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A new plan by California lawmakers to help fund the state's struggling journalism organizations could advance in the coming days but faces an uncertain future.

Assembly Bill 2222 would create refundable tax credits for ...Read more

WHITE MESA, Utah — On a hot April day, Malcolm Lehi maneuvered his Jeep Wrangler over a rough dirt road past junipers and sagebrush in search of Entrance Spring on land long connected to his tribe, the Ute Mountain Ute. ...Read more

Icelanders are on track to reject reopening membership talks with the European Union in Saturday’s referendum.

Opponents of negotiations with the 27-member block were narrowly ahead with 50.1% against 49.9% for ...Read more

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 ...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 ...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...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...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 ...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...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 ...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 ...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...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...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 ...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 ...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...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...Read more