LOS ANGELES — More than a year after the Eaton fire devastated their community, returning to their beloved Altadena neighborhood finally seemed within reach for Baba Singh and his family.

They had secured their insurance payout, gotten rebuilding plans approved and hired a contractor.

But then their mortgage company started withholding the ...Read more

Xavier Lovera Santander, 9, went out with his grandmother to take out the trash when two powerful earthquakes struck Venezuela, causing the building where he lived to collapse. Nearly a month later, his relatives continue searching for him.

The boy was with his maternal grandmother, Trina Romelia Ávila Porra, 78, at the OPP 27 building in the ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s obsession with unfounded claims of election fraud has defined his second term in office. But in recent months his fixation has moved from executive nominee litmus tests and executive orders reinforcing proof of citizenship to vote into legislation – dragging Congress into the fray.

The Safeguard American ...Read more

President Trump said on Friday that he intends to charge Canada over wildfire smoke entering the U.S.

“We are holding Canada responsible for the fact that they are not properly maintaining their Forests, and Brush therein, and the United States is being unnecessarily invaded by filthy, polluted, and unhealthy air, the quality of which is ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York City has recorded its first death from the current Legionnaires’ disease outbreak on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, city Health Commissioner Dr. Alister Martin announced Friday.

“I am saddened to report that one person has died in connection with the Legionnaires’ disease community cluster on the Upper East Side,” ...Read more

Paul Pelosi, husband of former U.S. House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi, was charged Friday in connection with a hit-and-run crash that occurred earlier this month, according to authorities.

Pelosi, 86, of St. Helena, California, was charged with a misdemeanor hit-and-run. He was additionally charged with the infraction of making an unlawful turn, ...Read more

Two U.S. Forest Service employees working in a remote area of the Shasta-Trinity National Forest were kidnapped, zip-tied and held inside a trailer for more than 17 hours before being rescued Friday morning, authorities said.

The bizarre hostage crisis unfolded like a scene from a movie.

Law enforcement teams from across Northern California, ...Read more

A group of Democratic state attorneys general and governors won a lawsuit accusing the Trump administration of illegally using a budget loophole to block billions of dollars in federal grants for public services that were already approved by Congress.

The grant terminations improperly trampled the spending authority of Congress, which ...Read more

Washington’s air improved slightly on Friday while New York City could be blanketed by more wildfire smoke later in the day, though forecasts indicate skies will be clear enough for Sunday’s World Cup final to take place in New Jersey.

As smoke from scores of wildfires raging in Canada spread across the Great Lakes into the Mid-Atlantic ...Read more

The U.S. and Iran traded attacks again on Friday, pressuring oil prices and making a quick return to the fragile ceasefire deal signed last month even less likely.

U.S. Central Command said a new round of air strikes were underway beginning at 3 p.m. ET on Friday with the goal of “degrading Iranian military capabilities.” No other details ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In less than three weeks Los Angeles school officials must show, under state law, how they will carry out the steepest budget cuts in a generation after county education authorities concluded they lack confidence in district leadership to prevent bankruptcy.

The options are painful and stand to dramatically downsize the nation's...Read more

BALTIMORE — A Baltimore County staff report recommends some of Maryland’s toughest regulations for data centers, giving county lawmakers a blueprint they’ll consider before deciding later this year whether to lift or extend the current moratorium.

The recommendations, released this week, stop short of calling for an extension of the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Air regulators have slapped Lineage Logistics with multiple violations related to the putrid odor at its Boyle Heights facility after receiving more than 720 complaints from residents since Sunday.

So far this week, the South Coast Air Quality Management District has issued five notices of violations to the company as it works ...Read more

CHICAGO — It’s been more than a week since Jackie Gonzalez ate the bag of prepackaged salad mix she suspects left her tied to the bathroom and doubled over with debilitating stomach pain.

As the infection leaves her system, the physical symptoms of the illness her doctor told her to assume was cyclosporiasis are fading. What’s left is a ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The National Park Service removed early Wednesday the few panels that remained from the slavery exhibit at the President’s House, and replaced them with new panels.

The original displays were deemed to “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living” following President Donald Trump’s 2025 executive order on “...Read more

The resumption of U.S. strikes against Iran has thrust incoming UK prime minister Andy Burnham into a potential day one decision on how much to support Britain’s closest ally in its controversial military campaign.

Even as Burnham was installed as leader of the governing Labour Party on Friday, outgoing Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s ...Read more

Taylor Farms, the California company that is being investigated for the cyclosporiasis outbreak, according to multiple news outlets, has responded to concerns about the safety of its lettuce and announced it is taking the produce in question off the market.

The outbreak has been caused by a food and waterborne parasite and has made thousands of...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Friday increased its forecast chances a system forming off the Florida coast could become the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

In its 2 p.m. tropical outlook, the NHC said that a large area of showers and thunderstorms has congregated over the eastern Gulf associated with an upper-...Read more