WATCH: Portion of Tropicana Field roof torn off

Florida authorities began assessing the damage left by Hurricane Milton's passage across the state, after a night of high winds, torrential rain and storm surge.

The Dodgers want their fans to be energetic and vocal, but they don't want anything like what happened in Game 2 against the Padres at Dodger Stadium.

Five former employees of San Diego Wave have filed a lawsuit against the club and the National Women's Soccer League alleging multiple forms of discrimination.

Lucas Jackson/ReutersDisgraced and embattled music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs is going after an unlikely adversary in defending himself against an avalanche of sex-crime allegations.As Deadline reports, Diddy’s defense team is now accusing the Department of Homeland Security of leaking the video in which he can be seen beating his ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, among other damning details from the case. His lawyers are alleging “misconduct” and “underhanded tactics” on the part of the DHS—which carried out the raids on his homes that turned up 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lube—in appealing Diddy’s jail sentence as he awaits trial.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Spain's Rafa Nadal, who won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, said on Thursday he was putting an end to his professional tennis career, a decision effective after the Davis Cup final.

During the Great Depression, when many falsely blamed Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans for the economic crisis, as many as a million were forced out of the country.

A $200,000 armed robbery that occurred outside a Chase branch in Palmdale was an inside job, the ATF says.

Don't normalize this: Trump, who aspires to lead a diverse nation, keeps crossing the line into theories that the Nazis embraced.

After Joe Biden selected Kamala Harris as his running mate in 2020, she moved toward the center on some issues, and has generally kept those positions to this day.

Conservatives keep claiming that California's $20 fast food minimum wage led to a job bloodbath. They're still wrong

Lawyers for Sean “Diddy” Combs accused the government of leaking evidence — including the 2016 video of him assaulting Cassie.

A strong New York season of playwriting features David Henry Hwang's 'Yellow Face,' Max Wolf Friedlich's sleeper hit 'Job' and, off-Broadway at the Public Theater, James IJames' 'Good Bones'

Alfonso Cuarón's Apple TV+ miniseries, premiering Friday, is a fairly straightforward revenge story, though whether or not the revenge is deserved is a central question of its contortionist plot.

Prop. 36 is way ahead in the polls, in part because it's billed as providing treatment for substance abuse. But the reality is its more likely to create felons than cure addictions.

Seeing the series of dance works about Louisa May Alcott’s beloved 19th century novel is like stepping into a time machine.

Here's where to eat and drink along the route of this month's CicLAvia. The 7.5-mile "Heart of L.A." route traverses downtown, Echo Park, Chinatown, Little Tokyo and Boyle Heights.

For the sibling pop savants, work and family have long been intertwined. They've proved it with their most autobiographical album, 'Hit Me Hard and Soft,' a strong contender for the 67th Grammy Awards.

Trump and his allies are sowing doubt about the 2024 election. Let's not be overly optimistic about our future, says a reader.

Jez Butterworth's "The Hills of California," directed by Sam Mendes, rises above a strong New York season of playwriting.

Charlamagne Tha God said that Americans are "outraged" about foreign aid as their own country endures multiple crises, particularly the recent natural disasters.

'The most important thing that can be done about this climate of lawlessness and thievery is to change the district attorney,' says a reader.

Inflation is expected to have fallen further in September, reflecting an improving economy that has yet to convince many Americans a month before the election.

Hollywood veterans said they feel an obligation to 'speak truth to facts' with people trying to break into the entertainment industry right now.

As Gov. Gavin Newsom urges new controls on state oil refineries, California air regulators are considering new rules that could increase gas prices.

It can be difficult to separate the Republican former president and 2024 nominee's false statements on any particular issue from his changes in policy positions over time.

Colleges and universities have to invest more in need-based financial aid and outreach to applicants to increase socioeconomic diversity.

Hurricane Milton roared into Florida, leaving a path of destruction and fears of major damage and loss of life.

The impact of Haitian migration into the United States has become a top 2024 political issue, after former President Trump put the issue into the spotlight.

What other options do the Dodgers have after eight of their relievers shut down the Padres in an 8-0 victory at Petco Park on Wednesday night?

A spate of notable quakes have rattled Southern California in recent months — a reminder that the last three decades of relative seismic quiet won’t last forever.

