The Los Angeles County Fire Department’s search-and-rescue K-9 has already proven himself a valuable addition to the team, helping to find three people alive in earthquake debris. When disaster strikes, concrete dust and debris cover everything in sight, and finding someone alive can seem an almost impossible task. That impossible task is what Joey, a…

Trump administration spent $9.5 billion paying federal workers to do absolutely nothing, watchdog report says. The Trump administration spent an estimated $9.5 billion paying federal employees who were on administrative leave in 2025, as it moved to significantly reduce the size of the federal workforce, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report.About $6.7…

Restifo continued working through the obstacles while trying to make sure the boys had a roof over their heads and remained together. Sometimes, a family begins in the most unexpected way. For Sam Restifo, it started in February 2025 when two boys, then 14 and 12, were dropped at his home in Saginaw, Michigan, by…

About 5,000 gallons of diesel spilled from an Equinix data centre into Anderson Creek in Secaucus. (Photo: Bill Sheehan/Hackensack Riverkeeper) Cleanup crews are working in New Jersey’s Meadowlands after roughly 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel leaked from a storage tank at a data centre in Secaucus and entered Anderson Creek.The New Jersey Department of Environmental…

Dhairya Gupta and Rahul Kodali (right) speak out after finding themselves at the center of a major row. Dhairya Gupta and Rahul Kodali were cheering when the Longhorns secured a victory over the Ohio State Buckeyes in a thrilling match on Saturday. A day later, they found themselves in the middle of a raging controversy…