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Jana Karibyan's family lost everything in the Eaton fire, and the prospect of starting from scratch can be overwhelming. But 'the American dream is a house'

Clashes in Syria's coastal areas kill more than 700 people, a monitor says. Interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa's government says it has regained control of the situation.

Tragic revelations, made Friday by authorities in New Mexico, resolve many questions raised by the deaths of Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa.

The death toll from two days of clashes between security forces and loyalists of the ousted Syrian president and revenge killings that followed rises to over 600.

California's entire delegation in Washington sent Congressional leaders a letter Friday, urging them to continue funding federal wildfire aid.

Betsy Arakawa died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a rare rodent-spread disease with a mortality rate up to 50% in the American Southwest, officials said.

Santa Fe County officials announced that actor Gene Hackman died from heart disease with Alzheimer's disease as a contributing factor and that his wife, Betsy Arakawa, died from hantavirus. Rodents were considered a contributing factor in her death.

President Trump's focus on fentanyl crossing into the U.S. from Canada is his latest 1% policy war, following his targeting of transgender people and USAID funding. Critics say he's stoking fear for political points.

President Trump signed an executive order to establish a 'Strategic Bitcoin Reserve' and a 'U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile' ahead of the White House's first crypto summit.

An unvaccinated New Mexico man tested positive for measles after death, becoming what health officials say could be the second death reported in the ongoing outbreak that has infected over 160 people in at least nine states.

While recent tariff battles probably won't raise the price of your flight or hotel, indirect effects could bump up travel costs, anxieties or both.

Some officials in South Korea say agreeing to the pipeline investment might placate the U.S., but Trump is still threatening tariffs.

Citing financial problems, Hunter Biden this week asked a federal judge to drop the laptop hacking lawsuit he filed against a former Trump administration aide in 2023.

The Trump administration is impeding the National Institutes of Health-backed science that enabled treatment of retinoblastoma, a rare childhood eye cancer.

London and the rest of the country rely heavily on tourists from the United States, particularly California and greater New York. But their numbers have fallen.

A new $100,000 retirement benefit per each Olympic Games will help Team USA athletes go for gold without going broke.

Nearly 332 million people visited America's national parks last year, a record high. That popularity hasn't shielded the agency from the Elon Musk team's purge of the federal workforce.

As President Trump publicly embraces anti-democratic dictators he is forfeiting the United States' 80-year leadership of the free world.

The CFPB has dropped a lawsuit accusing Zelle and its bank backers of failing to clamp down on fraud. It's Trump administration's latest move to drop enforcement actions.

Trump repeated false claims he made on the campaign trail, including that Biden secretly flew migrants into the U.S. and that many immigrants are violent criminals.

'There will not be submission,' President Claudia Sheinbaum said Wednesday, adding she hopes to speak to Trump this week. 'Mexicans are valiant and strong.'

The high court, by a 5-4 vote, turned down an appeal from President Trump's lawyers on Wednesday on the disbursement of nearly $2 billion in foreign funds.

Partisan rancor during President Trump's speech was remarkable and fiery from the moment it began, and the most contentious in recent memory.