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- Today in History: February 21, Malcolm X was shot and killed at age 39
- Senate Republicans approve budget framework, pushing past Democratic objections after all-night vote
- Federal judge allows Trump’s mass firings of federal workers to move forward
- Democrats channel their outrage over DOGE, Ukraine and more in marathon Senate session
- Joint Chiefs chairman heads to US-Mexico border to assess rapid military buildup
- How Trump’s mass layoffs raise the risk of wildfires in the US West, according to fired workers
- UnitedHealth shares dive after report of US investigation into Medicare billing
- Luigi Mangione draws crowd for first court hearing since arraignment in UnitedHealthcare CEO killing
- Editorial: Credit card bill will hurt those it’s supposed to help
- Musk bid for OpenAI exposes hypocrisy of business model
- Fire season after action report presented at Lakeport Council
- Kelseyville skates past Calistoga with ease
- News Briefs
- ‘A step backwards’: How federal threats to DEI are impacting California schools
- Macron’s message to Trump: ‘You can’t be weak in the face of Putin’
- Tesla recalling more than 375,000 vehicles due to power steering issue
- Netanyahu decries release of wrong body as a ceasefire violation. Hamas pledges to investigate
- Conflicting studies obscure the reality of California’s fast food wage battle
- California has known that disabled people need help in fires. After LA, can it better prepare for the next one?
- January home sales fall as high mortgage rates, prices freeze out would-be buyers
- A New Jersey man is convicted of attempted murder in the stabbing of Salman Rushdie
- Could Trump really return DOGE savings to taxpayers?
- Musk waves a chainsaw and charms conservatives talking up Trump’s cost-cutting efforts
- European troops, US support are part of an emerging plan for Ukraine. But it faces many hurdles
- Pope Francis isn’t out of danger but his condition isn’t life-threatening, medical team says
- Federal judge will consider further blocking Trump administration from freezing funds
- Huge cuts in National Institutes of Health research funding go before a federal judge
- Vance criticizes Germany’s free speech laws in remarks to conservatives
- Jerry ‘Ice Man’ Butler, soul singer whose hits included ‘Only the Strong Survive,’ dies at 85
- Scramble for McConnell’s Senate seat underway with signs of a bruising GOP primary ahead
- Their mosque burned down in LA-area wildfire. They’re still determined to gather for Ramadan
- Yearslong shortage of popular weight-loss and diabetes drugs is resolved, FDA says
- ‘Perverse’ incentives: How local governments might cash in on Trump’s migrant detention
- MAGA activist charged with being a fake elector for Trump seeks to lead the Michigan GOP
- Condemned South Carolina killer chooses to be executed by firing squad
- Red states embrace Trump’s crackdown on remote government work
- Voletta Wallace, Notorious B.I.G.’s mother and keeper of his legacy, dies at 78
- Judge cancels NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ trial and leaves corruption charges intact until mid-March
- Los Angeles district attorney to update public in Menendez brothers’ resentencing case
- Republicans are eyeing cuts to Medicaid. What’s Medicaid, again?
- Ancient deity, pet and endangered species. Why is axolotl Mexico’s most beloved amphibian?
- After this Australian town burned down, experts warned against rebuilding. Nobody listened
- LA mayor dismisses fire chief over response to most destructive wildfire in city history last month
- Election officials blast Trump’s ‘retreat’ from protecting voting against foreign threats
- How George E. Johnson made millions in the hair care industry while following the Golden Rule
- Taco Bell partners with Milk Bar on a Birthday Cake Churro
- Introducing the first-ever American Craft Beer Hall of Fame
- What happens to your 401(k) after you leave a job? 8 key things to consider
- The Pacific diving paradise of Palau wants travelers to explore its cultural depths, too
- US stocks tumble as businesses and consumers worry about tariffs and Washington; Dow down nearly 750
- Pain clinics made millions from ‘unnecessary’ injections into ‘human pin cushions’
- The Oscars are more international than ever. So why is the international film category broken?
- Is spending all day on your feet at work an occupational hazard?
- Recipe: This Lemon-Angel Cake Dessert is sweet and scrumptious
- ‘Zero Day’ review: Zero intrigue in this thriller starring Robert De Niro
- Ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio arrested near Capitol on assault charge after press conference
- Three shot and killed outside Louisville, Kentucky, motor vehicle office, police say
- ‘Good Cop/Bad Cop’ review: A brother and sister become police partners, with dad as their boss
- Steve Bannon is accused of doing a straight-arm Nazi salute at CPAC but says it was just ‘a wave’
- AP sues 3 Trump administration officials, citing freedom of speech
- One of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ attorneys wants to quit his defense team
- The Supreme Court won’t allow Trump to immediately fire head of whistleblower office
- Judge blocks Trump’s executive order ending federal support for DEI programs
- Trump fires chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
