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BOSTON — An illegal immigrant with a criminal record living in Lowell is in jail on $1 million bail after being charged with raping a girl in Massachusetts beginning when she was 5 years old.

Maynor Francisco Hernandez-...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As crews have fought the fast-spreading fires across the Los Angeles area, they have repeatedly been hampered by low water pressure and fire hydrants that have gone dry. These problems have exposed what ...Read more

MIAMI — The Related Group real estate development company has offered to donate hundreds of thousands of ancient artifacts and other relics unearthed at the site of a long-buried Native American town in Brickell to ...Read more

The Venezuelan government released opposition leader María Corina Machado on Thursday after capturing her in a violent raid in which shots were fired and drones were used to pinpoint her location, members of her team told...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden pledged Thursday that the federal government will cover 100% of disaster assistance costs to California for the next 180 days and emphatically tied the devastating wildfires to human-...Read more

WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris is canceling a three-nation overseas trip to remain in the U.S. and assist in the federal response to the catastrophic wildfires in her home state of California.

“In response ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A day after President-elect Donald Trump refused to rule out use of military force to take control of Greenland, Alaska’s Republican U.S. Rep. Nick Begich III made comments that appeared to support ...Read more

WASHINGTON ― A bipartisan group of lawmakers from Great Lakes states introduced legislation Thursday to renew the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative for another five years through 2031.

The bill would also boost funding...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump appointed veteran Sam Brown, who lost his bid for the Nevada U.S. Senate seat in November, as the next undersecretary for Memorial Affairs at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Trump announced...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A fire has broken out at the border of Los Angeles and Ventura counties and is spreading rapidly, threatening numerous hillside homes in the Calabasas and Hidden Hills areas.

The Kenneth fire ignited ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Victoria Ramirez has four children in school and a job to report to, so she understands the inconvenience of closing schools for any reason.

Yet she supported the decision to close campuses Thursday and ...Read more

Six months after being cleared of criminal charges in the "Rust" shooting death, actor Alec Baldwin has filed a suit alleging malicious prosecution and defamation by New Mexico prosecutors and law enforcement.

The 73-page...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The number of faults on the power grid near three of the major Los Angeles County fires skyrocketed in the hours before the blazes began, according to a company that monitors electrical activity.

Bob ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Among the losses in the devastating Eaton fire was the Bunny Museum, husband-and-wife Candace Frazee and Steve Lubanski's grand ode to the world's hoppiest animal, the rabbit. The Altadena museum, located ...Read more

Mark Owen was forced to evacuate his LA mansion after waking to helicopters, "thick black smoke" and howling winds.

The Take That singer, 52, is the latest celebrity who had to flee his home as infernos fuelled by furious...Read more

Tom Hanks' Pacific Palisades home is among a small clutch of celebrity mansions still standing amid LA's devastating wildfires.

The 'Forrest Gump' star, 68, bought the palatial $26 million residence with his fellow actor ...Read more

Pamela Anderson has lost touch with her ex-husband Tommy Lee.

The 'Baywatch' actress, 57, had a tumultuous marriage to the Mötley Crüe rocker, 62, from 1995 to 1998 before they divorced - with their relationship ...Read more

Glenn Close made a little girl cry when the actress recreated her Cruella de Vil cackle.

The 77-year-old star portrayed the bouffanted villain in 1996's '101 Dalmations' and says despite her long career the younger ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump is planning a flurry of executive orders around immigration, energy, federal workers and regulatory reform in the early hours after his Jan. 20 inauguration, part of a sweeping ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court Thursday turned down President-elect Trump's plea to block a New York judge from sentencing him Friday on his felony conviction in a hush-money case.

The vote was 5-4, with conservative ...Read more