A bride-to-be in Chicago returned a wedding gown that had been missing for 17 years after a grieving California mom had sent it out to be cleaned.
Nov 4, 2026
Two people were charged with concealing a man's death inside his Santa Barbara apartment. They are accused of wrapping his body in a bedroll, stuffing it into a metal container and covering it with plastic wrap.
In Texas, voters in majority-Latino districts near San Antonio and along the border helped Democrats break Republicans' longstanding grip on the state to win the races for governor, lieutenant governor and senator.
Democrats swept California's statewide down-ballot races — no surprise in a state where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by a nearly two-to-one margin, and voters haven't elected a Republican to a statewide office since 2006.
Jacqueline Kelly and her team will report to Letitia James, who was appointed last month by Gov. Kathy Hochul as a special prosecutor overseeing the Cornell probe.
Marissa Roy, a 34-year-old deputy state attorney general, has vowed to use the power of the L.A. city attorney's office to serve as "the people's lawyer," saying she will file lawsuits against predatory landlords, wage-thieving companies and the Trump administration.
U.S. President Donald Trump faces an uphill battle in Washington now that the Democratic Party is projected to win control of both chambers of the U.S. Congress in the midterms.
On Tuesday, voters extended L.A. County's Robert Luna era, electing him to a second consecutive term as sheriff — a feat not seen since Lee Baca's tenure ended in 2014.
Some ballot measures have received decisive action from voters on issues such as public funding for housing and voter identification.
On Tuesday night, Jose Ugarte said he felt confident he could hang on to the lead. The candidates in the District 3 race in the San Fernando Valley continue to be closely tied.
Propositions 1 and 37, which will unlock billions in bond dollars for low-income housing and middle-income homewownership, passed easily Tuesday night.
Canadian leaders say it would be “dangerous” to assume relations with the U.S. will change immediately following a major sweep of the House and the Senate by the Democrats Tuesday.
Standing before L.A. mayoral candidate Nithya Raman was the coalition that made her unlikely rise happen, paralleling the one that made the Democratic Party's takeover of the House and Senate possible.