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Colorado wildfires: Containment increases on Western Slope fires

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DENVER — Firefighters battling wildfires across Colorado’s Western Slope are making gradual progress slowing fire growth and increasing containment, officials said Saturday.

Four of the state’s actively growing wildfires reported minimal growth Friday into Saturday, with afternoon rain helping fire crews on Colorado’s largest wildfire, ...Read more

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Astronomer CEO Andy Byron resigns amid kiss-cam scandal, affair allegations

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NEW YORK — Astronomer CEO Andy Byron has resigned from the DataOps company after the kiss-cam at a Coldplay concert captured his presumed affair with a woman believed to be his head of HR.

The company confirmed in a statement shared with the Daily News on Saturday that Byron had stepped down.

“As stated previously, Astronomer is committed ...Read more

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Driver slams into crowd outside Hollywood nightclub, critically injuring 7 and wounding more than 20 others

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LOS ANGELES — A patron who had been tossed out of a popular East Hollywood nightclub early Saturday later intentionally smashed his car into a crowd outside the venue, injuring 30 people — including seven critically — before being pulled out of his vehicle and shot by a bystander, police said.

The gray Nissan Versa drove onto the sidewalk...Read more

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Air India crash: As focus shifts to pilot, suspicion outpaces answers

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SEATTLE — With conclusive information hard to come by five weeks after the fatal Air India crash, the aviation industry has shifted its focus to the possibility of pilot error.

It’s too soon to know what brought down a Boeing 787 plane moments after takeoff from Ahmedabad, India, on June 12. It could be months before investigators from ...Read more

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Zelenskyy says Ukraine proposed Russia meeting next week

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country had proposed holding a meeting with Russia next week, more than a month after the previous round of direct talks.

Rustem Umerov, who was appointed secretary of the National Security and Defense Council on Friday, made the proposal to the Russian side, the Ukrainian leader said in his ...Read more

US restores Haitian TPS protections, work permits until early February after court ruling

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Tens of thousands of Haitians living and working in the United States with temporary protections from deportation will now be allowed to remain until at least February 2026 with employment authorization, according to the Department of Homeland Security website.

The restoration of Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, designation comes ...Read more

Brazil weighs measures on US dividends, tech firms, reports say

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Brazil’s government is studying potential responses to further sanctions by U.S. President Donald Trump, including a limit on dividend payments by U.S. companies with operations in Brazil, according to O Estado de S. Paulo newspaper.

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s government is intensifying its deliberations on possible measures ...Read more

Hurricane center tracks Atlantic tropical wave with chance to develop

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ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center continued Saturday to assess a tropical wave moving across the Atlantic with a chance to develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

In its 2 p.m. tropical outlook, the NHC said the wave was located about 900 miles west-southwest of the Cape Verde Islands in the central tropical...Read more

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Trump's ambitions collide with Epstein, Fed and health concerns

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For President Donald Trump, whose political career has benefited from voter anxiety over Washington elites, the health of his predecessor and the riches of Wall Street, the past week offered a reversal of fortune.

Trump’s efforts to escape the uproar over Jeffrey Epstein failed spectacularly, after the Wall Street Journal published a story ...Read more

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Adams, ally attack former commissioner's mental acuity in response to suit as Donlon cries foul

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NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams told a group of business leaders privately Thursday night that he asked former interim Police Commissioner Thomas Donlon to obtain a medical evaluation and when the former federal agent refused he “had to let him go.”

A day earlier, responding to Donlon’s explosive lawsuit alleging Adams allowed NYPD top ...Read more

Russian airstrikes across Ukraine kill at least 3

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia launched a large missile and drone barrage overnight, killing at least three people, injuring several others and leaving thousands without power.

Kremlin forces fired more than 300 drones and 30 missiles of various types across at least 10 regions, Zelenskyy said Saturday in a post on X.

One ...Read more

Driver slams into crowd outside Hollywood nightclub, critically injuring 7 and wounding more than 20 others

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LOS ANGELES — A patron who had been tossed out of a popular East Hollywood nightclub early Saturday later smashed his car into a crowd outside the venue, injuring 30 people, including seven critically — before being pulled out of his vehicle and shot, police said.

The gray Nissan Versa hit a valet stand and taco stand that typically draws ...Read more

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Zelenskyy promotes allies who've shown they can deal with US

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Cabinet overhaul this week was part of an effort to move into position presidential loyalists who can potentially win favor with Donald Trump.

The new prime minister, Yulia Svyrydenko, took office 11 weeks after her team at the Economy Ministry secured a deal with the U.S. over access to Ukraine’s ...Read more

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Santa Monica apartment is focus of probe into blast that killed 3 LA County sheriff's deputies

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LOS ANGELES — Authorities investigating the deadly blast at a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department training facility are looking into connections to some explosives collected in Santa Monica.

Three deputies were killed Friday in an explosion at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Biscailuz Center Training Academy in East L....Read more

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Is late night dead? Stephen Colbert's CBS cancellation raises troubling questions

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NEW YORK — The shocking cancellation of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” is a sign that time is running out for one of TV’s most beloved formats.

The late-night talk show was invented in the 1950s as a way for networks to own their own programming rather than have it provided by sponsors. Now, amid shrinking audiences and a ...Read more

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ICE activity has 'disruptive' ripple effect on Central California economy, study says

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FRESNO, Calif. — A new study from the University of California, Merced Community and Labor Center reports a disruptive decline in private sector work in California since the start of federal immigration enforcement activity.

The data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey for the weeks of May 11 and June 8 shows that the ...Read more

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Is it finally time to ban new homes in Southern California's Rancho Palos Verdes' landslide zone?

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LOS ANGELES — After almost two years of unprecedented landslide movement that has upended life across much of the picturesque Portuguese Bend area of the Palos Verdes Peninsula, officials want to permanently ban new construction in the landslide zone.

The proposed ordinance, which has drawn backlash from some property owners, would prohibit ...Read more

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3 LA County sheriff's deputies killed in explosion ID'd; investigators search Santa Monica apartment

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LOS ANGELES — Three deputies were killed Friday in an explosion at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Biscailuz Center Training Academy in East L.A., the deadliest incident for the agency in more than 160 years.

Deputies with the arson explosives detail, an elite unit within the Sheriff’s Department, were moving ordnance in ...Read more

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What to know about chronic venous insufficiency -- President Trump's health diagnosis

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Earlier this week, President Donald Trump was diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, or CVI, after he noted mild swelling in his lower legs. White House physician Dr. Sean P. Barbabella in a memo July 17 said the swelling prompted a full medical evaluation, including ultrasound tests and blood work.

Those confirmed CVI, a condition the ...Read more

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Explosion kills 3 LA County sheriff's deputies; Santa Monica apartment under investigation

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LOS ANGELES — Three deputies were killed Friday in an explosion at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Biscailuz Center Training Academy in East L.A., the deadliest incident for the agency in more than 160 years.

Deputies with the arson explosives detail, an elite unit within the Sheriff’s Department, were moving ordnance in ...Read more