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PHILADELPHIA — The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Semiquincentennial birthday bash kicks off Thursday, complete with a grand parade of ships, a televised concert, and a picnic with a celebrity chef.

Officials have said they...Read more

Another Republican Florida lawmaker has filed a bill to rename several roadways after the late Charlie Kirk, the right-wing political activist and influencer who was fatally shot in September.

State Rep. Kevin Steele, R-...Read more

JERUSALEM — U.S. President Donald Trump said a peace deal in the Middle East is “very close,” after officials from Israel and Hamas were cautiously positive about the prospects talks underway in Egypt would bring an ...Read more

BOSTON — Supporters of the pro-Palestinian protester charged with punching a Boston Police officer and breaking his nose cursed at reporters, shielding themselves with keffiyehs, after their companion was taken from the ...Read more

An attorney for veteran downstate Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Bost told the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday that Illinois’ post-election mail-in ballot-counting law created the potential for reputational and financial harm...Read more

LOS ANGELES — He’s the son of Baptist missionaries who loved soccer as a child.

In the Hollywood neighborhood where he lived and worked as an Uber driver, one acquaintance described him as “a really nice guy.” Yet...Read more

The courtroom battle over whether the Trump administration can force the deployment of California National Guard troops to Oregon will test the limits of presidential power as well as the legal guardrails meant to protect ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of Anton “Tony” Lazzaro, the formerly well-connected Republican donor convicted of giving teenage girls gifts, alcohol and money in exchange for sex.

On Monday, the high ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The most destructive inferno in Los Angeles history, which charred a devastating path through Pacific Palisades and Malibu in early January, was a flare-up of a fire that an Uber driver intentionally set ...Read more

DENVER — Billionaire Michael Bloomberg, the businessman and former mayor of New York City, has donated $1.5 million more to the campaign to retain Denver’s ban on flavored tobacco, helping give supporters of the ban ...Read more

MIAMI — Those beaded and feathered costumes that parade throughout Miami Carnival may be fewer and farther between this year, as organizers say rising costs and immigration fears are dampening participation in the ...Read more

President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday during a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing.

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Publix, one of Florida’s most popular grocery chains, is now allowing customers across the state to openly carry guns due to a recent court ruling, employees say.

Florida began allowing open carry on Sept. 25 after an ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Federal prosecutors’ announcement on Wednesday that the Jan. 7 Palisades fire was a flare-up of a small arson fire that firefighters thought they had contained six days earlier has raised concerns among ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Federal investigators have determined that the wildfire that leveled much of Pacific Palisades on Jan. 7 was a so-called “holdover” from a smaller fire that was set intentionally on New Year’s Day, ...Read more

NEW YORK — The mentally ill 19-year-old accused of decapitating his mother’s boyfriend wanted to chop up his body, in part by using a blender, police sources said.

But Damien Hurstel’s plan was short-circuited when ...Read more

Ford Motor Co. could face as much as a $1 billion earnings hit from the shutdown of an aluminum plant in New York after a fire last month, an Evercore ISI analyst said in a Wednesday investor note.

The Sept. 16 incident ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — One of the first things Sarah Paulson’s character does in the new trailer for “All’s Fair” is call Kim Kardashian’s character a vulgar slang term for female genitalia. One of the last things she ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California is challenging President Donald Trump's grip on the state's National Guard, telling a federal court the White House used claims of unrest in Los Angeles as a pretext for a deployment that ...Read more

Diwali, the vibrant festival of lights celebrated in Hinduism and other religions, will become an official state holiday in California starting in 2026.

The new law was sponsored by Democratic state Assembly member Ash ...Read more