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(LOS ANGELES) -- California has just experienced one of its worst wildfire seasons in years, despite the Golden State's ample resources to combat the blazes once they spark.The Palisades and Eaton fires, while both mostly contained as of Wednesday, are still active in Los Angeles County after starting on Jan. 7 and burning through tens of thousands of acres and killing at least two dozen people -- and new fires have popped […]

(WASHINGTON) -- Officials in the Trump Justice Department have ordered a temporary freeze on any ongoing cases being litigated by the Civil Rights Division, according to a new directive reviewed by ABC News.The memo to the current acting head of the Civil Rights Division, Kathleen Wolfe, says that current career officials in the division must not file any new civil complaints or other civil rights-related filings in outside ongoing litigation. […]

(NEW YORK) -- Last year, 2024, was the warmest year on record for the planet, easily breaking the previous record set just a year earlier.Scientists say the unfolding El Niño event superimposed on long-term global warming is a primary driver of this huge spike in global surface temperatures since mid-2023. But the magnitude of the increase shocked many experts, leaving them somewhat puzzled about what else could be behind the remarkable temperature.NASA's […]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- Top white shoe law firm Sullivan & Cromwell will represent President Donald Trump as he appeals his criminal hush money conviction in New York, according to court filings Wednesday.The new attorneys filed a notice of appeal Wednesday, signaling their intention to appeal Trump's conviction to New York's Appellate Division, First Department.Among Trump's new lawyers is firm co-chair Robert J. Giuffra."President Donald J. Trump's appeal is […]