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(CALIFORNIA) -- A year ago, the deadly wildfires in Southern California left behind a trail of destruction and forced desperate families to flee for their lives.Charred vehicles filled the streets in Los Angeles' Pacific Palisades neighborhood, where the flames reduced houses to ash-covered shells.The embers are gone and the dust has settled a year later, but most of those houses are still vacant lots and families remain stuck in limbo."World […]

Former film producer Harvey Weinstein appears in Manhattan Criminal Court on August 13, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Pool/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) -- A judge in New York has set a tentative date of March 3 for Harvey Weinstein's re-trial on a charge of raping Jessica Mann.A defense lawyer said Thursday that Weinstein would consider pleading guilty to the charge -- third-degree rape -- however, Weinstein made a […]

(CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas) --  Editor's note: Some of the testimony described below may be distressing to some readers.Robb Elementary School’s former afterschool coordinator, Emilia "Amy" Marin-Franco, held back tears and visibly shook in her seat when she testified on Thursday in the trial of former Uvalde, Texas, school police officer Adrian Gonzales.Gonzales, who was one of nearly 400 law enforcement officers to respond to the Robb Elementary School mass shooting, is charged with child endangerment […]

(MINNEAPOLIS) -- Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother and Minneapolis resident, has been identified by officials as the woman fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis on Wednesday.Videos of the incident where Good is seen in her maroon Honda SUV as ICE agents confronted her have gone viral and sparked outcry from people around the country who say that Good was unnecessarily killed.According to Department of Homeland […]

New York Attorney General Letitia James stands silently during a press conference at the office of the Attorney General, on Dec. 15, 2025, in New York. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images, FILE) (NEW YORK) -- Subpoenas issued to New York Attorney General Letitia James as part of a civil rights investigation into her fraud case against Donald Trump are invalid because the U.S. attorney in Albany who issued them lacked lawful […]

(NEW YORK) -- The United States experienced nearly two dozen billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in 2025, causing at least 276 fatalities and costing a total of $115 billion in damages. For the first time, however, the comprehensive analysis detailing the annual impact of these disasters wasn't released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Discontinued by the Trump administration in 2025, the Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disaster dataset and accompanying website are […]

(NEW YORK) -- U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said she wants to "get Americans away from the highly processed packaged foods," saying those foods are driving the obesity epidemic in America, following the release on Wednesday of new federal dietary guidelines."This is a whole flipping of the narrative," Rollins said in an exclusive interview on "Good Morning America" that aired on Thursday. "It's a flipping of what we've known […]

(MINNEAPOLIS) -- President Donald Trump said the 37-year-old woman who was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis on Wednesday was at fault because she tried to "run over" the officer, according to an interview with The New York Times published on Thursday.  "I want to see nobody get shot. I want to see nobody screaming and trying to run over policemen either," Trump told the publication, calling it a "vicious […]

(CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas) -- A judge sided with defense lawyers on Thursday and is instructing jurors to completely disregard the testimony of a former teacher who is a key prosecution witness in the trial of former Uvalde, Texas, school police officer Adrian Gonzales.Former teacher Stephanie Hale returned to the witness stand for an hour on Thursday in an effort to salvage her testimony, but defense lawyers ultimately argued that allowing her testimony […]