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

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.

Under those rules, which kicked in when the governor declared a state of emergency, local landlords generally can’t charge ...Read more

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 office said the banks will have a streamlined process that will not require submitting forms or documents and when the ...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 to put police on every overnight subway train in the system.

The two men were on the No. 2 train entering the Midtown ...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 Pacific Palisades to the San Fernando Valley.

The National Weather Service had issued red flag warnings of doomsday gusts as...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 families seeking legal immigration status for a spouse at risk of deportation.

The ACLU has won a settlement that will allow...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 cozying up to Trump in efforts to get a presidential pardon for his federal corruption case.

“I don’t care if it’s a ...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 to captive wild cats in Washington and Colorado, dozens of felines have died as a result of consuming H5N1-infected raw pet ...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 assess the damage of devastating wildfires earlier this month.

“The bottom line is: we’re in uncharted territories this ...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 curfews across the region as residents of burned neighborhoods return to face the damage.

As of Saturday morning, the ...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 riots in 1965 damaged or destroyed more than 600 buildings, causing insurers to flee and highlighting the need for a new ...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 in Angeles National Forest, devastated neighborhoods in Altadena and — just west of the Eaton fire's burn scar — the 170-...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 the outgoing Biden administration.

President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday he would “most likely” give TikTok a 90-day...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 social media post, the token features an illustration of the incoming U.S. president with his first in the air — an image ...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 reentry programs that help state prisoners and services for crime victims.

But a new spending plan from the governor's ...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 the bans last month, barring uncrewed aircraft from operating within a “nautical mile” of the airspace over more than ...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.

Everyone on Leilani Way knew the risks of living in the San Gabriel Mountains' fire-prone foothills. The benefits just outweighed ...Read more