22+ min ago   (359+ words) Shalini Thakur was supposed to celebrate her 39th birthday this week. Instead, she was laid to rest. The Sacramento woman was killed last Tuesday by a man who had stalked her for months, according to authorities. The man, identified as 22-year-old…...

18+ hour, 51+ min ago   (236+ words) A man died in Northern California’s Shasta Lake after attempting to save a dog who had gone into the water Friday morning, authorities said. Geordan White, 60, of Redding was found dead after he attempted to rescue the animal who had…...

19+ hour, 4+ min ago   (351+ words) The polls from Swedish public broadcaster SVT project Andersson’s four-party group winning a majority, paving the way for her to return to office pending coalition talks. Kristersson has led Sweden since 2022 with a three-party center-right coalition. It relies on outside…...

22+ hour, 20+ min ago   (338+ words) KYIV, Ukraine — A Russian drone struck a train near the Ukraine-Poland border Sunday shortly after senior visiting officials — including the former prime ministers of the U.K. and Sweden — passed through, Ukraine’s state rail operator said. According to Ukrzaliznytsia, also…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (38+ words) Los Angeles Times Rare whale shark sighting near Malibu captured on video Southern California pilot Carl Sbarounis recently captured footage of a whale shark off the coast of Malibu....

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (349+ words) ISTANBUL — Turkish authorities cracked down on LGBTQ+ groups and individuals early Sunday morning, detaining dozens of members, breaking into association offices and raiding popular hangouts. In an escalation of the Turkish government’s decade-long hostility toward LGBTQ+ groups, particularly in the…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (453+ words) While it’s common to gloss over, even celebrate, enemy combatants’ deaths, it’s much harder for most of us to dismiss civilian deaths, to believe they’re either warranted or otherwise acceptable. But this isn’t a given — and there is reason to…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1016+ words) Earlier this month, as I was reporting a column about the unceremonious deportation to the U.K. of the immigrant-hating, right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, the world got word that a true political giant, Gloria Steinem, had died. Ten years ago, Yiannopoulos made…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (498+ words) KAMPALA, Uganda — Uganda’s King Oyo Nyimba, who was once the world’s youngest monarch, was buried Saturday amid an acrimonious succession dispute that has rocked the royal family and gripped the nation. The traditional monarch, who ascended the throne of Uganda’s…...

1+ day, 22+ hour 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....