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Los Angeles is among the most densely populated cities in the United States, and its layout is compounding property losses. The city and surrounding towns also have some of the most expensive...

Federal prosecutors said on Wednesday that they planned to hold off on releasing a portion of a report by the special counsel, Jack Smith, detailing his investigation into President-elect Donald J. Trump’s...

Multiple fires were raging across the Los Angeles area on Wednesday, burning thousands of acres. Here are three of the biggest blazes.Palisades fireThe largest, the Palisades fire, covered more than 2,900 acres...

A fire in Los Angeles grew with dizzying speed on Tuesday and by the afternoon had engulfed many homes in Pacific Palisades, an affluent coastal neighborhood on the city’s west side.The fire...

Three senior Trump administration officials violated Justice Department rules just before the 2020 election by divulging details of an investigation into coronavirus deaths at nursing homes in New York and other Democratic-run...

The Election Day vote count and two subsequent recounts have concluded that a race for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court was narrowly won in November by the incumbent Democratic...

Former President Jimmy Carter, who disavowed the trappings of the imperial presidency and never gave up his humble Georgia roots, will nonetheless be given an elaborate national send-off starting on Tuesday when...

Defense lawyers asked both the Justice Department and a federal judge on Monday night to stop the special counsel, Jack Smith, from publicly releasing a report detailing his investigation into President-elect Donald...

The Minneapolis City Council unanimously voted on Monday to overhaul its police department to address a pattern of systemic abuses, as part of an agreement with the Department of Justice.Lawyers from the...

Memories of the chaos and violence that disrupted the electoral count in Congress four years ago are still fresh for many on Capitol Hill, but a new law enacted in 2022 has...