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California H5N1 outbreaks have had little impact on overall milk production, but experts warn that outbreaks could soon increase substantially.

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For the third time in eight years, Americans have to decide whether they want Donald Trump to be their president. No voter could be ignorant by now of who he is. Opinions about Trump aren’t just hardened—they’re dried out and exhausted. The man’s character has been in our faces for so long, blatant and unchanging, that it kills the possibility of new thoughts, which explains the strange mix of boredom and dread in our politics. Whenever Trump senses any waning of public attention, he’ll call his opponent a disgusting name, or dishonor the memory of fallen soldiers, or threaten to overturn the election if he loses, or vow to rule like a dictator if he wins. He knows that nothing he says is likely to change anyone’s views.Almost half the electorate supported Trump in 2016, and supported him again in 2020. This same split seems likely on November 5. Trump’s support is fixed and impervious to argument. This election, like the last two, will be decided by an absurdly small percentage of voters in a handful of states.Because one of the most personally malignant and politically dangerous candidates in American history was on the ballot, The Atlantic endorsed Trump’s previous Democratic opponents—only the third and fourth endorsements since the magazine’s founding, in 1857. We endorsed Abraham Lincoln for president in 1860 (though not, for reasons lost to history, in 1864). One hundred and four years later, we endorsed Lyndon B. Johnson for president. In 2016, we endorsed Hillary Clinton for more or less the same reason Johnson won this magazine’s endorsement in 1964. Clinton was a credible candidate who would have made a competent president, but we endorsed her because she was running against a manifestly unstable and incompetent Republican nominee. The editors of this magazine in 1964 feared Barry Goldwater less for his positions than for his zealotry and seeming lack of self-restraint.Of all Trump’s insults, cruelties, abuses of power, corrupt dealings, and crimes, the event that proved the essential rightness of the endorsements of Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden took place on January 6, 2021, when Trump became the first American president to try to overturn an election and prevent the peaceful transfer of power.This year, Trump is even more vicious and erratic than in the past, and the ideas of his closest advisers are more extreme. Trump has made clear that he would use a second term to consolidate unprecedented power in his own hands, punishing adversaries and pursuing a far-right agenda that most Americans don’t want. “We believe that this election is a turning-point in our history,” the magazine prophesied correctly when it endorsed Abraham Lincoln in 1860. This year’s election is another.[From the January/February 2024 issue: If Trump wins]About the candidate we are endorsing: The Atlantic is a heterodox place, staffed by freethinkers, and for some of us, Kamala Harris’s policy views are too centrist, while for others they’re too liberal. The process that led to her nomination was flawed, and she’s been cagey in keeping the public and press from getting to know her as well as they should. But we know a few things for sure. Having devoted her life to public service, Harris respects the law and the Constitution. She believes in the freedom, equality, and dignity of all Americans. She’s untainted by corruption, let alone a felony record or a history of sexual assault. She doesn’t embarrass her compatriots with her language and behavior, or pit them against one another. She doesn’t curry favor with dictators. She won’t abuse the power of the highest office in order to keep it. She believes in democracy. These, and not any specific policy positions, are the reasons The Atlantic is endorsing her.This endorsement will not be controversial to Trump’s antagonists. Nor will it matter to his supporters. But to the voters who don’t much care for either candidate, and who will decide the country’s fate, it is not enough to list Harris’s strengths or write a bill of obvious particulars against Trump. The main reason for those ambivalent Americans to vote for Harris has little to do with policy or partisanship. It’s this: Electing her and defeating him is the only way to release us from the political nightmare in which we’re trapped and bring us to the next phase of the American experiment.Trump isn’t solely responsible for this age of poisonous rhetoric, hateful name-calling, conspiracies and lies, divided families and communities, cowardly leaders and deluded followers—but as long as Trump still sits atop the Republican Party, it will not end. His power depends on lowering the country into a feverish state of fear and rage where Americans turn on one another. For the millions of alienated and politically homeless voters who despise what the country has become and believe it can do better, sending Trump into retirement is the necessary first step.If you’re a conservative who can’t abide Harris’s tax and immigration policies, but who is also offended by the rottenness of the Republican Party, only Trump’s final defeat will allow your party to return to health—then you’ll be free to oppose President Harris wholeheartedly. Like you, we wish for the return of the Republican Party of Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole, John McCain, and Mitt Romney, a party animated by actual ideas. We believe that American politics are healthiest when vibrant conservative and liberal parties fight it out on matters of policy.If you’re a progressive who thinks the Democratic Party is a tool of corporate America, talk to someone who still can’t forgive themselves for voting for Ralph Nader in 2000—then ask yourself which candidate, Harris or Trump, would give you any leverage to push for policies you care about.And if you’re one of the many Americans who can’t stand politics and just want to opt out, remember that under democracy, inaction is also an action; that no one ever has clean hands; and that, as our 1860 editorial said, “nothing can absolve us from doing our best to look at all public questions as citizens, and therefore in some sort as administrators and rulers.” In other words, voting is a right that makes you responsible.Trump is the sphinx who stands in the way of America entering a more hopeful future. In Greek mythology, the sphinx killed every traveler who failed to answer her riddle, until Oedipus finally solved it, causing the monster’s demise. The answer to Trump lies in every American’s hands. Then he needs only to go away.This article appears in the November 2024 print edition with the headline “Kamala Harris for President.”

