Editorial: Stop playing politics with disaster aid to California
When Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in late August 2005, it took Congress just a few days to approve $10.5 billion ...
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Champaign native’s art lost to fire, not memory
When Champaign native Mary Anna Pomonis' artwork was destroyed by the ongoing Eaton fire, it brought forth a range of ...
What Los Angeles Could Learn From Great Fires of the Past
In the era when American cities regularly caught fire, the widespread destruction seeded what looks, in retrospect, like ...
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Progress is made on a huge fire north of LA as new fires erupt in Southern California
Evacuation orders were lifted Thursday for tens of thousands as firefighters slowed the spread of a huge wildfire in ...
California wildfires: What we know about L.A.-area fires, what caused them, who is affected and more
Fueled by powerful winds and dry conditions, a series of ferocious wildfires erupted the second week of January and roared ...
'It's gone. Just gone': Dunlap native, wife, lose home in California wildfires
The former all-area high school football player from Dunlap has built a life in California with his wife. The recent ...
‘My heart is with L.A.’: Pope prays for people of Los Angeles as they endure wildfires
Pope Francis referred to the L.A. wildfires during his weekly general audience Wednesday and invoked Our Lady of Guadalupe, ...
Tax Info You Need To Know After Experiencing a Natural Disaster
Recent natural disasters, from Hurricane Helene in the Southeast to wildfires in the Los Angeles area have shown just how ...
How the most prominent state officials celebrated (or mourned) Trump’s inauguration
The Illinois governor also called Trump’s inauguration a gathering of “oligarchs,” a reference to tech barons Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos having prime seats at the swearing-in ceremony.
Trump’s executive order immigration crackdown faces blue-state hurdles
Some states have enacted various laws that give government agencies in their jurisdictions the right to refuse to work with the federal government.
How Iowa, other states across the US are preparing for Trump’s immigration crackdown
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on Friday ordered state public safety and corrections officials to fully cooperate with federal ...
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Online master’s degrees in engineering and education from Purdue again rank among the nation’s finest
Four of Purdue’s online master’s degrees in engineering ranked No. 1 in the newest U.S. News & World Report survey, and three online master’s in education programs moved into the top 10.