ArcaMax

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County banned sales of kratom and 7-OH in November following overdose deaths, but experts question whether the drugs alone caused the fatalities.

Residents who relied on kratom for chronic pain...Read more

The Trump administration’s overhaul of the U.S. visa system for highly skilled immigrants is about to get its first major test.

The annual lottery for H-1Bs, the most popular visa for white-collar professionals looking ...Read more

U.S. homebuyers had to act fast last week to nab the first sub-6% mortgage rates in more than three years. Now they’re up, and the new conflict in the Middle East threatens to nudge them higher.

The average for 30-year,...Read more

Anthropic PBC’s clash with the Pentagon is drawing fresh attention to a lightly regulated practice: the U.S. government’s purchase of commercially available information, such as browsing histories and location data, ...Read more

Several Democratic states are moving to bar federal immigration agents from being near polling places and other election sites, amid persistent worries that President Donald Trump will use federal law enforcement or the ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Thursday insisted he must personally play a role in picking a new leader of Iran as the war against Tehran raged on with no end in sight.

Trump compared the selection of a new leader in Tehran to...Read more

PIKEVILLE, Ky. — A project from an out-of-state waste management company to build a mega landfill on an abandoned coal mine in the central Appalachian community of Myra is dead after Pike County commissioners affirmed ...Read more

BEIRUT — The Israeli military issued evacuation orders for entire neighborhoods of Beirut's southern suburbs, sparking pandemonium as hundreds of thousands of people joined a panicked exodus out toward Lebanon's north.

...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Britney Spears was arrested Wednesday night in Ventura on suspicion of DUI, according to online records from the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office, with the singer’s representative calling the incident �...Read more

In another setback for the Nancy Guthrie kidnap probe, DNA on a glove found in the first weeks of the investigation turned out to belong to a restaurant worker and is unrelated to her masked abductor, officials said.

The ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York City Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels picked his Cabinet Thursday, with a longtime education official as his top deputy and an organizational shakeup of the nation’s largest school system’s upper ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — New animated sequences of songs from "Encanto," "Frozen 2" and "Moana 2" are headed to Disney+.

Disney Animation announced Wednesday that "Songs in Sign Language," comprised of three musical numbers from ...Read more

The mother of “Deadliest Catch” fisherman Todd Meadows does not want his death to be featured on the Discovery channel show.

“We don’t want to see any footage from the accident and do not want Discovery to air any...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Britney Spears was arrested Wednesday night in Ventura on suspicion of DUI, according to online records from the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office.

Spears, 44, was arrested by the California Highway Patrol...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania voters broadly oppose some of President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement tactics — but there's a stark partisan split, according to a new statewide poll of registered voters.

Franklin...Read more

"The Bride!" is a maniacal assemblage of '30s musicals, '40s noirs, 19th century literature and 21st century ideology. Every wacky second, you're well aware how perilously close it is to falling apart at the seams. This ...Read more

NEW YORK — Savannah Guthrie was spotted in the “Today” show studio for the first time since her mother, Nancy, disappeared.

While she did not appear on air, Jenna Bush Hager confirmed that Guthrie had come “home�...Read more

Patrick J. Adams has confirmed his and Troian Bellisario's third child is a girl.

The 44-year-old actor - who is best known for starring alongside Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, in Suits - and his spouse revealed in January ...Read more

Savannah Guthrie has returned to the set of the Today show while the search for her missing mother continues.

The 54-year-old presenter has been absent from the show since 30 Januaru, two days before her family reported ...Read more

Paramount's $111 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery will put two of the most storied journalism brands — CNN and CBS News — under one roof.

The combination has been proposed before with the aim of ...Read more