LOS ANGELES — California’s national forests are on the chopping block — literally — in the wake of the Trump administration’s April 5 order to immediately expand timber production in the United States.

Last week, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins issued an emergency declaration that ordered the U.S. Forest Service to open ...Read more

ATLANTA — When a coalition of federal and local law enforcement agents swarmed a Bartow County flooring manufacturer late last month, some workers picked up and ran, mistakenly thinking an immigration raid was taking place.

The authorities’ arrival at Wellmade Industries in Cartersville, roughly 40 miles north of Atlanta, was the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — One after another in recent weeks, Maria's accounting clients raised the same fear: immigration agents finding and detaining them using information from their tax filings.

"I heard it from everybody," said the 40-year-old consultant for undocumented small-business entrepreneurs in Southern California. "They come to me and they ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — All full-time employees in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Vessel Sanitation Program were laid off this week, even as a cruise ship arrived in Miami with another norovirus outbreak among passengers and crew.

The CDC employees whose jobs were cut were responsible for monitoring, tracking and assisting...Read more

Bill Maher capped off his usual jabs at President Donald Trump’s administration by saying the Don is only playing the role of “a crazy person,” describing him as “self-aware” and “measured” following a recent White House dinner.

During Friday’s episode of “Real Time With Bill Maher,” the self-proclaimed centrist launched ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — As President Donald Trump blasts American allies and adversaries alike for “unfair trade” and sets steep tariffs, California Governor Gavin Newsom has a different message for the nations of the world.

“Donald Trump’s tariffs do not represent all Americans,” the Democrat said in a video posted on social media last ...Read more

The Federal Emergency Management Agency will end its 100% match for Helene disaster recovery in North Carolina.

“The need in Western North Carolina remains immense — people need debris removed, homes rebuilt, and roads restored,” Gov. Josh Stein said in a news release. “I am extremely disappointed and urge the President to reconsider ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As warmer days approach, many Angelenos eager to once again spread their toes in the sand may find an unwelcome sight along the shoreline: dark, ashy sediment still sitting on beaches from the devastating January firestorm.

But residents need not fear the detritus, which is composed of fine ash that swirled together with sand ...Read more

The U.K. Parliament passed an emergency bill to give ministers control over Jingye Group’s British Steel, as Keir Starmer’s Labour government fights to preserve Britain’s last virgin steelmaker.

The legislation was approved on Saturday by the House of Commons and the Lords after both chambers were recalled from their Easter recess. It ...Read more

BALTIMORE — A decade later and Freddie Gray‘s name still elicits a visceral response from those who lived or worked in Baltimore in the spring of 2015. Those who were nearby during those weeks of turmoil, anger, and despair can recall it — the sirens, the protest chants, and the faint smell of smoke as parts of the city burned.

But what ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — At 6:01 p.m. Friday, in a crack of rifle shots, Mikal Mahdi was executed inside of the Broad River Road Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina. The convicted double murder let out a groaning yell as the bullets struck his chest, followed 80 seconds later by a deep guttural moan as the life seemed to leave him. He...Read more

TOKYO — Gov. Wes Moore launched into a weeklong trade mission in Japan and South Korea on Saturday at 311 miles per hour.

Riding a test version of a high-speed magnetic levitation train that both Japanese and Maryland officials have long sought to bring to the United States, the Democratic governor kicked off a packed schedule of meetings ...Read more

German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz said Donald Trump’s tariff policies increase the risk of a financial crisis and advocated for a U.S.-European free trade agreement, picking up on an idea that has drawn a hostile response from the U.S. president.

“Yes, I’m hoping for a new transatlantic free-trade accord,” Handelsblatt, a ...Read more

NEW YORK — A relative of the family of six tourists killed in the doomed helicopter crash in the Hudson River laid flowers at the crash site Saturday as he went about the grisly task of bringing their bodies back to Spain to be buried.

“They left together. They left without suffering and they left with a smile on their faces,” Joan ...Read more

President Donald Trump and his family have taken a interest in just about every corner of the crypto industry.

There are nonfungible tokens and digital collectibles; a decentralized finance project; a proposed stablecoin; an effort at Bitcoin mining; and a pair of memecoins, one for the president and one for first lady Melania Trump.

Taken ...Read more

NEW YORK — The pilot of the doomed tourist helicopter that crashed into the Hudson River was remembered as a driven Navy veteran who died “doing what he loved,” friends and loved ones said Saturday.

“Flying wasn’t just his passion — it was his purpose. He found pure joy in the skies, and it was there that he felt most alive,” Tara...Read more

DENVER — A male gray wolf collared by Colorado Parks and Wildlife was reported dead in Wyoming this week, according to the agency, which did not comment on the circumstances of the animal’s death.

The wolf was one of 15 relocated from Canada to Colorado in January and is the second of that group to die recently in Wyoming. Four weeks ago, ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The three people who died after a Cessna 310R crashed and burned in Boca Raton on Friday morning as it tried to return to the airport have been identified as a teenage girl, her father and her grandfather, all from Palm Beach County.

The small plane, built in 1977, took off from the Boca airport just after 10 a.m. and ...Read more

Iran said the first formal talks with U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration over its nuclear program were “constructive,” and the two sides said they’ll meet again in a week.

The two sides discussed Iran’s nuclear program and the lifting of sanctions “in a constructive atmosphere and with mutual respect,” the Iranian ...Read more