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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

Several high-profile Haitian politicians trying to find a way out of a corruption scandal that has the country’s leadership mired in political infighting are proposing a reconfiguration of the nine-member Transitional ...Read more

A man was arrested Wednesday afternoon after trying to enter the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center with a machete and knives during the Jimmy Carter casket viewing.

The man was stopped at a security screening around 2 p.m., ...Read more

Bird flu is increasingly sparking concern across the country and in Illinois, following news this week of the first human death from the virus in the U.S., and of birds found throughout Illinois with suspected cases of the...Read more

The first thing Miles Soboroff noticed on Tuesday morning was the wind.

It was about 8 a.m., and he was sitting in front of his computer at his in-laws' home on the west side of the Pacific Palisades in the Marquez Knolls...Read more

Navy helicopters from Naval Airstation North Island will join other fire-fighting helicopters in the skies over Southern California, officials at the Pentagon announced on Wednesday, Jan. 8.

The helicopters, known as the ...Read more

Several wildfires were burning in the Los Angeles area Wednesday, destroying more than 1,000 structures and forcing tens of thousands of people to evacuate.

As of Wednesday, at least five people had died as a result of ...Read more

MIAMI — Blame the Oren Alexander snag on a “clerical error.”

Oren — one of three wealthy Alexander brothers charged with forcing dozens of women to have sex with them — was not accidentally flown by the U.S. ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Maryland Board of Public Works approved a $75 million general engineering consultant services contract for the Key Bridge rebuild project on Wednesday.

Bridging Maryland Partnership — a joint venture ...Read more