WASHINGTON — As Donald Trump prepared to cap a remarkable comeback with a swearing-in ceremony Monday, Georgia leaders from both sides of the aisle braced for a flurry of executive orders and a new political landscape dominated by the once-and-future president’s MAGA movement.

Four years after he left the nation’s capital in disgrace, ...Read more

Fresno and the San Joaquin Valley are at the epicenter of high-speed rail development in California, as construction lumbers ahead on a 119-mile stretch from the northern fringe of Madera to the Kern County community of Shafter.

And leaders in Fresno, Merced and Bakersfield have high hopes for what the rail line — and the stations that will ...Read more

The troubled Metropolitan Detention Center jail in Brooklyn has just two doctors on staff to care for its more than 1,100 inmates, and an opening for a third physician has gone unfilled for nearly a decade.

That detail about the city’s only federal jail — which has long been plagued by delays in medical treatment, missed medical ...Read more

WASHINGTON — On the eve of his scaled-down second inauguration, President-elect Donald Trump vowed to quickly close the southern border, deport millions of undocumented immigrants and sign a litany of other executive orders when he returns to power on Monday.

“At noon, the curtain closes on four long years of American decline and we begin a...Read more

A $300 million offshore wind cable plant development project in Somerset that President Biden visited in July 2022, ushering in the country’s transition to clean energy, is off the table after its Italian developer walked away from it.

The Prysmian Group backed out of its nearly three-year endeavor of gaining necessary local and state permits...Read more

Sen. Amy Klobuchar will take the stage Monday to call to order the inauguration of incoming President Donald Trump and incoming Vice President JD Vance.

The Minnesota Democrat chairs the bipartisan Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, which is tasked with planning inauguration day. She had planned to speak at the event ...Read more

Colorado wildlife officials released 15 wolves from Canada into the central mountains over the last week as part of the second wave of the state’s historic, voter-mandated reintroduction of the native predator.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife biologists began capturing the wolves on Jan. 10, and agency officials announced Sunday that CPW had ...Read more

A Starbucks employee was attacked by a customer’s pet monkey, Alabama police say.

The incident happened on Friday, Jan. 10, the Mobile Police Department said in a Jan. 19 email. The animal and its owner were gone by the time officers arrived, but investigators pieced together what happened.

The employee was working the drive-through when a ...Read more

Venezuela’s opposition leader Maria Corina Machado called on her supporters to boycott this year’s regional and parliamentary elections, paving the way for the ruling party to consolidate its control in the country.

“Until the July 28 election results come into effect, it’s not appropriate to participate in elections of any kind,” ...Read more

Uncertainty about her place in America has followed Jenni Hernandez since before she could remember.

Her mother says Hernandez’s first steps as a baby were crossing the border when the family left their home in Hidalgo, Mexico. When she was as young as 6, her father began warning her about the persistent threat of deportation.

Her anxiety ...Read more

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is pulling out all the stops to support the roughly 5 million undocumented Mexicans living in the U.S. Her administration has launched a panic app for those detained, lined up more than 2,600 lawyers and nearly 2,200 consulate workers, and her foreign minister has met with officials in every border state.

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Forever chemicals run through the water supply of Hastings, Minn., and city Public Works Director Ryan Stempski believes he knows why.

“I can throw a football over to 3M Cottage Grove,” he said.

That short distance — and the river separating Hastings from several 3M plants — has been an obstacle to accessing millions of dollars to help...Read more

Despite San Francisco police repeatedly saying OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji’s death was a suicide, influential figures on both ends of the political spectrum are spreading questions about foul play, raised by the young man’s grieving family, around the world.

Former Fox News provocateur Tucker Carlson, on his Tuesday podcast, spoke ...Read more

The descendants of the Los Angeles Basin's first people had not had land of their own for nearly 200 years.

Two years ago, a 1-acre property in suburban Altadena dotted with oak trees and shrubs became the first parcel of land returned to the Tongva people. They finally had a space to host traditional ceremonies, community gatherings and other ...Read more

A new county report has flagged 18 local homelessness programs that depend, at least in part, on money at risk of disappearing.

But that problem is rooted in a bigger mess.

Service organizations have long had to rely on funding from a range of sources, from federal grants to one-off donations, making their work dependent on a patchwork of ...Read more

At the stroke of midnight on Sunday, TikTok users in the United States were momentarily silenced, after the Supreme Court unanimously upheld a new law, which requires the social media app's Chinese owner to sell off TikTok's U.S. business or face a nationwide ban.

Within hours of the shutdown however, President-elect Donald Trump announced that...Read more

As Donald Trump takes the oath of office Monday for the second time, the world is watching with a mix of fascination, curiosity, elation or dread — and a sense that this time around, those outside the United States perhaps have a better idea of what to expect from his presidency.

Even before Inauguration Day, the 2 1/2 months of transition ...Read more

As President-elect Donald Trump takes office and gains the power to enact a threatened mass deportation of undocumented immigrants, officials who run Bay Area jails say they will uphold state laws that keep them out of immigration enforcement actions.

Citing state laws passed during Trump’s first term, several law enforcement leaders over the...Read more

Mike McGrew estimates his family has more than 320 years of cumulative experience in police and firefighting work.

His dad was chief of the Santa Barbara Fire Department. His grandfather was with the L.A. city fire department. He was a police officer for 31 years.

"I've got a long line over three generations," the retired homicide and major ...Read more

Seven months ago, presidential candidate Donald Trump narrowly escaped a would-be assassin’s bullet at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The bullet grazed Trump’s ear and forced him to duck for cover, but the former — and ultimately future — president was back on his feet moments later with a defiant, fist-pumping message for thousands of...Read more