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Newsom and Trump face off from a distance as Los Angeles fires burn
Trump says California’s mismanagement of forests and water is to blame for wildfires. Here’s the reality.
Trump targets California water policy as he prepares to tour LA fire damage

Newsom and Trump face off from a distance as Los Angeles fires burn
Trump says California’s mismanagement of forests and water is to blame for wildfires. Here’s the reality.
Trump targets California water policy as he prepares to tour LA fire damage

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Environment|Political|US

Newsom and Trump face off from a distance as Los Angeles fires burn

Advisers to California Gov. Gavin Newsom spent the week monitoring new White House advance staffers’ social media accounts, hoping for clues for where President Donald Trump might be headed when he lands in Los Angeles on Friday afternoon to talk about the wildfire damage.That’s the state of relations as California and the federal government face one of the most expensive natural disasters ever, and perhaps one of the most complex in American history.No one is talking between the Democratic governor’s team and the newly inaugurated president’s, two people on the governor’s team told

Trump says California’s mismanagement of forests and water is to blame for wildfires. Here’s the reality.

Trump targets California water policy as he prepares to tour LA fire damage

Environment|Political|US

LA’s first rainfall of the year could help or hurt wildfire victims as new infernos pop up in San Diego County

With parts of Los Angeles County still smoldering from wildfires and new blazes flaring up, expected rainfall this weekend would seem like a welcome relief. But how the rain falls could make the difference between a disaster respite or a disaster repeat.Los Angeles County faces a high chance of widespread rain this weekend, with light intensities spread across many hours, the National Weather Service said.There are no major flooding risks, except a 5% to 10% chance of significant debris in burn scars for Los Angeles and Ventura County, the weather service said. Isolated, heavy rain of up to 0.

Trump is targeting the immigrants who will be called on to rebuild LA

Jeremy Strong called his Oscar nomination the ‘realization of a lifelong dream’ and has the adorable picture to prove it

Business|Environment|US

Amid LA fires, neighbors helped each other survive – 60 years of research shows local heroes are crucial to disaster response

As wildfires swept through neighborhoods on the outskirts of Los Angeles in January 2025, stories about residents there helping their neighbors and total strangers began trickling out on social media. Accounts of Hollywood stars clearing streets for emergency vehicles to get through and raising money for fire victims were widely circulated. But there were many other examples of less-famous people helping older neighbors to safety, and even showing up with trailers to evacuate horses. Businesses, including fitness centers, opened their facilities so evacuees could shower or charge their phone

Over 50,000 under evacuation orders or warnings as wildfire imperils homes north of Los Angeles

In western Altadena, where 17 wildfire deaths were reported, residents say evacuation alerts came late or not at all

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What Americans think about Trump and Musk's plans for the federal government: AP-NORC poll

Americans see the federal government as rife with corruption, inefficiency and red tape — but they're less sure about whether Elon Musk is the right person to fix it. A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that only about 3 in 10 U.S. adults strongly or somewhat approve of President Trump's creation of an advisory body on government efficiency, which Musk is helming. About 4 in 10 disapprove, while the rest were neutral or didn't know enough to say. (The poll was conducted before Vivek Ramaswamy announced he would no longer be invol

Sports|US

Las Vegas Raiders are negotiating a deal to hire Pete Carroll as their head coach, AP source says

The Las Vegas Raiders are negotiating a deal to hire Pete Carroll to be their new head coach, a person with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press on Friday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the contract hasn’t been finalized. The 73-year-old Carroll returns to the sideline after leading Seattle to two NFC championships and the franchise’s only Super Bowl title during a 14-year stretch that ended following the 2023 season. He joins a team that’s partly owned by Tom Brady, who beat Carroll and the Seah

U.S. whistleblower says Mastercard, Visa failed to stop payments for child sex abuse material on OnlyFans

Woman arrested in fatal shooting of Border Patrol agent in Vermont

Celebrity|Crime|Entertainment|US

Rocker Marilyn Manson won't be charged after long investigation of sexual assault allegations

Prosecutors said Friday that they will not file charges against Marilyn Manson after a years-long investigation of allegations of sexual assault and domestic violence. Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman said the allegations are too old under the law and the evidence is not sufficient to charge the 56-year-old shock rocker whose legal name is Brian Warner. “We have determined that allegations of domestic violence fall outside of the statute of limitations, and we cannot prove charges of sexual assault beyond a reasonable doubt,” Hochman said. �

