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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed rolling back emission standards for new heavy-duty trucks, including buses, garbage trucks and semis.

Under the proposal, EPA is looking to scale back future ...Read more

California’s first storms of the monsoon season are expected to arrive this weekend, raising concerns about heightened wildfire risk.

The storms could reach Central California as early as Sunday, bringing gusty winds ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — George J. Cotliar, who served as managing editor of the L.A. Times for 19 years during a 40-year career at the paper, has died.

Cotliar's daughter, Sharon Cotliar-Zweifach, confirmed that Cotliar died in ...Read more

NEW YORK — Thanks to a young union member who spotted shockingly buckled support beams in the Midtown East high-rise that suffered a partial collapse Tuesday, a major catastrophe may have been averted. His union is now ...Read more

CHICAGO — For lawyer Brian Orozco, it’s personal. When federal agents deployed tear gas at protesters in Brighton Park on Oct. 4, after they had shot a woman, the gas hit Orozco’s face as he stood on a sidewalk. ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Thousands of formerly homeless people whose housing subsidies will expire in December are no longer at risk of eviction, local housing officials announced Thursday.

An infusion of new funds approved by ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — State employees reported asbestos, bedbugs, waterborne bacteria and other “hazardous conditions” in government workplaces after returning to offices under Gov. Gavin Newsom’s mandate.

In a ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — The USS Nimitz docked Thursday at Naval Station Norfolk, one of the last steps in its 51 years of commission.

The aircraft carrier will remain in Hampton Roads to train Navy sailors and aviators for a ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Thursday vetoed a bill that would have enacted new campaign contribution limits in Alaska ahead of the November election.

Lawmakers had narrowly passed the bill in the final ...Read more

A two-day exchange of airstrikes and the reimposition of U.S. oil sanctions have left the truce President Donald Trump reached with Iran last month in a kind of limbo: not officially dead, but showing few signs of life.

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — A deported Sunnyvale carpenter and his U.S. citizen family are suing the federal government and two private prison companies, alleging ICE agents beat him during a violent arrest last year before he ...Read more

DENVER — Melat Kiros, who earned the Democratic nomination to run for the seat long occupied by U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, may soon face a new opponent in the run-up to November.

Shimon Blau, a pain management physician ...Read more

A committee that’s challenging a proposed voter ID law in California has already received a high-profile endorsement.

U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, a California Democrat who has been a longtime advocate for the expansion of ...Read more

Bonnie Tyler told how she could not wait to get back on the road in what would become her final television interview.

The late singer made the remarks months before she died aged 75 following complications after emergency...Read more

Prince Harry has been accused by a journalist of placing what she believed was a white pill on her tongue during the early days of their friendship.

In an anecdote she has shared days after the Duke of Sussex lost his ...Read more

What do tariffs, rotisserie chicken and grain-free dog food have in common? Each has sparked a lawsuit against Issaquah, Washington-based warehouse retailer Costco.

The list doesn’t stop there — protein powder has ...Read more

A dangerous parasite that causes explosive diarrhea is spreading throughout the Midwest, as federal health officials investigate the still-undetermined source of the outbreak.

Michigan — the state with the highest ...Read more

Downtown Seattle may be sending strong “we’re back” vibes during its World Cup star turn. But downtown's economic engine is still stuck on the sidelines.

Nearly 37% of the downtown Seattle office space is vacant —...Read more

A strong El Niño is virtually certain to develop this year, federal scientists say, and may end up being one of the strongest such events on record.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate ...Read more

The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit Thursday against Maryland and Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown over the state’s sanctuary policies, which it says interfere with the federal government’s enforcement of ...Read more