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California's insurance commissioner says he will write new rules for insurers in the nation's most populous state.

The Energy Department announced Friday a $325 million investment in new battery types that can help turn solar and wind energy into 24-hour power.

It’s late September, and the Detroit Tigers still haven’t been eliminated from the playoff race. All they have to do is win their last nine games and they’ve got a chance.

A new plan from California's insurance commissioner aims to keep the nation's top insurers from leaving the wildfire-prone state.

The 2,400-square-foot Household Hazardous Waste Center will open at 10843 W. Five Mile Road in Northville Township on Tuesday, Oct. 3.

Kevin Costner and his wife of nearly 19 years, Christine Baumgartner, have reached a settlement in their divorce.

Hunter Biden will plead not guilty to federal firearms charges filed after the collapse of a plea deal in a long-running federal investigation, his lawyers said Tuesday in court documents.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu kicked off a U.S. trip in California to talk to billionaire businessman Elon Musk about antisemitism on his social media platform X — while Musk asked him to address his judicial overhaul in Israel.

The same Ohio river valley where the Wright brothers pioneered human flight will soon manufacture cutting-edge electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he plans to sign into law a pair of climate-focused bills intended to force major corporations to be more transparent about greenhouse gas emissions and the financial risks stemming from global warming.

Authorities are asking for the public’s help and offering a $250,000 reward as investigators search for the assailant who shot and killed a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy as he sat in his patrol car at an intersection.

The state of California has filed a lawsuit against some of the world's largest oil and gas companies, claiming they deceived the public about the risks of fossil fuels blamed for climate change-related storms and wildfires that caused billions of dollars in damage.

California has some of the strongest digital privacy laws in the U.S. and is on the verge of handing consumers a major new tool to combat the sale and secret use of personal information they may never have agreed to share.

Efforts by the Biden administration to limit tailpipe pollution from automobiles face a crucial test as legal challenges brought by Republican-led states head to a federal appeals court.

Child poverty in the United States more than doubled and median household income declined last year when coronavirus pandemic-era government benefits expired and inflation kept rising.

The deadly firestorm in Hawaii and Hurricane Idalia’s watery storm surge helped push the United States to an annual record for the number of weather disasters that cost at least $1 billion.

Scott Dixon snagged his third win of the season with a strategic run in Sunday’s IndyCar season finale at Laguna Seca.

Officials say a pit bull puppy that California police believe got into its owners’ fentanyl stash was administered the overdose-reversing drug naloxone and is recovering.

Elon Musk's social media platform formerly known as Twitter has sued the state of California.

California lawmakers have voted to outlaw discrimination based on caste.

With Atlantic Coast Conference university leaders seemingly on the verge of deciding whether to expand with Stanford, California and SMU, two members of North Carolina’s board of trustees announced their opposition to the move.

The conference commissioners who manage the College Football Playoff have met for the first time since a wave of realignment tore apart the Pac-12.

The Supreme Court in May sharply curtailed the Clean Water Act's power to protect millions of acres of wetlands.

A decade later, Simone Biles is still on top.

California will take on Curacao in the Little League World Series championship on Sunday after both teams worked their way into the title game from the elimination bracket.

Louis Lappe homered, drove in five runs and gave up just three hits as California beat Texas 6-1 on Saturday to advance to the Little League World Series championship.

The U.S. Department of Justice has sued SpaceX, the rocket company founded and run by Elon Musk, for alleged hiring discrimination against refugees and people granted asylum.

Uber has raised the minimum age requirement for most new drivers in California to 25.

The Atlantic Coast Conference is making progress toward an expansion that could grab Stanford and California from the sinking Pac-12, a person with direct knowledge of the ACC’s potential move told The Associated Press.

A new study suggests that deep-sea “hot tubs” may help octopus eggs hatch faster.

Actors Kerry Washington and Martin Sheen have delivered rousing speeches celebrating labor unity at a rally for striking Hollywood actors and writers and other workers supporting them.

It was the first tropical storm to strike California in 84 years, and it caused damage that will take a while for residents to clean up.

Tropical Storm Hilary has drenched Southern California, swept people into swollen rivers, toppled trees onto homes and flooded roads.

