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San Diego migrant shelter hailed as national model will shut down, with 100-plus layoffs
SAN DIEGO — Jewish Family Service of San Diego will shut down a regional migrant shelter it ran for more than six years and lay off 115 employees due to “changes in federal funding and policy” by the Trump administration.
The nonprofit, which will now focus its immigrant-relief efforts on providing pro bono legal services, announced the ...Read more
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Valentine's Day snow wreaks havoc on Minnesota's roads
MINNEAPOLIS — Two to 4 inches of snow fell across parts of Minnesota on Friday into Saturday morning, bringing dangerous road conditions that caused spinouts, crashes, jackknifed trucks and injuries, and likely were a factor in the death of a teenage driver in Washington County.
Kyle Everson, a spokesman for the State Patrol, said troopers ...Read more
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Police ID alleged gunman in the shooting of 2 women during the Eagles Super Bowl parade
PHILADELPHIA — A suspect has been taken into custody after two women were shot when a fight broke out during the Eagles victory parade Friday, according to a news release from the Philadelphia Police Department.
Brandon Ramos, 28, of Philadelphia, was taken into custody Saturday, police said, and charged with aggravated and simple assault, ...Read more
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Los Angeles region to get respite with 'very low impact weather' in coming days
LOS ANGELES — After a stretch of treacherous rains across the Los Angeles region and its recent burn scars, the coming days will bring a needed respite — with the National Weather Service on Saturday predicting "very low impact weather for most areas the next several days."
A "warming and drying trend" is predicted through the weekend, and ...Read more
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Luigi Mangione breaks silence in first public statement since UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting
NEW YORK — Luigi Mangione has publicly spoken out for the first time since his arrest for the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, thanking his supporters in a statement released on a new website launched by his legal team.
“I am overwhelmed by — and grateful for — everyone who has written me to share their stories and ...Read more
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Secret Service investigating NJ teacher over alleged Trump assassination threat
NEW YORK — A high school teacher in south Jersey is being investigated by the Secret Service over a social media post mulling the assassination of President Donald Trump.
Fred Wilson, an 11th grade special education and social studies teacher at Egg Harbor Township High School, originally made the remarks on his Facebook page, which has since...Read more
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Woman hospitalized in Wyoming with H5N1 bird flu
LOS ANGELES — A woman in Wyoming was hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu, according to health officials who say she was likely infected by handling sickened birds in a backyard flock.
According to a statement from Wyoming's public health department, the woman is "an older adult" and has "other health conditions," which may have made her more ...Read more
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Trump is rushing toward a deal with Putin, leaving Europe in the dust
The groans and the anxious side glances gave way to silence as Vice President JD Vance took center stage in Munich to pour contempt on longstanding U.S. allies and cut Europe down to size.
It was an attack of unbridled ferocity in the name of free speech that laid bare the long-stewing hostility that Donald Trump and his most senior aides feel ...Read more
Top officials meet next week to prepare Trump-Putin summit
Senior officials from the U.S. and Russia are meeting next week in Saudi Arabia to pave the way for a potential leaders’ summit as soon as the end of the month to discuss ending the war in Ukraine, according to people familiar with the matter.
Details of the meeting and the list of attendees are still being worked out, but people briefed on ...Read more
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2 earthquakes near Malibu rattle LA region
LOS ANGELES — Two small earthquakes rattled part of the Malibu area.
The first was reported around 11:44 p.m. Friday and was registered as a magnitude 3.7. It was felt across the Westside, San Fernando Valley and Ventura County as well as in the Los Angeles basin and South Bay.
A second quake, which was measured as a magnitude 3.5, struck in...Read more
FEMA doubles down on its decision to not test soil as part of wildfire cleanup
LOS ANGELES — In the face of mounting backlash from wildfire survivors and California elected officials, federal disaster agencies are defending their decision to forgo soil testing after cleanup crews remove debris from properties that burned in the Los Angeles County fires.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency and U.S. Army Corps of ...Read more
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Zelenskyy rebuffs US draft proposal on critical minerals
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he rejected a U.S. draft agreement that would give Washington access to critical minerals in the war-battered nation because it didn’t offer investments and sufficient protections.
“It doesn’t protect our interests,” Zelenskyy told reporters at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday. “...Read more
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Woman hospitalized in Wyoming with H5N1 bird blu
LOS ANGELES — A woman in Wyoming was hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu, according to health officials who say she was likely infected by handling sickened birds in a backyard flock.
According to a statement from Wyoming's public health department, the woman is "an older adult" and has "other health conditions," which may have made her more ...Read more
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Trump's threats and statehood taunts reset race to lead Canada
For over a year, Canada’s Conservative Party seemed on track to win a decisive victory in the next election as Justin Trudeau’s governing coalition crumbled. Now, nothing seems guaranteed — and the reason is Donald Trump.
The national mood has changed and with it the landscape for this year’s vote. Trudeau’s Liberal Party is making ...Read more
Rejoicing, apprehension as 3 more hostages freed under Israel-Hamas ceasefire
JERUSALEM — After the most perilous week yet for an already shaky ceasefire that has paused the calamitous Gaza war, the truce stayed on track Saturday with Hamas' release of three Israeli hostages, one of them a U.S. citizen.
Israel, in turn, freed 369 Palestinian prisoners, its government said.
The exchange, the sixth of its kind since the...Read more
Top officials meet next week to prepare Trump-Putin summit
Senior officials from the U.S. and Russia are meeting next week in Saudi Arabia to pave the way for a potential leaders’ summit as soon as the end of the month to discuss ending the war in Ukraine, according to people familiar with the matter.
Details of the meeting and the list of attendees are still being worked out, but people briefed on ...Read more
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Messy winter storm set to drop snow, rain from NYC to Toronto
New York and the U.S. Northeast will pick up a few inches of snow overnight on Saturday from a winter storm that will also blanket the Midwest and southern Ontario.
New York City may get 1 to 2 inches of snow beginning late afternoon on Saturday before changing to rain. The system will spread heavier snow over a much wider area, with Boston ...Read more
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'A lot of chaos': Companies try to make sense of working with Trump
The chief executives of General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Co. made recent pilgrimages to Washington to figure out answers to questions on every CEO's mind: How do you know which policies President Donald Trump will push through, attempt to influence his decisions, and, meanwhile, explain the business impact to investors without irritating the ...Read more
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For many immigrants arrested by ICE, the next stop is rural Georgia
ATLANTA -- In late January, federal agents arrested Wilson Velásquez outside of the Honduran immigrant’s church in Tucker, Georgia — a first sign of the expanded immigration enforcement dragnet under President Donald Trump’s second administration. Until Trump’s return to the White House last month, arrests in or near “sensitive” ...Read more
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Trump vows to end Education Department. DOGE has already started
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump this week reiterated his aim to shut down the U.S. Education Department “immediately.” Elon Musk’s budget-slashers have already started doing their part.
Six people are carrying out the work of Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency at the agency, reviewing operations, auditing student loan data...Read more
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