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LOS ANGELES — The city of El Segundo could not be more tied to the oil refinery that is a hulking presence in the seaside city.

In 1911, the Standard Oil Co. designated the site as home to its second refinery, and El ...Read more

Lionel Richie would get fans to eat meals with him because he was worried about being alone early in his career.

The Hello hitmaker explained that he would seek out fans to dine with him as he found it hard spending time ...Read more

Taylor Swift didn't think about planning her wedding until she met Travis Kelce.

The Anti-Hero singer has frequently referred to marriage in her music but never contemplated being a bride until her romance with the Kansas...Read more

Teddi Mellencamp has revealed that her stage 4 cancer is "gone".

The 44-year-old star was first diagnosed with melanoma, a serious form of skin cancer, in 2022 before explaining earlier this year that the disease had ...Read more

Alphabet Inc.’s Google has spent the past week in Virginia federal court seeking to persuade a judge that selling off its advertising exchange is too risky, technologically difficult and would disrupt the market.

Over ...Read more

NEW YORK — Rather than rush cops from all corners to burgeoning political protests, the New York Police Department will now have to follow a detailed escalation plan dependent on the numbers and actions of demonstrators,...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is considering a modification to expensive automotive tariffs that would provide relief to manufacturers that complete final assembly in the United States, Reuters reported Friday.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed into law Senate Bill 237, which includes provisions that would approve as many as 2,000 new permits for oil wells a year in Kern County, California.

The law, which goes into effect in ...Read more

This year, San Francisco Senator Scott Wiener passed a bill that will allow mid-rise housing to be built near transit stops, a win for the pro-housing lawmaker who’d seen two previous attempts collapse before even ...Read more

CHICAGO — Andrew Denton was on his way to get lunch on Friday afternoon when he noticed people yelling at masked men in a white SUV near Funston Elementary in Logan Square.

Realizing the men were likely federal ...Read more

Apple will no longer offer an Immigration and Customs Enforcement tracking app after coming under fire from the Trump administration.

The free ICEBlock app that allowed users to anonymously report and monitor the ...Read more

China is pushing the Trump administration to roll back national-security restrictions on Chinese deals in the U.S., dangling the prospect of a massive investment package as part of a proposal that would upend a decade of ...Read more

A coalition of business groups warned President Donald Trump that a newly announced $100,000 fee for H-1B visa applications risks harming the U.S. economy and urged the administration to avoid changes to the skilled worker...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is preparing to launch a program that would offer money to unaccompanied migrant teenagers in federal custody in exchange for voluntarily returning to their home countries, according...Read more

The Trump administration detained a Florida man for three weeks and then deported him to Venezuela, even though he had court-ordered deportation protections under temporary protected status.

Immigration and Customs ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has ruled for a second time that the Trump administration may cancel the “temporary protected status” given to about 600,000 Venezuelans under the Biden administration.

The move, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal judge sentenced the attempted assassin of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh to more than eight years in prison Friday.

Judge Deborah L. Boardman of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — On Sept. 16, Barbara Gomes Marques May and her husband arrived at the downtown Los Angeles federal immigration building for what they believed would be the final step in Marques May's process to obtain her ...Read more

Hamas agreed to release the last of the hostages from its 2023 attack on Israel but said the rest of a U.S. peace plan would be subject to negotiation, a stance that offered uncertain hopes for an end to the conflict in ...Read more

A judge sentenced Sean “Diddy” Combs to four years and two months in federal prison Friday for transporting prostitutes across state lines for drug-fueled sex performances he dubbed “freak-offs,” closing the ...Read more