Economy|Political|US

Elon Musk’s DOGE is coming for the penny

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has a new target to cut down costs: the US penny.DOGE said on X that the penny costs over 3 cents to make and cost US taxpayers over $179 million in the 2023 fiscal year. “The Mint produced over 4.5 billion pennies in FY2023, around 40% of the 11.4 billion coins for circulation produced,” the post read in part.The US Mint in 2023 reported it circulated around 4.1 billion pennies. In fiscal year 2024, the US Mint said in its annual report that the US penny costs about 3.7 cents to produce and distribute, up more than 20% from the previous ye

Putin echoes Trump's claim that conflict in Ukraine could have been avoided had he been in office

Desperate families await return of 4 female soldiers held by Hamas for 15 months

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Kremlin says Putin is ready to talk to Trump and is waiting for word from Washington

Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to hold a phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump and Moscow is waiting for word from Washington that it is ready too, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Friday.Trump said on Thursday he wanted to meet Putin as soon as possible to secure an end to the war with Ukraine and expressed his desire to work towards cutting nuclear arms, something the Kremlin said Putin had made clear he wanted too.When asked if Putin and Trump would use this weekend to hold their first phone call since Trump's inauguration - an essential precursor ahead of a

Science|Technology|World

Two mysterious fast radio bursts originated from wildly different places in space

Mysterious fast radio bursts, or millisecond-long bright flashes of radio waves from space, have intrigued astronomers since the first detection of the phenomenon in 2007. The enigmatic signals, known as FRBs, release as much energy in less than the blink of an eye as the sun emits in one day.Researchers are still trying to unravel what the celestial pulses are, as well as how and where they occur. Specialized telescopes have enabled astronomers to track radio bursts within the Milky Way galaxy as well as up to 8 billion light-years away.Now, four new studies are providing answers about where

Putin echoes Trump's claim that conflict in Ukraine could have been avoided had he been in office

Desperate families await return of 4 female soldiers held by Hamas for 15 months

Business|MidEast|Political|US|World

US security contractor will take charge of key checkpoint in Gaza as Israeli forces withdraw

A private American security company will take over a key checkpoint on the road to northern Gaza in the coming days as Israeli forces withdraw from the area on Saturday, a source familiar with the matter tells CNN.Armed personnel from an American security contractor will man the checkpoint and will be responsible for inspecting vehicles entering northern Gaza. Palestinians returning to northern Gaza on foot will not be inspected, according to the terms of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.Israeli forces are set to complete their withdrawal from the Netzarim Corridor in central G

Environment|Europe|Political|World

Major storm lashes Ireland and Scotland as hurricane-force winds down power lines and ground flights

Millions of people in Ireland and northern parts of the U.K. heeded the advice of authorities to stay at home Friday in the face of hurricane-force winds that disabled power networks and brought widespread travel disruptions. Forecasters had issued a rare “red” weather warning, meaning danger to life, across the whole island of Ireland and central and southwest Scotland. Ireland bore the brunt of the storm first, as it was hit with wind gusts of 114 mph (183 kph), the strongest since World War II, as a winter storm spiraled in from the Atlantic before hitting

Hamas names four Israeli female soldier hostages to be freed in second swap

North Korea prepares to send more troops to Russia after suffering casualties, South Korea says

Senate is preparing to confirm Hegseth as defense secretary in late evening vote

Business|Political|US

Target is the latest company to roll back some DEI programs

Education|Political|US

ICE agents attempted entry into Chicago elementary school but were not allowed inside, Chicago Public Schools officials say

Political|Technology

Democrat overseeing DOGE shares what she believes Musk is planning to do

Americas|Political|US

US military aircraft deport migrants as Pentagon readies more troops for border

U.S. military C-17 aircraft began flying detained migrants out of the country on Friday, following orders from President Donald Trump, as the

Business|Health|Political|US

Trump administration withdraws FDA plan to ban menthol cigarettes

The Trump administration has withdrawn a plan to ban menthol cigarettes in the U.S., in a setback to health regulators and activists.

Health|Political|US

Trump ends Fauci's security detail and says he'd feel no responsibility if harm befell him

Health|Political|US

Trump defends decision to pull Dr. Fauci's security detail

During a news conference in Fletcher, North Carolina, President Trump was asked about his decision to remove Dr. Anthony Fauci's government-funded security detail. Fauci continues to face threats over his public-facing role during the Covid-19 pandemic, and has now hired private security, a source tells CNN's Kaitlan Collins.

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