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Nicole Kidman leads an ensemble of privileged, disconnected American 'Expats'

The TV adaptation of the 2016 novel The Expatriates is set in Hong Kong and tells the stories of several women navigating expat ennui. The show is also a strangely displaced form of prestige TV.

Good thing, wings cost less and beer's flat: Super Bowl fans are expected to splurge

Super Bowl food: Chicken wings are a bargain this year, but beef prices are climbing. Here's a playbook for staying well fed without having a your wallet thrown for a loss.

Former President Donald Trump attends his trial in Manhattan criminal court on May 2. The judge in the case heard arguments related to the prosecution's request to fine Trump for violating a gag order in the case.

Trump fined $1,000 for violating gag order again and threatened with jail time

The former president received a second fine for violating a gag order prohibiting him from speaking about witnesses, jurors, court staff and their families. Trump is trying to appeal the gag order.

People participate at a ShakeOut earthquake drill at the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank in Los Angeles Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023. Up and down the West Coast, the ShakeOut drill was scheduled to begin at 10:19 a.m. PDT with a cellphone-rattling test alert from the region's ShakeAlert earthquake warning system.

San Diego County residents, businesses, government offices to partake in quake drill

Nearly 1 million people in government offices, businesses and schools throughout San Diego County will stop everything for a minute Thursday to "drop, cover and hold on" during a statewide earthquake preparedness drill, now in its 15th year.

Nucor makes steel sheets and beams at its plant in Berkeley County, S.C.

Republican attacks on ESG aren't stopping companies in red states from going green

Conservatives attack financial firms that consider environmental, social and corporate governance issues. But companies in red states won't stop trying to operate more sustainably.

January flood victim Jackie Jo Lopez and her dog Paquito sitting in their temporary lodging hotel room in the Chula Vista neighborhood of San Diego, CA on April 2, 2024.

San Diego County's Emergency Temporary Lodging program set to expire for flood victims

Some flood victims staying in hotel rooms are being notified they have a week before their vouchers expire.

A man sorts through the remains of a home damaged by a tornado on Tuesday in Greenfield, Iowa.

Search and rescue efforts continue after tornado slams Iowa, killing at least 1 person

The tornado that struck Tuesday left a wide swath of obliterated homes and crumpled cars. Officials did not immediately give details of other deaths or injuries.

People using PedWest to cross into the U.S. San Ysidro, Calif. Jan., 9, 2023. After nearly three years, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reopened a pedestrian crossing from Tijuana into San Diego. The PedWest crossing was closed at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, but when the travel restrictions were lifted it was not reopened. Thousands of asylum seekers made a makeshift camp on the Mexican side of the PedWest crossing hoping to be some of the first to cross when the crossing reopened. Mexican authorities eventually cleared the camp and moved the asylum seekers to other parts of Tijuana. Few people used PedWest to cross into the U.S. Monday, Jan. 9, 2023, but authorities expect that to increase as more learn the crossing is now open.

PedWest border crossing reopens Thursday

The agency closed the popular pedestrian border crossing in December, citing an influx of illegal immigration.

U.S. passport applicants now have a third gender choice, in a move to make the document more inclusive for people who identify as nonbinary, intersex or gender-nonconforming.

San Diego City Council OKs passport fee waiver for flood victims

A fee waiver was approved for residents whose U.S. passports were either lost or damaged due to the severe weather in late January.

LSU's Angel Reese, left, and Iowa guard Caitlin Clark, center, called their Elite Eight game a great event for their sport. Millions of viewers agreed, launching the contest to the top of ESPN's ratings.

Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese's LSU-Iowa rematch nets a record audience for ESPN

Iowa and LSU drew the second-largest audience for any basketball game on ESPN since 2012, the network said. Reese said Wednesday that like Clark, she will leave college for the pros.

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