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LOS ANGELES — Santa Monica, long a beacon of economic strength in Southern California, has endured its share of struggles in recent years.

Its once-bustling downtown shopping district has taken a post-pandemic hit, with...Read more

Practical Magic 2 has finished filming.

Nicole Kidman revealed production has wrapped on the eagerly anticipated sequel to the 1998 classic, in which she and Sandra Bullock have reprised their roles as sister witches ...Read more

Ice Cube shot his War of the Worlds scenes in just 15 days, without a director or co-star.

The 56-year-old rapper and actor co-stars with Eva Longoria, Iman Benson, Henry Hunter Hall, Clark Gregg and Devon Bostick in the ...Read more

Ariana Grande is working to stop secondary ticket resellers profiting off her upcoming tour.

The 32-year-old singer is devastated that genuine fans are missing out on tickets to next year's The Eternal Sunshine Tour, ...Read more

BOWMAN, N.D. — Retta Jacobi stepped onto a metal platform that lifted her to an entrance on the side of a custom-designed semitrailer. Once inside, she lay down on a platform that technicians slid into an MRI machine. ...Read more

Miley Cyrus has given her seal of approval to her father Billy Ray Cyrus' latest romance with Elizabeth Hurley.

The 64-year-old country music star and the 60-year-old actress started dating five months ago and his ...Read more

Twiggy's husband Leigh Lawson believes the secret to their happy marriage is meeting later in life.

Twiggy, 75, and Leigh, 83, have been married for 42 years and Leigh believes that both having been married before and him...Read more

Rallies were held in cities across Australia Saturday, with clashes reported between rival demonstrators amid tense standoffs with police officers.

Pro-Palestine groups, Indigenous rights activists and anti-government ...Read more

The U.K. is poised to sign a “groundbreaking tech agreement” with the U.S. during President Donald Trump’s state visit to Britain next week, according to the U.K. government.

The accord would provide a boost for ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Health officials are warning about the potentially deadly dangers of a synthetic kratom compound after it was linked to three recent fatal overdoses in Los Angeles County.

A compound known as 7-...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In a bid to stabilize struggling crude-oil refineries, state lawmakers on Saturday passed a last-minute bill that would allow the construction of 2,000 new oil wells annually in the San Joaquin ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — State lawmakers on Friday advanced a plan that would allow California colleges to offer preferential admission to students who are descended from enslaved people, part of an ongoing effort by ...Read more

CHICAGO — She got to the base’s main gate at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday, dressed in her Army boots and a red and black dress adorned with embroidered flowers, one of two identical dresses she and her daughter received from ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Maritza Arias-Galva was on her way home from the grocery store in Atlantic County on Thursday, eager to celebrate her own belated birthday party with her children on her day off work. She’d bought a ...Read more

BOSTON — Kelly Dever, a controversial witness in the Karen Read murder retrial who testified to having a “false memory,” has resigned from the Boston Police Department.

Dever’s resignation became effective on Sept...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Lawyers and advocates fear about 1,000 Central American children, including dozens in California, are at risk of being deported to dangerous situations in their home countries before finishing their ...Read more

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is condemning the latest gang attack in Haiti, a brutal massacre in a fishing village north of Port-au-Prince that resulted in the deaths of at least 40 people, including ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The University of Minnesota’s outdoor firearms range in Rosemount has ended its contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and will stop making arrangements with all outside agencies to use it...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Saturday continued to give a tropical wave in the Atlantic a medium chance it would develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 8 p.m...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The University of Minnesota and its service workers have reached a deal, ending the strike that had threatened next weekend’s Farm Aid concert.

The strike involving 1,400 custodial, maintenance, food ...Read more