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Jon Putman/Anadolu via Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — Wildfires are tearing through thousands of acres in Los Angeles County in California, as strong Santa Ana winds stoke the blazes. The Palisades Fire has impacted more than 2,920 [Read More…]

Photo by DAVID SWANSON/AFP via Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — At least two people are dead and many more injured as several fires broke out across Southern California amid historically dry and windy conditions. Tens [Read More…]

Jon Putman/Anadolu via Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — Wildfires are tearing through thousands of acres in Los Angeles County in California, as strong Santa Ana winds stoke the blazes. The Palisades Fire has impacted more than 2,920 [Read More…]

Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland intends to publicly release the portion of special counsel Jack Smith’s final report related to his federal election interference case against Donald Trump, [Read More…]

Photo by DAVID SWANSON/AFP via Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — More than 30,000 people were told to evacuate in Southern California on Tuesday after a fast-moving brush fire erupted in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood near [Read More…]

An ABC News graphic shows the fire risk forecast in Southern California on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025. Via ABC News. (LOS ANGELES) — A damaging Santa Ana wind event was peaking early Wednesday and winds [Read More…]

(Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Attorneys for President-elect Donald Trump and his allies unleashed a legal blitz this week to prevent the release of special counsel Jack Smith’s final report on [Read More…]

Carol Yepes/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Meta, the parent company of Facebook, announced plans Tuesday to replace fact-checkers with a user-based system known as “community notes.” Fact-checkers who were put in place in the wake [Read More…]

Henrico County, Virginia Sheriff’s Office (RICHMOND, Va.) — A former nurse who was employed at the Henrico Doctors’ Hospital in Richmond, Virginia, was charged on Friday with malicious wounding and felony child abuse for allegedly [Read More…]

Obtained by ABC News (LAS VEGAS) — Matthew Livelsberger used ChatGPT to help plot the Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas on New Year’s Day, authorities revealed on Tuesday. Police have [Read More…]

Photo by DAVID SWANSON/AFP via Getty Images (LOS ANGELES, Calif.) — Two fast-moving brush fires erupted Tuesday in Los Angeles as dangerous wind conditions and unseasonably dry, warm weather sweep Southern California. A currently 200-acre [Read More…]

Photo by J. David Ake/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Senior Justice Department officials serving under Donald Trump’s first administration may have violated federal law in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election by pushing for pandemic-related investigations that [Read More…]

Roy Rochlin/Getty Images, FILE (NEW YORK) — The FBI has uncovered “additional criminal conduct” by New York City Mayor Eric Adams, federal prosecutors said in a new court filing Tuesday. Adams has already pleaded not [Read More…]

Joe Raedle/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Members of Congress, the Supreme Court and other dignitaries will gather at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday afternoon for a lying-in-state ceremony for former President Jimmy Carter. Vice President Kamala Harris [Read More…]

Rebecca Noble/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A New York appeals judge has denied President-elect Donald Trump’s request to delay the Jan. 10 sentencing in his criminal hush money case. Trump’s sentencing will proceed as planned [Read More…]

Gary Hershorn/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A man accused of killing a woman by setting her on fire as she slept on a New York City subway train last month pleaded not guilty Tuesday to [Read More…]

Beverly Police Department (BEVERLY, Mass.) — A Massachusetts man has been arrested after police said he made violent antisemitic posts online. Matthew Scouras, 34, allegedly “posted threats to rape Jewish women and encouraged other users [Read More…]

Joe Raedle/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Members of Congress, the Supreme Court and other dignitaries will gather at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday afternoon for a lying-in-state ceremony for former President Jimmy Carter. Vice President Kamala Harris [Read More…]

Rebecca Noble/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Donald Trump’s legal blitz to halt his sentencing in his criminal hush money case in New York continued Tuesday morning with his lawyers filing a 502-page lawsuit against Judge Juan Merchan [Read More…]

Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Special Counsel Jack Smith issued his first response Tuesday to an effort by Donald Trump’s co-defendants to have the judge who tossed his classified documents case issue an emergency [Read More…]