LOS ANGELES (AP) – On the first anniversary of the most destructive wildfires in the LA area, the scant home construction projects stand out among the still mostly flattened landscapes. Fewer than a dozen homes have been rebuilt in Los Angeles County since Jan. 7, 2025, when the Palisades and...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – Iran faces a new round of protests challenging the country 's theocracy, but it seems like the only thing people there want to talk about is half a world away: Venezuela. Since the US military seized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, a longtime ally of...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s opposition supporters have long hoped for the day when Nicolás Maduro is no longer in power – a dream that was fulfilled when the US military whisked the authoritarian leader away. But while Maduro is in jail in New York on drug trafficking charges, the...
ALTADENA, California (AP) – “DANGER: Lead Work Area” reads a sign on a front door of an Altadena home. “May damage fertility or the unborn child. Causes damage to the central nervous system.” Block after block there are reminders that contaminants still linger. House cleaners, hazardous...
TOKYO (AP) – A massive 243-kilogram (535-pound) bluefin tuna sold for a record 510 million yen ($3.2 million) at the first auction of 2026 at Tokyo 's Toyosu fish market. The top bidder for the prized tuna at the predawn auction on Monday was Kiyomura Corp., whose owner Kiyoshi Kimura runs...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump declared Saturday 's military operation that led to the ouster of Nicolás Maduro a major success as he offered a vague plan for his administration "to run" Venezuela until a transition of power can take place. While there are no visible signs of a...
CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland (AP) — Swiss investigators believe sparklers on Champagne bottles started a fire in a bar at an Alpine ski resort that left 40 people dead and more than 100 injured during a New Year 's celebration. Most injuries, many of them serious, occurred when the blaze...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — National security advisers from Europe and other allies visited Kyiv on Saturday to discuss security guarantees and economic support as a U.S.-led diplomatic push to end the nearly 4-year-old war in Ukraine intensifies. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, preparing to travel to...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Hours after an audacious military operation that plucked leader Nicolás Maduro from power and removed him from the country, President Donald Trump said Saturday that the United States would run Venezuela at least temporarily and tap its vast oil reserves to sell to...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — N orth Korea launched a ballistic missile into the sea on Sunday, South Korea’s military said. South Korea’s military said North Korea’s missile launch off the North’s east coast happened Sunday morning but gave no further details. Japan’s defense ministry...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – Nicolás Maduro, who rose from unionized bus driver to Venezuelan president and oversaw his country’s democratic undoing and economic collapse, was captured Saturday during an attack by US forces on his capital. US President Donald Trump, in an early morning social...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – The United States hit Venezuela with a “large-scale strike” early Saturday and said its president, Nicolás Maduro, had been captured and flown out of the country after months of stepped-up pressure by Washington – an extraordinary nighttime operation announced by...
