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Former NASCAR driver Danica Patrick has voiced skepticism at reports that there simply is not enough water to fight the Los Angeles, California, wildfires, pointing out that the way the state is “managed” is to blame.

California residents have been struggling with insurance companies that dropped thousands of policies before this week’s wildfires. 

Joe Biden announced some “good news” to reporters during an awkward press briefing on the Los Angeles wildfires: “I’m a great-grandfather!”

President-elect Donald Trump has called on Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom to resign while the city of Los Angeles burns, saying it is “his fault.”

The air quality in southern California is being seriously impacted by the raging wildfires in Los Angeles, with city officials instructing residents to keep windows shut and to wear masks outside.

The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) has used their precious time and funds to attend LGBTQ Pride events and to hold Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) training seminars under the leadership of its first female chief, prompting backlash as the department struggles to fight devastating wildfires.

A Texas police officer suffered a serious brain bleed after falling off the back of a car allegedly being driven by a fleeing suspect in a shocking video.

Hundreds of thousands of people across the midwestern and eastern states were without power, and even more were stuck at home instead of going to work and school, on Monday morning as a historic winter storm dumped — and continues to dump — several inches of snow on them.

The head of New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), Janno Lieber, said the uptick in violent subway crime is “in people’s heads,” and argued that the transit system’s safety statistics are actually “positive.”

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) has responded to the mounting criticism about how unsafe and violent New York City’s subway has gotten, saying the recent “surge” in crimes on the transit system “cannot continue.”

Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes has resigned from the Washington Post after more than 15 years, accusing her editor of killing a drafted cartoon because of its mocking depiction of the publication’s owner, Jeff Bezos and President-elect Donald Trump.

A Los Angeles-based artificial intelligence (AI) expert experienced some alarming technological problems when his driverless Waymo ride to the airport nearly caused him to miss his flight after it began driving in circles.

Yet another unwitting person was made victim to a New York City subway attack — but the elderly woman that a group of four teens targeted last week did not give up without a fight.

Record-breaking waves of freezing winds, ice, and snow are coming to swaths of the central, eastern, and southern states next week, with meteorologists warning that “more than 250 million” will be impacted.

A Seattle small business owner says she has “cried every day” about the closure of her restaurant due to the state’s minimum wage hike.

A Detroit-area public school teacher was arrested after allegedly making a drug deal in public, police said.

A New York teen who had been missing for nearly a month after she left her home in December has been found alive, police and her family said. 

The FBI has yet to respond to repeated inquiries as to whether it will discipline or fire the assistant special agent in charge who falsely claimed that the New Year’s attack in New Orleans was “not a terrorist event.”

Royal Caribbean is being sued after a former employee pleaded guilty to placing hidden cameras in guests’ rooms to produce child pornography.

The suspect in the fatal stabbing of a New York City mail carrier — apparently over waiting in line at a deli — has been charged.

The Pacific Ocean orca mother who made headlines in 2018 for carrying the body of her dead calf for over two weeks is in mourning again.

A married Indiana couple with spina bifida is telling their inspiring story after adopting a little girl with the same rare condition.

Los Angeles authorities arrested a man who allegedly attempted to hijack a Waymo self-driving taxi early Thursday morning, according to local reports.

Democrat social media influencers are gloating over the Tesla Cybertruck explosion at the Las Vegas Trump International Hotel that killed one and injured seven others.

Democrat strategist James Carville explained in a New York Times op-ed that President-elect Donald Trump beat Vice President Kamala Harris by “putting the economic anger of Americans front and center.”

Authorities in Las Vegas are investigating the New Year’s Day Tesla Cybertruck explosion at the Trump International Hotel as a “possible act of terror,” ABC News has confirmed.

The Tesla Cybertruck explosion in front of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas has led to one death and seven injuries, officials said.

President-elect Donald Trump has welcomed with open arms the latest Florida lawmaker to defect from the Democrat party, congratulating her on becoming a Republican and inviting more “Disillusioned Democrats” to do the same.

Chilean authorities announced that they have recovered in Santiago three watches stolen from actor Keanu Reeves’ Los Angeles home in 2023.

Biden campaign megadonor John Morgan called President-elect Donald Trump a “f*cking genius” in a new interview, as the Republican’s November victory has prompted some soul-searching within the Democrat party.

Former NYC mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa has announced that the Guardian Angels will return to the subway, citing the “Daniel Penny effect.”

Former First Lady Michelle Obama garnered a wave of online backlash after sharing a “Happy Holidays” post that addressed people feeling “anxious and uncertain” after the November election.

A pair of Seattle, Washington-area teens accused of tying a younger boy to a tree and “disemboweling” him in a possible gang-related attack earlier this month have been charged as adults.

Several Illinois school districts will be receiving millions in federal grant dollars to purchase electric school buses to replace gas-powered ones, Board of Education officials said.

Two Portland, Oregon, men who went into the Washington state wilderness to look for “Sasquatch” were discovered dead after failing to return home on Christmas Eve, police said.

A second Florida state lawmaker has defected from the Democrat Party in favor for the GOP this month, citing her former party’s inability to “unequivocally support Israel.”