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Firefighters with Chula Vista’s new fuels crew clear a section of overgrown lemonade sumac in the canyon next to Kumeyaay Park on June 25, 2024. The three-year program was launched in 2023 and is focusing on the most dangerous canyons.

Is Chula Vista doing enough to manage its wildfire risk?

As San Diego County’s second-largest city continues to grow, emergency planning documents show its wildfire management isn’t keeping up.

San Diego County Board of Supervisors Chairwoman Nora Vargas speaks with San Diego press about the county’s plan for the end of Title 42 and the increase in refugees and migrants coming into the country and into San Diego County, May 10, 2023.

County Supervisors Chair Nora Vargas announces she will not take second term

San Diego County Supervisor Nora Vargas, chair of the county Board of Supervisors, Friday announced her decision to step down from the board at the end of her term, Jan. 6, 2025.

Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre has built a sizeable lead in the race to be Canada's next prime minister. He's seen here in December, speaking at a news conference in Ottawa.

What's next for Canada? 5 questions will help decide the future after Trudeau

"We're in a unique situation in Canadian politics," Shachi Kurl, president of the Angus Reid Institute, tells NPR. Voters need to replace a lame-duck leader — and cope with threats from Trump.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has tried to end plea deals for the 9/11 defendants.

Guantánamo plea deals for accused 9/11 plotters are halted by federal appeals court

In a highly unusual legal move, the Justice Department has asked a federal appeals court to stop alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad from pleading guilty this Friday at Guantánamo-- even though two U.S. military courts have already rejected the Defense Secretary's attempt to block KSM's plea.

What we know about Luigi Mangione, the suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO's killing

Manhattan prosecutors filed murder and other charges against Luigi Mangione Monday night. Earlier in the day Mangione was arraigned on firearms and forgery charges in Pennsylvania after his arrest.

Little Crabtree Creek is littered with storm debris and vehicles, on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024, three weeks after Hurricane Helene flooded the South Toe River and adjacent creeks near Micaville in Yancey County, N.C.

Undocumented people are among most vulnerable to climate-fueled disasters

Many undocumented people are not eligible for federal financial disaster aid and several remain fearful even when help is offered.

With three days until the election, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground state of North Carolina, shown here at a rally in Greensboro on Saturday, where recent polls have the former president and his opponent, Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris in a dead heat.

It was all about North Carolina on the campaign trail with Trump and Harris Saturday

The key state, that wasn't expected to be in play this election, enjoyed visits from both presidential candidates — two from former President Donald Trump — as he and Harris make their final pitches.

During her pregnancy, Megan Norris struggled with addiction to fentanyl. During a relapse, she exposed herself and her fetus to the toxic animal tranquilizer xylazine, which has flooded the street drug supply in the U.S. "Xylazine is so addictive, so physically addictive, you just can't stop," Norris said.

Pregnant women and babies face 'terrifying' threat from xylazine addiction

In parts of the U.S., more than half of pregnant women facing severe addiction are also exposed toxic to the toxic animal tranquilizer xylazine, a threat to them, their fetuses and newborns.

Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen Ning Yang, winners of the Nobel Prize in physics in 1957. Both were affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study at the time of the award.

T.D. Lee changed science in China and my life. This is what I owe to him

Chinese particle physicist Yangyang Cheng reflects on the legacy of the late Nobel laureate T.D. Lee — how his ideas changed her life, and the limit to his engagement with Beijing.

Callie Goodwin, of Columbia, S.C., holds a sign in support of TikTok outside the Supreme Court, Friday, Jan. 10, 2025, in Washington. Goodwin, a small business owner who sells personalized greeting cards, says 80% of her sales come from people who found her on TikTok.

Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, threatening app's existence in the U.S.

The decision resolves a long-running legal dispute between the Department of Justice and TikTok. But experts say President-elect Donald Trump will now have considerable sway over the platform's future in the U.S.

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