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Concerns grow over service animal misuse in high-traffic public spaces.

The Los Angeles area braces for another round of heavy winds while firefighters battle blazes still burning after a week.

Members of the spy ring in the 1930s spilled secrets to the Soviet Union from the heart of the U.K. intelligence establishment.

The subterranean aquifer lurking in the mountains contains three times as much water as Lake Mead at full capacity.

Scientists say that this decline has an impact on fire weather by influencing air temperature and precipitation rates globally.

Investigation finds very high levels of lead and arsenic in homes near a factory processing US toxic wasteRaquel Villarreal lives in a bright-yellow house in Mexico’s Monterrey metropolitan area with her family and nine cats. Here, the emergency medicine doctor has raised three daughters, one of […]

Bitter battle expected at Senate hearing but Republicans appear confident Pete Hegseth will be confirmed Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s controversial pick for US secretary of defense, will testify at a Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday, as the military veteran and Fox News host faces intense […]

Workers at Teleperformance, customer support company for Apple, Google and Netflix, accuse it of union busting and surveillanceCall center workers for some of the world’s biggest tech companies including Apple, Google, Microsoft and Netflix are accusing their employer of retaliating against union […]

Workers call proposals ‘almost laughable’ with new CEO’s pay package 10,000 times the median salary of baristaNegotiations between Starbucks and its union have broken down with workers calling the company’s proposals “almost laughable” and highlighting the multi-million pay package of […]

Raducanu overcomes serving woes to battle throughMedvedev smashes camera in win | And mail DanielMusetti, seeded 16, has taken the third-set breaker to lead Arnaldi by two sets to one; Shelton, seeded 21, leads Nakshima 7-6 7-5 6-5; and Popyrin and Moutet are locked into another brutal game, the […]

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's embattled pick to lead the Defense Department, will face senators at his confirmation hearing on Tuesday morning.

The latest line of U.S. carriers is named for Gerald R. Ford, and another of the multi-billion-dollar ships bears John F. Kennedy's name.

Creating a more equitable, inclusive school environment requires more than theory or aspiration—it demands analysis, honesty, and a willingness to evolve.

Multiple states were under winter weather advisory or winter storm warning from the NWS Tuesday morning.

With fire weather expected to continue until at least Wednesday, officials have pre-deployed firefighters across surrounding countiesTell us about the financial consequences you are facing due to the California firesCalifornia homeowners and business owners who lost everything in the devastating […]

Russia has been advancing southwest of Pokrovsk, a Ukrainian stronghold, rather than attacking the city directly.

As fires continue to burn in California, there are many ways to protect yourself and your family from wildfire smoke and ash.

Lauren worried Milo would get destructive while home alone. But what she saw on the camera was, in a way, even worse.

"The fire has been mapped at 55.7 acres with 0 percent containment," a Ventura County Fire Department spokesperson said.

Demand for mortgage applications has plummeted since its pandemic peak, and not even new Fed cuts are reassuring homebuyers.

New cars are supposed to be more reliable than used ones — but that’s only true if you buy the correct vehicle.Read more...

China's 12,000-ton "Monster" vessel has since taken advantage of the Philippine Coast Guard ship's departure for repairs.

The YouTube sensation has proposed buying TikTok as a unique solution to stop the social platform from being banned in the U.S.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau discussed his recent decision to resign while facing low approval ratings on MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki" Sunday.

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A forecast map from the NWS shows that areas northwest of Los Angeles are expected to see strong wind gusts through Wednesday.

Former UFC women's bantamweight champion will explore new avenues in free agency after requesting her release from the organization.

Find out when Mythic Quest season 4 starts streaming and how you can watch it.

Archaeologists excavating a site since 2010 uncovered an eight-room structure dating back to the First Temple in 8th century BCE, that included a wine press and more.

Pope Francis, who turned 88 last month and asked an aide to read a major speech last week due to a cold, says in a new book that he feels healthy and has no plans to resign as leader of the global Catholic Church.

Pope Francis, who turned 88 last month and asked an aide to read a major speech last week due to a cold, says in a new book that he feels healthy and has no plans to resign as leader of the global Catholic Church.

After more sexual assault allegations against Gaiman emerged, Rowling has compared the reaction to the claims to the initial reactions against Harvey Weinstein.

An end to the Russia-Ukraine war may be near as Zelensky and Macron discussed sending peacekeeping troops to Ukraine.

Defense nominee Pete Hegseth faces questions about how he'd treat female soldiers, at a time when the armed forces are struggling with recruitment and with reducing sexual assault.

When Donald Trump first took office in 2017, the world he inherited—while grappling with challenges like the Islamic State—was relatively stable.

Killing people with paperwork instead of a gun doesn’t make you any less of a murdererAt this very moment Luigi Mangione, who is accused of shooting UnitedHealthcare’s CEO last month, is sitting in a federal jail cell in Brooklyn. He’s got a barrage of court appearances scheduled and, once he […]

"If you are bitten by a funnel-web spider, call an ambulance and go straight to hospital," researcher Geoff Isbister said.

Jason was at work when the notification came through. What he saw left him surprised and a "bit concerned."

A prosecutor says there was enough evidence in the 2020 US election case - but he was scuppered by Trump's win in 2024.

Some commentators compared fact-checkers to "fire departments" and "first responders" while wildfires continued to spread throughout Los Angeles County.

Culture wars and personal issues are expected to dominate a hearing for Donald Trump’s choice to be the country's next defense secretary, Pete Hegseth.

Culture wars and personal issues are expected to dominate a hearing for Donald Trump’s choice to be the country's next defense secretary, Pete Hegseth.

North Carolina authorities have arrested David Lever, a Greenville-based real-estate agent, while investigating a triple homicide and four different crime scenes.

Matt Riddle won the Major League Wrestling World Heavyweight Championship on Saturday night as he defeated Satoshi Kojima at Kings of Colosseum.

Family of Jeremi Sensky, from Pittsburgh, suggests wheelchair may have acted as ‘boulder’ to help stop attackThe family of a man who was left paralyzed from the waist down by a 1999 car accident before being hit and badly wounded in the deadly New Year’s Day truck attack in New Orleans are […]

Allocation of funds from Inflation Reduction Act makes it harder for president-elect to halt green initiativesThe Biden administration has raced to allocate $74bn of funding for climate initiatives before Donald Trump’s inauguration, leaving $20bn vulnerable to potential rollback by the incoming […]

For years I’ve overlooked the many good reasons for leaving the social media platform. But now there is no other choiceJaron Lanier was chief scientist of the engineering office of Internet2 back in the day, which is to say, definitely one of the godfathers of the internet. In 2018, he set out […]

As fires licked the Los Angeles landscape, a network of volunteers plunged into action to rescue pets and livestockAs flames roared into communities on all sides of Los Angeles last week, and tens of thousands of residents rushed to evacuate, trailers across southern California were being hitched […]

AC Future and Pininfarina unveil AI Transformer homes, merging sustainability and innovation. Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson says this could change the way we think about home.

Beaches in Sydney, Australia, were closed to bathers after small white and grey balls of debris washed up on the shores at the height of the summer holiday season.