An oil sheen that emerged last week in the Pacific Ocean off the Southern California coast does not appear to have been caused by an oil spill, officials with the U.S. Coast Guard said on Monday. Oil samples collected from the sheen, which was about 2.5 miles long and half a mile wide, did not…
A ferocious atmospheric river storm that has battered California for days began to taper off in Los Angeles on Tuesday, but officials warned that even small amounts of additional precipitation could set off landslides in rain-drenched Southern California. Between Sunday and Tuesday morning, the storm dumped record-breaking amounts of rain on the Los Angeles basin…
Parts of Southwest California on Sunday braced for heavy rains — potentially as much as an inch an hour — that could lead to life-threatening floods, officials said, prompting evacuation orders in some places and at least one school district to cancel classes for Monday. The Weather Prediction Center issued a rare “high risk” prediction…
A call for a wellness check led the authorities in Southern California to make a gruesome discovery this week: They found six bodies at a remote crossroads in the Mojave Desert. Deputies with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department found most of the bodies around 8:15 p.m. Tuesday in an isolated area off Highway 395…
Mr. Biden and Mr. Netanyahu are at odds over the day-after question. While Mr. Biden agrees that Hamas must be removed from power in Gaza, he opposes an Israeli re-occupation of the coastal enclave. Instead, he favors what he calls a “revitalized” Palestinian Authority taking over Gaza as well. But Mr. Netanyahu has resisted that…
The surge of migrants entering the United States across the southern border increasingly includes people from a surprising place: China. Despite the distances involved and the difficulties of the journey, more than 24,000 Chinese citizens have been apprehended crossing into the United States from Mexico in the past year. That is more than in the…
Migrants were caught crossing the southern border of the United States more times in the past year than in any other year since at least 1960, when the government started keeping track of the data. It is the third record-setting year in a row, during a time when migration around the world is at historic…
Federal agents arrested a record number of migrant families who crossed the southern border illegally in August, two officials with preliminary data said, highlighting the Biden administration’s most prominent immigration challenge after rolling out new border policies this spring. The roughly 91,000 migrants who crossed together as families exceeded the 84,486 such crossings recorded in…
Torrents of rain, wildfires and an earthquake. California had it all on Sunday. A state preoccupied with The Big One faced calamities both big and small. A rare tropical storm left at least one person dead as it blasted through Mexico’s Baja California peninsula on Sunday and crossed into heavily populated Southern California, threatening what…
A federal regulator on Wednesday approved a Canadian freight railroad’s plan to buy an American competitor, a $31 billion deal that will make the railroad the first to operate across North America. In approving the deal, the regulator, the Surface Transportation Board, said the new single-line service would shift about 64,000 truckloads a year to…