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LOS ANGELES — California electric customers would pay $9 billion more to shore up the state’s wildfire fund under a last-minute deal reached behind closed doors that was introduced as legislation on Wednesday.

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WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer deployed a rarely used parliamentary maneuver Wednesday to try to force Republicans to vote on requiring the release of Justice Department files on Jeffrey Epstein, ...Read more

Republican Assembly Leader James Gallagher is behind a long-shot effort to split California into two separate states.

He now thinks Orange County should be added to the new proposed state, comprised mostly of inland ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Forest Service has announced it is reversing a ban on federal firefighters wearing masks, and will give crews protective N95s as they battle increasingly intense fires across the nation.

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NEW YORK — Fix the City, a super PAC that spent an unprecedented $22.5 million on propping up Andrew Cuomo’s failed Democratic primary campaign for mayor, is teaming up with at least one other independent spending ...Read more

Workers detained in a raid at the battery plant on the Hyundai Metaplant campus near Savannah, Georgia, last week were expected to be released to return to South Korea.

Korean Air flew a Boeing 747 that arrived as a ...Read more

Food delivery app DoorDash is setting its sights on a new destination to test out flying drone deliveries: San Francisco.

The tech company leased a warehouse in the Mission District last month that will serve as a ...Read more

Starting in 2020, Charlie Kirk hosted a daily program for Salem Radio, which supplies conservative talk programs to stations throughout the country, including AM 870 The Answer in Los Angeles.

Salem’s website described ...Read more

A Clark County school board member is the latest to enter a crowded field of Republicans looking to oust Democratic Rep. Susie Lee in 2026.

Lydia Dominguez, who launched her campaign last week, joins former mayoral ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A moment of silence for conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who died after being shot in the neck Wednesday at an event in Utah, devolved into frustrated shouts on the House floor Wednesday.

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ST. LOUIS — Union leaders said Wednesday that negotiators had reached a tentative agreement with Boeing to end a six-week strike.

The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 837 said the ...Read more

Republican candidate for governor Bernadette Wilson has chosen lieutenant governor candidate Mike Shower, a Republican state senator from Wasilla, as her running mate.

Announcing her choice at a campaign event Tuesday, ...Read more

EVERGREEN, Colo. — At least 3 students, including a suspected shooter, were being treated at a Denver-area hospital Wednesday following a shooting at Evergreen High School in the Jefferson County foothills, officials ...Read more

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox called on Americans to come together to repair a country that appears to be broken.

“More than the leaders, we just need every single person in this country to think about where we are and where we...Read more

After 19 months apart, King Charles III and Prince Harry have reunited.

On Wednesday, the father-son duo had their first face-to-face meeting since February of 2024. Buckingham Palace confirmed the pair had tea together ...Read more

One transgender student from the Charleston area can still use the bathroom of his choice after a Wednesday U.S. Supreme Court order.

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson and state Superintendent Ellen Weaver had ...Read more

If Missouri Republicans stay mostly united in their push to drown out Kansas City’s voters, there’s very little Democratic lawmakers can do to stop them during the special session.

That means if Missouri voters want ...Read more

CHICAGO — President Donald Trump said he could announce as early as Wednesday a National Guard deployment to a state and city that wants it, seemingly taking off the table for now his weeks-long threat to use military ...Read more

Tesla CEO and political activist Elon Musk is no longer the wealthiest man on Earth.

That title now belongs to Bronx-born Oracle chairman Larry Ellison, whose net worth jumped to $405 billion Wednesday, according to ...Read more

A Jewish group that has protested Israel’s bombing campaign in Gaza is suing the City of Miami Beach, its mayor and a commissioner, accusing them of violating the group’s First Amendment rights by trying to silence ...Read more