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LOS ANGELES — More than 1,100 homes, businesses and other buildings have burned and at least five people are dead in wildfires scorching communities across Los Angeles County, making this one of the most destructive ...Read more

Midway through a three-year plan initiated by Gov. JB Pritzker to move out roughly half the residents of Choate Developmental Center in downstate Anna following years of reported resident abuse, a watchdog report has found...Read more

In his fifth annual address, Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear touted the state’s historic private-sector economic investment and encouraged residents — and lawmakers — to rise above political and ideological differences ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — By Wednesday morning, it looked as if a bomb had detonated on Sunset Boulevard.

As the catastrophic Palisades fire receded from one of the city’s iconic thoroughfares, smoke and ash rendered the once-...Read more

Daniel Lurie, an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune, took office as San Francisco’s new mayor on Wednesday with a vow to upend the status quo in a city struggling to revive itself as a thriving tech and financial hub.

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Taylor Swift's boyfriend thinks summer is the perfect time for a wedding.

The singer, 35, has been dating NFL star Travis Kelce, 35, since 2023 and the pair have recently been at the centre of rumours they have got ...Read more

Paris Hilton, Sir Anthony Hopkins, John Goodman, Billy Crystal and Miles Teller are the latest celebrities to have their homes razed to the ground by the killer Palisades wildfires.

Los Angeles has been plagued by ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The state of Alaska on Monday sued the Biden administration over restrictions set on an upcoming oil and gas lease sale in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

The state argues in the complaint that ...Read more

As fire crews battle major blazes in the Los Angeles area, Northern California remains largely free of wildfire risk thanks to a stark contrast in weather patterns.

Recent months have brought normal to above-average ...Read more

A discrimination lawsuit filed by a Capitol Police officer against the department in 2018 might be heading to trial later this year.

On Wednesday, Judge Jia M. Cobb of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Weary Los Angeles firefighters are dealing with a new fire that broke out Wednesday evening in the Hollywood Hills.

The fire is near Runyon Canyon, LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley said.

“I don’t have a lot...Read more

A dentist who formerly worked in California prisons sued the state earlier this month, alleging she was retaliated against after raising concerns that other dental professionals neglected patients and performed ...Read more

Opening arguments began Wednesday afternoon in Minneapolis' federal courthouse to determine how much money the city of St. Paul must pay the family of Cordale Quinn Handy, a 29-year-old killed by a police officer in 2017. ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration canceled a transgender activist’s driver’s license after the popular TikToker publicly posted about changing the stated gender on their ID.

James Rose, a ...Read more

Now officially seven months on board the International Space Station, the two NASA astronauts who flew up on Boeing’s Starliner last June have a busy schedule in the new year while awaiting their flight home in the ...Read more

SpaceX completed its first launch from Kennedy Space Center for the year on Wednesday morning.

A Falcon 9 carrying 21 Starlink satellites lifted off at 10:27 a.m. Eastern time from KSC’s Launch Pad 39-A.

The first-...Read more

SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois General Assembly launched a new two-year term on Wednesday with inauguration ceremonies that came on the heels of a tension-filled lame duck session marked by sparring between Democratic Gov. ...Read more

President Joe Biden’s administration plans one additional round of restrictions on the export of artificial intelligence chips from the likes of Nvidia Corp. just days before leaving office, a final push in his effort to...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As L.A. County fires continue to wreak havoc, a fire-tracking app run by a Bay Area nonprofit is gaining popularity.

Watch Duty, launched in 2021, combines publicly available maps of fire incidents and ...Read more

A U.S. dockworkers union reached a tentative deal on a new labor contract with a group of ocean carriers and terminal operators that, if ratified would avoid a shutdown of East and Gulf coast ports next week.

“We are ...Read more