Last year alone, people caused more than 7,000 wildfires in California; nationally, it was more than 50,000.
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A three-day human trafficking sting targeting people attending the San Diego Comic-Con Convention resulted in 14 arrests and the recovery of 10 potential trafficking victims — including a 16-year-old girl, authorities said.
As San Francisco’s district attorney, the vice president supported sanctuary cities and the enrollment of criminal illegal immigrants in job training.
Iran’s supreme leader vowed revenge against Israel after Hamas top political leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed Wednesday in a predawn airstrike in the Iranian capital.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, accused as the main plotter in al-Qaeda’s Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, has agreed to plead guilty, the Defense Department said Wednesday.
When Southwest announced that it was changing its decades-old open-seating policy to one in which passengers can pay extra to choose where to sit, the backlash was both expected and fast in coming.
Israel had vowed to kill Haniyeh and other leaders of Hamas over the terrorist group’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel that killed 1,200 people and saw some 250 others taken hostage.
Toyota Motor North America will be replacing the engines of more than 100,000 of its 2022-2023 Toyota Tundra pickup trucks and Lexus LX SUV’s.
Spirit Airlines is moving farther away from its history as a fee-happy budget airline and will start selling tickets that include some of its most popular extras in bundles.
The soldiers’ detention Monday triggered angry protests by supporters demanding their release, including members of parliament and at least two government ministers.
Israel has blamed the rocket attack Saturday in the town of Majdal Shams on the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah, which has denied any role.
Tesla is recalling more than 1.8 million vehicles because of a hood issue that could increase the risk of a crash.
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations told a group in Las Vegas that Hamas must be eradicated and hostages returned before his country can end its war in Gaza.
The Israeli military said it was questioning nine soldiers after allegations of “substantial abuse” of a detainee at a shadowy facility where Israel has held Palestinian prisoners.
A rally was held in North Las Vegas to bring attention to Sonya Massey, a Black resident of Springfield, Illinois, shot and killed in her home by a sheriff’s deputy.