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Cooper, known for his on-site coverage of hurricanes, took the incident in stride and continued his report of the water from the Manatee River rising above the river bank and onto the walkway above.

An apparel company, made to support biological females in sports, has called out Nike in a new ad for failing to protect girls and women from transgender athletes.

Rafael Nadal announced on social media on Thursday he will retire from professional tennis at the conclusion of the Davis Cup. Nadal is one of the greatest tennis players of all-time.

It was integral to the Supreme Court overturning Roe—and it’s not stopping there.

Arizona State University student Kaci Sloan, who is accused of stabbing a fellow student twice in a Glendale classroom last month in an apparently random attack, entered a not-guilty plea in Maricopa County on Wednesday after two of her four charges were dismissed last week.

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Reuters/GettyIf he’d known he was going to be picked as Donald Trump’s 2024 running mate, JD Vance might have decided to keep his views on childless “cat ladies” to himself. After all, cat ladies get to vote too in the United States.But Vance’s tirades against child-free modern women have gone down much better in Vladimir Putin’s Russia, where women aren’t allowed anywhere near political power and elections stopped having any meaning years ago. In fact, the Ohio senator has become something of a hero among Russian right-wingers trying to bring back traditional values—and persuade young Russians to start having large families again.“Putin and his administration have been inspired by Vance’s ‘childless cat lady’ comments,” former Putin speechwriter Abbas Gallyamov told the Daily Beast. “Putin sees Trump as his absolute ally and Vance’s words give the Kremlin encouragement. Now they can say, ‘See! We are not marginals!”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Michael M.Santiago/Getty ImagesDonald Trump confirmed Wednesday that he won’t debate Kamala Harris again after Fox News made a last-ditch attempt to set up another showdown in the final stretch of the 2024 presidential election. The network said letters had been sent to both campaigns inviting the candidates for a debate on either Oct. 24 or 27 in Pennsylvania which would be moderated by Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum. In a trademark name-calling, all-caps Truth Social, Trump confirmed the Fox debate—or any other, for that matter—is just not going to happen.“I WON THE LAST TWO DEBATES, ONE WITH CROOKED JOE, THE OTHER WITH LYIN’ KAMALA,” Trump wrote. “I ACCEPTED THE FOX-NEWS INVITATION TO DEBATE KAMALA ON SEPTEMBER 4TH, BUT SHE TURNED IT DOWN. JD VANCE EASILY WON HIS DEBATE WITH TAMPON TIM WALZ, WHO CALLED HIMSELF A KNUCKLEHEAD! I AM ALSO LEADING IN THE POLLS, WITH THE LEAD GETTING BIGGER BY THE DAY - AND LEADING IN ALL SWING STATES.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Economists expect inflation to have slowed gradually in September.

"There is a crazy person out there. There's no doubt about it."

A series of suspected attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels targeted a ship on Thursday in the Red Sea, authorities said.

The directive issued just before Hurricane Milton’s landfall aims to protect homeowners against “unfair and deceptive acts” by insurers handling disaster claims.

The drama unfolding at CBS News mirrors controversies at other news organizations including NBC News, CNN and The New York Times where far-left staff revolt against their bosses.