Stanford has not given up on getting an invitation to join the Atlantic Coast Conference as its fellow Pac-4 members wait and hope to rebuild their plundered league.

Officials in the Northern California town of Paradise have begun installing and testing warning sirens to deploy in the event of another wildfire or other natural disaster.

Aug. 11 marks the unofficial/official 50th anniversary of hip hop.

Atlantic Coast Conference presidents and chancellors held a conference call but took no action on West Coast expansion with California and Stanford.

Zoom became a symbol of remote work during the pandemic but the company is now joining a growing return-to-office trend.

California authorities have captured four suspects in multiple break-ins at homes around South Lake Tahoe: a mama bear and three of her cubs.

The Mega Millions jackpot surged to $1.55 billion after nobody won the top prize on Friday, Aug. 4, 2023.

New research shows winter waves off California’s Pacific coast are swelling in size as the planet warms.

A new quick study finds that human-caused global warming made July hotter for four out of five people on Earth.

California’s lieutenant governor and other elected officials are urging Taylor Swift to postpone her Los Angeles concerts as a way to stand in solidarity with striking hotel workers.

Donald Trump has scored a major victory in his efforts to reshape the mosaic of state Republican Party rules that determine the GOP presidential nominee.

Work has begun on the largest dam removal project in U.S. history.

Parts of the U.S. are continuing to sizzle as July creeps toward setting a record for the hottest month ever recorded.

A massive wildfire burning out of control in California’s Mojave National Preserve is spreading rapidly amid erratic winds.

A historic heat wave that has blasted the U.S. Southwest throughout July is showing signs of abating with late-arriving monsoon rains.

Facebook parent company Meta Platforms posted stronger-than-expected results for the second quarter on Wednesday, buoyed by a rebound in online advertising after a post-pandemic slump.

Comedian Dave Chappelle will make a stop in Detroit in September as part of a short fall run of shows announced this week.

A federal lawsuit alleges that health insurance giant Cigna used a computer algorithm to automatically reject hundreds of thousands of patient claims without examining them individually as required by California law.

The Banc of California has agreed to buy PacWest Bancorp in an all-stock transaction, bringing an end to months of speculation about whether PacWest could survive on its own after the failures of three other regional banks this spring.

An investigation has concluded that the deadly crash of a Marine V-22 Osprey in California last year was caused by mechanical failure.

Tourism officials at Lake Tahoe were surprised when a respected international travel guide included the iconic alpine lake on a list of places to stay away from this year because of the harmful ecological effects of overtourism.

A sea otter launched into the national spotlight after social media images circulated of her aggressively wresting surfboards away from surfers off the coast of Santa Cruz, California is building a fan club as she continues to evade capture.

The idea of putting solar panels on top of the world's thousands of miles of irrigation canals has long seemed like a good one.

A tornado has heavily damaged a major Pfizer pharmaceutical plant in North Carolina — the latest in a string of extreme weather events plaguing the U.S. Torrential rains flooded communities in Kentucky while an area from California to South Florida endured more blistering heat on Wednesday.

In-N-Out will bar employees in five states from wearing masks unless they have a doctor’s note, according to internal company emails leaked on social media last week.

Computer chip and software maker Broadcom’s $69 billion plan to buy cloud technology company VMware has cleared another hurdle after Britain’s competition regulator gave the deal provisional clearance.

The California state auditor found that California State University colleges mishandled multiple allegations of sexual harassment against employees.

Death Valley is putting a sizzling exclamation point on a record warm summer across the globe as it flirts with some of the hottest temperatures ever recorded.

Not every Ed Sheeran concert has a surprise drop-in from Eminem.

The sidewalks of Hollywood and midtown Manhattan teemed with actors joining Hollywood's writers in protest outside the corporate offices of studios, streamers, and production companies.

Air-conditioned casinos offer a welcome respite for people visiting Las Vegas as the city is hit by an intense heat wave that's put nearly one-third of Americans under heat advisories and warnings.

The Women’s World Cup is right around the corner, and the United States Women’s National Team is ready to bring home their fifth title, and third trophy in a row.

