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After Trump told Karen Bass on Friday that a week is “actually a long time” to wait, L.A. backed down and allowed residents to visit their homes, starting Monday.

Rescue workers have successfully removed almost 1,500 tons of oil left onboard a tanker that ran aground last year in southern Russia, officials said Saturday. The mishap resulted in a devastating oil spill that damaged miles (kilometers) of coastline along the Black Sea.

Residents of the Pacific Palisades flocked home on Saturday after President Donald Trump’s visit the day before, with many gaining access to their property for the first time since the Palisades Fire more than two weeks ago.

A heartwarming clip of First Lady Melania Trump speaking in her native language while comforting victims of the Los Angeles wildfires has gone viral, with social media users praising the sweet moment.

President Donald Trump said those who lost their homes in the Los Angeles County fires should be entitled to a ten to fifteen percent bonus on their house, declaring it is not their fault their homes burned down.

President Donald Trump intends to waive virtually all federal permitting requirements to expedite the rapid rebuilding of infrastructure destroyed by the wildfires in Los Angeles County in recent weeks. He is calling on local officials to do the same.

President Donald Trump announced Friday that “Breitbart is fantastic” while speaking at a roundtable in California about devastation from the fires.

A plurality of registered voters say California’s state and local government’s responses to wildfires have been “poor,” according to a poll obtained exclusively by Breitbart News ahead of President Donald Trump’s visit to Los Angeles County, which has been ravaged by fires for weeks.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a bill Thursday providing $2.5 billion dollars in relief for the wildfires — though almost all of the money will go to emergency response, and only a tiny fraction is earmarked for rebuilding.

California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) accused President Donald Trump of spreading “misinformation” about California’s struggles with water, saying there is no “spigot” that can be turned to solve all the state’s water problems.

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) will not meet with President Donald Trump during his visit Friday to see the devastation of the wildfires in California, saying he must stay in Washington, DC, for nomination votes rather than helping his state.

President Trump, we really appreciate the visit. But what we need most after you leave is some tough love.

President Donald Trump is scheduled to make the first trip of his second term on Friday, when he will visit victims of natural disasters in North Carolina and California that, many believe, were worsened by government incompetence.

President Donald Trump’s imminent visit to fire-ravaged Los Angeles on Friday will bring him into direct contact — and conflict — with Governor Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass, both of whom have failed to protect the city.

NEW YORK (AP) — V, the playwright formerly Eve Ensler, is hoping her new piece of theater can do for climate change what her “The Vagina Monologues” did for women’s rights.

A brush fire erupted on Wednesday near Castaic Lake, just north of southern California’s Santa Clarita — a Los Angeles suburb behind the San Fernando Valley.

A major winter storm slammed Florida on Wednesday and left record snowfall in its icy wake alongside highway closures including more than 100 miles of the nation’s southernmost interstate, I-10, in Louisiana and Florida.

Californians could only look on in awe and envy as Florida pre-deployed emergency resources ahead of the storm that dumped record amounts of snow on the Panhandle this week, rather than waiting until after the damage was done. “Wait. Ahead

Measuring the aftereffects of the devastating Los Angeles wildfires has just begun, and results show that the city’s air quality has been drastically lowered to toxic levels.

United Nations agencies reacted with dismay on Monday and Tuesday following President Donald Trump issuing executive orders on Monday night withdrawing America from the Paris Climate Agreement and the World Health Organization (W.H.O.).

President Donald J. Trump mentioned the Palisades Fire, among other fires in the Los Angeles area, near the start of his Second Inaugural address in the Capitol Rotunda on Monday in Washington, D.C. Trump said: Our country can no longer

President Donald Trump will sign executive orders on Monday to terminate the “Green New Deal” and former President Joe Biden’s electric vehicle (EV) mandate.

President-elect Donald Trump will reportedly declare a national energy emergency to boost American energy production and lower energy prices.

Multiple reports over the weekend indicated that President-elect Donald Trump is promising near-immediate action to shut down offshore wind farm projects throughout the Northeast United States, which were widely unpopular with locals who feared the industrialization of their natural shorelines and environmental destruction.

President-elect Donald Trump told tens of thousands of supporters at a rally in Washington, DC, on the eve of his Inauguration on Sunday that he intends to devote his first presidential visit to the California wildfires on Friday. Trump said:

Firefighters took 20 minutes to respond to the Palisades Fire on January 7, according to the New York Times, confirming what sources have told Breitbart News over the past two weeks about the city’s poor reaction.

Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) criticized residents of the Pacific Palisades who returned to their homes without authorization, telling a telephone town hall on Wednesday that they had “ruined” things for other local residents.

Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) Chief Kristin Crowley, the first woman and openly gay person to serve in the position, is facing calls to resign as the destructive wildfires rage on in Southern California.

A massive fire broke out at a Californian power plant early Friday morning, threatening one of the largest battery energy storage facilities in the world.

The grim lesson of the devastating wildfires in California over the past week, which turned my community into ruins, is clear: private services work, and public services do not.

Los Angeles County Fire Department Chief Anthony Marrone apologized Thursday evening to residents who had lost their homes in the Palisades Fire.

The city of Pasadena and its northern neighbor, Altadena, have slowly begun the long and brutal recovery process following the Eaton Fire.

Gov. Doug Burgum (R-ND), President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of the Interior, detailed why dependable coal energy is a national security issue during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

CalFire, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, told Breitbart News on Thursday morning that there are eight confirmed deaths and fifteen people still missing in the Pacific Palisades due to the Palisades Fire.

Niki Dawson and her team are virtually the only civilians walking through the streets of Pacific Palisades today. They are not residents: rather, they are volunteers, looking for pets that owners cannot reach.

Firefighters continued to battle the Palisades Fire into its eighth day on Wednesday, searching for hotspots amid the smoldering ruins that could reignite in strong winds.