WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump sealed a deal that gives the U.S. government a nearly 10% stake in Intel Corp., part of an unconventional bid to reinvigorate the beleaguered company and boost domestic chip manufacturing.

Under the agreement, the U.S. will receive 433.3 million shares of common stock — representing 9.9% of the fully ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A day after his younger brother was denied release, Lyle Menendez also saw California parole officials reject his bid for freedom, ruling he will remain behind bars for now for the 1989 shotgun murders of his parents.

The parole board grilled Menendez, 57, over his efforts to get witnesses to lie during his trials, the ...Read more

If there was a wish that California native Michele Bukieda hoped she’d see come true one day, it was that In-N-Out Burger would open a location in Washington state.

That wish came true Wednesday when the popular burger chain opened its doors in Ridgefield, a small town 20 miles north of Portland, Ore.

“I’m 4 minutes from the new ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — A fire that’s roughly 400 miles away — and not to the west or northwest of Boise — brought a wall of smoke and lower air quality to the Treasure Valley on Thursday night, and it will stick through the weekend, the National Weather Service said.

The Island Creek Fire near Elk Creek in north-central Idaho is producing the ...Read more

At least five people have died and dozens more were injured following a tour bus crash on I-90 roughly 25 miles east of Buffalo.

The crash occurred Friday around 12:40 p.m. on the New York State Thruway near Pembroke in Genesee County, as the bus was traveling back to New York City from Niagara Falls.

New York State Police said there were 54 ...Read more

President Nicolás Maduro is calling on Venezuelans to enlist in national militias ahead of the potential arrival of U.S. warships in the Caribbean.

State TV on Friday urged men and women to sign up at army bases and public squares, with a presenter declaring that “when your country calls, it’s as if your mother was calling.”

“We call ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The oppressive heat wave broiling California and much of the West will continue to bring dangerously hot temperatures — and likely more record-breakers — for even longer than forecasters first predicted.

The heat advisories in effect across Southern California, including the extreme heat warning, are being extended through ...Read more

German Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil defended the governing coalition’s economic policies and pledged to push ahead with additional reforms by the end of the year to help spur growth.

As Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s government faces mounting pressure to deliver on promises to rekindle growth, Klingbeil told Funke Media Group that the ...Read more

President Donald Trump said Friday he’s preparing to expand federal deployments of the National Guard beyond Washington, D.C., with Chicago and New York among the cities under review.

The president has already moved the D.C.’s Police Department under federal control and ordered about 2,000 troops to patrol the nation’s capital. In the ...Read more

California state parole officials had not yet publicly announced that Erik Menendez would remain behind bars, but word of the outcome was already spreading among his family members early Thursday evening.

Stunned and angry at the decision, some relatives took to social media just as news broke that Menendez, 54, had been denied parole for the ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — When Troy C. Leonard, who worked on designing the President’s House almost two decades ago, first found out that exhibits at the site are at risk under the Trump administration, he said, he was crushed.

“I was devastated that the exhibit that we had worked so hard on and spent so much time and thought so critically about ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Adams administration announced Friday it has approved driverless-taxi company Waymo’s application to test autonomous vehicles in Gotham — but the robotaxis won’t be picking up passengers anytime soon.

“We’re a tech-friendly administration and we’re always looking for innovative ways to safely move our city forward,�...Read more

Elon Musk tried to enlist Mark Zuckerberg for his unsolicited bid to buy OpenAI this year for almost $100 billion, the startup said in a court filing.

OpenAI said Musk identified Zuckerberg, the chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., as one of the people with whom he had communicated about potentially financing a deal to purchase the ...Read more

For much of this month, Wall Street traders piled into stocks and bonds, betting that the Federal Reserve was finally ready to start cutting interest rates again. All they were waiting on was the green light from Jerome Powell to keep the rally going.

They got exactly what they were looking for on Friday, when the Fed Chair unleashed the ...Read more

Just hours after President Donald Trump suggested Chicago would be the next location for a federal troop deployment like the one occurring in Washington, D.C., both Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker said the president would be illegally abusing his power if he follows through on the threat.

“The problem with the President’s ...Read more

Stocks surged, reversing a week of losses and sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average to a record, while bond yields fell as surprisingly dovish comments by Jerome Powell convinced investors that rate cuts are all but guaranteed.

By shifting focus toward risks in the jobs market, the Federal Reserve chief signaled it may not wait for perfect ...Read more

FBI agents searched the home of John Bolton, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, in a sign that the White House is stepping up a campaign of retribution against some of its fiercest critics.

The search is linked to an inquiry into whether Bolton retained or disseminated classified documents, according to a person ...Read more