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LOS ANGELES — California Gov. Jerry Brown Sunday declared a state of emergency in Los Angeles County as firefighters continued to battle a 5,900-acre brush fire in the Verdugo Mountains north of downtown Los Angeles that destroyed three homes and closed a stretch of the 210 Freeway. The governor’s declaration will ensure that state and

Former President Barack Obama urged then-incoming President Trump to uphold America’s leadership on the global stage, guard democratic institutions and build “ladders of success” for the needy in the secret letter he left for his successor at the Oval Office. The outgoing Democrat also urged Mr. Trump to lean on family and friends to get

HOUSTON �� Storm-tossed Texans pressed ahead Sunday with door-to-door searches for frail and elderly survivors, and accelerated an exodus from evacuation centers where some had sheltered in the wake of the most powerful hurricane to strike the continental U.S. in more than a decade. As tens of thousands in Houston and its environs spent the

A Minneapolis bar has closed down after employees and events hosts learnt that the owner donated $500 to the 2016 Senate campaign of David Duke, the former leader of the Ku Klux Klan. Club Jäger shut down after several employees decided they no longer wanted to work for owner Julius DeRoma after learning of his

President Trump said Sunday on Twitter that North Korea has “become a great threat and embarrassment to China,” after the secretive totalitarian nation announced it had detonated a hydrogen bomb and declared the test “a perfect success.” It was the sixth underground bomb tested since 2006, said North Korea’s state-run TV, and it was the