the House is relatively narrow. Continue reading...
Players across the league are leaving their teams up north to return home. It's prompted questions around money, tax rates, geopolitics and respectBack in September 1925, Frederick Wilson, sports editor at the Globe, explained the fear among hockey fans that Canadian teams might not be able to compete for players against the new US teams like New York or Boston that were entering the pro league. Will it be a matter of money?" Wilson headlined his piece. And for about a century, money was the recurrent nexus of the Canadian hockey panic, proven by franchise departures and depleted buying power.At the time, Wilson reassured everyone that, no matter the big US cash, everyone on the ice would be Canadian anyway. It will be some years before the [US] will be in a position to furnish players," he wrote. He was right about that. It took a long time for the US to catch up to Canada in on-ice talent. But now that it has, should we expect Americans to want to play anywhere else than the US? For 100 years Canada has worried that the US would just buy all the best hockey players. But now it makes its own and, as the new NHL season gets underway on Tuesday night, they want to go home. Continue reading...
Dog's handler resigned from sheriff's office after it emerged Bart had died due to severe dehydration in nearly 101F heatThe recent death of a Tennessee sheriff's office dog after being left in an outdoor kennel without water for a day and a half in excessive heat has prompted the animal's handler to resign amid administrative and criminal investigations, according to authorities.Bart had been a patrol dog specializing in suspect apprehension, tracking, searches and drug detection before his handler found him dead inside his outdoor kennel on 19 September, Julian Wiser, the Madison county sheriff, said in a social media video announcement. Continue reading...
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As the postseason starts with the wildcard round, our writers pick the dark horses, likely winners and the high seeds at risk of going out earlyThe Mariners. The only active MLB team to have never appeared in a World Series came within a single win of ending that hoodoo last October and appeared poised to go one stage further in 2026. Instead, their 76-86 clunker feels like a wasted chance for a lineup featuring Julio Rodriguez, Cal Raleigh and Randy Arozarena. BAG Continue reading...
Lawyers for Christa Pike, 50, convicted of killing classmate in Knoxville in 1995, ask supreme court to grant stayChrista Pike, a woman who was convicted of murder 30 years ago, is set to be put to death on Wednesday after her request for clemency was denied by Tennessee governor Bill Lee on Monday. If the execution goes through, she will be the first woman executed in the state in 200 years.Pike, who is now 50, was 18 when she and her boyfriend, who was 17 at the time, killed 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, one of their classmates at Knoxville Job Corps in 1995. Continue reading...
Police arrest couple in their 70s after Jonathan McKinsey, 40, found dead in park in Bay Area city of DublinA married couple in their 70s have been arrested for allegedly shooting and killing their son-in-law, a New York Times engineer, in broad daylight at a suburban Bay Area park.A police officer found Jonathan McKinsey, 40, lying on the ground with multiple gunshot wounds in a park in Dublin, California, a small city about 35 miles (56.3km) east of San Francisco. Around the time the officer discovered him, 911 calls began pouring in from witnesses reporting the shooting. Continue reading...
Decision from conservative justice comes before court hears case on whether fossil-fuel firms deceived US publicSupreme court justice Samuel Alito recused himself on Monday from a major climate-change case after facing calls to step aside due to stock holdings in oil companies.A letter posted in the case did not specify a reason, but the conservative justice has previously recused himself from other cases involving companies where he holds stock. Continue reading...
Danette Colbert and Rickey White sentenced in Adan Manzano's death for racketeering and negligent homicideA Louisiana judge has handed lengthy prison sentences to two people convicted of roles in a criminal enterprise that targeted New Orleans tourists led to the death of a reporter covering the 2025 Super Bowl there.Nancy Miller, a state court judge, on Monday sentenced Danette Colbert, 49, to a total of 60 years in prison: fifty years for racketeering and a consecutive 10 years for negligent homicide in the death of Adan Manzano, a journalist for the Spanish-language news outlet Telemundo Kansas City. Continue reading...
