Northern Californians can expect widespread power cuts aimed at preventing wildfires for a decade while Pacific Gas & Electric upgrades wires systems, cuts back trees and takes other safety measures, the utility's chief executive said on Friday.

Texas prosecutors said on Friday they would seek a murder indictment against the former Fort Worth police officer who shot dead a 28-year-old black woman in her home.

A landmark trial over the U.S. opioid epidemic is on track to begin on Monday after drug companies and local governments failed to agree on a settlement on Friday that had been expected to be valued at around $50 billion.

Striking Chicago public school teachers reported some headway at the bargaining table on Friday in a contract dispute focused on reducing class sizes and other issues that would benefit students.

President Donald Trump's withholding of $391 million in military aid to Ukraine was linked to his request that the Ukrainians look into a claim - debunked as a conspiracy theory - about the 2016 U.S. election, a senior presidential aide said on Thursday, the first time the White House acknowledged such a connection.

By Polina Ivanova, Maria Tsvetkova, Ilya Zhegulev and Luke Baker

The former chief executive of specialty finance lender Hercules Capital Inc and a former food manufacturer executive have agreed to plead guilty to charges related to their role in the U.S. college admissions scandal, prosecutors said on Friday.

The U.S. Supreme Court stepped into a new immigration dispute on Friday, agreeing to hear an appeal by President Donald Trump's administration of a lower court ruling that could frustrate a top priority of his: quickly deporting illegal immigrants.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a challenge backed by President Donald Trump's administration to the structure of a federal agency assigned to protect consumers in the financial sector that could undermine its independence from presidential interference.

From the start of the sprawling U.S. litigation seeking to hold drugmakers and distributors liable for the country's opioid epidemic, Judge Dan Polster has made one thing clear: he never wanted a trial.

Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard accuses Mrs Clinton of a campaign to "destroy my reputation".

A school guard was fired for using a racial slur while telling a student not to use the same word.

Republican Mitch McConnell calls Turkey's Syria offensive and the US troop withdrawal a "nightmare".

Two female astronauts made history as they replaced a power unit on the International Space Station.

The former US defence secretary hits back after the president described him as "the world's most overrated general".

How Nanny Pat's homemade labour of love made her the internet's favourite grandmother.

A US official says aid to Ukraine was held up to force it to probe Democrats, but later backtracks.

The star falls off stage during her Las Vegas show after jumping into a fan's arms.

President Donald Trump confirms the former Texas governor will depart his administration.

The firm recalls one batch after regulators find trace amounts of asbestos in a bottle bought online.

With an eye toward protecting the Republican majority, Senator Mitch McConnell is preparing a serious review of impeachment articles he sees as unavoidable.

If he acted “presidential,” Mr. Trump said Thursday night in Dallas, “everybody would be out of here so fast.”

As he approaches his anniversary in the White House as acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney finds himself in a something of a netherworld.

Two years before two deadly crashes, a top pilot told a colleague that a new automated system, known as MCAS, was causing trouble in flight simulators.

Two years before the 737 Max was involved in two fatal crashes, the pilot told a colleague that a new automated system on the plane was making it difficult to control in flight simulators.

Abandoned by the U.S., Kurdish forces are doubly angry at who are seeking to replace them: Turkish-allied Syrian fighters the United States had long rejected as extremists, criminals and thugs.

By the time Mr. Pence returned to Washington, the cease-fire agreement he negotiated had been roundly denounced as a capitulation to the Turkish president.

Henchmen forced a patrol of armed forces to release Ovidio Guzmán Lopez after he had been captured.

The report appears to bookend a controversy that dogged Ms. Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.

In a podcast interview this week, the former secretary of state suggested that Ms. Gabbard was being “groomed” to run a third-party presidential campaign.

The cleaners and disinfectants used to sterilize medical equipment and wash hospital surfaces appear to increase nurses' odds of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a new study.

There are significant racial disparities in treatment of U.S. patients with multiple myeloma, a new study shows.

Using the European Synchrotron, a team of physicists have identified a new stable form of plutonium. The newly discovered compound exists in a solid state and features an unexpected, pentavalent oxidation state.

A team of scientists in Michigan have created what they believe to be a new Guinness World Record in the form of the world's largest periodic table of the elements.

A woman visiting her former home in Montana found the class ring she dropped while raking leaves 50 years earlier.

NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir are back inside the space station having completed a historic spacewalk -- the first featuring two women.

President Donald Trump meets with Italian President Sergio Mattarella at the White House. The Stanley Cup champion St. Louis Blues visit. And officials testify in the impeachment inquiry into Trump's actions in Ukraine. Those are among the highlights from Washington, D.C., for the week of October 14, 2019.

Rock cores collected from deep beneath the planet's surface suggests ancient microbes have been living inside Europe's largest meteorite crater for millions of years.

Sheriff's deputies in Florida came to the rescue of a raccoon spotted running "scared and confused" with its head stuck inside a plastic bottle.

