1+ hour, 9+ min ago   (1695+ words) California prison towns made a grim bargain decades ago. They built their economies around an industry that relied on an ever-growing prison population, mostly from California’s major metropolitan areas. Then, about 15 years ago, legislators changed sentencing laws in ways that…...

1+ hour, 9+ min ago   (1137+ words) MEXICO CITY — He’s been called the “MAGA man” of Latin America, a brash political provocateur whose social media assaults boosted right-wing campaigns from his native Argentina to Central America. His career as political consultant and co-founder of an ultra-right online…...

12+ hour, 43+ min ago   (534+ words) PHOENIX — A judge who ruled 13 years ago that Latinos were racially profiled in then-Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s immigration crackdown in Arizona has rejected a bid to end the court’s supervision of the Sheriff’s Office. Maricopa County failed to show that the…...

15+ hour, 14+ min ago   (1091+ words) The U.S. Justice Department failed to secure felony convictions against most of the 102 protesters arrested in Los Angeles and three other major cities last year on charges of assaulting federal authorities — a record far below the norm in federal assault prosecutions....

9+ hour ago   (709+ words) ANCHORAGE — Alaska prosecutors are dropping voter misconduct cases against a group of residents born in American Samoa after a state appeals court threw out felony charges against a woman who wrongly checked a box saying she was a U.S. citizen. The…...

13+ hour, 59+ min ago   (340+ words) A trespasser tried to enter former Vice President Kamala Harris’ cliffside home in Malibu on Friday evening, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and a Harris spokesman. Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, were not home at the…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (440+ words) NEW YORK — Venezuela’s former first lady wants to be let out of jail while she and her husband await trial on U.S. drug trafficking charges. Cilia Flores, the wife of ex-President Nicolás Maduro, “deserves the opportunity to await her…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (520+ words) Federal authorities arrested a Victorville man on Thursday, charging him and two others with paying people on Skid Row to sign petitions using the stolen identities of registered voters. James Brass, 47, of Victorville allegedly managed a team of signature collectors…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (294+ words) BERLIN — The Swiss federal intelligence service on Thursday published a 200-page dossier on the notorious Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, the German doctor known as the “Angel of Death” for conducting horrific medical experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz. During World…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (234+ words) Once upon a time in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino’s mansion was nearly burgled. Police are looking into an alleged prowler who, “clad in black,” was spotted trespassing at the Oscar-winning director’s Hollywood Hills mansion on Wednesday afternoon. According to law enforcement…...