Two interstate trucking companies failed to install filters in hundreds of diesel trucks that spewed tons of lung-damaging pollution into the air near schools, hospitals and daycare centers in Southern California, resulting in penalties of $225,000 assessed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, air pollution agencies announced Thursday. In addition, the trucking companies will spend…

In this Nov. 17, 2007 file photo, a worker repairs a part of a unit of the Tehran oil refinery, in Tehran, Iran. Iran is preparing for the return of U.S. sanctions Nov. 5 that will hit its multi-billion dollar oil exports. Iran is bracing for the restoration of U.S. sanctions on its vital oil…

Maria Korcsmaros has been obsessed with sharks since that fateful day at sea when she was attacked by a great white while swimming the coast of Corona Del Mar in 2016. The Corona resident wants to know what they are doing, and where they are going. She can’t get enough of nature shows explaining how…

Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church says gunmen opened fire Friday, Nov. 2, 2018, on a bus carrying Christian pilgrams to Saint Samuel the Confessor monastery in the country’s Minya province. At least seven were killed, the church said. Above, Church of the Saint Misael at the monastery is seen in a 2010 photo. (Photo by Robert…

This undated family photo provided by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) shows Rose Mallinger, 97, who was one of the people killed on Oct. 27, 2018, at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue. Her daughter, Andrea Wedner, was among the wounded, the family said. (Courtesy of the Mallinger family/UPMC via AP) A 97-year-old woman…

By JILL COLVIN and COLLEEN LONG | Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says he plans to sign an order next week that could lead to the large-scale detention of migrants crossing the southern border and bar anyone caught crossing illegally from claiming asylum — two legally dubious proposals that mark his latest election-season…

They have been touted as the faces of illegal immigration, chilling examples of murderous men. The remorseless cop-killer who smirked and swaggered in court. The gang member who shot a high school football star in the head. The homeless man who sent a bullet into the back of a young woman strolling…

One hundred years ago, on Nov. 11, 1918, World War I ended. The fighting ended at 11 a.m. Paris time, “the eleventh hour on the 11th day of the 11th month.”

Police investigating the murder of a woman whose body was found in a dumpster in Anaheim arrested the man she had been dating as he was waiting to board a flight to Germany on Wednesday, Oct. 31. Anaheim police chief Jorge Cisneros, left, speaks during a press conference in Anaheim on Thursday, November 1, 2018…

Authorities arrested a man on suspicion of attempted murder after a brawl at a Mission Viejo apartment complex early Thursday that left a 19-year-old man badly injured. Orange County sheriff’s deputies responded just after 1 a.m. to the brawl at the complex in the 27000 block of Camden, a sheriff’s official said. Deputies found the…