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Rapid warming and extreme weather have affected the coastal sweep from Santa Barbara to San Diego counties. The 2018 Woolsey Fire in Malibu killed three people and torched over 1,600 buildings.

Fires, floods and free parking: California’s unending fight against climate change

December 9, 2019 at 12:57 p.m.

Life in southern California, once as mild and predictable as the weather, is being transformed as the climate grows hotter, drier and in some regions windier, fueling more intense wildfires,...

Obama urges ‘equal’ relations

August 22, 2021 at 5:23 a.m.

President Barack Obama was forced to confront long-standing resentment of U.S. dominance of Latin America as he told regional leaders here Friday evening that his administration seeks an "equal partnership"...

Syria: Pullout to precede elections

August 22, 2021 at 5:20 p.m.

Syria's government told the United Nations on Tuesday that it would withdraw all of its troops from Lebanon before Lebanese parliamentary elections this spring. In a letter to the Security...

Top cleric urges end to fighting in Najaf

August 19, 2021 at 10:37 a.m.

Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's supreme Shiite religious leader, demanded Tuesday that all armed forces leave the holy city of Najaf and called on fellow Shiites not to join in...

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