Three years ago, on Dec. 30, 2021, a wind-driven wildfire raced through two communities just outside Boulder, Colorado. In the span of about eight hours, more than 1,000 homes and businesses burned.

The fire left entire blocks in ash, but among them, pockets of houses survived, seemingly untouched. The owners of these homes may have ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The state is staring down a $3 billion budget deficit, which is likely to overtake the majority of conversations when the Maryland General Assembly convenes on Jan. 8 for the 2025 legislative session.

Lawmakers will hunker down for 90 days of tough conversations to decide where to make cuts, collect revenue or find other solutions...Read more

DENVER — Two new short-term safehouses set to open in metro Denver in early 2025 will be the only facilities in the state to offer emergency shelter beds reserved for survivors of sex trafficking.

One of those safehouses, operated by HER Campaign, is expected to open in January, while a second, run by Covered Colorado, plans to open in March....Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Hundreds of thousands of Californians could get additional benefits from Social Security under legislation passed by the Senate last week.

Among those who could get help are teachers, firefighters, state, county, city and district employees. They’re people who paid into the Social Security system when working in ...Read more

NEW YORK — Luigi Mangione pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and terror offenses in Manhattan Supreme Court Monday stemming from the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Wearing a burgundy sweater, white collared shirt, and khaki pants, a handcuffed Mangione, 26, entered his first formal plea to charges linked to the ...Read more

Donald Trump hinted he still wants to buy Greenland, a self-ruling territory of Denmark, saying that U.S. ownership and control of the island is an “absolute necessity” for national security.

The U.S. President-elect reopened a debate from 2019, when he offered to buy what is the world’s biggest island, a proposal that was quickly ...Read more

French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou is running out of time to meet his self-imposed deadline to name a new cabinet that won’t be quickly toppled by a no-confidence vote in parliament.

A new team was widely expected to be unveiled over the weekend after Bayrou said last week he and President Emmanuel Macron would finalize their choice ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced early Monday that he was commuting the death sentences of 37 federal inmates, preventing incoming President Donald Trump from carrying out their executions. The list includes two men sentenced to death for murders committed in Georgia.

Anthony George Battle was convicted by an Atlanta jury of the Dec...Read more

Donald Trump hinted he still wants to buy Greenland, a self-ruling territory of Denmark, saying that U.S. ownership and control of the island is an “absolute necessity” for national security.

The U.S. President-elect reopened a debate from 2019, when he offered to buy what is the world’s biggest island, a proposal that was quickly ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — After several years of decline, California's population grew by almost a quarter of a million residents in 2024, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, a rebound that brings the Golden State almost back to its pre-pandemic numbers.

The numbers are not all rosy. California experienced a slower growth rate than the country as a ...Read more

NEW YORK — Police arrested a man who allegedly lit a sleeping homeless woman on fire in a Brooklyn subway car Sunday morning, then watched calmly as she burned to death, NYPD officials said.

Chilling video obtained by the Daily News shows the woman standing near the door of a stopped subway car at the Coney-Island-Stillwell Ave. station, her ...Read more

Many of President-elect Donald Trump’s candidates for federal health agencies have promoted policies and goals that put them at odds with one another or with Trump’s choice to run the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., setting the stage for internal friction over public health initiatives.

The picks hold ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — At Franklin Learning Center, Michelle Ferguson's students, all new arrivals to the U.S., are worried.

With President-elect Donald Trump promising stricter immigration laws and mass detention and deportation of immigrants, many students at the Philadelphia School District high school that draws English learners from around the ...Read more

To hear David Ellis tell it, when ComEd came to Springfield in 2011 hoping to get some utility-friendly legislation passed, they ran into a brick wall named House Speaker Michael Madigan.

“They didn’t like anything I was doing,” Ellis, a state court appellate judge who used to work for the speaker’s office, told jurors Thursday in ...Read more

Landfills in Colorado release millions of metric tons of greenhouse gasses each year as organic waste including food, paper and yard trimmings decomposes into the soil, contributing to global warming and harming human health.

Colorado, as part of its multipronged approach to eliminate 90% of the state’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, is ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- When Donna Heinel arrived at the federal prison camp in Victorville last year to serve a six-month sentence for fraud stemming from the Varsity Blues admissions scandal, she resolved to spend the time productively. She walked two miles in the morning, ran three miles in the afternoon and tutored inmates studying for their high ...Read more

Everyone's favorite Christmas gift giver, the Internal Revenue Service, has announced that it will be doling out more than $2 billion in checks to Americans this month as part of its effort to make sure everyone received their stimulus payments from 2021.

The federal tax agency has announced that an internal review showed many Americans had ...Read more

Christmas came early for Maryland state employees as Gov. Wes Moore on Sunday declared Christmas Eve a state holiday.

In a news release, Moore said state agencies and offices will be closed Tuesday and workers will have the day off, with Dec. 24 being “treated like any other state employee holiday.”

“Our state employees have worked ...Read more

Drones collided, fell from the sky and hit a little boy after “technical difficulties” during a holiday show at Lake Eola Saturday night left him fighting for his life during emergency heart surgery.

At approximately 6:48 p.m. the Orlando Fire Department responded to reports that a person was injured by a drone at the annual show at Lake ...Read more