PALMDALE, Calif. -- A wildfire smoldered in the high desert north of Los Angeles on Saturday, spewing plumes of thick smoke into a nearby town as hundreds of firefighters worked to contain the 2-day-old blaze.
The fire has charred nearly 22 square miles of brush in the Antelope Valley. It was 62 percent contained Saturday afternoon and no structures were threatened, said Los Angeles County Fire Capt. Sam Padilla.
The lawyer wrote in an X post that the official was fired without due process because he followed Justice Department COVID-19 policies.
A gunman opened fire Monday in a Target store parking lot in the Texas capital, killing at least three people, then stole two cars during a getaway that ended with police using a Taser to detain him on the other side of the city, authorities said.
Both Apple and the feds have boosted the only operational rare earth mine in North America.
Speaker Steve Yeager and Majority Floor Leader Sandra Jauregui will not seek re-election in 2026.
CCSD Superintendent Jhone Ebert says the tentative contract will put qualified educators in each classroom and addresses veteran teacher salaries.
The explosion sent black smoke spiralling into the midday sky in the Monongahela Valley, a region of the state synonymous with steel for more than a century.
Donald Trump said Monday that he’s taking over Washington’s police department and deploying 800 members of the National Guard across the city in the hopes of reducing crime, even as city officials stressed that crime is already falling in the nation’s capital.
Transcripts of the secret grand jury testimony that led to the sex trafficking indictment of Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell won’t be released, a judge decided Monday.
Tens of thousands of students across the county filed into classrooms on Monday morning for the Clark County School District’s first day of school.
If you’ve driven in the Airport Connector Tunnel you’ve probably noticed drops of water falling on your windshield, a white residue on the ceiling of the tunnel and on the road.
