Recent rain significantly reduced the risk of a large fire breaking out before year’s end, experts said.

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His colorful men’s nightwear was like something made on Savile Row in London — perfect, pricey — except that it was rarely seen outside the bedroom.

After quietly helping Mel Brooks set the irreverent tone on “Get Smart” and “The Producers,” she had a long collaboration as a writer with the actor and humorist Marshall Efron.

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The rare October storm could cause mudslides and debris flow, forecasters said. Some residents in Los Angeles County have been told to evacuate.

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The former supporter, Austin Beutner, who once ran the city’s public schools, announced he will challenge Ms. Bass’s re-election bid in next year’s mayoral race.

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Republicans’ exploitation of the government’s closure is the tell that they prefer it this way.

There’s a way out of this, and people in despair are leading the way.

If Democrats don’t win the shutdown fight, millions of young Americans may lose coverage because of higher prices.

What the looming shutdown is really about: Republicans trying to repeal Obamacare.

She worked in American consulates around the world but found a home in China’s “Paris of the East,” where she documented a vanishing colonial architecture.

One million residents of Guangdong, in southern China, were evacuated before the powerful storm made landfall on Wednesday. At least 18 people have been killed along its path this week.

Thousands were evacuated and hundreds of flights canceled ahead of the major storm.