Most visitors to Death Valley National Park only make it a short distance to any site at the hottest and driest place on Earth before returning to the sanctuary of an air-conditioned vehicle.

Two former officers of a federal women’s prison in California have pleaded guilty to multiple counts of sexual abuse.

A federal judge on Thursday sentenced the man who coordinated stashing nearly two dozen migrants into a Ford Expedition that crashed into a tractor-trailer, killing 13 people.

Wildlife officials are trying to capture a wayward sea otter that has been wresting surfboards away from surfers and aggressively approaching kayakers off the coast of Santa Cruz, California.

A landslide that has destroyed homes in a Southern California community appears to have slowed but more homes have been evacuated.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says looming multi-billion budget deficits will not change his agenda for his second term in office.

Leaders of a Southern California city hit by a destructive landslide are planning to vote on a resolution to declare a local emergency.

The U.S. Women's Open went to prime time and so did Nasa Hataoka.

High schoolers from Detroit will be entering a car they designed and built in the 2023 Solar Car Challenge.

As Earth this week set and then repeatedly broke unofficial records for average global heat, it served as a reminder of a danger that climate change is making steadily worse for farmworkers and others who labor outside.

Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten is one step closer to being released from prison after California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he'll no longer fight her parole.

A California man was found dead in Wayne County inside a semi truck with smashed windows, and police believe another semi driver is to blame.

A California law approved by voters in 2018 that promises to get breeding pigs out of narrow cages will technically take effect Saturday.

California’s first-in-the-nation reparations task force met for a final time in a crowded hearing room in Sacramento Thursday.

Scorching heat blamed for at least 13 deaths in Texas and another in Louisiana is blanketing more of the Southeast.

For the first time, U.S. regulators have approved the sale of chicken made from animal cells, allowing two California companies to offer “lab-grown” meat to the nation’s restaurant tables and eventually, supermarket shelves.

The Supreme Court of California has ruled that police are not immune from civil lawsuits for misconduct that happens while they investigate crimes.

About 7.5 million “Baby Shark” bath toys are being recalled after multiple impalements, lacerations and puncture wounds were reported in children playing with them.

The Supreme Court has upheld a section of federal law used to prosecute people who encourage illegal immigration.

California's public pension fund says the personal data of more than 769,000 retired workers and beneficiaries including Social Security numbers has been stolen in the breach of a popular file-transfer application by a Russian ransomware gang that is extorting victims.

A California man has been found guilty of illegally importing an ancient mosaic from Syria.

AP health reporter JoNel Aleccia taste-tested “cell-cultivated” meat made by two California firms that were the first to get U.S. Department of Agriculture approval to sell the novel product.

The U.S. government is allowing the sale of chicken made from animal cells.

It's been two years since officials in Pennsylvania armed with a startling Facebook message that said, “So I raped you,” filed charges in a 2013 sexual assault at Gettysburg College.

About 13,561 pounds of chicken noodle soup products sold in Michigan, California, Tennessee, and Minnesota have been recalled by BCI Foods Inc.

A new study by the University of California, San Francisco shows that homeless people in California were struggling with poor health and deep poverty before becoming homeless.

Lithium ion batteries are in everything from computers to electric vehicles, to installations that bolster the electrical grid.

Kamau, the African lion who was a star attraction at California’s Sacramento Zoo, has died at age 16.

California Governor Gavin Newsom is proposing an end to public disclosure of investigations of abusive and corrupt police officers.

The railroad industry has sued to block new environmental rules in California.

The separation of migrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border has always caused Isabel Allende pain: When she saw it during the Trump administration, her first impulse was to help reunify children and parents through her foundation.

Among the most prominent of blooming plants that are seemingly everywhere in California this year following an unusually wet winter is the highly flammable wild mustard that threatens to fuel wildfires.

Last year marked a return to normal for the theme park industry around the world with operators reporting revenues at par or above pre-pandemic levels.

The union for thousands of West Coast dockworkers has reached a tentative agreement on a new contract after more than a year of negotiations and several work disruptions that snarled shipping traffic at some of the largest ports.

It's been 60 years since civil rights leader Medgar Evers was murdered outside his Mississippi home.