Police officers cannot detain someone on the street just because that person tries to avoid contact with them, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

Los Angeles has rebounded after the dark days of COVID-19 to reassert itself as one of the country’s most popular travel destinations. The recovery, however, is incomplete as visits from international travelers remain well below pre-pandemic levels.

East Africa is bracing for more floods, as torrential rain after years of drought deliver a reminder of the threat created by climate change.

“Star Wars” actor Mark Hamill dropped by the White House on Friday for a visit with President Joe Biden and walked away with a pair of the president’s aviator sunglasses and a greater respect for the office.

College administrators hope that the end of the school year will diminish the protests, but the activists are making plans for the summer and beyond.

An Army lieutenant colonel assigned to Fort Campbell, Ky., was arrested Thursday on federal charges for importing firearms parts from Russia and other countries and dealing in firearms without a federal license to do so, according to the Justice Department.

Thirty sailors and Marines suffered injuries in an amphibious watercraft accident off the coast of Jacksonville, Fla., during a training exercise late Wednesday, Navy officials said.

Columbia University President Minouche Shafik is facing intense pressure and calls for her resignation in the aftermath of protests decrying the war in Gaza that have roiled the campus.

With the midday sun blazing, an experimental orange and white F-16 fighter jet launched with a familiar roar that is a hallmark of U.S. airpower. But the aerial combat that followed was unlike any other: This F-16 was controlled by artificial intelligence, not a human pilot. And riding in the front seat was Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall.

British Foreign Secretary David Cameron announced that Britain has given Ukraine permission to strike targets on Russian territory with the weapons in a new $3 billion multiyear aid package it is providing.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas and his wife were indicted on conspiracy and bribery charges and taken into custody Friday in connection with a U.S. Department of Justice probe into the couple’s ties to the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan.

The Houthi group based in Yemen threatened to start trying to attack ships in the eastern Mediterranean as it steps up a campaign of anti-Israeli assaults.

A combination of voter apathy about President Biden and former President Trump and the Kennedy campaign’s successful targeting of ballot qualification rules across the nation has prompted growing alarm among Democrats and Republicans alike.

President Biden on Friday will give the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to 19 people - with recipients covering nearly every corner of American life.

Google’s preeminence as an internet search engine is an illegal monopoly propped up by more than $20 billion spent each year by the tech giant to lock out competition, Justice Department lawyers argued at the closings of a high-stakes antitrust lawsuit.

Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign was seized with worry about the potential political damage from a tape that showed Trump bragging about grabbing women sexually without their permission, longtime Trump adviser Hope Hicks testified Friday at his hush money trial.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged the UK to speed up weapons deliveries during a visit by Foreign Secretary David Cameron as ammunition shortages undercut Kyiv’s ability to hold the frontline.

A former government employee has been charged with repeatedly submitting fake tips to the FBI reporting that several of his co-workers in the intelligence community were part of a mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, according to court filings unsealed Friday.

A top U.N. official said that hard-hit northern Gaza was now in “full-blown famine” after more than six months of war between Israel and Hamas and severe Israeli restrictions on food deliveries to the Palestinian territory.