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LOS ANGELES — Former Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners President Steve Soboroff will lead the city’s wildfire rebuilding effort, Mayor Karen Bass said Friday afternoon.

Soboroff, a real estate developer and ...Read more

Jimmy Donaldson has compiled quite the resume since he began making videos as a teenager in his Greenville, North Carolina, bedroom. The world’s most popular YouTube channel. A successful snack line. A new Amazon reality...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a law that calls for the shutdown of the U.S. operations of social media app TikTok because of privacy and security concerns related to its Chinese owner.

The justices in ...Read more

JERUSALEM — Israel’s full Cabinet approved a ceasefire and hostage-prisoner exchange deal with Hamas, clearing the way for a six-week pause starting Sunday to the 15 months of war in Gaza.

After the high-level ...Read more

NEW YORK — An MTA bus driver lost control of an empty city bus Friday morning and broke through a retaining stone wall in the Spuyten Duyvil section of the Bronx, leaving the vehicle dangling over the street.

The ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — State insurance regulators and county prosecutors are deploying teams to areas affected by the disastrous fires in Los Angeles County to prevent — and prosecute — insurance fraudsters targeting wildfire...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California Attorney General Rob Bonta has sent more than 200 letters to landlords and hotels warning them that they’ve been accused of wildfire-related price gouging, his office announced Friday.

“The ...Read more

Over the past half-decade, the state of Texas has been pushing an evolution in the administration and enforcement of immigration law. Stepping into a traditional federal role, state lawmakers in 2023 passed Senate Bill ...Read more

WASHINGTON — If confirmed to be U.S. attorney general, Pam Bondi would oversee the U.S. Department of Justice.

That could pit one of her attorneys against a company that Bondi lobbied on behalf of last year.

As a ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — An Orlando hotel has agreed to institute new anti-discrimination policies after abruptly canceling a planned conference by an Arab American group in the wake of the outbreak of hostilities in Gaza in 2023...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer vetoed 13 bills sent to her by the Democratic-led House and Senate at the close of session in December, including legislation that would set up parolee ID programs, expedite ...Read more

Members of Congress scrambled to get tickets to as many constituents as possible for President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday. Some held ticket lotteries because demand overwhelmed supply.

Then came word on...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — Federal prosecutors on Friday unsealed an indictment charging Oakland’s former Mayor Sheng Thao, her longtime romantic partner and the owners of a waste company in a bribery scheme that allegedly ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump got the last laugh, beating a slew of criminal charges without punishment and defeating his political foes. His reward: dealing with often-clashing Republicans in Congress.

The president-elect ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — A federal probe has found that drones meant to dazzle holiday season viewers on the shores of Orlando’s Lake Eola didn’t have the most updated flight path programming installed, triggering a chain of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — With fire containment improving and winds dying down, some residents are being allowed back into neighborhoods devastated by the Eaton and Palisades fires.

Los Angeles County officials say as many as 11,...Read more

Will she or won’t she?

Palm Beach gossip watchers can’t help but wonder if Donald Trump Jr.’s new girlfriend is going to attend the inauguration in Washington, D.C., on Monday.

There’s a good chance Bettina ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Friday declared the Equal Rights Amendment the law of the land, creating a constitutional quandary three days before leaving office and after years of warning that his successor would ...Read more

ATLANTA — The day after a northwest Georgia senator’s attempt to ignore his banishment from the House led to his arrest, the chamber’s speaker announced he was lifting the ban.

State Sen. Colton Moore, who ...Read more