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The U.S. confirmed it would end stacking of universal tariffs on Japan and cut car levies as promised, Tokyo’s top trade negotiator Ryosei Akazawa said after a meeting with his counterparts in Washington.

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You are not imagining it. Fire season in California is indeed starting earlier and lasting longer in virtually every region of California than it did two decades ago, researchers have found, thanks largely to human-caused ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested a parent outside a Chula Vista school during morning drop-off on Wednesday, officials said.

School officials said the incident did not occur on the ...Read more

Selena Gomez's "whole life changed" when she joined Wizards of Waverly Place.

The 33-year-old actress auditioned for a series of TV shows, including the spin-off of Lizzie McGuire, before she joined the cast of Wizards of...Read more

Shawn Mendes has moved to a small village in the Cotswolds.

The 26-year-old pop star has become the last big-name celebrity to relocate to the scenic region in south-west England, and Shawn is loving life in the tiny ...Read more

Gina Carano has reached a legal settlement over her firing from The Mandalorian.

The 43-year-old actress was fired from the hit TV series back in 2021, following a series of controversial posts on social media, but ...Read more

"Chimp Crazy" star Tonia Haddix on Thursday was sentenced to 46 months in prison.

The 55-year-old exotic animal broker was convicted for lying to a federal judge about the death of her chimpanzee Tonka, whom she was ...Read more

Nevada’s solar boom could be hampered by too much direct oversight from the Interior Department, the governor told the Trump administration in a letter Monday.

Gov. Joe Lombardo, a Republican, raised concerns about a ...Read more

CHICAGO — The man in a blue Hawaiian shirt paced up and down the line of fellow protesters outside the Congress Plaza Hotel on South Michigan Avenue, shouting into a megaphone with the fervor of someone leading the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A rapidly growing wildfire straddling the Ventura-Los Angeles county line Thursday afternoon triggered evacuations in and around Piru and Castaic amid a major heat wave that officials warned could foster ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he’d be willing to meet with Vladimir Putin, even if the Russian leader hadn’t yet agreed to also sit down with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

The signal from Trump suggested an ...Read more

MIAMI — The city of Miami wants another day in court.

Last week, a three-judge panel with Florida’s Third District Court of Appeal upheld a lower court’s ruling that found the city’s decision to postpone the ...Read more

OAKLAND, Calif. — The trauma among Oaklanders after a grueling spike in violence and property crime during the COVID-19 pandemic may not yet be healed, but now even the fiercest tough-on-crime voices here have begun to ...Read more

The Department of Veterans Affairs terminated contracts for most bargaining-unit workers Wednesday, a move regional union leaders are calling “retaliation” for their opposition to Trump administration layoffs.

In a ...Read more

Stanford University's student newspaper is suing the Trump administration, claiming the threat to deport foreign students for speaking out against Israel's handling of the war in Gaza is chilling free speech.

That threat ...Read more

MIAMI — A federal judge in Miami has ordered construction halted for two weeks at Florida’s immigration detention center in the Everglades, handing a victory to critics concerned about the potential environmental ...Read more

DENVER — A retired Aurora police detective who spent 41 years on the job kept 30 boxes of investigative material in his home under his floorboards for years, Chief Todd Chamberlain said in a news conference Thursday.

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LOS ANGELES — A rapidly growing wildfire straddling the Ventura-Los Angeles County line Thursday afternoon triggered evacuations in and around Piru and Castaic amid a major heat wave that officials warned could foster ...Read more

“South Park” continued with its blistering mockery of the Trump administration in the second episode of the latest season.

In “Got a Nut,” which debuted on Wednesday, the Comedy Central cartoon set its aims on ...Read more

Fewer Kentucky kindergarten students have received the vaccines required to attend school, and data from the state’s School Immunizations Survey shows religious objections are a growing reason why.

State data for the ...Read more