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January 27, 2025 | 11 MIN READ

WASHINGTON, D.C. — An Education Department employee was attending a funeral last week when she got the call: She was being placed on administrative leave because she works on projects th...

January 22, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

WASHINGTON, D.C. — More than a dozen states challenged President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship Tuesday, asking a federal judge to block a cam...

January 21, 2025 | 9 MIN READ

President Donald Trump quickly flexed the sweeping powers of the presidency following his second inauguration at the Capitol on Monday, signing a slate of executive orders that would radically...

January 12, 2025 | 13 MIN READ

LOS ANGELES — Calmer winds and higher humidity helped firefighters make progress Saturday battling an unprecedented fire siege that has devastated the foothill community of Altadena and...

January 10, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

LOS ANGELES — Officials said Thursday that at least five people were killed and more than 9,000 homes, businesses and other buildings appeared to have been damaged or destroyed in the Pa...

January 9, 2025 | 6 MIN READ

LOS ANGELES — By Wednesday morning, it looked as if a bomb had detonated on Sunset Boulevard.

November 6, 2024 | 9 MIN READ

Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States on Wednesday, fulfilling his promise to shatter America’s political status quo after he refused to accept his loss to Pre...

November 5, 2024 | 5 MIN READ

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Republican nominee Donald Trump inched closer to capturing the White House, projected as the winner in two battleground states with his party set to control the Senate...

July 21, 2024 | 7 MIN READ

President Joe Biden on Sunday abruptly abandoned his campaign for a second term under intense pressure from fellow Democrats and threw his support to Vice President Kamala Harris to lead their...

May 18, 2024 | 2 MIN READ

Nearly two-thirds of the world’s coral reefs have been subjected to heat stress bad enough to trigger bleaching over the past year, the leading agency monitoring coral reefs said on Thur...

April 23, 2024 | 7 MIN READ

NEW YORK — Manhattan prosecutors delivered a raw recounting of Donald Trump’s seamy past Monday as they debuted their case against him to jurors, the nation and the world, reducing...

April 22, 2024 | 4 MIN READ

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Senate is returning to Washington on Tuesday to vote on $95 billion in war aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, taking the final steps in Congress to send the legisla...

April 22, 2024 | 5 MIN READ

TRIANGLE, Virginia — President Joe Biden marked Earth Day by announcing $7 billion in federal grants for residential solar projects serving 900,000-plus households in low- and middle-inco...

August 25, 2023 | 8 MIN READ

BARCELONA, Spain — Less than a week after winning the Women’s World Cup, Spain’s national team players announced Friday that they will not play any more games unless the pres...

August 25, 2023 | 6 MIN READ

OKUMA, Japan — The tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has begun releasing its first batch of treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean — a controversial s...

August 25, 2023 | 4 MIN READ

UNITED NATIONS — The United States and its allies clashed Friday with North Korea, Russia and China over Pyongyang’s failed attempts to launch a spy satellite and who is responsibl...