The Santa Ana wind forecast for Southern California has worsened, and forecasters now expect to issue a red flag fire weather warning starting Monday, with the "risk of large fire growth" should ignitions occur.

"This is now a strong Santa Ana wind event and extreme fire weather," said Rose Schoenfeld, meteorologist with the National Weather ...Read more

The legions of lobbyists who have long worked the halls of Congress and federal agencies to secure their policy priorities have a new target: A shadow federal department run by the world’s richest man, Elon Musk.

The Musk-run initiative, dubbed the Department of Government Efficiency, is supposed to advise President-elect Donald Trump on ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump asked technology companies to “not let TikTok stay dark” and announced he would extend a deadline to sell the company after the video platform suspended its services in the U.S. and Apple Inc. and Google removed the platform from their app stores.

“I will issue an executive order on Monday to extend the period...Read more

As South Korean authorities extended President Yoon Suk Yeol's detention Sunday, his supporters stormed the courthouse that issued the warrant, smashing windows with police shields and using fire hydrants to spray officers.

"Whether the communists die or I die, I'm going to see this to the end," shouted one as he climbed over a wall.

Some ...Read more

Three female Israelis have been freed by Hamas, the first of several dozen hostages set to be released under a new ceasefire deal in Gaza.

The three women — Romi Gonen, Doron Steinbrecher and Emily Damari, who’s also a British national — were transferred by the Red Cross to the Israel Defense Forces in the Gaza strip, according to a ...Read more

TikTok suspended its services for U.S.-based users while Apple Inc. and Google removed the platform from their mobile app stores to avoid penalties under a new law, as the social media company awaits a possible reprieve from President-elect Donald Trump to continue operations.

“A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the U.S.,” TikTok said...Read more

Shared testimonies, collective singing, silent meditation and baptism rituals – these are all activities you might find at a Christian church service on a Sunday morning in the United States. But what would it look like if atheists were gathering to do these rituals instead?

Today, almost 30% of adults in the United States say they ...Read more

As flu season progresses, so does the chorus of advice, professional and otherwise, to drink plenty of fluids and take fever-reducing medications, like acetaminophen, ibuprofen or aspirin.

These recommendations, well-intentioned and firmly entrenched, offer comfort to those sidelined with fever, flu or vaccine side effects. But you ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Once, it was somewhere.

“If you drive there, you’re driving through my backyard,” Rochelle Atkins said. “I tell my grandchildren, that’s where I used to live, by the lamp post.”

Her childhood home at 1916 W. Mulberry St. is long gone, demolished, along with nearly 1,000 others, to construct a highway meant to extend ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The fire refugees arrive with regularity at the checkpoint on Pacific Coast Highway. They come alone or in pairs, lining up behind the clutch of police cruisers and a National Guard Humvee, pleading to get back to homes inside the Palisades wildfire perimeter.

They want medicines and other necessities, sure. But they also want a...Read more

LAS VEGAS — When a man wielding a metal bat charged at police officers outside a southeast Las Vegas Valley apartment complex in September, Metropolitan Police Department officers deployed an electronic control device — some of these are more popularly known as Tasers — in an effort to stop him.

It didn’t work, police said. When the man...Read more

TikTok was unavailable for U.S.-based users late Saturday after the company failed to thwart a nationwide shutdown required under a new national security law that takes effect Sunday.

“A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the U.S.,” according to an in-app pop-up message. “Unfortunately, that means you can’t use TikTok for now.”

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ATLANTA — With Donald Trump just days away from returning to the White House — and getting started on a promised immigration crackdown of historic proportions — a majority of Georgia voters said they believe that most immigrants living in the country illegally should be given a chance to remain.

That’s according to a new poll by The ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The former human resources director of the Broad is suing the Los Angeles museum and its former chief operating officer, accusing them of discrimination, retaliation and sexual harassment.

In the lawsuit filed Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, former HR director Darron Rezell Walker accuses former COO Alysa Gerlach ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Squeals of joy can be heard from the playground at Eagle Rock Recreation Center. A group of 30 children is huddled into groups according to their favorite breakfast item.

“I like pancakes better than waffles,” one child announced.

“Pancakes, pancakes!” they chanted together as they beckoned for others to join them.

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WASHINGTON — Most of the people flying from Georgia to Washington this weekend were coming to celebrate Donald Trump’s return to the White House. Sarah Sheehan was in town to protest it.

The Griffin resident met up with her mother and her mother’s co-worker, two nurses who traveled from Oregon. Together, the three of them participated ...Read more

As inauguration day approaches, members of the crypto industry are eagerly anticipating a slew of digital asset friendly executive actions at the dawn of a second Trump administration.

Potentially at the top of the wish list would be an executive order prompting the regulatory agencies, including the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the...Read more

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 Florida ostensibly still on the map of battleground states. Republicans held power in Tallahassee, but by simple majorities in ...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 raided slot-machine parlors in suburban West Palm Beach, Fort Pierce, Vero Beach and Zephyrhills, confiscating machines and cash...Read more