A massive wildfire raging across California’s remote Santa Rosa Island is threatening some of the rarest plant species on Earth, including a unique strain of Torrey pine found in only two places worldwide. The Santa Rosa Island Fire had scorched 17,554 acres and was 44% contained as of 4 p.m. Thursday, nearly a week after...
Los Angeles approved its nearly $15 billion city budget Thursday in a 12-1 vote, but the fight inside City Hall quickly erupted into a battle over firefighters, homelessness spending and whether the city is pushing today's problems onto tomorrow's voters.
"If they see the truth, then they'll know that this was nothing but a car accident. They'll just see that there's a third victim, and it's me," Shirilla told her mother.
According to nearly every historical measure of power, the United States leads China by sizable margins — in wealth, economic output, fuel, food and military strength.