“When it happened, I was like, ‘Oh my God — it’s time,’” the conductor Elim Chan said of her appointment in San Francisco. “It is groundbreaking. It’s another ceiling broken.”

Spencer Pratt’s campaign has received a boost from A.I. videos that depict him as a superhero fighting Democratic leaders.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s mandate is more exploratory in ideas than a law that will immediately change the jobs picture for California residents.

A billboard in Tehran showing the three supreme leaders, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomenei, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his son, Mojtaba Khamenei.

OpenAI’s president, Greg Brockman, right, was also named in Mr. Musk’s lawsuit.

The blaze, called the Sandy fire, broke out on a warm, breezy day in Simi Valley.

At a hospital in Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of Congo, the center of a new Ebola outbreak.

Luigi Mangione’s lawyers have argued that the evidence found in his backpack when he was arrested was obtained illegally and cannot be used at trial.

Nearly all of the 19 people who died in the Eaton fire lived in West Altadena.

Susannah Flood, seated, and fellow cast members in “Liberation.”

Eight candidates took the stage at Pomona College in one of the final debates in the California gubernatorial primary race.

Members of Falun Gong during a protest meditation in Manhattan in 2024. The Chinese government has banned the group.

A citizenship ceremony for new Canadians last year in Montreal.

Federal authorities searched a house connected to Cole Tomas Allen in Torrance, Calif.

The ceremony in Baghdad on Monday at which Ali al-Zaidi was announced as prime minister-designate. The photograph was released by the president’s media office.

Sergey Brin and his girlfriend, Gerelyn “GG” Soto, at a White House artificial-intelligence dinner last year.

Many undocumented immigrants who want to file tax returns have sought the help of clinics like this one in Los Angeles.