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LOS ANGELES — The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection released updated fire-hazard severity-zone maps for Los Angeles County for the first time in over a decade on Monday, adding more than 440,000 acres...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he expected efforts to slash the size of the federal government’s workforce would bring it down to an appropriate level in the next two to three months as he met with ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams attacked ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s handling of COVID and his nursing home scandal on Monday — escalating his criticism of the former governor gunning for his job.

“Someone said, well, he�...Read more

A planned trip by U.S. administration representatives to Greenland this week shows “a lack of respect for the Greenlandic people” given government negotiations are still ongoing, according to the territory’s election...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Mexican governor Alfonso Durazo Montaño met with Gov. Gavin Newsom in Sacramento last week to advance a new climate partnership between California and the Mexican state of Sonora.

Newsom and Durazo...Read more

Members of a federal appeals court panel were divided Monday at a hearing over whether to lift a pause on the Trump administration’s deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador without a chance to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is canceling dozens of National Institutes of Health grants funding health equity research, including work studying Black maternal and fetal health and HIV.

Grantees were told in ...Read more

Filmmaker Hamdan Ballal, one of the two Palestinian directors behind the Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," was detained Monday in the occupied West Bank by the Israeli military after he was attacked by settlers, ...Read more

A federal agency that funds libraries and museums is fighting to survive President Donald Trump’s sweeping cuts to the U.S. government — reductions that also could jeopardize dozens of Maryland cultural programs, from ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Monday he has picked Susan Monarez, the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to lead the agency after the White House unexpectedly withdrew the ...Read more

Two Maryland lawmakers are leading an effort to address so-called “forever chemicals” generated by wastewater treatment plants that pose a threat to human health.

Sponsored by state Sen. Sara Love, D-Montgomery, and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and his team have had success in driving down egg prices, but achieving this campaign promise largely has been drowned out by their aggressive push to expand executive authority, ...Read more

The U.S. national debt has ballooned to over $36 trillion, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Idaho Gov. Brad Little say they’ve had enough.

At a joint news conference Monday, they said they knew how to solve the problem...Read more

It’s been more than two months since Sen. John Fetterman held a public event in Pennsylvania, stopping by the Pennsylvania Farm Show in January. Next on his schedule: appearing at an event in Pittsburgh to promote ...Read more

One week after being arrested and charged with attempting to solicit sex from a minor, former State Sen. Justin Eichorn is now facing a divorce.

Brittany M. Eichorn of Grand Rapids filed for divorce Monday in Itasca ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — Gov. Glenn Youngkin began issuing vetoes Monday, rejecting legislation passed by the General Assembly this year that would raise the minimum wage and prohibit carrying certain semi-automatic center-fire ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The family of a woman who died a year after being “ejected” from a revolving door at Trump International in Las Vegas is suing the property.

A wrongful death lawsuit filed March 18 in Clark County ...Read more

DENVER — The rhythm of the Colorado legislature’s 2025 session hit a snag Friday when members of the Joint Budget Committee delayed the budget’s introduction by a week, but several major bills are still set to work ...Read more