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Police block the street to a house where three people were killed and four others wounded in a shooting at a short-term rental home in an upscale Los Angeles neighborhood on Saturday.

Police say at least 3 people are dead, 4 hurt in the latest California mass shooting

The incident early Saturday in an upscale Los Angeles neighborhood was the latest of several mass shootings in California.

Protests grow across the U.S. as people push against Trump's mass deportation policies

Protests of President Trump's immigration policies grew across the U.S. on Tuesday, with rallies held in New York City, Chicago and Seattle.

Cast of 'How I Got Over, A Gospel Revue'

Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe continues its 'Soul of a People' theater season with gospel revue

Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe continues its “Soul of a People” theatre season with “How I Got Over: A Gospel Revue.” The show runs February 18 through March 29.

Emergency responders work the scene of a fatal crash late Tuesday in Andrews County, Texas. A vehicle carrying members of the University of the Southwest's golf teams collided head-on with a pickup truck in West Texas, killing multiple people, authorities said.

9 people died in a Texas crash involving college golf teams from New Mexico

Those killed in the head-on crash in West Texas included six students and a coach from the University of the Southwest who were returning home from a golf tournament, authorities said.

A screenshot from a video taken by a person on a nearby boat shows a whale just as it is about to crash down on another boat off the coast of Portsmouth, N.H., on Tuesday.

A breaching whale capsized a boat, tossing 2 people overboard off New Hampshire coast

The Coast Guard said the two boaters were uninjured and their boat salvaged. They said the whale appeared to be uninjured.

Google agreed Dec. 28, to settle a $5 billion privacy lawsuit claiming that it continued spying on people who used the "incognito" mode in its Chrome browser — along with similar "private browsing" modes in other browsers — to track their internet use.

Google settles $5 billion privacy lawsuit over tracking people using 'incognito mode'

The class-action lawsuit said Google misled users into believing that it wouldn't track their internet activities while using 'incognito mode.' Terms of the settlement weren't disclosed.

Researchers are using MRI scans to learn more about the brains of people with extraordinary memory.

Why Can Some People Recall Every Day Of Their Lives? Brain Scans Offer Clues

People with extraordinary autobiographical memories also tend to have obsessive tendencies, researchers are learning. Brain scans reveal structural differences in the brains of these people, including a larger-than-normal caudate, a brain area linked to OCD.

Wegovy and Zepbound are GLP-1 weight loss treatments. They are available by prescription.

Quit a GLP-1? Plan to start again? It's not recommended, but plenty of people do it

A majority of people who start the obesity and diabetes medicines known as GLP-1s also quit them, and plan to restart again. Research hasn't yet shown the health impacts of cycling on and off the drugs.

The new obesity drugs work, but it's a dilemma when people have to stop taking them

There are lots of reasons people have to stop taking the new weight loss drugs: cost, shortages, side effects and life events. And the weight usually comes back, doctors say.

In His 9 Months On The Job, Special Counsel Robert Mueller Has Charged 19 People

Less than a year on the job investigating Russian election interference, special counsel Robert Mueller has secured criminal charges against 19 people including five guilty pleas.

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