Five years ago, what would become the deadliest wildfire in California history erupted in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. The Camp fire, which charged through the Butte County town of Paradise, killed 85 people and razed more than 90 percent of the community’s homes. It was an exceptionally tragic week for California: On Nov.…
Rabbi Myers and others described feeling encouraged by the image of President Biden embracing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a visit to Israel last week. “It was so reassuring at a time when you wonder, Where are your friends?” he said. The attacks have inspired a wave of menace on social media, street harassment and…
A Nebraska woman who acquired abortion pills that her teenage daughter used to end her pregnancy last year was sentenced on Friday to two years in prison. The woman, Jessica Burgess, 42, was charged after the police found her private Facebook messages, which revealed plans she had with her daughter to end the pregnancy and…
A man who called for a “mass shooting of poll workers” and threatened two Arizona county officials and their families over the 2022 election was sentenced on Thursday to three and a half years in federal prison, prosecutors said. The man, Frederick Francis Goltz, 52, pleaded guilty in April to two counts of interstate threatening…
Wearing a T-shirt that read “Free Bird,” an Arizona man who spent nearly 28 years on death row was freed on Thursday after a judge overturned his conviction on charges that he had sexually assaulted and murdered his girlfriend’s 4-year-old daughter. Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a bid by the man, Barry Jones,…
A Chinese spy base in Cuba that could intercept electronic signals from nearby U.S. military and commercial buildings has been up and running since or before 2019, when the Chinese base was upgraded, according to a Biden administration official. The official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence, said the spy base…
The limping conclusion to John H. Durham’s four-year investigation of the Russia inquiry underscores a recurring dilemma in American government: how to shield sensitive law enforcement investigations from politics without creating prosecutors who can run amok, never to be held to account. At a time when special counsels are proliferating — there have been four…
A Missouri man who lured a teenager into a wooded area and shot him eight times because of his sexual orientation, causing serious and lingering injuries, was sentenced on Thursday to nearly 22 years in prison, the Justice Department said. The man, Malachi Robinson, 25, of Kansas City, Mo., pleaded guilty last summer to a…
WASHINGTON — A month before President George W. Bush first sent American troops into Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld was warned that the war might end up costing the United States billions of dollars. Mr. Rumsfeld’s reply to retired Lt. Gen. Jay Garner, the American tasked with overseeing Iraq’s postwar reconstruction, would constitute a…
Even small gains in income can make households ineligible for heating assistance, which is generally available to those making up to 60 percent of a state’s median income. In Maine, for a family of four, the threshold for ongoing assistance is $59,348, though emergency aid is also available. Last winter, Ms. Blodgett said, her family…