LOS ANGELES — Southern California Edison sued Los Angeles County, water agencies and two companies including SoCalGas on Friday, saying their mistakes contributed to the deadly and destructive toll of last year's Eaton wildfire.

Edison now faces hundreds of lawsuits by victims of the fire, which claim its transmission line started the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The White House has named the members of an executive panel as part of a so-called Board of Peace that’s intended implement President Donald Trump’s peace plan for the Gaza Strip.

In a statement on Friday afternoon, the White House said Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, Trump’s son-in-law ...Read more

The federal government has backed away from its plan to garnish the wages of those in default on their student loans.

In a press release Friday afternoon, the Department of Education announced it will delay involuntary collections on defaulted federal student loans. The pause is temporary, the Department said, but it will give the government ...Read more

California Gov. Gavin Newsom will attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, next week, where he will make a speech criticizing President Donald Trump for disrupting the United States' relationships with global allies, his office said Friday.

Newsom is scheduled to speak next Thursday at the annual meeting, one day after Trump is ...Read more

China and Canada reached a wide-ranging agreement to lower trade barriers and rebuild ties, signaling a pivot in Canadian foreign policy and a break from alignment with President Donald Trump’s trade agenda.

Prime Minister Mark Carney said he expects China to cut tariffs on Canadian rapeseed, also known as canola, after meeting Chinese leader...Read more

SAN DIEGO — For the second time in five years, President Donald Trump has granted clemency to twice-convicted San Diego businesswoman Adriana Isabel Camberos, this time issuing her and her brother full and unconditional pardons of their fraud convictions after commuting her previous fraud sentence in 2021.

Camberos, 55, was first convicted in...Read more

President Donald Trump threatened fresh tariffs on goods from nations that oppose his push to take control of Greenland, stepping up his rhetoric while Denmark hosted U.S. lawmakers on its home turf following meetings in Washington this week.

“I may put a tariff on countries if they don’t go along with Greenland, because we need Greenland ...Read more

NEW YORK — Kianna Underwood, a former Nickelodeon child actor, was killed in a hit-and-run that saw her body dragged two blocks through Brooklyn on Friday morning, police said.

Underwood, 33, was struck by a black sedan heading west on Pitkin Avenue as she tried to cross the roadway near Mother Gaston Boulevard in Brownsville around 6:50 a.m....Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Trump administration has repeatedly said the surge of immigration enforcement in Minnesota is the result of “sanctuary politicians who release criminal illegal aliens directly from jails onto the streets to terrorize more innocent Americans,” but Minnesota officials say the state’s prisons work directly with ICE.

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DENVER — Adams County health officials are investigating Colorado’s only immigration detention center after immigrant-rights advocates alleged that a wave of largely untreated illness had swept through the facility.

County health officials “received multiple reports about possible gastrointestinal and respiratory illness,” Health ...Read more

NEW YORK — Frank Carone, a close friend and longtime political confidant to Eric Adams, is among the partners behind the launch of the ex-New York City mayor’s cryptocurrency token, according to sources familiar with the matter.

The revelation of Carone’s involvement in the so-called “NYC Token” venture comes after the digital asset ...Read more

WICHITA, Kan. — A Kansas elementary school guidance counselor kept sixth graders from listing Charlie Kirk and President Donald Trump as their role models during a class assignment, according to a complaint sent this week to federal officials by a conservative legal organization.

And, the seven-page complaint says, after at least one parent ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — An Anaheim man is facing federal charges that he falsely claimed to have placed pipe bombs inside Disneyland before Vice President JD Vance visited the park with his family last year.

Marco Antonio Aguayo, 22, is accused of posting threatening messages on Disneyland's official Instagram page after learning that Vance was ...Read more

A plane carrying deported immigrants landed in Venezuela on Friday — the first removals from the United States since the Trump administration captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.

The six-hour flight departed from the Mesa Gateway Airport in Phoenix and landed in Simón Bolívar International Airport, according to U.S. watchdog group ...Read more

California lawmakers on Thursday unveiled a $23 billion science research bond aimed at offsetting recent federal funding losses — and, in a break from past efforts, tying public investment in university research to lower drug prices for Californians.

State Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, announced the effort during a news conference ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Renee Good died after suffering four gunshot wounds, including a shot to the left side of her head, according to newly released incident reports from emergency responders that also detail the scene’s aftermath in south Minneapolis Jan. 7.

The documents, released by the Minneapolis Fire Department and Minneapolis Police ...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom took an early victory lap on homelessness, touting that the number of people sleeping on California’s streets had dropped by nearly 10% in the last year as he announced another tranche of state homelessness funds for local governments.

Newsom announced Friday at a press conference in San Francisco that the state would award ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected bids by Marilyn Mosby and federal prosecutors for redo hearings after the high court vacated the former Baltimore state’s attorney’s fraud conviction in July.

The appeals court denied the petitions in a brief order handed down Thursday.

Mosby remains convicted of two counts of ...Read more

BALTIMORE — National Democrats aren’t giving up on potentially eliminating Maryland’s lone Republican congressional seat through redistricting, despite state Senate President Bill Ferguson refusing to consider the effort. His chamber, necessary to advance legislation, will prioritize affordability issues during this year’s legislative ...Read more