The top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, Representative Robert Garcia has brought aggressive tactics and reality-show flair to investigating Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to President Trump.

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The Transportation Department said the new rules were intended to make roads safer, but there’s no data to suggest that immigrants cause more truck accidents.

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An unrelenting gloom has blanketed much of the state’s Central Valley since late November.

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The two first-degree murder counts include a special circumstance, which increases the maximum punishment if he is convicted.

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Gaza has turned California classrooms into political battlegrounds.

Beijing is pouring vast resources into fusion research, while the U.S. wants private industry to lead the way. The winner could reshape civilization.

Crumbling highways. A housing shortage. Broken infrastructure. America is stuck. But the pendulum may be ready to swing.

How the California governor became the 2028 Democratic front-runner.

How the California governor became the 2028 Democratic front-runner.

An early grid battery was installed in the Atacama Desert in Chile 15 years ago. Now, as prices have tumbled, they are increasingly being used around the world.

Although nature is sometimes very fragile, decades of conservation rhetoric have perhaps overstated that fragility.

New research shows that climate change is beginning to erode home prices in the most disaster-prone areas of the United States. Here’s what to know.

The United States is largely absent from the United Nations climate negations in Brazil. So who is stepping up?

The California governor painted the president as a threat to American competitiveness by letting China dominate the renewable energy industry.