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Protesters outside City Hall call for the resignations of LA City Council members Kevin de Leon and Gil Cedillo on Wednesday.

What the city council scandal reveals about LA's racial divides — and solidarity

5:03pm October 14, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

The leaked LA City Council recording underscores long-simmering racial tensions. But the city also has a history of Black-Latino partnership, which activists hope to build on in the wake of scandal.

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Robbie Coltrane arrives in London for the world premiere of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 on July 7, 2011. Coltrane, who played Hagrid in the Harry Potter movies, has died at age 72.

Arts

Actor Robbie Coltrane, who played Harry Potter's Hagrid, dies at age 72

4:50pm October 14, 2022

by The Associated Press

The Scottish actor played gentle half-giant Hagrid, a mentor to the boy wizard, in all eight Harry Potter films, released between 2001 and 2011. Coltrane died Friday at a hospital in Scotland.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz reacts at his trial in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Thursday.

National

A juror in the Parkland shooting case says she felt threatened by another juror

4:49pm October 14, 2022

by The Associated Press

Prosecutors in the case of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz are calling for an investigation after a juror said she felt threatened by another member of the jury during deliberations.

A customer exits a Kroger grocery store on Sept. 9 in Houston, Tx.

National

Kroger and Albertsons plan merger to combine 2 largest supermarket chains

4:19pm October 14, 2022

by Alina Selyukh

The $25-billion deal is likely to draw intense scrutiny from federal regulators and critics as it would form a new supermarket colossus at a time of soaring food costs.

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Neighbors embrace on Friday as police continue to investigate the scene of a shooting that occurred Thursday night in Raleigh, N.C.

Suspect in Raleigh shooting is 15 years old and in critical condition, police say

4:10pm October 14, 2022

by Bill Chappell

The victims include three women, a 16-year-old boy and an off-duty police officer, officials said at a news conference Friday morning.

Journalists raise their hands for questions as Britain's Prime Minister Liz Truss holds a news conference in the Downing Street Briefing Room in central London, Friday. Truss let go her finance chief Kwasi Kwarteng and reversed course on sweeping tax cuts.

World News

The U.K. prime minister fires her finance chief and nixes tax cuts to calm markets

3:56pm October 14, 2022

by Willem Marx

In a move to calm financial markets and her own Conservative Party, Prime Minister Liz Truss canceled planned tax cuts for corporations and replaced Kwasi Kwarteng as treasury head with Jeremy Hunt.

Music & Culture

Alt.Latino's Espooky Szn

2:47pm October 14, 2022

by Fi O'Reilly

The leaves are changing colors, miniature candies are lining the walls of drug stores and tías y tíos are warning about the demonic roots of Halloween. Finally, Espooky season has arrived.

A handout photo issued by the group Just Stop Oil shows two protesters who threw soup at Vincent Van Gogh's famous 1888 work Sunflowers at the National Gallery in London on Friday.

Climate protesters throw soup on Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers' painting in London

12:46pm October 14, 2022

by The Associated Press

Members of a group that wants to halt new oil and gas projects threw soup over the masterpiece in London's National Gallery, but caused no discernible damage to the glass-covered painting.

The San Vicente reservoir in San Diego County stores water from as far away as the Colorado River. Pumping water into a smaller reservoir in the surrounding mountains could store excess solar power until it's needed, when the sun sets.

Environment

'Water batteries' could store solar and wind power for when it's needed

10:31am October 14, 2022

by Dan Charles

San Diego has an ambitious plan to store renewable energy, using extra solar power to pump water up a mountain. This old-style "water battery" technology could be set for a revival.

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An injured Tigray People's Liberation Front fighter who was shot in the cheek recovers after surgery at the Ayder Comprehensive Specialized Hospital in Mekele, the capital of Ethiopia's Tigray region. It's the only place in Tigray currently conducting surgery. Elsewhere, "they are stopped because there is no supply, there is no electricity, and there is no fuel," says one Tigray doctor.

'Where is humanity?' ask the helpless doctors of Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region

10:26am October 14, 2022

by Ari Daniel

Civil war has blockaded the country's northern region and decimated a hospital system that serves nearly 7 million people. Without basic supplies, power and medicine, thousands are needlessly dying.