Saunders will exit before Mayor-elect Danny Avula takes helm on Jan. 1.

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Officials met with a standing-room audience to discuss the Staples Mill site.

The city no longer sponsors an overflow inclement weather shelter.

The state Department of Corrections director has disputed allegations of abuse.

A motive has not been established for the death of UnitedHealthcare's Brian Thompson.

A curfew has been enforced in downtown LA as anti-ICE protests persist. Here's why the Marines and National Guard troops have been deployed there. And, Trump appeals his criminal conviction today.

The magazine Nature announced the results of its annual Scientist at Work photography contest. The six winning entries are a set of dramatic, intimate portraits of research from all over the globe.

Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Homeland Security, explains why the Trump administration has deployed National Guard and Marine troops to Los Angeles amid protests against immigration raids.

Seattle, along with other cities, is struggling to balance the need for more housing with the preservation and growth of trees that help address the impacts of climate change.

The crackdown on the video game and its users is just the latest in what democracy and human rights advocates say is an erosion of Hong Kong's civil rights and freedoms.