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California regulators are stepping up their oversight of Pacific Gas & Electric after finding that the nation’s largest utility has neglected the maintenance of an electrical grid that has ignited a series of deadly wildfires in Northern California and forced periodic blackouts affecting millions of people.

A police officer who arrested a 73-year-old woman with dementia, pushing her to the ground and handcuffing her, after she walked away from a store without paying for about $14 worth of items in Colorado last year has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation.

California will expand COVID-19 vaccine eligibility statewide on Thursday to everyone 16 and older.

The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department is investigating after multiple people were wounded in a shooting on Indy’s southwest side Thursday night.

The city is preparing for a night of protests after the release of footage showing police fatally shooting what appears to be an unarmed 13-year-old boy.

A white former Minnesota police officer has made her first court appearance in the traffic-stop shooting of Black motorist Daunte Wright.

The mayor of the east Tennessee city of Knoxville requested the release of video footage of a high school shooting that left one student dead and a police officer wounded, but a local prosecutor said Thursday she denied the request amid the ongoing investigation.

PORT FOURCHON, La. (NewsNation Now) — A boater who got caught in the storm which overturned the Seacor Power and other vessels off the Louisiana coast Tuesday said the dramatic rise in wind and waves moved in quickly “like a tsunami.” Bruce Simon said there were more than 20 people on board his 150-foot crew […]

With 12 people still missing from a capsized oil industry vessel, Coast Guard divers waited for a break in stormy weather Thursday that would allow them to reach the hull and search for survivors.

The Biden administration is canceling the Farmers to Families Food Box program that was launched last year to feed out out-of-work Americans during the coronavirus pandemic because of high costs and delivery issues.

San Antonio’s airport was placed on lockdown Thursday after a reported police shooting, but authorities said there was no “active threat to the public.”

Border manufacturing plants have weathered the ebb and flow of the COVID-19 pandemic by adjusting shifts, testing employees and placing assembly lines in cafeterias to maintain social distancing.

A leak discovered late last month at the Piney Point wastewater pond in Manatee County, Florida forced emergency environmental response and evacuations and now action from Governor Ron DeSantis.

The controversial legislation seeking to increase penalties for crimes committed during a riot supported by Governor Ron DeSantis, passed in the Florida Senate on Thursday.

The short 11 months it took to make two life-saving SARS-CoV-2 vaccines is just the beginning for others. Messenger RNA has been the pathway to produce both the Pfizer and Moderna versions.

A lawyer for Ghislaine Maxwell has asked a U.S. judge to delay the July 12 criminal trial of Jeffrey Epstein’s former associate by at least 90 days, blaming prosecutors for belatedly adding sex trafficking charges that frustrate her ability to be ready sooner.

Jessica Mann is known by many as the woman who helped bring down Harvey Weinstein, but the former actress left the public eye after the Hollywood mogul was sentenced to 23 years in prison in 2020.

Officials say a former Maryland police chief set at least a dozen fires in the homes, garages and vehicles of those he had disagreements with.