Janie Har

Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States peer through windows of an Eastern Airlines plane upon arriving at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela, Sunday, March 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Cristian Hernandez)

Judge pauses Trump administration plans to end temporary legal protections for Venezuelans

March 31, 2025 at 6:10 p.m.

A federal judge on Monday paused plans by the Trump administration to end temporary legal protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans, a week before they were scheduled to expire.

President Donald Trump speaks during an event with Ireland’s Prime Minister Micheál Martin in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Judge orders President Donald Trump to rehire probationary workers let go in mass firings across multiple agencies

March 13, 2025 at 2:06 p.m.

A federal judge in San Francisco ordered President Donald Trump’s administration to rehire thousands, if not tens of thousands, of probationary workers let go in mass firings across multiple agencies,...

FILE – Demonstrators protest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) layoffs in front of the CDC headquarters in Atlanta, Feb. 18, 2025. (Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, file)

Judge finds mass firings of federal probationary workers to likely be unlawful

February 27, 2025 at 6:54 p.m.

A federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday found that the mass firings of probationary employees were likely unlawful.

A VW van sits among burned out homes, Jan. 9, 2025, in Malibu, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

A retro blue VW van miraculously survives deadly Los Angeles fire

January 14, 2025 at 4:49 p.m.

A photo of the vibrant retro VW bus taken by an Associated Press photographer was circulating widely on television and online, giving viewers a measure of joy.

A firefighter makes a stand in front of the advancing Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Etienne Laurent)

Los Angeles wildfire forces 30,000 people under evacuation orders

January 7, 2025 at 9:46 p.m.

Firefighters scrambled to corral a fast-moving wildfire in the Los Angeles hillsides dotted with celebrity homes as a potentially “life-threatening, destructive” windstorm hit Southern California on Tuesday, fanning the blaze...

FILE – David DePape, who bludgeoned Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer, is seen, Dec. 13, 2013, in Berkeley, Calif. (Michael Short/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File)

Man serving 30 years for attacking Nancy Pelosi’s husband gets a life term on state charges

October 29, 2024 at 5:11 p.m.

The man who was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for attacking the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with a hammer in their California home was given...

A sign on the chimney of a home warns looters Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017, after it was destroyed by wildfires in Glen Ellen, Calif. California fire officials have reported significant progress on containing wildfires that have ravaged parts of Northern California.

California fires cause at least $1 billion in damages, burn 7,000 buildings

August 22, 2019 at 6:20 a.m.

The wildfires that have devastated California this month caused at least $1 billion in damage to insured property, officials said Thursday, as authorities raised the number of homes and other...

Fermentation tanks still stand next to the burned remains of the Signorello Estate winery Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017, in Napa, Calif. Worried California vintners surveyed the damage to their vineyards and wineries Tuesday after wildfires swept through several counties whose famous names have become synonymous with fine food and drink.

Bottles sucked dry of wine among charred wildfire remains

June 2, 2018 at 5:07 a.m.

Metal racks sagging with dozens of blackened bottles were among the smoldering remains of a Napa Valley winery destroyed by wildfires that raced through a region famous for its fine...

Katrina spurs action by religious groups

August 22, 2021 at 6:47 p.m.

Jewish groups from Baton Rouge, La., descended on waterlogged New Orleans to save precious Torah scrolls from destruction. In Bayou La Batre, Ala., floodwaters sent a statue of St. Peter--the...

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