LOS ANGELES — In the months after the Palisades fire, the Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation raked in millions of dollars in charitable donations to pay for training and equipment for firefighters, as LAFD leaders publicly complained about not having enough money to keep the city safe.

But some of the funds were quietly spent on something...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A man facing federal charges in what authorities have called the largest jewelry heist in U.S. history was deported to Ecuador late last month, bringing the case against him to a crashing halt, according to recent court filings.

Jeson Nelon Presilla Flores was one of seven men charged last year with breaking into a Brinks big ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Without the United States, Europe would sink into economic ruin as other powers overwhelmed a broke, neutered and defenseless NATO.

That was the muscle-flexing message President Donald Trump delivered Wednesday at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, before an audience that included European leaders he’s ...Read more

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. will host a rally in Harrisburg Wednesday to launch his "Take Back Your Health" tour after releasing new national nutrition guidelines, HHS officials said in a news release.

The rally will feature a number of Republican state legislators, including Sen. Judy Ward, R-...Read more

A federal judge in New York on Wednesday denied a request from the main backers of the Epstein Files Transparency Act to appoint someone to oversee the Justice Department’s efforts to comply with the law.

Judge Paul Engelmayer of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, issued an opinion that denied a request from Reps. ...Read more

NEW YORK — ​The judge on Ghislaine Maxwell’s case on Wednesday said he didn’t have the power to appoint a special master to oversee disclosures of the Jeffrey Epstein files, rejecting a bid by bipartisan lawmakers who say the Trump Justice Department cannot be trusted to do right by women abused by the disgraced financier.

Manhattan ...Read more

President Donald Trump tripled down on his divisive push to take over Greenland in a bellicose speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland Wednesday, fanning the flames of discord that allies fear could lead to the collapse of the Western alliance.

Even as he said he won’t grab Greenland by force, Trump stridently declared that ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Saying they were spurred by the shooting of Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis, an Alameda County Board of Supervisors committee has passed two proposals to establish a Bay Area regional response in the event that federal immigration agents launch a new operation locally.

“We have to...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office said the California governor was denied entry into a venue at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday under pressure from the Trump administration.

Newsom had been asked to speak at an event at USA House, an American pavilion at the annual gathering of world leaders. ...Read more

U.S. Rep. James Comer refused to conduct an interview with former President Bill Clinton and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, on their terms Tuesday, setting up a vote Wednesday in a U.S. House committee to hold them both in contempt of Congress.

The House Oversight Committee sought to depose the Clintons regarding their ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — He’s the ever-present face, sans mask, of the Trump administration’s seven-week-old-and-counting federal immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities.

Just as he’s done during enforcement actions in Chicago, Los Angeles and elsewhere, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commander at Large Greg Bovino shows up frequently in ...Read more

DENVER — An Adams County water district filed a lawsuit against Denver on Tuesday, alleging that foam from the city’s fire training facility has contaminated its water for decades.

The South Adams County Water and Sanitation District says the city’s Roslyn Fire Training Facility, near the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Even in a state where the unofficial motto is “there is no bad weather, only bad clothing choices,” 20 degrees below zero is pretty bad weather.

Pipes burst. Boiling water tossed in the air freezes to snow before it hits the ground. Every bit of exposed skin hurts.

Now a cold front is about to sweep a week’s worth of ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Computer models continue to insist with a rather uncharacteristic certainty that the Philadelphia region and much of the Mid-Atlantic can expect a significant snowstorm during the weekend.

Now, when have they ever been wrong?

On Wednesday, models were in general agreement that Philly had a high likelihood of a snowfall of at ...Read more

BOSTON — Boston Mayor Michelle Wu wants opponents of her White Stadium plan to roll over and go away but she’s refusing to listen to lawmakers who have rejected numerous times her contentious tax shift bill.

Wu said twice this week that she intends to stick with her bill to override the state’s property tax law despite continued ...Read more

U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff said he and Jared Kushner will travel to Russia on Thursday for talks with President Vladimir Putin on the latest proposals for a peace plan to end the war in Ukraine.

“The Russians have invited us to come and that’s a significant statement from them,” Witkoff said in an interview with Bloomberg Television’s ...Read more

President Donald Trump upped the pressure on Europe to cede control of Greenland or face the consequences, saying that NATO owes it to the U.S. to grant it full rights to the Arctic island.

In a speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday after prompting days of elevated transatlantic tensions over his plans, Trump said that he was...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A disabled Ecuadoran immigrant who was arrested and detained by ICE after he flagged down an officer in September was ordered back to his homeland on Tuesday.

Victor Acurio Suarez, who is 52 but childlike and unable to live on his own, was issued an order of voluntary departure by Immigration Judge Dennis Ryan.

That is not the...Read more