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Disputes over President Donald Trump's border wall and California's bullet train are intensifying the feud between the White House and the nation's most populous state. The Trump administration on Tuesday said it plans to cancel or claw back $3.5 billion in federal dollars allocated to ...
Trump says he has 'absolute right' to declare border emergency and will prevail over multistate suit
President Donald Trump declared Tuesday that he would prevail over a multistate lawsuit challenging his emergency declaration to pay for a U.S.-Mexico border wall. Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump said he expected to do "very well," against the suit, adding that he ...
Cat caught up a tree: California firefighters rescue cougar perched on branch above house
Firefighters have rescued a very big cat — a mountain lion — from a tree outside a home in the Southern California desert. The homeowner called authorities Saturday after spotting the animal near the edge of the San Bernardino Mountains. San Bernardino County firefighters found the ...
California tells Trump lawsuit over border wall emergency declaration is 'imminent'
California will "imminently" challenge President Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency to obtain funds for a U.S.-Mexico border wall, state Attorney General Xavier Becerra said on Sunday. "Definitely and imminently," Becerra told ABC's "This Week" program when asked whether and when California would sue ...
Heavy rain forces Californians to flee, triggers home-destroying mudslide
Waves of heavy rain pounded California on Thursday, flooding streets, triggering a mudslide that destroyed homes and forcing residents to flee communities scorched by wildfires last year. The storm deluged Southern California after walloping northern parts of the state and southern Oregon. A mudslide in ...
Rain, snow and wind hit the U.S. West on Wednesday, flooding roads, toppling trees and cutting power while raising threats of debris flows from wildfire scars. The tempest, aimed at California and southern Oregon and barreling toward Nevada, was feeding on a deep plume of ...
FBI posts victim sketches drawn by admitted serial killer of 90, hoping kin step forward
The FBI has released sketches and other information on a string of unsolved cold-case homicides that investigators say a serial killer admitted to carrying out. The bureau updated on Wednesday information it had posted in November on its website. The update included drawings made recently ...
California governor pulls plug on long-delayed, $77 billion LA-San Francisco high-speed train
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday he's abandoning a plan to build a high-speed rail line between Los Angeles and San Francisco, a project with an estimated cost that has ballooned to $77 billion. "Let's be real," Newsom said in his first State of the ...
Plane came down in multiple pieces in California, witnesses say
A former crash investigator said he's confident officials will figure out why a small plane broke apart in the air over a Southern California neighborhood, raining down chunks of metal and igniting a house fire that killed four people. The pilot, a retired Chicago police ...
Pilot and four in home perish as plane crashes after breaking up over California community
Five people died and two were injured after a small plane apparently broke apart Sunday over a Southern California suburb, raining debris on a neighborhood and setting a house on fire, authorities said. Four people in the house that burned in the city of Yorba ...
The second in a string of powerful storms battered California on Saturday, shutting key highways after water and mud rushed into lanes from bare hillsides in wildfire burn areas where thousands of residents were under evacuation orders. Flash flood warnings were issued for huge swaths ...
Faced with massive suits over California wildfire damages, PG&E files for bankruptcy protection
Faced with potentially ruinous lawsuits over California's wildfires, Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. filed for bankruptcy protection Tuesday in a move that could drive up rates for customers of the U.S.'s biggest utility and reduce the size of any payouts fire victims receive. The Chapter ...
