‘This is your Hurricane Katrina’: Assessing the long road ahead for L.A.
Craig Fugate, who led the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the Obama administration, has seen a lot of natural disasters.…
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Calmes: Merrick Garland’s integrity saved the DOJ only to doom it again
Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland's uprightness rescued the Department of Justice from Donald Trump's grip. But then he handed it over…
Newsom suspends landmark environmental laws to ease rebuilding in wildfire zones
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order suspending parts of the Coastal Act and the California Environmental Quality Act to…
Supreme Court turns down Trump plea to block New York sentencing for hush money conviction
Trump and his lawyers saw Supreme Court as a friendly forum, but it turned down his request. ...
Alec Baldwin sues New Mexico, claiming malicious prosecution
Six months after being cleared of criminal charges in the "Rust" shooting death, actor Alec Baldwin has filed a suit…
South Korea’s far right borrows from Trump’s playbook to bolster impeached Yoon
The president's conservative supporters contend that the country has been overrun by North Korea sympathizers conspiring to destroy South Korea's…
Supreme Court casts doubt on TikTok’s free-speech defense as shutdown law is set to take effect
Supreme Court is not likely to save TikTok from a U.S. shutdown, but incoming President Trump may try. ...
2024 was the hottest year on record, NASA and NOAA confirm
Weather organizations from around the world agree that the planet's average global surface temperature in 2024 could well have passed…
A long, freezing wait for a few hushed moments: A people’s farewell to Jimmy Carter
What people thought about at the public viewing of Jimmy Carter lying in state in the Capitol: reflections on a…