LOS ANGELES — After grappling with rancid odors and missed deadlines, Boyle Heights residents may finally get some relief, with air quality regulators confirming Saturday that millions of pounds of decaying food have been cleared from the burned Lineage Logistics facility.

South Coast Air Quality Management District said the company's removal...Read more

An 18-year-old boy died as a fire sparked by a lithium-ion battery tore through a Brooklyn apartment, FDNY officials said Saturday.

The blaze marked the second fatal fire in the city this year caused by a lithium-ion battery, officials said.

Neighbors said an explosion erupted inside a 12th-floor apartment at NYCHA’s Albany Houses on Troy ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — After weeks of intense negotiation, state lawmakers on Friday reached a compromise on legislation to regulate energy use by California’s growing data center industry, action triggered by community anger over the facilities and fears of high utility bills in some communities.

The goal, according to legislators and ...Read more

RICHMOND, Calif. — A woman who miraculously survived being hit by an Amtrak train two years ago is now suing the city, arguing that its “long-standing failure” to maintain a fence by the railroad track is what caused the near-fatal crash.

The plaintiff, Carmen Hernandez, is far from having fully recovered from the “catastrophic” ...Read more

A federal judge this week ruled that the Trump administration unconstitutionally tried to suppress the free speech of noncitizen students who spoke out against Israel’s actions in the war in Gaza by threatening deportation.

The decision was a win for The Stanford Daily student newspaper and an unnamed student who filed a lawsuit last August, ...Read more

A petroleum distributor has filed suit in federal court alleging it supplied $4 million worth of gasoline sold to multiple Freedom Fuel Network gas stations but has never been paid for it.

That is at least one reason, the civil suit claims, Freedom Fuel Network gas stations have been able to sell gas so cheaply after President Donald Trump ...Read more

Fernando Jauregui Ochoa had carefully depicted himself on social media as a trustworthy and successful Central California food truck builder.

His videos drew dozens of aspiring food truck owners, many of them immigrants like Ochoa, who entrusted him with their life savings in hopes of turning their dreams into a livelihood.

But Stanislaus ...Read more

With firefighters already struggling to contain the Timber fire in Big Sur, California, a second wildfire in the region grew rapidly Friday and into Saturday — sending flames in the direction of Highway 1.

The Plaskett fire, which ignited Tuesday in a remote area about 30 miles down the coast from where the Timber fire started, exploded from ...Read more

Police have arrested the man who burst into flames inside a lower Manhattan building where Google has an office, officials said Saturday.

John Butch, 65, was charged with criminal mischief, arson and reckless endangerment while hospitalized, recuperating from severe burns he suffered when his backpack burst into flames inside the Hudson Square ...Read more

Federal immigration authorities said they deported right-wing provocateur and online influencer Milo Yiannopoulos after he was detained and accused of overstaying his visa.

Yiannopoulos was arrested at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport on Thursday after a federal immigration judge on July 22 ordered his deportation when he ...Read more

NEW YORK — Two more New Yorkers have died of Legionnaires’ disease, raising the death toll from this summer’s Upper East Side outbreak to eleven, as city officials say they have stopped the virus in its tracks.

NYC Health Commissioner Alister Martin announced the two additional deaths on X, while adding that “there is no evidence of ...Read more

The International Association for Great Lakes Research is standing by one of its longest colleagues — Lake Ontario.

The scientific organization, which promotes research on the Great Lakes, among other freshwater bodies of water, said it will continue to call Lake Ontario by its given name in spite of President Donald Trump's executive order ...Read more

In a late-night deal with lawmakers, Gov. Gavin Newsom agreed to drop his push for legislation that would have shifted more of the cost of utility-sparked wildfires to property insurers, sharply raising premiums across the state.

After weeks of closed-door negotiations with lawmakers and protests by wildfire survivors, the governor also backed ...Read more

The United States has entered into an agreement with Venezuela that will give American interests majority control over more than 65 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, according to President Donald Trump.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump, calling it “THE BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY,” said the agreement was negotiated at his ...Read more

The catastrophic flood that killed hundreds of people in Nepal on Aug. 26, 2026, and left many more missing likely began with falling ice and rock crashing into the river below, but that wasn’t the end of the disaster. Days later, a new lake pooled behind the debris and then burst, sending more water streaming through the valley.

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Construction on President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom shows no signs of slowing down. And the U.S. Supreme Court shows no signs of wanting to stop it.

More than a week has passed since Chief Justice John Roberts issued an interim order letting work continue while the court considers the case. Two lower courts said Trump flouted the ...Read more

As self-driving vehicles spread across the country, a major California labor union is taking a stand against state regulators who say autonomous trucks are ready for the road.

Teamsters California sued the California Department of Motor Vehicles earlier this month over the DMV's decision to lift a ban on autonomous vehicles weighing more than ...Read more