A North Carolina driver had a close call when a utility pole ended up in the the back seat of their car right after they dropped their child off at school.

In one of the intermittent revealing moments in “QT8: Quentin Tarantino, The First Eight,” a documentary about the films of Quentin Tarantino that’s like a familiar but tasty sundae for Quentin fans, we see Tarantino on the set of “Pulp Fiction,” shooting the iconic dance contest at Jack Rabbit Slim’s. As John Travolta and Uma […]

Culture Creators, the organization which recognizes minorities in film, television, music and fashion, is holding its first-ever C2 Summit on Oct. 21 in Washington D.C. Its mission: to engage, mentor, and provide recruitment opportunities to students of color attending historically black colleges and universities. Students were selected from an application p […]

Camila Cabello’s “Never Be The Same” and “Electricity” by Mark Ronson and Silk City featuring Dua Lipa are just a few of the co-writing credits celebrated during an October 16 dinner at Nobu Malibu hosted by SESAC in honor of Rami Dawod. Named Pop Songwriter of the Year by the performance rights organization, Dawod is […]

SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains a slight spoiler for “Zombieland: Double Tap.” The zombie slayers are back! Ten years after Emma Stone, Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg and Abigail Breslin first killed dead people walking in “Zombieland,” they’ve reunited for “Zombieland: Double Tap.” “You take stock of your life a little bit,” Stone says of […] […]

English bestselling author and motivational speaker Marcus Buckingham is writing himself out of his Hollywood Hills crash pad. Barely two years after he bought the property for $3.3 million, the divorced father is moving on, having attached a $3.75 million pricetag to his charming 1920s home. Set just above the iconic Sunset Strip and a […]

After swooping in with a solid debut in Live+3, the CW’s “Batwoman” doubled in week 2 after three days of delayed viewing to a 0.6 rating from a 0.3. That figures is still down a 0.1 ratings point on the tally from its premiere. “This Is Us” finished as the top scripted show in Live+3, […]

“Cowboy Bebop” star John Cho sustained a knee injury on the set of the live-action Netflix series while filming in New Zealand in October, Variety has learned, leading to a 7-9 month break in production. While the nature of the incident that led to the injury is not altogether clear, it occurred during a rehearsed […]

Good horror movies aren’t always easy to scare up, but with Halloween on the horizon, Variety has compiled a list of some of the best horror films available on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu. NETFLIX Apostle Cult horror meets religious hypocrisy in this creepy gothic thriller, which follows prodigal son Thomas Richardson, who returns home […]

In today’s TV news roundup, NBC announced the “Making It” Season 2 premiere date and HBO Max greenlit a new docuseries from Brad Goreski and Gary Janetti. DATES Hosts Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman will return with the second season of “Making It” on NBC Dec. 2. After the show’s holiday season premiere, the show […]

Brett Gelman, best known for his scene-stealing roles in “Fleabag,” “Stranger Things” and “Love,” has joined Michael B. Jordan in Paramount’s adaptation of Tom Clancy’s “Without Remorse.” Jamie Bell and Jodie Turner-Smith are also on board. Jordan is starring as operations officer John Clark, also known as John Terrence Kelly, a former Navy SEAL who […] […]

Residents along part of the Gulf Coast were bracing for Tropical Storm Nestor on Friday, which is projected to make landfall Saturday morning and unleash flooding rain and damaging winds.

Hurricane Dorian is estimated to account for a significant part of the 2019 total.

Strong northerly winds, known as 'sundowners,' will create an extended period of high fire danger over a large part of Southern California.

A bomb cyclone slammed the Northeast this week, leaving thousands of people without power. Meanwhile, California investigators are still trying to pin down the cause of the destructive Saddle Ridge wildfire, and the death toll continued climbing after Typhoon Hagibis unleashed devastating impacts on Japan. And speaking of tropical storm threats, the Florida […]

Some people who have not yet turned on their heat may need to do so as temperatures plummet and widespread frost envelops the Northeast this weekend.

Temperatures will tumble in the central United States behind a storm set to bring rain and locally severe thunderstorms with the potential to spin up isolated tornadoes.

The fast-moving storm is packing sustained winds of 60 mph as it barrels toward the Gulf Coast.

One of the biggest astronomical events of 2019 will occur in less than a month -- and experts say you should prepare now to safely view it.

A week and a half after dodging death in Spring, Texas, Alex Coreas finally got to thank the men and women who helped save his life after he was struck by lightning. His rescuers were veterinarians working in the nearby Stuebner Airline Veterinary Hospital. Video from a security camera captured entire ordeal, including the strike and...

A storm that underwent bombogenesis and peaked over New England will still pack a punch in terms if strong winds, heavy rain and rough seas over the Maritime Provinces of Canada into Thursday night. Winds can be strong enough from the east and southeast to knock over trees and break large tree limbs in Nova...