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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed rolling back emission standards for new heavy-duty trucks, including buses, garbage trucks and semis.

Under the proposal, EPA is looking to scale back future ...Read more

California’s first storms of the monsoon season are expected to arrive this weekend, raising concerns about heightened wildfire risk.

The storms could reach Central California as early as Sunday, bringing gusty winds ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — George J. Cotliar, who served as managing editor of the L.A. Times for 19 years during a 40-year career at the paper, has died.

Cotliar's daughter, Sharon Cotliar-Zweifach, confirmed that Cotliar died in ...Read more

NEW YORK — Thanks to a young union member who spotted shockingly buckled support beams in the Midtown East high-rise that suffered a partial collapse Tuesday, a major catastrophe may have been averted. His union is now ...Read more

CHICAGO — For lawyer Brian Orozco, it’s personal. When federal agents deployed tear gas at protesters in Brighton Park on Oct. 4, after they had shot a woman, the gas hit Orozco’s face as he stood on a sidewalk. ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Thousands of formerly homeless people whose housing subsidies will expire in December are no longer at risk of eviction, local housing officials announced Thursday.

An infusion of new funds approved by ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — State employees reported asbestos, bedbugs, waterborne bacteria and other “hazardous conditions” in government workplaces after returning to offices under Gov. Gavin Newsom’s mandate.

In a ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — The USS Nimitz docked Thursday at Naval Station Norfolk, one of the last steps in its 51 years of commission.

The aircraft carrier will remain in Hampton Roads to train Navy sailors and aviators for a ...Read more

A two-day exchange of airstrikes and the reimposition of U.S. oil sanctions have left the truce President Donald Trump reached with Iran last month in a kind of limbo: not officially dead, but showing few signs of life.

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — A deported Sunnyvale carpenter and his U.S. citizen family are suing the federal government and two private prison companies, alleging ICE agents beat him during a violent arrest last year before he ...Read more

A committee that’s challenging a proposed voter ID law in California has already received a high-profile endorsement.

U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, a California Democrat who has been a longtime advocate for the expansion of ...Read more

A dangerous parasite that causes explosive diarrhea is spreading throughout the Midwest, as federal health officials investigate the still-undetermined source of the outbreak.

Michigan — the state with the highest ...Read more

A strong El Niño is virtually certain to develop this year, federal scientists say, and may end up being one of the strongest such events on record.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate ...Read more

The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit Thursday against Maryland and Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown over the state’s sanctuary policies, which it says interfere with the federal government’s enforcement of ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As Cal Fire describes being understaffed and overworked, and local departments grapple with vacancy rates of almost 25%, droves of trained firefighters remain barricaded from the workforce.

Over 1,...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — Lawmakers in North Carolina agree that a state property tax loophole is costing municipalities millions in tax revenue loss, but the legislature has yet to close it. Two state House members say that ...Read more

Chester County health officials confirmed two measles cases in residents this week as the highly contagious disease continues to spread in Southeastern and Central Pennsylvania.

The county has now seen four cases since ...Read more

CHICAGO — A federal appeals court in Chicago on Thursday upheld Illinois’ 2023 assault weapons ban, overturning a lower court decision and delivering what could be a short-lived victory to Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker. ...Read more

Iran concluded the funeral of its slain Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, more than four months after he was assassinated in U.S.-Israeli airstrikes and amid renewed fighting with the U.S.

Khamenei was laid to rest ...Read more