LOS ANGELES — Southern California Edison hasn’t accepted responsibility for igniting the Eaton fire, but it is now offering each victim who lost their home hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to a draft of its planned compensation program.

The owner of a 1,500-square-foot home destroyed in the wildfire, given as an example in the ...Read more

Since 2013, political violence in America has surged, making public service and activism increasingly dangerous. From assassination attempts to the killing of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, attacks once unthinkable are becoming disturbingly routine, which political scientists say threatens the stability of U.S. democracy.

Assassins have ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump appealed to the Supreme Court on Thursday seeking to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook from the independent board that can raise or lower interest rates.

The appeal "involves yet another case of improper judicial interference with the President's removal authority — here, interference with the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The mystery deepened this week surrounding the case of a girl whose decomposing body was found in an abandoned Telsa registered to singer D4vd.

The discovery made national headlines earlier this month. But this week, authorities identified the girl as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas, a resident of Southern California's Inland Empire ...Read more

One of D4vd’s reported leaked songs is titled “Celeste,” and pays tribute to a love interest with the same name as the 15-year-old whose body was found decomposing in the singer’s Tesla last week.

TMZ reports that the nearly four-minute track was initially leaked as “Celeste_Demo unfin” in December 2023.

The song also appears to ...Read more

Just before Tyler Robinson turned himself in for the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, authorities say he appeared to leave a trail of incriminating messages on the online gaming platform Discord.

At first, his messages were playful. When a friend on a group chat noticed his likeness to the skinny white man in the grainy photos ...Read more

Two Russian oil refineries were attacked on Thursday as Ukraine stepped up strikes on its enemy’s energy infrastructure.

Gazprom’s Neftekhim Salavat petrochemical facility in the Bashkortostan region was set on fire after being hit by drones, local governor Radiy Khabirov said. The site is more than 1,300 kilometers (800 miles) from ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s call with Chinese President Xi Jinping is slated to take place on Friday at 9 a.m. Washington time, according to a U.S. official.

The call will be the first direct engagement between the leaders of the world’s largest economies since June, with the future of ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok app and a tariff truce between ...Read more

The man who fatally shot three police officers in southern Pennsylvania was identified Thursday as Matthew James Ruth.

Ruth, 24, was killed in the shootout, in which he wounded two additional officers, authorities said. The cops involved have not been publicly identified.

Officers arrived at the home in North Codorus Township to arrest Ruth on...Read more

The Trump administration moved again Wednesday to make it harder to gain U.S. citizenship, announcing a slate of changes to the core civics test that immigrants must pass to be naturalized.

The changes would expand the number of questions immigrants need to be prepared to answer, and increase the number of questions they must answer correctly ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Instead of voting on President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs, U.S. House Republicans resorted this week to another arcane rules maneuver — all to prevent what could be politically uncomfortable votes for GOP lawmakers.

But in the process of basically putting the calendar on hold, we saw the first cracks in GOP support for ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — For nearly 40 years, Florida has had a ban on the open carry of firearms that was signed into law by a Republican governor and defended by a Republican-controlled Legislature against the efforts of gun rights advocates and, more recently, Gov. Ron DeSantis.

But last Wednesday, a state appeals court struck down the 1987 ban...Read more

Two Russian oil refineries were attacked on Thursday as Ukraine stepped up strikes on its enemy’s energy infrastructure.

Gazprom’s Neftekhim Salavat petrochemical facility in the Bashkortostan region was set on fire after being hit by drones, local governor Radiy Khabirov said. The site is more than 1,300 kilometers (800 miles) from ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Thursday continued to track Tropical Storm Gabrielle while also eyeing a tropical wave moving off the coast of Africa that could become the season’s next named storm.

As of the NHC’s 5 a.m. advisory on Gabrielle, the system had 50 mph sustained winds located about 845 miles east of the ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer unveiled a new technology partnership at a business roundtable Thursday, where they were joined by executives highlighting efforts to deepen ties on artificial intelligence and digital assets.

The agreement will create “billions of dollars in opportunities for American farmers ...Read more

Two Russian oil refineries were attacked on Thursday as Ukraine stepped up strikes on its enemy’s energy infrastructure.

Gazprom’s Neftekhim Salavat petrochemical facility in the Bashkortostan region was set on fire after being hit by drones, local governor Radiy Khabirov said. The site is more than 1,300 kilometers (800 miles) from ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Use of solitary confinement in immigration detention is soaring under the Trump administration, according to a report published Wednesday by Physicians for Human Rights using federal data and records obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement placed at least 10,588 people in solitary...Read more

Tensions continued to grow in the Caribbean this week as Venezuela and the United States publicly flexed their military muscles, fueling concerns that both nations are edging closer to an armed confrontation.

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced that U.S. forces had sunk three boats he said were smuggling drugs out of Venezuela, killing...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Central Florida residents face flight delays, beach closures, and sonic booms in the middle of the night if SpaceX has its way, with plans to launch its powerful Starship and Super Heavy rocket from the Space Coast as many as 120 times a year.

The most dire predictions in two federal reports on the proposal could mean nearly ...Read more