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In California, where more than 147,000 federal civilian employees worked last year, President Donald Trump’s hiring pause will likely have a big impact on the federal government’s ability to provide services, labor ...Read more

PJM Interconnection, which operates the largest U.S. grid from Washington, D.C., to Illinois, issued a Level 1 emergency alert for Wednesday as cold weather boosts electricity demand.

The network operator expects energy ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday that could designate drug cartels in Mexico as foreign terrorist organizations, a move that has some bipartisan support, while experts have expressed ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A judge on Tuesday ordered Southern California Edison to preserve data, equipment and evidence related to the deadly Eaton fire, a decision praised by attorneys who sued the giant utility company and ...Read more

MIAMI — The U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday night that it will be surging ships, boats and aircraft to South Florida and other areas of the country to bolster anti-maritime migration efforts to comply with President Donald...Read more

WASHINGTON — Over the past two years, the Biden administration struck a careful balance on artificial intelligence. The White House took steps to ensure the U.S. stayed ahead of China in developing the technology while ...Read more

The World Health Organization called on the U.S. to reconsider President Donald Trump’s decision to exit the agency, suggesting the move could undermine global health security.

The planned departure would leave the WHO...Read more

Chinese leader Xi Jinping hailed his country’s ties with Russia during a video call with Vladimir Putin a day after Donald Trump’s inauguration as U.S. president, signaling a resolve to deepen their alliance.

Xi said...Read more

President Donald Trump pardoned the founder of darknet marketplace Silk Road, he said in a post to Truth Social on Tuesday night.

Ross William Ulbricht, known online as Dread Pirate Roberts, was indicted in the U.S. ...Read more

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and a top aide to President Trump, drew and quickly dismissed a raft of condemnation from Democratic lawmakers, left-wing politicians abroad and others across the internet after twice ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — After a day of strong winds that helped fuel small scattered fires across Southern California, hope to cut back on wildfire risks may finally be on the horizon.

A small amount of rain is in the forecast ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has promised to increase patrols in Altadena to combat looting as residents begin to head back to their homes nearly two weeks after the Eaton fire swept ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he would be open to billionaire supporter Elon Musk or Oracle Corp. Chairman Larry Ellison purchasing social video app TikTok as part of a joint venture with the U.S. government.

“I have the ...Read more

California Democratic state lawmakers and advocates are vowing to “fight back” against President Donald Trump’s opening salvo of executive orders on his first day in office, which target immigration, transgender ...Read more

India’s government is prepared to work with Donald Trump’s administration to identify and take back all its citizens residing illegally in the U.S., an early signal from New Delhi that it’s willing to comply with the...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The city on Wednesday will officially launch what it is calling a “neighborhood wellness court” in Kensington, an initiative in which police will arrest people who are openly using drugs, issue them ...Read more

Coast Guard Commandant Linda Fagan was fired on the second day of the Trump administration, an action Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen called “politically motivated.”

A Department of Homeland Security memo said Tuesday ...Read more

The Trump administration has expanded the authority of immigration agents, allowing them to make arrests at previously protected locations such as schools and churches.

Acting Homeland Security Secretary Benjamine Huffman...Read more

Hours into his second presidency, Donald Trump signed an executive order to end birthright citizenship despite more than 100 years of legal precedent guaranteeing citizenship to every person born in the country.

Trump’s...Read more