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LA mayor dismisses fire chief over response to most destructive wildfire in city history last month

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD
Feb 21, 2025 2:51 pm - Six weeks after the most destructive wildfire in city history, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass ousted the city’s fire chief Friday amid a public rift over preparations for a potential fire and finger-pointing between the chief and City Hall over responsibility for the devastation.
Jerry 'Ice Man' Butler, soul singer whose hits included 'Only the Strong Survive,' dies at 85

By HILLEL ITALIE
Feb 21, 2025 12:57 pm - Jerry Butler, a premier soul singer of the 1960s and after whose rich, intimate baritone graced such hits as "For Your Precious Love," "Only the Strong Survive" and "Make It Easy On Yourself," has died at age 85.
Judge clears way for Trump administration to pull thousands of USAID staffers off the job

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER
Feb 21, 2025 11:17 am - A pair of court orders have had only limited effect in slowing the Trump administration's dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development and have left some USAID workers stationed worldwide in precarious situations, staffers assert.
Netanyahu decries release of wrong body as a ceasefire violation. Hamas pledges to investigate

By AREEJ HAZBOUN
Feb 21, 2025 7:51 am - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed revenge Friday for what he described as a “cruel and malicious violation” of the ceasefire agreement after a body that Hamas released as part of the deal was found to not be that of an Israeli mother of two young boys, as the militants had promised.
Senate Republicans approve budget framework, pushing past Democratic objections after all-night vote

By LISA MASCARO, KEVIN FREKING and MATT BROWN
Feb 21, 2025 7:29 am - Republican senators pushed a $340 billion budget framework to passage early Friday, chugging through an all-night session and Democratic opposition in a step toward unleashing money the Trump administration says it needs for mass deportations and border security that top their agenda.
These feds took Trump’s ‘fork’ deal. Then they got fired.

By Hannah Natanson
Feb 20, 2025 8:47 pm - Dave Elmstrom knew what he would do when the Trump administration’s resignation offer, titled “Fork in the Road,” landed in his inbox: take it. Elmstrom, a probationary e...
Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board, officials say

By Jacob Bogage
Feb 20, 2025 7:38 pm - President Donald Trump is preparing to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and absorb the independent mail agency into his administration, potentially thro...
Judge rejects unions’ request to pause Trump administration firings

By Salvador Rizzo
Feb 20, 2025 6:52 pm - A federal judge on Thursday declined to issue a temporary restraining order pausing President Donald Trump’s moves to fire thousands of employees who are on probationary ...
Airlines seek to overturn Biden rules for travelers with wheelchairs

By Lori Aratani
Feb 20, 2025 4:13 pm - Major U.S. airlines are seeking to overturn a sweeping set of Biden-era rules that offered consumer protections to passengers with disabilities — including people who dep...
Appeals court denies Trump’s bid to reinstate birthright citizenship order

By Leo Sands
Feb 20, 2025 4:11 pm - A federal appeals court panel denied a Justice Department bid to reinstate President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at curbing birthright citizenship, edging the ba...

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