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More than two months after the Camp Fire, the small city of Chico, Calif., is struggling to handle an influx of an estimated 20,000 new people from neighboring Paradise.

Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, 36, had appealed a 15-year prison sentence for drug smuggling. Some experts say China is retaliating for the arrest of a Chinese tech executive in Canada.

Some banks and credit unions are waiving late fees or offering low-interest loans. But the longer the shutdown continues, the harder it becomes for furloughed workers and contractors to stay afloat.

The utility says it could be facing tens of billions in liability costs connected to the 2017 and 2018 Northern California wildfires. PG&E also says its CEO is stepping down.

Educators and their supporters gathered outside of schools Monday, then converged near Los Angeles City Hall in a sea of umbrellas, ponchos and signs. LA last saw a teacher strike nearly 30 years ago.

The long-time Iowa Republican congressman is under fire, once again, for controversial remarks. House Republican leaders are mulling how and whether to punish him for it.

Joshua Mezrich has performed hundreds of kidney, liver and pancreas transplants. He shares stories from the operating room in his book, When Death Becomes Life.

President Trump’s nominee to serve as attorney general, William Barr, sought to assure members of Congress he won’t thwart the special counsel’s investigation after his earlier criticism.

The president says he’s never worked for Russia after The New York Times and The Washington Post raised new questions about his relationship with Moscow amid the unresolved special counsel probe.

The “black box” may provide insight into what happened in the minutes before the Boeing 737 MAX 8 plunged into the Java Sea, killing all 189 people aboard.

Gdansk Mayor Pawel Adamowicz was onstage at an event to raise money for children’s hospitals when he was stabbed in the heart and abdomen.

Iran says its intentions are peaceful, but the U.S. worries the planned launches are really about developing weapons — specifically, intercontinental ballistic missiles.

The former attorney general, nominated to return to run the Justice Department, backed President George H.W. Bush’s decision to pardon ex-Reagan officials caught up in an earlier imbroglio.

Creating an exercise habit doesn’t mean you have to spend hours sweating on a treadmill. Start small, build up slowly and remember that all movement counts — even vacuuming, if you do it vigorously.

Many child care centers in federal buildings affected by the partial government shutdown are also shuttered, leaving parents few options when it comes to their kids.

The policy makes good on Trump’s promise to peel back the requirement that employers offer contraception coverage at no cost. The rule is on hold in D.C. and the 13 states that challenged it.

Americans now have a 1 in 96 chance of dying from an opioid overdose, according to new analysis from the National Safety Council.

Teachers in LA, the second largest school district in the country, began a strike Monday morning. Union members there have been working without a contract for more than a year.

Police officers administered CPR after arriving at a home in Chico, California, where the drug overdose occurred. Four people are in critical condition.

Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun gained international attention when she locked herself in a Bangkok hotel room and tweeted that her family would kill her if she were deported to Saudi Arabia.

President Trump took pains to keep the details of meetings with Putin secret, the Washington Post reports.

At a time when more women than men are graduating from college and earning doctorates, just a third of Ph.D.s in economics go to women. Now there’s an effort to increase women economists at the Fed.