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A San Francisco woman delivered her baby on the roadside Saturday after gridlock trapped her family car short of the hospital. Karollyn and her partner, Nate, were threading through Golden Gate Park toward a birthing center when traffic froze solid…
Smithsonian researchers say DNA from Thomas Jefferson’s own hair has yielded what they call extraordinary proof that he fathered children with Sally Hemings. The project, led by Smithsonian scholar Richard Kurin, 72, spent 15 years sequencing the third president’s entire…
Lindsay “Daisey” Davis hijacked a Santa Monica City Council debate stage last week, leaving rival candidates frozen in place as she led breathing exercises and stripped off her shirt. Davis, who campaigns as the “Venice Healer,” had been standing among…
California flight attendants and their unions are blasting a new Federal Aviation Administration proposal they call “plainly unlawful” that would strip crews of state-mandated meal breaks. The FAA wants to exempt pilots and flight attendants from California’s meal-break laws, claiming…
Karla Ibarra spoke out after being arrested for abandoning her infant son. The 18-year-old Texas mother was charged with abandoning and endangering a child with intent to return after police said she handed her 1-month-old boy to a stranger at…
A Queens city councilman called out a fresh street takeover at a familiar trouble spot after motorcycle riders swarmed a Middle Village gas station and filled the intersection with smoke. Councilman Phil Wong, who represents the district, posted footage on…
A passenger jumped overboard from a Carnival cruise ship bound for Southern California, prompting an immediate search operation at sea on Saturday. The incident occurred aboard the Carnival Panorama as the vessel sailed from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, toward Long Beach,…
A Royal Caribbean cruise ship bound for New Jersey was delayed in the Bahamas on Friday after two passengers, including a 7-year-old child, were evacuated in critical condition. The Oasis of the Seas was held in Nassau so the pair…
Chrissy Payne, 47, was ordered held on $50,000 cash bail during a chaotic Sunday arraignment where she repeatedly interrupted the judge and tried to justify her past violence. The Brooklyn woman faces attempted-kidnapping and endangerment charges for trying to abduct…
California’s home insurance crisis has reached suburban neighborhoods previously considered safe from wildfire risk, forcing homebuyers into bare-bones policies with deductibles topping $25,000. Tech worker Alex Hwang, who was closing on a roughly $700,000 six-bedroom home in Menifee’s Cimarron Ridge…
President Donald Trump revealed his planned 250-foot D.C. Triumphal arch will now serve as an active military installation. The former president announced the pivot in a Truth Social post, stating the structure will function as what he called a “top…
Jeff Woodke has released a memoir recounting more than six years in militant captivity after his 2016 kidnapping in Niger. Woodke, 65, of McKinleyville, Northern California, published “All the Way Home” last week, detailing his abduction by a West African…
A haunting photo of Daria Serkov on a Citi Bike posted to Instagram more than a year ago has resurfaced after the 15-year-old was killed riding one of the shared bicycles in Manhattan. Serkov, a twin from New York City,…
A Texas judge has cleared the medically fragile infant to leave the state but the surrogate isn’t done fighting. Nausheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed, a couple from California, hired McKenna West, 28, an Alaska nurse, to carry their child after…
Charles Spencer is drawing a direct line between the media barrage that hounded his sister Princess Diana and the treatment Prince Harry and Meghan Markle now face. The 9th Earl Spencer, 62, sat down with the BBC on Sunday to…
UMass Dartmouth chancellor Mark A. Fuller has spoken out after freshman running back Marvins Antoine, 18, was fatally stabbed in Providence early Saturday. The Boston native and Durfee High School graduate was pronounced dead upon arrival at Rhode Island Hospital,…