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Some of Marvel's top Avengers have assembled to support a $5 million donation to benefit seriously ill children in hospitals around the globe. Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Paul Rudd and Brie Larson helped unveil the donation of money and toys to benefit...

The parents of a woman killed by an immigrant who was released from custody despite a federal request that he be held cannot sue San Francisco for negligence over the death that touched off a fierce national debate, a U.S. appeals court ruled. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of...

A Kansas sheriff says a man who was charged along with his mother in the death of a homeless man from Oklahoma has been arrested. The Cherokee County Sheriff's office said in a news release that Ty Bohlander was arrested Wednesday in Santa Monica, California. Bohlander and his mother, Diana...

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Hal Blaine, the Hall of Fame session drummer and virtual one-man soundtrack of the 1960s and '70s who played on the songs of Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley and the Beach Boys and laid down one of music's most memorable opening riffs on the Ronettes' "Be My Baby," died Monday. Blaine died of natural...

The Trump administration's decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census "threatens the very foundation of our democratic system" because it would cause a significant undercount of immigrants and Latinos that could distort the distribution of congressional seats, a U.S. judge said...

Police and fire officials in Anaheim, California reminded drivers that cars parked in front of hydrants are prone to getting their windows smashed during an emergency. Watch the latest video at

The illegal immigrant killed by police in a shocking shootout with a California cop Sunday was deported from the United States three times and released despite ICE’s multiple objections, reports Fox News. “The illegal immigrant killed Sunday in a shootout with a California cop had been deported...

Peter Tork, a talented singer-songwriter and instrumentalist whose musical skills were often overshadowed by his role as the goofy, lovable bass guitarist in the made-for-television rock band The Monkees, has died at age 77. Tork's son Ivan Iannoli told The Associated Press his father died Thursday...

Winter storms in the U.S. Southwest brought snow to places it rarely falls, dusting casino marquees on the Las Vegas Strip and sticking at very low elevations on the foothills around Southern California. "No need to panic Los Angeles — the LAPD is on snow watch," the city's police department...