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FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell warned that Los Angeles is "still in such a dangerous situation" in an interview Sunday on ABC News' "This Week.""I think the biggest concern that I have right now is the fact that we are still in such a dangerous situation -- the red flag warnings have been reissued, the winds are coming back and we still want to make sure that people are in a […]

(LOS ANGELES) -- Amidst confusion around budget cuts affecting the Los Angeles Fire Department while thousands of firefighters are battling at least five wildfires, ABC News dug into the city budgets and other publicly available documents for the city.In May 2024, the city of Los Angeles adopted a Fiscal Year 2024 - 2025 budget that cut the appropriations for the fire department by $17.6 million from the previous year.At the […]

Scott Olson/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon is ordering the Justice Department to respond to arguments made by President-elect Donald Trump's former co-defendants in his classified documents case by 10 a.m. Sunday.Cannon wants the government to address whether anything in the first volume of special counsel Jack Smith's report, which deals with Smith's Jan 6 investigation, bears on any aspect of Trump's co-defendants in the classified documents […]

Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- Jack Smith, who investigated Donald Trump over allegations of interfering with the 2020 election and unlawfully retaining classified documents after leaving the White House, has formally resigned as special counsel after submitting his final report on the probes to Attorney General Merrick Garland.Smith resigned Friday, according to a court filing that noted his departure in a footnote.His resignation was widely expected following Trump's reelection in […]

(NEW YORK) -- The FBI has interviewed multiple individuals about Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth's personal life as part of its background check investigation, asking questions about alleged extramarital affairs, his relationship with alcohol and his character, according to sources familiar with the matter.As part of the background investigation, the FBI reached out to people in Hegseth's past, including individuals Hegseth has known much of his adult life, according to […]

(TULSA, Okla.) -- The Justice Department provided new insight and chilling details about the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, describing the two-day raid that killed 300 Black residents and destroyed their businesses as a "coordinated, military-style attack" conducted by a white mob of over 10,000 people.The DOJ released a 126-page report Friday following a four-month investigation into the attacks, which took place between May 31 and June 1 in 1921. In […]

KABC (LOS ANGELES) -- There has been a reprieve from the strongest winds in Southern California over the past 24 hours, but winds are expected to pick up later Saturday into the night, raising the fire danger yet again.The fire outlook for Saturday is back at the "Critical" level for much of southern California as dry, gusty winds fan the flames.Wind alerts, including a High Wind Warning, are in effect […]

(LAS VEGAS) -- Six years before packing a rental truck with firework mortars and gas cannisters before shooting himself in the head -- an act he called a "wake-up" call to America in a note later found by law enforcement -- Army Master Sgt. Matthew Livelsberger told an ex-girlfriend he was spiraling."Sometimes, I get so hopeless and depressed, it's [expletive] ridiculous," he texted, at one point describing a close-range firefight […]

(WASHINGTON) -- A federal judge in Washington, D.C., held Rudy Giuliani in contempt of court for violating a court order that barred him from making false and defamatory statements against two Georgia election workers after they secured a $148 million defamation judgement against the former New York City mayor in 2023.U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell admonished the former New York City mayor for continuing to spread lies about Ruby Freeman […]