President Joe Biden has canceled a planned trip to Rome to meet with Pope Francis so that he can instead focus on federal response to the rapidly moving wildfires that are tearing through the Los Angeles area, the White House said.
The Service Employees International Union said it is re-joining the AFL-CIO. With the addition of SEIU, membership will expand to 15 million workers.
Alexander Smirnov had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about a phony bribery scheme that prosecutors say was an effort to influence the 2020 election.
The Los Angeles Fire Department has issued a mandatory evacuation order for an area being affected by the newly formed Sunset Fire.
Prolonged drought, an exceptionally dry winter and powerful Santa Ana winds set up a dangerous triple whammy of extreme conditions that have fueled several out-of-control wildfires in the Los Angeles area.
Tens of thousands of dockworkers reached a tentative agreement Wednesday on a new, six-year contract with the U.S.
Demand for water to fight the Palisades Fire led all three of the area's water tanks and some fire hydrants to temporarily dry up in the last roughly 24 hours.
See how large the wildfires have become. The Palisades Fire is already larger than the land size of Providence, Rhode Island.
The call took place a day before Trump asked the Supreme Court to halt his sentencing, though Samuel Alito said they did not discuss the emergency application.
With much of the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles destroyed by a wildfire, NBC News' Jacob Soboroff surveys the destruction of the place where he grew up, including his childhood home.
Aaron Samson captured the moment he escaped the Pacific Palisades Fire with his father-in-law after police ordered everyone to abandon their vehicles. The pair struggled to get away as smoke blanketed the area. A total stranger picked Samson and his father-in-law up and drove them to safety in Santa Monica.
With wildfires that exploded quickly and rapidly approached their homes, some California residents had only a few minutes to choose what possesions to save.
President-elect Trump appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to put off sentencing scheduled for Friday on his conviction for falsifying business records in the New York hush money case. And the Justice Department said it will release a portion of the special counsel's report on the Trump election interference case. NBC News' Laura Jarrett reports.
NBC News’ Steve Patterson reports from Altadena, a California community being ravaged by the Eaton Fire. During Patterson’s live report, the roof of a house behind him partially collapsed, illustrating the tragic destruction that has hit this community.
Fueled by powerful winds and dry conditions, a series of ferocious wildfires erupted Tuesday and roared across the Los Angeles area, destroying hundreds of homes and leaving at least five people dead.
NBC News' Morgan Chesky reports from Altadena, Calif., on the "utter heartbreak" and how residents are entering "24 hours of hell."
To researchers who have studied moderation efforts and platforms, it’s the most recent move toward a more freewheeling and unbridled social media environment.
New Orleans is bringing on Bill Bratton, who has been the top cop in Boston, New York and Los Angeles, to counsel the city on its security measures following the deadly Bourbon Street attack, the New Orleans police chief said Wednesday.
United Airlines will pay $99,000 to settle a federal discrimination case in which an Asian American employee alleged that a supervisor had called him an anti-Asian slur, told him to pull up his mask and physically assaulted him.
Before and after photos of the deadly wildfires in the Los Angeles area have sent tens of thousands scrambling for safety and decimated neighborhoods.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's political shift to the right ahead of the new Trump administration was months in the making.
Los Angeles residents are turning to a free nonprofit-run app called Watch Duty to help them navigate the chaos caused by the catastrophic fires ravaging the area.
Staffers at Red Onion State Prison in Virginia weighed whether to charge the inmates “thousands of dollars for the hospital and medical treatment,” according to emails obtained through a public records request.
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“Wicked” topped nominations to the 31st Screen Actors Guild Awards on Wednesday, landing a leading five nominations including best ensemble.