For the first time in history, voters in Mexico will cast their ballots for justices, judges and magistrates in an election set to overhaul the nation’s judiciary.

Sunday’s election will decide 881 federal judicial positions nationwide, including the nine seats on Mexico’s reconstituted Supreme Court. In addition, Baja California is among...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Zachariah Bacote says he still doesn’t know why he was stabbed at Bertie Correctional Institution in January.

He also can’t figure out why correctional officers put him, the victim of an attack, in solitary confinement after the assault.

One day alone in a concrete cell the size of a parking space scarred him as much as...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Staycee Dains was about a month into her job overseeing the Los Angeles city animal shelters when an employee openly defied her.

Dains asked the employee to clean a kennel. Instead, the employee picked up a hose and sprayed a dog in the face, Dains said.

Dains thought the employee should be fired, but she said the city's ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Man's best friend appears to have a bone to pick with U.S. Postal Service workers in Los Angeles, which just ranked No. 1 in the nation when it comes to canine attacks on mail carriers.

Seventy-seven Postal Service employees were attacked by dogs last year in Los Angeles, earning the city the unfavorable top spot on the Postal ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Federal agents raided a nightclub early Friday and arrested 36 Chinese and Taiwanese citizens suspected of being in the country illegally, authorities said.

Los Angeles Homeland Security officers, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and members of the El Camino Real Financial Crimes Task Force made the arrests during...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — An alleged hit-and-run driver was arrested after striking two pedestrians south of downtown early Friday, killing one, according to San Jose police.

Police said the collision was reported at 2:46 a.m. near West Virginia Street and Almaden Avenue.

“The driver fled the scene but was apprehended a short time later,” ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy will start fielding an anti-ship version of its Tomahawk cruise missile on destroyers by late September in what the service’s readiness boss sees as a “game-changer” against a numerically superior Chinese fleet.

Fleet Forces Command Admiral Daryl Caudle said an anti-ship version of the U.S.’s best known non-...Read more

A hiker who fell 30 feet down a waterfall and into a pool in Butte County, California, had to be harnessed to the end of a 150-foot rope and pulled out by a helicopter over the Memorial Day weekend, according to authorities.

The hiker, who was not identified by authorities, suffered serious injuries and could not be reached by ambulance in time...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump wants to tap the private sector to pave the way for human missions to Mars in a proposal that closely aligns with the goals of Elon Musk.

The White House’s 2026 budget proposal, released late on Friday, calls for allocating more than $1 billion for Mars exploration, including a new NASA initiative called the ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — United Launch Alliance’s years-long delays with its new Vulcan rocket have flipped the script for national security missions, making SpaceX the new reliable provider.

The shift to Elon Musk’s company at the detriment to ULA’s bottom line took center stage again Friday with a SpaceX Falcon 9 launching the GPS III-7 ...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump said he spoke to Emmanuel Macron after a viral video showed the French president being shoved in the face by his wife.

“He’s fine. They’re fine. They’re two really good people I know very well, and I don’t know what that was all about,” Trump said Friday after being asked about the incident...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia that proudly stood among the strongest of sanctuary cities has formally discarded the name.

It’s now a “welcoming city.”

That’s according to Mayor Cherelle L. Parker’s top attorney, who confirmed what has been a slow but dramatic shift in labeling as the Trump administration bears down on the city. ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A fire ignited in the Covington Flats area of Joshua Tree National Park on Friday afternoon and burned 165 acres in a region that experts say is critical to the species' future in a warming climate.

Meg Rockwell, a spokesperson for the national park, said it wasn't immediately clear if any Joshua trees in the area had burned, ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A Louisville woman who sued Kentucky late last year in an effort to overturn the state’s near-total abortion ban withdrew her lawsuit on Friday without explanation.

Represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky, the plaintiff — referred to with the pseudonym Mary Poe — was roughly seven weeks pregnant ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Scott Peterson’s hope that the California Court of Appeal would overturn his murder conviction were dashed this week when it instead directed his lawyers to return their case to the same Redwood City courthouse where he has had no luck over the past two decades convincing a jury or a string of judges he is innocent of ...Read more

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Three transgender senior cadets earned their diplomas from the Air Force Academy on Thursday, but they did not commission as officers with their peers.

Hunter Marquez is among the three, earning degrees in aeronautical engineering and applied math and meeting the Air Force’s physical standards for men.

The cadets ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Donald Trump-Elon Musk partnership ended much like it began, with plenty of mutual flattery and a little awkwardness — capped off by a surreal Oval Office send-off.

The president bid farewell to the tech billionaire on Friday with an hourlong media appearance to mark the end of his service as the head of the Department of ...Read more