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Four people are dead following what police in Los Angeles characterized as a murder-suicide in the Granada Hills area on Saturday....

Nearly half of all officials have been insulted, a third harassed, and nearly one in five threatened, according to CivicPulse

Job cuts, including those of Hispanic journalists at the L.A. Times and other newsrooms, raise worries of fewer watchdogs calling out misinformation and fake content aimed at Latinos....

Judge Royce Lamberth, who has handled dozens of Jan. 6 cases, lamented the false rhetoric spread by Donald Trump and his allies....

Gov. Josh Shapiro plans next month to propose an overhaul of a higher education system in Pennsylvania that is among the worst in the nation in affordability, his administration said Friday....

A painting by the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, that was believed lost for 100 years, has been found in Vienna....

Closing arguments are to begin Friday in the defamation case against Donald Trump a day after the former president left a New York courtroom fuming that he hadn’t been given an opportunity to refute E. Jean Carroll’s sexual abuse accusations....

Quando in Italia l’ora legale sara’ in vigore tutto l’anno? Perche’ conviene? Oggi 26 gennaio alle ore 18 il sole e’ tramontato ma un piccolo bagliore di luce ancora c’e’. Pensiamo se invece che le 18 fossero state le 19. Un’ora in piu’ di luce. D’altra parte la mattina alle alle 7:00 gia’ si vede la luce...

An Alaska fishing guide company has paid $900,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the U.S. government alleging one of its guides started a wildfire in 2019, the U.S. attorney’s office for Alaska said in a statement Wednesday....

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“The company has reneged on its promises to diversify its ranks since young journalists of color have been disproportionately affected,” the newspaper’s union says....

An Oregon jury awarded $85 million Tuesday to nine victims of wildfires that ravaged the state in 2020, the latest verdict in a series of legal proceedings that are expected to put the utility PacifiCorp on the hook for billions of dollars over its liability for the deadly blazes....

Disney this week requested a second delay in a state court case involving its legal battle with Gov. Ron DeSantis’ appointees over who controls Walt Disney World’s governing district, as the company accused them and the governor’s office of stonewalling requests for documents that are part of the litigation....

At the bargaining table, CSU management did not take our proposals seriously until CFA members were willing to withhold our labor.

The taste of champagne as we know it could change beyond recognition in the coming years. As global temperatures continue to rise, the climate crisis poses a threat to the production of wine.

The California State University system and the union representing thousands of professors and lecturers reached a tentative deal on Monday to raise wages, ending what was the largest strike by university faculty members in U.S. history....

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Some members of Congress are demanding federal oversight of billions of dollars in opioid settlements, which state and local governments began spending over the past two years — with some using it to plug budget holes rather than fight the addiction crisis....

JERUSALEM, Jan 22 (Reuters) - A group of relatives of Israelis held hostage by Palestinian gunmen in Gaza stormed a parliamentary committee session in Jerusalem on Monday, demanding that the lawmakers do more to try to free their loved ones....