BIG BEAR LAKE (AP) — A bald eagle in Southern California has laid an egg in a nest watched by nature lovers via an online live feed.
The egg appeared Wednesday evening in a tree overlooking Big Bear Lake east of Los Angeles.
The mother nestled over the egg Thursday as a chilly wind blew through the San Bernardino National Forest....
ADAM BEAM
Associated Press
SACRAMENTO (AP) — California could become the first state to make its own prescription drugs under a proposal announced Thursday by Gov. Gavin Newsom, who says it would "take the power out of the hands of greedy pharmaceutical companies."
The Democratic governor wants the nation's most populous state to contract with generic drug companies to make medications...
DON THOMPSON
Associated Press
SACRAMENTO (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to hire more state firefighters and make homes safer from devastating wildfires in the budget he will send to state lawmakers on Friday.
The 555 additional full-time firefighters would be hired over five years, his office told The Associated Press, augmenting the 4,800 current permanent firefighters by about 12%.
The...
JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr.
AP Entertainment Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Leonardo DiCaprio's environmental organization is donating $3 million to help wildfire relief efforts in Australia.
DiCaprio's Earth Alliance said in a statement Thursday that the organization has created the Australia Wildfire Fund to help with an "international response to the catastrophic bushfires" currently raging in the country. The Academy Award-winning actor...
NOMAAN MERCHANT and KEVIN FREKING
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Crews could start building a private border wall in South Texas within the coming days following a federal judge's ruling Thursday that lifted a restraining order against the project.
U.S. District Judge Randy Crane's order was the second federal ruling in two days in favor of border barriers. On Wednesday, the...
LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday she will "soon'' transmit the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, signaling a potential thaw in the standoff with Senate Republicans as she warned against rushing to an acquittal without a fair trial.
Pelosi, D-Calif., faces mounting pressure from Republicans and some Democrats...
JIM MUSTIAN and MICHAEL BALSAMOÂ
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Video footage of the area around Jeffrey Epstein's jail cell on a day he survived an apparent suicide attempt "no longer exists," federal prosecutors told a judge Thursday.
Officials at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York believed they had preserved footage of guards finding Jeffrey Epstein after he appeared to...
DAVID BAUDER
AP Media Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Here's a point to ponder: To what extent is Fox News Channel's Tucker Carlson responsible for President Donald Trump stepping away from a potential war with Iran?
From his prime-time perch on the top-rated cable network, Carlson has advocated restraint in dealing with Iran, and resisted cheerleading the Trump-ordered drone killing of...
MEHDI FATTAHI and AYA BATRAWY
Associated Press
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian newspapers proclaimed the country's attack on U.S. forces in Iraq to be "a dark night for Americans," and Washington's "first admission of failure in history." On the bustling streets of Tehran, however, there was relief Thursday that neither side appeared primed for war.
"War is not something like the...
DEB RIECHMANN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — As tensions fester with Iran, President Donald Trump finds himself turning to the very people and entities he's spent three years dismissing or alienating: NATO, Western allies and U.S. intelligence agencies.
Trump, who once said that U.S. spy agencies should "go back to school," is now highlighting the intelligence services'work that led to the...