President says plant will be built by Indian-owned company and calls it largest such facility in American historyDonald Trump on Monday announced what he called the largest steel plant in American history to be built in Iowa, giving Republicans a jobs message to take to voters in a state that could help decide control of the Senate in November.Using advanced steelmaking technology, the plant will produce some of the highest quality, most affordable steel anywhere in the world," Trump said in the Oval Office, flanked by Iowa's top Republicans. Continue reading...
CDC says 392 cases of Dengue were reported for the year so far in the state, along with different county-level dataSeveral Florida counties recently declared a state of local emergency in response to a spate of dengue fever infections.Hillsborough county, Florida, officials made the declaration on 24 September as health authorities recorded 134 confirmed cases of dengue fever, which is a mosquito-borne sickness typically found in countries outside the US. Officials said that the spread of the illness poses an immediate and widespread threat to the public health, safety, and welfare of the residents and visitors of Hillsborough county". Continue reading...
Case of alleged hazing at the University of Arizona is latest in series of controversial incidents involving US fraternitiesA college fraternity at the University of Arizona has been suspended after new members were allegedly plied with alcohol and forced to swallow live goldfish.College officials informed the university's Sigma Tau Gamma chapter by letter earlier in September that it was under investigation for multiple alleged violations of the student code of conduct, including endangering, threatening, or causing physical harm" to members of the campus community. Continue reading...
Andrew Bailey will resign as FBI co-deputy director about a year after assuming the positionAndrew Bailey, a deputy director of the FBI who has been overseeing some of Trump's election-related investigations, will step down from his position approximately one year after assuming his role.I am announcing that I am stepping down to return to my family in Missouri," Bailey wrote in an X post on Monday amid an ongoing shake-up at the bureau. Continue reading...
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Sending migrants to countries they do not come from can have deadly consequences and must be halted, says reportThe deportation of thousands of migrants from the US to third countries has set off a cascade of human rights violations" that could have deadly" consequences, two dozen UN human rights experts have warned.Since Donald Trump returned to power in 2025, the US government has been offering millions of dollars to foreign governments to take in migrants, including refugees and asylum seekers, with no ties to their countries. Deals have been struck with 35 nations, nearly a third of them in Africa. Continue reading...
Bo French, who is running to lead a state agency, has in the past posted controversial and racist statements onlineBo French, a Texas Republican running to lead a powerful state agency, has a history of making controversial social media posts, including calling for the public execution of Democratic leaders, according to a recent investigation from CNN's KFile team.French, who is running to lead Texas's railroad commission, has recently faced criticism from members of his own party after making a racist post on social media. Powerful Republicans, including the Texas senator John Cornyn, said they would not support French in the upcoming election. Continue reading...
The Israeli prime minister's remarks at the UN weren't just motivated by personal animosityIn a boastful and defiant speech to the United Nations on Thursday, Benjamin Netanyahu called out a list of villains he insisted are intent on destroying Israel and promoting an anti-Jewish conspiracy by accusing Israel of committing a genocide in Gaza. He singled out the leaders of Hamas, Iran, Qatar and Turkey, among others. But Netanyahu spent considerable time on the global stage attacking an unusual target: Zohran Mamdani, the mayor of New York City.Netanyahu accused Mamdani of promoting antisemitism, falsely claimed that he supports Hamas, and argued that since the mayor took office in January, many Jews no longer feel safe in New York." The Israeli leader also criticized Mamdani's wife for liking social media posts that supported the Palestinian cause soon after the Hamas attack on Israel in October 2023. Overall, Netanyahu seems to have devoted more time in his nearly 40-minute speech to singling out Mamdani than any other political leader, including Israel's traditional enemies. Continue reading...
Identity of man, 27, being withheld pending family notification after 700ft plungeA Base jumper died on Sunday in Utah after his wingsuit failed while he plunged from a 700ft height, according to authorities.Local news reports cited the Cache county sheriff's office, which said that the man fell to his death at age 27 in a mountainous region of Hyrum, which is east from the city of Millville. Continue reading...
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