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TAMPA, Fla. — The four years between Donald Trump’s first term in office and his second were marked by an extraordinary political shift in Florida.

In January 2021, President Joe Biden entered the White House with ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — An illegal gambling network that ran from strip-mall casinos to a warehouse in Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood was taken down this week by state and local law enforcement agencies.

Authorities ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Saturday warned landlords that price gouging rules in effect because of the L.A. County fires apply even in cases where bidding wars break out over their property.

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LOS ANGELES — Five major banks are offering homeowners up to three months of mortgage payment relief in areas devastated by the Southern California wildfires, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Saturday.

In a statement, Newsom's ...Read more

NEW YORK — A 20-year-old man was slashed with a box cutter during a fight with an older man on a subway train entering Penn Station, MTA officials said Saturday.

The attack came just a day after Gov. Kathy Hochul vowed ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Thirteen years ago, Los Angeles Fire Department officials were bracing for the kind of dangerous winds that could drive flames across hillsides and canyons and tear through neighborhoods from Malibu to the ...Read more

BOSTON — A national think tank says the ACLU of Massachusetts is “grasping for relevance” with a settlement it secured in its challenge of the first Trump administration’s pattern of separating married couples and ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Saturday doubled down on defending his meeting with soon-to-be president Donald Trump, claiming he was “fighting for” New Yorkers, as fellow Democrats accused him of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As experts continue monitoring and surveying the environment and the nation's food supply for H5N1 bird flu, a rash of dead cats has many officials on edge.

From pet cats in Los Angeles County and Oregon ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Another round of extreme fire weather is expected next week with gusts of up to 80 mph in Southern California, bringing new dangers as Pacific Palisades, Altadena and surrounding communities struggle to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Firefighters are taking advantage of a lull in the wind to make steady progress against the massive fires that have ravaged Los Angeles since Jan. 7.

Officials are also easing evacuation orders and lifting...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The California FAIR Plan Association, the state's property insurer of last resort, was born of smoldering ashes — not of a wildfire, but of one of the worst urban disturbances in U.S. history.

The Watts ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — On Jan. 11, an airborne imaging spectrometer managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory flew over Los Angeles County to survey the damage from the historic fires.

It captured images of charred hillsides ...Read more

Hours before a deadline that would require TikTok to be divested or shut down, the incoming White House administration offered a lifeline to the widely used video-sharing app — in contrast to last-minute criticism from ...Read more

The announcement came via the president-elect’s preferred social media platforms: Donald Trump was launching another crypto-related project.

Dubbed “the only official Trump meme” on the website associated with the ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — After last year's passage of Proposition 36 — a ballot measure that allows more theft and drug crimes to be charged as felonies — some opponents warned it would trigger steep funding cuts to both...Read more

NEW YORK — Drone restrictions sparked by a spate of mysterious sightings across New Jersey are set to expire this weekend — even though their origins still remain unclear.

The Federal Aviation Administration announced...Read more

LOS ANGELES — They were drawn to the Altadena foothills for the hummingbirds and the bats and the peacocks. It was the view of the canyon, downtown skyscrapers, and Santa Catalina Island, somehow all in one frame.

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LOS ANGELES — The night the Palisades fire broke out, all of Gabe Wachtel and Colin Enzer's group chats were blowing up. From longstanding text chains with friends to Enzer's fantasy football chat, the Pacific Palisades ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — President-elect Donald Trump will likely visit the Los Angeles area next week to view the wildfire damage, he said on Saturday. The trip is expected to be his first outside the nation's capital after being ...Read more